Reply to a friend's good wishes
for a year of living dangerously
Yes, Bob, amd Happy New Year! to you and to those you hold near and dear.Myself, I'd settle for anything close to a medium good year and anything short of 365 days on life support -- unless, of course, the government was picking up the tab and then I might reconsider.
Others besides you have noted the oxymoronishness of the government itself having the FBI/NSA investigate the NSA/FBI investigating the government itself.
It's a perfect political palindrome guaranteed never to reach any conclusion but that there was nothing to investigate to begin with.
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And they say GWB is stupid.
As it so happens I was already writing something on this topic.
Mentions, even demands for impeachment have drifted out of the blogosphere and into the edgworld of the lefty press. Nationally syndicated Molly Ivins called for Bush's impeachment in a recent column. And so has John Dean, who knows a thing or two about impeachments and the legal thresholds applying thereto.
Similar to Bush's palindrome, there's the political conumdrum I've been mulling.
Some things Bush is doing are illegal and worthy of impeachment and removal from offic
But there is no reason to think Bush will leave office on his own accord or heed any call to step down. There is also little evidence that Congress will act on its own to compel him to go. And forget the police-military complex acting to protect any sidein the dispute but the president's.
So, it could concievably come to pass that the only element of society that might act to preserve the nation as it was constitutionally designed to operate and to remove Bush from office would be the citizenry, or some part of it -- modern Tom Paines and Patrick Henrys with Blackberry's and gasmasks.
The street term for that option, I believe, is revolution, or, if it's not too noisy, coup d'etat. And, of course, those two options are illegal.
So, the political palindrome I'm mulling for 2006 is this: how wrong must the president's illegal acts be before illegal acts by the people to remove him from office are no longer wrong?
posted by Tom Nadeau at 3:10 PM
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