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Bush needs to go. Now.
Here's what pushed me over the edge: "President claims power to disregard 750 statutes." I'm sorry, Bush, but you're wrong. The Congress sets the law. The Supreme Court interprets them. You enforce them. It's that bloody simple, and if you've decided you can subvert that at will, you are acting as a king, and that's simply wrong.
Let's look at what this does for events in the not-too-distant past: Clinton gets impeached for lying to a jury. That's really bad, really really bad for a President (and made him my favourite president.) But voila! Clinton interprets the laws of perjury on the fly, saying something on the order of "I can say anything I like to protect the office of President." Bingo! No perjury, no reasonable cause for impeachment. Safe at home!
Let's go further, to Nixon. Same thing, really... Nixon could have decided to interpret the laws of theft to not actually apply to his own reelection campaign. No impeachment threat, no resignation, no Gerald Ford (and thus, no Jimmy Carter, and no Reagan, and no Bush Sr., no Clinton, and no W....maybe this would have been a good thing.)
I've had a hard time offering my support to the President. Iraq, a series of bungled other initiatives, his endless support for the oil industry (which goes directly against his supposed animosity towards dependence on the Middle East), his stance on edumication, his pronunciation of "nucular..." he's just not very likable as a President. His reaction to 9/11 in the first few days was admirable. After that, he's gone down the loo, and this is the final straw.
It's time to call for impeachment.
Happy you've finally woke up.
600 000 dead Iraqis later...
Well, let's be fair: there are a lot of estimates on exactly how many Iraqi
casualties there have been, some ranging in the 30K range and others in the
600000 arena. I think 30K dead people are far too many - but compare that
to what Amnesty International said was Saddam's rate: in a single year he
averaged 50000 dead, so if we're being cold as we can be, they're still
better off.
Just curious, were you a Bush supporter prior to his election as President?
Depends on what you mean by "supporter." I preferred Bush over Gore and
Kerry. I preferred other candidates to Bush. As President, I feel like he
deserves (deserved?) some benefit of the doubt. But he's making a mockery
of the office, and I find that more reprehensible than a lot of the other
stupid things he's done - because other Presidents have done stupid things
without eroding the office.
Erosion usually implies a slow disintegration of something. I don't think
there has been anything slow about Bush's mockery of the Oval Office. I am
curious to see how deep the hole he is plunging the US into will get.