Downhill from now on

The Bush/Cheney administration is finished, over, kaput. Oh, it might linger on for a time, struggling against one scandal after another, and then another, and another, but it is all downhill from now on. There is just no way they can ever possibly recover from the depths to which they have now sunk. This will be true no matter what Fitzgerald does tomorrow. There is a point of diminishing returns and Bush/Cheney have now more than passed it. I suggested in last night's blog that if the Republican party knew what was good for it, it would itself lead impeachment proceedings against Bush/Cheney. It is very doubtful they would accept any advice from the likes of me but that is their problem, not mine. The only way the United States can ever recover from what has happened in the last five years (if, indeed, we can recover even in the next 50 years) is if Bush/Cheney are impeached and then tried for war crimes. We would have to make clear to the rest of the world that we did not, and do not, sanction this criminal behavior. Of course this is not likely to happen.

Failing that scenario (impeachment) there is one other possibility, an even more unlikely happening. Bush/Cheney should resign. Immediately. Spare us all the legal and other hassles that are inevitably going to ensue. The country is going to be effectively paralyzed for the remainder of the Bush/Cheney presidency (and this is true no matter what Fitzgerald does tomorrow or in the future). Of course we can wait until the 2006 elections, and even until 2008, but what would be the point? Just three more years of utter chaos. The obvious solution, short of impeachment, would be for Bush/Cheney to resign. If they had any sense of either decency or shame they would do this for the good of the country. But, of course, they have neither decency nor shame, and could care less about the good of the country. They have already demonstrated their contempt for the country and its people by their every action since being in office. They have mercilessly attacked the middle and lower classes, the unions, the environment, the constitution, and, indeed, virtually everything our country has traditionally tried to honor. They have dishonored us on the world stage, plunged us into endless debt, and robbed our treasury to put more obscene wealth into the hands of those who have so much already they can't possibly use any more. They are determined to destroy the very fabric of our society and turn things back to the 18th century when the filthy wealthy few lorded it over their peasants and serfs. Make no mistake about it, this is what they are doing. So in the future explain to your hungry children they are hungry because they are protecting us from abortion and homosexuals.

The Bush/Cheney administration is a national disgrace. The "war" in Iraq is the saddest and worst mistake ever made in American history. The United States at the moment is best described as pathetic. Truly something sent by the gods to humiliate the animals.