Crossposted from Left Toon Lane, Bilerico Project & My Left Wing


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Every once in a while, you run into an article that is "spot-on" with regard to the state of our nation, implications of what may arise in the future, and is so astute that its widespread dissemination is a must for the general knowledge and welfare of the people. This is one of those brilliant essays that everyone should read - and with permission from the author, is reprinted here.

A Republic If We Can Keep It.

By Ernest Partridge
Created Jul 25 2007 - 10:16am

Why not impeach?

In retrospect, it's easy to see the handwriting on the wall as early as July 2007. Tony Snow had already spelled it out for anyone who wasn't blinded by the liberal media. Executive privilege is anything the President wants it to be, and Congress is just a bunch of whining puppies!

(Updated below)

Monomania (mon-o-ma-ni-a):
n.
1. Pathological obsession with one idea or subject.
2. Intent concentration on or exaggerated enthusiasm for a single subject or idea.

"The marketing of personality is changing from a cottage to a growth industry (...) The trend coincides with a current journalistic emphasis, even in the respectables, on what is interesting, against what is important. (The important may make a comeback in news interest but at the moment lacks either the urgency of danger or the stimulus of hope.) Recognizing this shift, politicians constantly conduct polls about their image and resist too much identity with substance (...) Everywhere the cult of personality prevails (...) There is less of journalistic prying now, even though gossip and gossip columning are still around. Gossip flourishes particularly in Washington, where political hypocrisy still lends savor to misbehavior (...) Celebrityhood lives by publicity and must be ready to be "interesting" on cue (...) But an interest in people won't go away: it is as old as Plutarch, and apt to survive as long as humans do."

David Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org, PDA and Democrats.com writes: We've reached the impeachment moment for Vice President Dick Cheney. We are now at what Rev. Lennox Yearwood calls the lunch counter moment in the impeachment movement. We've pushed the cosponsor list for H. Res. 333 up to 14. Chairman John Conyers says that if we get 3 more he'll begin the impeachment proceedings. And many Congress Members must be recognizing that there is no other path available.

Did the Office of National Drug Control Policy use its funds and clout to influence elections in 2006? Henry Waxman wants to know!

Crossposted from GreenState Project

I keep telling people: cannabis prohibition and the war on drugs are far bigger problems than they know. I keep telling them the GOP uses the war on drugs as a political tool.

Well, here we have Henry Waxman asking the Office of the Drug Czar and John Walters about apparent misuse of tax dollars in "2006 republican campaigns, particularly those described as "struggling". This inquiry is turning up the names of not only John Walters and the Office of National Drug Control Policy, but of one Sara Taylor and Karl Rove.

This is good stuff.

Countdown: Signing Statements Weaken the Law

copyright © 2007 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org

Who presents a greater threat to American society - international terrorists, or the current caretakers of the federal government?

Why was there such surprise, shock and outrage upon the news that President George W. Bush commuted the sentence of I. Lewis Libby?

I actually laughed when I heard the news.

(Updated below) (Update II) (Update III) (Update IV)

Office of the Unitary Regency of the U.S.A.

Regent Cheney: going away or here to stay?

In my previous two articles, I elaborated on the now-established fact that Dick. B. Cheney installed himself as a Regent on January 2001, effectively creating the constitutionally unlawful Office of the Unitary Regency of the U.S.A. - complete with its Puppet Presidency.

Truth be told ...

Cross-posted from the Accountable Strategies Blog and Daily Kos

If we could put a man on the moon, why is it that 38 years later, we can’t create a homeland protection agency that can keep its books straight and its personnel honest?

Dennis Kucinich Move To Impeach V.P. Cheney Gains Support.
copyright © 2007 Betsy L. Angert. BeThink.org

(Updated below) (Update II) (Update III)

This is not a "Co-Presidency", nor is it a (misnamed) "Fourth Branch" of the U.S. government.

Rather, this is a Unitary Regency - Dick B. Cheney's Regency actually - which has been the de facto Executive Power behind the Puppet Presidency of George W. Bush since January 2001.