In the minds of many Americans the idea of impeachment is not only not "off the table," as newly installed House Speaker Pelosi said it was, it in fact sits dead center on their kitchen tables, taking the place of grandma's heirloom vase.
The best kept secret about America, of which beltway insiders are unaware, is that too many mainstream Americans are struggling too heroically to hold it all together to find the shenanigans of Washington palatines even slightly amusing. Perhaps the orbiting constellations around the former Ivy League frat boys at our nation's helm can afford to take a boys-will-be-boys view of their antics. But Jane and John Q. Public can't and won't. Thank God.
Perhaps the last of Washington's moral center did spiral down the drain in December 2000. But Jane and Joe Average-American's moral center is still largely intact, and that in itself is a miracle. However, central to that miracle is a level of disgust generally reserved for the likes of a Jeffrey Dahmer. The comparison is apt because these leaders, having been left to run amok for six years, have also eaten America's young.
So, how many more times and in how many more ways do Darth Vader and Alfred E. Know-nothing have to show their asses, our asses, to the world before someone, or 535 someones, actually decides to take some action and stop them? Colluding to perpetrate a national lie, then attempting to destroy every critic of their skeevy machinations, and now having the resulting blood of thousands of human beings on their hands is not enough? Must they also hold a toga party on the White House lawn complete with human sacrifice in the Rose Garden as the grand finale before American representatives are embarrassed enough to say "Enough!"?
In a homicide investigation, one always looks first for the smoking gun. The highest leaders of our land have stuck on their persons so many smoking guns that the subsequent fog hovering above them could be pegged as a major contributor to global warming, which they have also colluded to lie about.
In six short years America has descended from a well-meaning superpower whose leaders sometimes get it wrong to the bully in the schoolyard whose leaders take turns footballing the globe around the Oval Office like a hacky sack. The world now hates us. They should. It's become hard to live here and love this country and not simultaneously hate the collective us.
At what level of hubris and fiasco and state of denial will our representatives, who represent an angry and repulsed population, decide to stop worrying about what is good for American politics and finally have the courage to do something that is good for America?
It is embarrassingly past time for members of both parties of Congress to stop waving the flag and trying to decide if "these colors don't run" or not. It is time for them to stand together and decide if these colors still mean anything exemplary in the world.
Thursday, February 01, 2007
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