a link I found on a blog I love about how pervasive the rot is.

[zonmoy]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13135.htm

Fruit of the Poison Tree

By Charles Sullivan

05/21/06 "Information Clearing House" --- - Millions of citizens are rightly calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush due to his criminal and unethical policies. Bush is a cancer not only on the presidency but upon basic human decency. Any sane person, regardless how marginal they are, can see that Bush must go and the sooner the better. However, when Bush is gone the system that produced him will remain in place, as healthy and viable as ever. It will continue to bear a plentiful crop of poison fruit, perhaps even more sinister than Bush.

The majority of the people are toiling under the illusion that the moral abyss of American politics can be reformed and made to serve the people as well as the public interest. According to this line of reasoning, the malignancy is principally the result of a few bad apples mixed with the good. If they are correct, then removing the bad apples will affect a cure. Yet that has never been the case and it is not the case now. Otherwise, we would not be where we are today. Consider, for example, that America’s Middle East policy has remained essentially the same as it is today through eleven presidencies, consistently yielding the same results.


I honestly don't think that violence is yet necessary although I fear that we are getting dangerously close to the point that it will be unavoidable.

[Rageneau]

1. Yet the pundits want Dems to promise not to do their Constitutional duty.

From every cranny and crack in the monolithic modern mega-media, we are hearing 'advice' from Republi8cans that Democrats, should they gain a Congressional majority, PROMISE not to impeach Bush. Not ever, Under no circumstances. No matter what he has done or how bad it turns out to be.

IOW, they want Democrats to promise that they won't do the duty they SWORE they would so when elected -- which is to protect and defend the Constitution.

Democrats shouldn't play this stupid game. When pundits pop up demanding that Dems swear they will leave Georgie alone impeachment-wise, Democrats should respond that they have no intention of impeaching anyone. Nevertheless, Democrats DO intend to do their duty and their DUTY is to act as overseerers of the Executive Branch.

Republicans wept alligatior tears and said they didn't want to, but they HAD to inpeach Clinton. Just had to. It was their Constitiutional duty. One they could not avoid. I never heard a word in the press to the effect that that was BS - that it wasn't about duty at all, but about poitics.

If we didn't hear that talk THEN -- when he issue was lying about an unauthorized blow-job -- how can the media be saying it NOW, when the issues involved are litrerally earth-shaking and Constitution-rotting in their implications.

Dems shouldn't promise not to impeach. They should promise not to impeach FRIVOLOUSLY, like Republicans do.