Letters to the Editor
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Impeachment
GS Chandy:
Believe me, I rage against the dying of the democracy every day as we fail to impeach and prosecute these corrupt killers. Why don't we do it? A myriad of reasons, but they really come down to three:
1) The Democrats lack the political balls of a fruit fly, even when the vast majority of their constituency is calling for Bush's and Cheney's heads on a pike;
2) 41% of Americans still think Saddam had something to do with 9/11, so apparently millions of us are still stupid enough to think Bush ain't so bad, and...
3) We've lost sight, culturally, of the absolute truth that accountability is essential to democracy. It's not about laws and speeches and shit. It's about the servants of the people wielding their powers in accordance with the best interests of their bosses, the hoi polloi, and when they don't, clapping them in irons.
I don't have much hope for our democracy as constituted (pun intended). If the debacle of Bush wasn't enough to make us wake up to the demands of our nation, it's going to take worse.