Waiting for next week

How many Republicans does it take to change a dim bulb? I'm waiting patiently for next week to perhaps get a hint. There seems to be little doubt that the possibility of impeachment is growing more realistic at the moment. I think some thirteen or fourteen members of the House have now signed on to Kucinich's articles of impeachment for Dick the Slimy. Come next week will any more join the impeachment bandwagon, and how many more is it going to take? One might argue that Dick the Slimy is not really dim but, more realistically, bad, defective, or otherwise undesirable. But you have to start somewhere and Cheney is a good bet. Bush probably wouldn't last long without his evil Rasputin so we might get two birds with one stone, as the saying goes. If Bush/Cheney were honorable men they would resign (I have been saying this for months) but, of course, there is not a shred of honor between them (nor in the entire Republican party as near as I can tell). A few Republicans could have stopped this ongoing disaster a long time ago but to a person they have consistently elected to serve Bush/Cheney rather than the nation. Power to the party seems to be all they know (whatever happened to legislators who put the interests and needs of the nation foremost in their thoughts and actions). As they have presumably been visiting their home turfs we can only hope their constituents have made it clear to them that Bush/Cheney need to go NOW, before they can do any further damage.

Bush's stupidity and arrogance is about to finally catch up with him. If he pardons Libby, as he is under considerable pressure to do, Libby may be forced to actually have to at least partially "come clean." If he doesn't pardon him the case will drag on and on virtually paralyzing the nation (unfortunately, this may be his best option). Of course if they try to impeach Cheney that, in itself, will paralyze the nation and open the Libby/Bush/Cheney wounds for all to see. Wouldn't that be a happy day! It doesn't matter that nothing else could be accomplished - nothing is being accomplished at the moment anyway, thanks to Republicans apparent desires for more "war" and more loot. Ooooh, so close and yet so far from stealing all that Iraqi oil. It must be very frustrating for them. They'll no doubt try to solve the problem with more killing, a strategy doomed to fail, but what's a few more lives when that great puddle of oil is just waiting, waiting...

A truly sad day here at Sandhill. Our faithful cat finally had to be "put down." He was almost nineteen years old and experiencing kidney failure. There was no hope for our son's beautiful Boo Oboe Tramp. When my son was three or four he was told that T.S.Eliot had suggested that all cats should have three names. How he came up with Boo Oboe Tramp has always mystified me. He was an all black cat which might explain the Boo (what with Halloween), but the Oboe Tramp seems to have come out of nowhere. He slept on my son's bed virtually every night for all those years and will be sorely missed. He was duly buried next to the other cat he lost to cancer. Growing up is hard indeed.

LKBIQ:

"Freedom is an indivisible word. If we want to enjoy it, and fight for it, we must be prepared to extend it to everyone, whether they are rich or poor, whether they agree with us or not, no matter what their race or the color of their skin."
Wendell Willkie.