What's Up With That?

Friday, June 29, 2007

A brief explanation about the big angry banner that has appeared above the posts.

It's a sort of tradeoff. Lately, every time I look at the news I am wound up into steam-pouring-out-of-my-ears rant mode. It seems like not a single day goes by lately without some further revelation about the crimes and misdemeanors of George Bush and Dick Cheney, and the next-to-unbelievable enabling behavior (some of which itself seems to cross over into criminality) of Alberto Gonzales. Their near-total ransacking of our system of government is nothing short of treasonous and deserving not only of impeachment, but, in my opinion, of imprisonment.

But I can't operate in rant mode for the long-haul, so yesterday I decided I would put up that banner and leave it there for a while so that I could let go of feeling the need to rant about them when there are so many others already blogging about all of it.

These men do not deserve to remain one more day in the offices they presently hold. They are each of them guilty of enough trespasses on the Constitution that the question has to be seriously asked whether or not they've managed to usurp the government entirely and have managed to install themselves as tyrants. It must also be seriously asked whether or not the situation they have unleashed is salvageable -- can Congress do anything to counteract them at all? Clearly the Supreme Court has cast its lot with the Executive Branch (and whatever branch Dick Cheney says the OVP belongs to).

For a long time, I've dismissed other bloggers who have trumpeted this call for years. Now I can see no other useful thing to do with the soapbox I maintain here except to stake this position and stick to it. Quite honestly, I do not believe that there is the slightest chance of impeachment proceedings beginning against any of them -- the prevailing "wisdom" is that it's too late now to start in on them. Unfortunately, it is probably too late in a number of regards.

So, the banner stays for a while, and in return I will spare you (and me) the ranting...at least the ranting about these criminals.