Letters to the Editor
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Floyd was just paid the compliment of the day
Happy Pissstasio to you.
It's a rain day. I no want to melt.
Potabella, shitake, maitoke to you.
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Time Enough
Pelosi thinks, does she, that impeachment is "politically impossible in the present circumstances." Well, we have only the present circumstances, there are no other, and the time grows short. If these Democrats, who were so resoundingly elected in 2006, had the least bit courage and respect for their citizenry and form of government, they would, shamefaced that they waited so long, begin impeachment proceedings now. And why not let that constitutional crisis come? Indeed, it's here already. This slow motion coup we're witnessing merits--need I even say it--the one meaningful response from that branch of government so ill-served by this usurping tyranny.
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oh, brother
Have you never heard that understatement works way better than overstatement?
Any valid points you might have had are completely lost in the hysteria of your post.
And anyone who quotes Thoreau approvingly is not thinking clearly.
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Ah, Chris
Well said. So very well said.
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@Nephelococcygia
If memory serves, Gandhi quoted Thoreau approvingly, which kind of undercuts your snark.
Then again, Thoreau also opined about civic duty while having his Mom do his laundry for him...
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Some eedjit wrote:
I believe this is an attempt by Glenn to make himself look moderate, by enlisting an out of time revolutionary to rant for a week. It might just be crazy enough to work.
Has it worked for you and Dubya? You've been playing much longer at it but the consensus is still that Dubya's a doof and an azo.....
Cheers,
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The right's WWII metaphor.
The right is fond of invoking the image of Churchill warning of impending danger.
I can't help but feel that the metaphor is inapplicable in this case. Maybe if we reverse it it will appear to match the reality? I used to wonder how it must have felt being in Germany or Japan as the push to war was building up. And now I think the vast majority of the American people know what it must have felt like. We are the occupiers the blitzkriegers.
Anyone who buys the stereotype of the French as appeasers has never experienced a general strike. We are the sheep. We are the ones too weak to stand up to our overlords. Even though we know what a bunch of incompetent hacks they are! These simpletons have never seen a stereotype (of others) they didn't like, or a threat that they could put into perspective, or a rule that applied to them.
How sad it must be to be a "conservative". Always frightened, always outraged, always weak. The islamo-fascist are coming? Here? To make is wear burkas? Do tell. I tell you that the fascists are already here, and what they have us wear is something far worse than a burka: disgrace.
It's sad that a general strike will never happen in this country. All of our moral outrage has been outsourced. It's no wonder the congressional majority is so spineless; they are a reflection of us.
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Such incisive commentary
Chris Floyd is a nutjob.
Appreciate your contribution.
Anything else to add? No?
kthxbai
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"If memory serves, Gandhi quoted Thoreau approvingly .."
He also beat his wife.
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Mixed metaphors?
These are very small straws in a howling wind — but then again, it only takes a few straws to start a fire.
Straws on fire to check a howling wind! Or a howling wind that ... what, feeds the fire? Banks the fire? Howls some more? This whole metaphor is really baffling.
... as is the crux of Chris Floyd's complaint. Impeachment not moving fast enough? Give me a break! The time to start impeaching the key members of the Bush regime was years ago, not now in the middle of the next election. However frustrating the reality may be, we don't get to stamp our feet now and expect our elected representatives to take us seriously. Where, they ask themselves, was all this energy and involvement in 2005? In 2003? Heck, in 1999?
And well they should ask. Tossing those crooks out would be great, and anyone who wants to try it has my vote. But let's get one thing clear here. Trying to undo 7 years of degeneracy does not happen — cannot happen — in the middle of the end game. Anyone who expects Congress — any Congress — to suddenly make impeachment an overriding eleventh hour priority is only trying to assuage their own guilt in the cheapest, most self-deluding way possible.
Put another way, if impeachment really is the bedrock test of devotion to this republic — if anyone who opposes it, even through insufficient fervor, is guilty by association of mass murder, corruption, and all the crimes of the Bush regime — then that guilt extends all the way back to the 2000 election, to Bush v Gore and even before.
We know nothing new about the Bush regime now that hasn't been staring us in the face since before its inauguration. Where was Chris Floyd then? Where was Glenn Greenwald, for that matter? Where were you, readers of Salon? Sniggering at us "crazies" with our "Impeach Bush" stickers and our petitions that no one paid any attention to?
So knock it off with the loyalty tests and the "with us or against us" crap. You all weren't with us when it would have actually prevented this insanity. By Chris Floyd's own logic, that makes him and everyone else just as culpable as Bush — I didn't accept that then, and I don't now.
Turning the doomed course of the American ship of state around is going to take patient, dedicated effort and unrelenting pressure on members of Congress so that they know that their constituents are, finally, serious about these issues. It will take finding and funding energetic progressives to beat old-guard Democrats in the primaries. And it will take voting a Democrat into the White House in 2008, come hell, high water, or Hillary.
If you can do all that and impeach Bush at the same time, great, do it. But otherwise, less talk and more passing the bucket.
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and ...
He [Gandhi] also beat his wife.
He also allowed her to die when a simple shot of penecilin by British doctors would have saved her life, all the while taking anti-malarial quinine (also administered by British doctors) because his own motives were "pure."