I’m told by apparent progressives that we have to be “realists.” I'm told that Bush and Cheney cannot be Impeached. I'm told it's not "realistic" to ENFORCE the Constitution. They don't phrase their objections to Impeachment that way, of course, they prefer to call indulging the tantrums of Bush and that bizarre cult that used to be the Republican Party for 600 more days a "realistic" response to this surreal nightmare we've been in ever since that "realistic" Florida recount was shoved down our throats seven "realistic" years ago.

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I have previously written on how incompetence and lies rule like ignorance and fear in the politics of our times - especially since such things are aided, abetted and inflated by an equally incompetent MSM.

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Recently, right wing evangelical Christians gathered to celebrate the founding of Jamestown:

http://www.au.org/site/News2?abbr=cs_&page=NewsArticle&id=9178

They hailed Jamestown's founding as proof that America was established to be a Christian land, and they hailed thier celebration as a reconsecration of America to that dream.

Cross-posted @ My Left Wing

So, let’s balance it.

And, no, I’m not talking about balancing the budget or the blatant absence of backbone in the skeletal frames of those we choose to represent us.

The U.S.A. keep on inching ever closer to becoming a soulless and heartless despotic state with only the illusion of freedom and democracy.

How dare I make such a damning claim? Let us ascertain the evidence accumulated so far:

Slowly - I think - the Progressive Community is learning to challenge right wing framing. More and more, I think we all see that it's important not to call the "Estate Tax" a "Death Tax", for example. Some frames we argue about, such as whether the violence in Iraq should be called the "Iraq War", the "Iraq Civil War" or the "Iraq Occupation" (I think we should call it either a civil war or an occupation, because to call it simply a war dignifies what was - in my opinion - a lawless and reckless invasion).

It is well understood that neocons are adpet at accusing others of doing/thinking what they are actually guilty of doing/thinking.

Yesterday, U.S. V.-P. Dick B. Cheney gave a commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York. Maybe he drank the wrong brand of tea that day, or perhaps he slightly over-medicated himself - in any event, he came out and revealed publicly the motus operandi of the President, himself and their neocon administration, condemning all they stand for, their ideological agenda, and everything they have been doing in the process so far. As reported, Cheney delivered his remarks in the context of moral and ethical lessons that the graduating cadets at West Point had learned in the course of their studies. Dixit Richard (Dick) B. Cheney:

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This is what I have previously written concerning incompetence and violence:

Ignorance breeds fear. Fear fosters hate. In turn, hate leads inevitably to violence.

The History of Humanity constitutes a sad and tragic testament to this senseless and vicious progression. Incidentally, there is a further underlying, self-evident axiom to this assertion which posits that violence is the last refuge of incompetence - incompetence as nations, as communities, and as thinking, reasoning human beings.

We are witnessing the end of an era.  The great American experiment in democracy is over.

It is now clear, the Military Industrial Congressional Complex has usurped the power of the people and cemented its control over our government.  

Is it acceptable to allow Attorney Generals to interpret what the Constitution says and call it well established precedent when it has changed back and forth half a dozen times between 1789 and 1897. Is this question resolvable?

Crossposted from Town Called Dobson & My Left Wing


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"Revolution is the Solution"