badgerbag: messy, surly, full of books

What will it take to impeach Bush and Cheney?

I am so sick and tired of hearing politicians and journalists shake their heads and say there is no way Bush will be impeached because we are in a war. Oh great ... so why not just go TEAR UP THE CONSTITUTION right now? If you're not going to actually uphold it, or uphold your goddamn oath to defend it, then what good is it to keep around?

I am so disgusted with Nancy Pelosi, with Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein and even with my representative in Congress, Anna Eshoo. What are they thinking? They just don't want to make Democrats look bad, politically, or something? What do they think they've been doing for all these years? Hiding like scared idiots.... Looking worse than bad. Why don't they make up their minds to do what is right?

I have been blogging since the war started that we should impeach Bush and Cheney, I'm not a powerful person, if I can say it, why can't they? What is wrong with my stupid political representatives? Don't they have the slightest particle of ethics aside from misguided "pragmatism" and covering their own asses? Would ANYTHING make them stand up and say something?

Seriously, WHAT would go over the line for them?

I really expected better of Nancy Pelosi than to see her up there saying that there is no way she will ever back impeachment.

No way at all? What the hell?

I would like an actual journalist to ask Pelosi, where is her line? What would be an impeaching offense? Can Bush just do anything he damn well pleases? Apparently so! What would make her say, like Rep. Cynthia McKinney did, that we should impeach Bush?

Thank you former Representative McKinney for doing that!

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2006

Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, I wish to enter the following into the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:

ADDENDA TO A RESOLUTION INTRODUCING ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE WALKER BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND OTHER OFFICIALS: FURTHER ACTIONS BY THE PRESIDENT THAT WARRANT FURTHER INVESTIGATION AS POSSIBLE GROUNDS FOR IMPEACHMENT AS IDENTIFIED BY MANY SCHOLARS, LAWYERS AND CONCERNED CITIZENS

I. FAILURE TO ENSURE THE LAWS ARE FAITHFULLY EXECUTED

(1) Self-Exemption From Laws Upon Signing.

(2) Suspension of Basic Legal Proceedings.

(3) Promoting Illegal War.

(4) Promoting Torture.

(5) Promoting Kidnappings and Renditions for Torture.

(6) Use of Illegal Weapons.

II. ABUSE OF OFFICE AND OF EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE

(1) Obstructing Inquiry and Detection.

(2) Replacing the Veto With Signing Statements.

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It goes on from there! And it doesn't end for a good long while.

I hope at least the Democrats and certainly some of the better Republicans will WAKE UP and realize, they can't cover their asses forever and we are NOT heading to police state USA.
The cold light of history will expose their complicity in Bush and Cheney's war crimes.

Write to Senator Boxer: https://boxer.senate.gov/index.cfm
To Feinstein: http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe
To Pelosi in her role as Speaker of the House: http://www.speaker.gov/contact

Just write to them and let them know your mind.

I don't know what good that will do, but let's do it anyway. I feel like blogging about it is more effective, and for me it represents how I feel a lot better, but I'm doing the direct emails too in the hopes that my drop in the bucket will count for something.

Happy Global Orgasm Day!

It's definitely the holiday season!

It's a good day to enjoy schadenfreude as we read the email exchange between slimy Republican Congressional aide Todd Shriber and some computer security dudes as Todd tries to hire some hackers to change his GPA! And upon request, sends them two photos of squirrels in his front yard, to prove he's not an FBI agent. Oh, happy holidays... our government is full of lying jackasses.

It's also a good day to watch Dick in a Box in which Justin Timberlake parodies himself.

But in more horrible news, we are still in an enormous scary war that looks to be growing.

Meanwhile. It was a bit stunning this morning to open my newspaper and see an article with blacked out words, sentences, and paragraphs. It's an article about the US and Iran. I hope other newspapers being censored by the government will start following this practice of publishing with the blackouts included. The thick black lines are very effective in conveying the violence done by the state to freedom of information.

I emailed that NYT article to some people in hopes of having it pop up on their front-page "most emailed" list, perhaps even above the articles about how there's a lot of baby boomers (this is news?), how pancakes are cool, combatting clutter, parenting, exercising, and kiddie therapy. If every glurge article forwarded to me were about the horrors this country is committing in the war then ... well... then I'd have some political email in my inbox other than the sometimes useful moveon.org spam.

We provided the following citations to the board to demonstrate that all of the material the White House objected to is already in the public domain. Unfortunately, to make sense of much of our Op-Ed article, readers will have to read the citations for themselves. (See links at left.)

It really makes me think about "difficult writing" and the baroque - here is a perfect example of how baroqueness, by putting truth in the corners, in the tips of fractal branchings, can get around authority & censorship.

culture of terror and fear

I was trying to go to sleep with a boring history book, but it turns out to be overstimulating instead, with Hitler talking about the political value of physical and spiritual terror:

I understood the infamous spiritual terror which this movement exerts, particularly on the bourgeoisie, which is neither morally nor mentally equal to such attacks; at a given sign it unleashes a veritable barrage of lies and slanders against whatever adversary seems most dangerous, until the nerves of the attacked person break down... This is a tactic based on precise calculation of all human weaknesses, and its result will lead to success with almost mathematical certainty. I achieved an equal understanding of the importance of physical terror towards the individual and the masses.... For while in t he ranks of their supporters the victory achieved seems a triumph of the justice of their own cause, the defeated adversary in most cases despairs of the success of any further resistance.

Scary stuff.`I think Rook is reading it for an rpg game background. Surely I could read something more soothing, like Anna Comnena or Psellus... one of those Byzantium books where everyone gets blinded and exiled by the end of the chapter. Or my history of the deciphering of Linear B. That book never fails.

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See me blog naked on my own body!

Pay 50 bucks to see me bare-ass naked! Or you could just buy the book and carefully avoid those pages with me on them, if you're squeamish.

Everybody buy Barak's beautiful book. Hey, I'm in there blathering full speed ahead and with anti-war slogans carefully fake-tattooed onto my body by B. and his intrepid laser printer and fabulous fake-tattoo laser printer paper. If only I'd thought of a good slogan for the "wide-open beaver" shot!

What Barak has to say about it:

I am now offering the images from my Naked Truths series in book form. In addition to the images, essays by some of the models and myself will be included in the book. All proceeds will be split evenly between moveon.org and America Coming Together, two organizations I feel are doing valuable work towards removing George Bush from the oval office.

Did you click on that link? Did you? Did I scare you? MADE YOU LOOK, ha-ha.