Mr Keillor,

Unfortunately, the possiblity of George W. Bush being impeached is about as probable as finding life on Venus. We live in a country of people who are more concerned about who will be the next American Idol more than the many inconsistancies that filter out about George W's leadership and the improprieties that he and his closely held group have perpetrated against our country. To be sure, we are a nation of Puritans who are more concerned and upset by Bill Clinton's sexual peccadilloes than we are by a White House that daily subverts our freedoms and instills fear and apprehension in our lives in order to control and manipulate us.

2008 looms large and I wonder if a State of Emergency will be claimed by the current administration to maintain power and the economic stranglehold on our country?

This business of impeaching the President is something that is tempting to bring up in conversations and on talk shows. We really never accomplished it with Nixon, and while I wasn't in favor of the idea with regard to Clinton, it didn't happen with him either. It's a difficult thing to do.

With George W. Bush, unless the configuration of the two parties which make up the House or the Senate changes, any thought of impeachment is unrealistic. We have seen, time after time, the way the current Congress "rubberstamps" and turns a blind eye to each and everything the administration does. Even now the Patriot Act is making its way through and it looks as though the infamous port deal will make it through unimpeded.

So while the idea of impeachment is tempting, we must first take care of the business of changing the faces in the Congress. This is imparative. Then, maybe, if there is still time, we can talk of impeachment. Until then, we, each of us, have to begin to come out of our safety zone, or deep sleep, or whatever metaphor which works best for you and one by one begin to actually do something to effect change. Otherwise, we will just keep writing articles, commenting on the "situation" until "Nero" and his crazies decide that writing articles isn't a good idea either...

I agree with other writers who see the idea of impeachment as attractive but unlikely to happen because of the way the deck is stacked in Washington. Besides, the focus on Bush is a distraction that I'm sure Cheney, Rove, Norquist, Rumsfeld et al welcome for it obfuscates what is going on behind the scenes where the "real" administration does its dirty work. Who else but an emotionally stunted person like Bush could possibly stand before the world and make such banal and morally corrupt assertions? Who else could front for the cabal which is the government of the United States in its present incarnation? Read "Bush on the Couch" by Justin Frank, MD (Regan Books/HarperCollins Publishers)for an insight as to why the president can only see things in black/white and good/evil.

While we fulminate in congress and in the land to get the president impeached the strategic thinkers just outside the oval office are given more time to continue their anti-humane and self-serving work. Like most other people who don't need empiracal proof to certify the truth of what is really going on (because the effects of what is going on are so gigantically evident, obscene and sad), I do not have a "way" to get at the Cheney Corporation. Nor the larger demise of at least half of our countrymen so effectively driven into pit bull stance by the fearmongers as Garrison pointed out.

At age 70 it is not to be my lot to see the repair of the damage wrought on our country by the hurricane from hell which is this present administration; a storm that began just after the Viet Nam "conflict" in which the clouds above us were seeded with cold and calculating chrystals of the neo-con ideology and economic game plan. Their plan has worked...for them. I can only hope that my son and grandsons come through what is about to happen in our country, if not unscathed, at least whole and hopeful.

May the children of those given power to govern our lives by a "supreme" court regret the sins of their fathers and wonder how it is that this parental abuse was permitted to happen with everyone looking on.

If the GOP House leadership wants to save itself from disaster in the fall they should visit the WH and give Bush a chance to resign-and, of course, take Cheney with him. With his reckless spending, open borders policy and crazed Wilsonian foreign policy he has shown no loyalty to them and they should show no loyalty to him. If he refuses to resign they should make it clear that he will be impeached.

Keillor is semi-moronic with his "American" patriotism. The remnant of "America" has good things(like this being the last bastion of free speech in the world-but the idea of a democratic republic is gone and the USA is simply the base of operations for a world economic-military empire.

There is, however, hope. The absurdly large and ever-growing trade and budget deficits can't go very much longer. One economist(probably no less credible than the rest of his profession) predicts a ninety per cent decline in the value of the dollar within the decade. With the collapse of the dollar we will have a chance to build something worth being patriotic about.

Pleased to read your latest missive on Dear Leader, but I was even more pleased to see the New Yorker reference.

Glossy pages await, Mr. Keillor. As does a subscriber who'd rather experience the word by means of reflected light.

Come home. The calf can't get much fatter.

Like so many other letter writers here, I applaud GK for articulating so well what so many of us have been thinking/saying for months-to-years.

GK has the clout to pull in readers. His call for impeachment has spread out into the blog world and even radio news (NPR, anyway). As we've seen here, the vast number of readers locally agree with him, adding tactics and strategies to MAKE IT HAPPEN!

I agree with others who say a resolution of impeachment should be introduced in Congress now. Then we must focus our energies and efforts on unseating the Repugs from both the House and Senate.