Censure?

Bush/Cheney and their neocon thugs have committed war crimes almost beyond belief. They pre-emptively attacked a sovereign nation that was no threat to anyone, a war crime of the first order. They have slaughtered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, mostly civilians, another war crime. They have authorized and employed torture, hidden captives from the Red Cross, shamelessly indulged in war profiteering, lied to Congress and the American people, repeatedly violated the Constitution, created a genuine humanitarian disaster in Iraq, to say nothing of a civil war, and wish to lead our nation into a permanent war to further the profits of their corporate friends. They insist on continuing this useless, illegal, immoral, and inconscionable "war," that they brought on themselves. The Democrats now say they are going to "censure" them. Geez, what do you think they might do when Bush/Cheney do something really bad? I don't think censure goes far enough. They should at least have the palms of their hands slapped with a ruler, or better yet, get a few whacks from a paddle on their bottoms. Feingold, who is apparently leading this attempt, has said it will prove that Democrats "stood up to this administration." It will do nothing of the kind. It will simply confirm that our contemporary Democrats in the House and Senate are the most gutless, cowardly, spineless, self-serving, phony, ridiculous legislators ever to hold elected office.

And by the way, they have just allowed Bush/Cheney to continue their illegal spying on whomever they choose with Alberto Gonzales being the one to decide about it. Alberto Gonzales! You know, the Attorney General that has just been widely criticized by members of both parties, has absolutely no credibility, has been repeatedly asked to resign, and so on. I guess the Democrats aren't aware of this? How on earth could they have capitulated on such a completely wrong-headed proposal? Are they all nuts? Bonkers? Or did they just want to make sure nothing interfered with their vacation? This is wrong, so wrong it is absolutely sickening. If there is ever to be a third party, count me in. I've been a Democrat all my life but this is too much even for me. A pox on both of their houses. Never mind this chicken-hearted censure, I want Bush/Cheney/Gonzales IMPEACHED! And I want it NOW!

My son is predicting that Romney will be the Republican candidate. I am beginning to believe he may be right. Not because Romney is the best candidate, or even a decent candidate, but because the others are so hopelessly wrong. Guiliani is nothing but a first-class phony who knows nothing about foreign policy and not much more about terrorism which is his only campagin theme. McCain is imploding and will soon have to give up. Thompson, the "great white hope," is imploding before he has even announced his candidacy, a couple of the others are religious types who don't believe in evolution, and the rest are not well known enough to matter. We know that Romney is a liar who will say anything to get the nomination, "we should double guantanamo," for example, or "I've been a hunter all my life." He is the personification of "None of the above." Oh yeah, he's a Mormon but he won't tell whether or not he wears that special Mormon underwear, and he hasn't yet claimed to have a direct line to the Angel Moroni. He says he's not running as a Mormon so you see he's just a Mormon running. I guess that's different. Personally, I don't care if he's a Mormon or not, he's a liar and a flip-flopper and, above all, a REPUBLICAN (I fear those things are synonymous).

LKBIQ:
"The present chaotic stage of humanity is not, as some wishfully maintain, caused by a lack of faith but by too much unreasoning faith and too many conflicting faiths within these boundaries where such faith should have no place. The chaos is one that only responsible human knowledge can reduce to order."
George Gaylord Simpson