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Saturday, Nov 7, 2009
Mr. Keillor has distilled the harsh truth down to its clear essence -- and I'm baffled at how blind the (admittedly dwindling) supporters of our Great Leader are, and will continue to be. Those of us who love this country, who want to preserve our republic, who want to be true patriots, must stand up and take this country back. Impeaching Bush is only the first step -- but it's a NECESSARY step.
Bravo Garrison Keillor! It turns out (surprise!) that not all Presidents are above average.
To have Garrison Keillor call for Shrub's impeachment is a wonderous thing. And rather than going too far, he did not go far enough. The vice president should be removed from office too. We don't want him taking over, not that he isn't running things anyway.
Garrison's voice is but a small one in the wilderness. No doubt the powers that be will laugh and ask how many battalions Keillor has. Sadly, not enough I'm afraid. This once great country will continue to go to hell in a handbasket.
A century hence historians will look back on the Bush administration and wonder how the beacon of democracy was so quickly extinguished, how a nation known for just and fair treatment turned to institutionalized torture, and, how "we the people" let it happen.
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Ordinarily--and I know I am in the minority in this, and will no doubt P.O. many readers--I find Garrison Keillor's writings to be too clever by half, dancing around his main points in such a way that I am never quite sure what his main points are, let alone whether he made them well or badly.
But on a few ocassions in Salon, Mr. Keillor has dropped his usual writing style and addressed folks directly, and the result has always been a clarity and reasonableness that is almost impossible to dismiss. This is one such time.
I applaud Mr. Keillor's thoughts, the clarity with which he expressed them, and Salon for publishing them. Whether or not this President is impeached--leaving us with (shudder!) President Cheney?--the case for the logic of that action grows by the day, support by articles such as this. Hopefully as the outrage grows, and the horrid facts continue to mount, the pressure on our other elected representatives will no longer be ignorable, and we can, perhaps, move our country back towards being a beacon of freedom and enlightenment again. I wish it fervently with all my heart.
...for saying clearly and calmly what so many have been feeling for too long now. Mr. Bush's offenses are in excess of those of Nixon and Clinton and Andrew Johnson, all put together. However painful it will be, however terrifying the thought of a President Cheney, it is our duty to history, past and future, to bring America back to normal. Now.
We are learning the harsh lesson learned over and over again by humans. When you have a totalitarian government in place, and that government acts without the support of the populace, the populace quickly becomes numb to the outrageous acts of its leader and interested only in self protection.
Sometimes when I hear the stories about the U.S. on the BBC, I find myself thinking "Is this really my country?"
All of the predictions made by those who opposed the war in Iraq are coming true, and yet, no one has catalouged that failure in a way that reaches the American people.
As the middle East destabilizes (one of the early predictions) our leader continues his "If I say it, it must be true" approach to reality. His logic is inside out, yet no one calls him on that. For example, "It's not Dubai's job to protect our ports, it's the Coast Guard", when the Coast Guard has tried to express doubts about their own ability to vet the proposed deal.
As Americans we are naive. We do not believe that our country can suffer the same fate as other Western countries who shall remain nameless so we don't digress. But we can, and we have, and it can get worse.
Obviously, there was grounds for impeaching Bush years ago. But with his friends controlling Congress, calling for his impeachment makes about as much sense now as calling for Congress to establish a maximum wage, or a ban on meat.
Let's hear it for Midwestern plain speaking!
I copied this article into an email (with full attribution, of course) and forwarded it to friends with the subject line "Pass on to your friends--and your Senator."
It would be interesting to see how many email copies of GK's article it takes to get each of our senators moving. Please participate! All 100 Senators need to see this, multiple times. Send to yours and post to let us know you did. I'll keep count.
What astonishes me is that we spent $50 million during the Clinton years to find out how the Clintons screwed around with the law on the Whitewater deal. I still have no idea what the hell Whitewater was about...all I know is that somehow a deal that lost money for the Clintons got us Monica, the overwrought descriptions in a government document about the improper use of cigars and a stained blue dress - all leading to the impeachment of Clinton for perjuring himself about the affair with the intern.
How this administration can lounge around on vacation after the worst national disaster to hit our shores; how we can tolerate a vice president who skulks around the halls of Congress pleading for the right to torture; why our president feels somehow to be above the law because we're in the midst of a pre-emptive war that he declared essential to protect us from the Iraqi mushroom cloud (the same war Bush declared was won more than two years ago); how we can allow these people to continue to trash the Constitution and all that it stands for is beyond me. Why "impeach Bush/Cheney" is not an ever deafening cry is truly one of the most mystifying aspects of our times.
Thanks to Garrison Keillor for bringing it up.
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The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
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Once one obtains Seriousness credentials in the Washington media, they are irrevocable no matter one's conduct.
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