Don't just stand there

There is a story that when a nervous Don Rickles was first making it in comedy by insulting people and whatever, the first time Frank Sinatra entered the room where Rickles was doing his act, Rickles supposedly said, "don't just stand there Frank, hit somebody." Sinatra apparently liked it and they became friends. I have no idea if this story is true or not. Doesn't matter. This is exactly the way I feel about the Democrats at the moment, don't just stand there, do something! The Bush/Cheney Presidency is imploding before their eyes and they are just standing there gawking like a bunch of cretins. They won't even act to impeach Cheney, the most impeachable official ever to abuse his office. Conyers, who I thought had some spine, says it would be a disaster. How could it be a disaster? It's going to be a real disaster if Cheney is allowed to con Bush into attacking Iran. The Democrats seem to believe that the Republicans in the Senate would not vote to impeach Cheney. I'm not certain I believe that is so. Cheney isn't much more popular there than he is in the country at large. Besides, no matter what the outcome, wouldn't it be real fun to watch them try to defend Cheney? What could they possibly say or do that would make Cheney anything other than a warmongering, profiteering, evil influence on our immature puppet President? Democrats seem to think they don't have to do anything, just stand around and watch the Bush/Cheney bunch self-destruct. Maybe that will work but why chance it? It would be far better if they would actually do something to help the process along, like at least threaten to impeach. What goes on in the strange minds that make up our Congress? Damned if I know. My father once told me, "if you get a big man down, don't let him up." This is no time to let up.

Larry Craig is finished. It doesn't matter if he is innocent or not, the publicity has gone too far now to ever allow him to overcome the stigma. Personally, I don't believe he is innocent and, given his record on gay rights, etc., I have no sympathy for him. If, by some strange quirk he is innocent, he still has brought it on himself and his behavior has been far from exemplary. Trying to use his Senatorial card was itself pretty despicable. Well, it certainly helped take the spotlight off Gonzales. Perhaps every cloud does have a silver lining. But I am beginning to wonder if the Republicans are trying to outdo the Catholic Church with respect to perversion and denial. Members of both institutions seem to have a lot of trouble keeping their pants on.

Too bad Mother Theresa isn't around to be nominated for Attorney General. She's about the only person I can think of at the moment who might actually get confirmed. Why don't Bush and Cheney resign? The jig is up. They are finished. Why waste time? Of course it would take at least a tiny, tiny scrap of decency and accountability, qualities certainly lacking in these two war criminals. I guess given the Democrats timidity and cowardice, plus the Republicans swallowing all the kool-aid, we'll just go on surging until doomsday, which I think is probably not that far off.

LKBIQ:
"You can't ask us to take sides against arithmatic. You cannot ask us to take sides against the obvious facts of the situation."
Sir Winston Churchill