Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran

The vice-president, Dick Cheney, has long favoured upping the threat of military action against Iran. He is being resisted by the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and the defence secretary, Robert Gates.

Last year Mr Bush came down in favour of Ms Rice, who along with Britain, France and Germany has been putting a diplomatic squeeze on Iran. But at a meeting of the White House, Pentagon and state department last month, Mr Cheney expressed frustration at the lack of progress and Mr Bush sided with him. “The balance has tilted. There is cause for concern,” the source said this week.

In case you have forgotten, Cheney was one of the people who, to date, has been 100% wrong about Iraq. In every conceivable way. Our soldiers are dying because he was wrong. We are spending billions of dollars a day while stuck in an increasingly hostile foreign country with an Army stretched too thin because he was wrong, and now he wants to add another country to the list.

Here’s what I’m trying to say, folks:

We need to get rid of this guy once and for all. He is a threat to this nation. He has harmed our country by running it into debt (while enriching his corporate buddies), destroying its reputation in the world, and sending soldiers into harm’s way for no reason. He has placed himself above the law, essentially saying that he answers to nobody for his actions. He’s done everything he can to eliminate the checks and balances of the government, ignore the Congress, and turn the Judiciary into simply a rubber-stamp machine for his policies. He has made it clear that Dick Cheney serves only one person: Dick Cheney. He is a cancer and needs to be removed. If you thought Nixon and Clinton showed contempt for the law and the public, I can’t imagine you’re happy with Cheney’s behavior.

There is a strong case for impeachment for both Bush and Cheney, but frankly Bush without Cheney (or Rove, who should be kept as the sole occupant of a reopened Alcatraz, a la Rudolf Hess in Spandau Prison.) would be a toothless lame duck for a few months, unable to cause much problem. Bush is dangerous, sure, but only because he’s stupid and easily led. Without his mentors the Congress would just have to spend time reminding him that he doesn’t need to go to war with Latveria because it’s not a real place.

In this interview Bill Moyers talks with Bruce Fein and John Nichols about the case for impeachment. These aren’t moonbats, either; Fein wrote the articles of impeachment for Clinton. These are people who are interested in preserving the Constitution instead of just “winning one for the team” or doing what the polls say.

If we lived in a real country, we would have a real opposition party working on such an impeachment. We would have people in the street demanding it. But we don’t have a real country, we have a lazy country. That’s okay, though. We won’t have it for much longer.

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The law doesn’t apply to them, only to you.

A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America

WHEREAS Lewis Libby was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in the case United States v. Libby, Crim. No. 05-394 (RBW), for which a sentence of 30 months’ imprisonment, 2 years’ supervised release, a fine of $250,000, and a special assessment of $400 was imposed on June 22, 2007;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, pursuant to my powers under Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, do hereby commute the prison terms imposed by the sentence upon the said Lewis Libby to expire immediately, leaving intact and in effect the two-year term of supervised release, with all its conditions, and all other components of the sentence.

IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand and seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-first.

GEORGE W. BUSH

Can we impeach this sickening bastard yet?

WHAT A VICTORY! It’s really incredible what we, the Progressive Left, have accomplished this week! No one thought it could be done but boo-yah! IN YOUR FACE, DOUBTERS!

What’s even more amazing is how cool everyone’s being about it. You’d think lefties would be out in the street yelling and cheering and dancing and stuff over this incredible victory, but most of them are being very restrained and cool about the whole thing.

No way, folks, this is your moment, be proud of it! WE HAVE GOTTEN DICK CHENEY OUT OF OFFICE! I heard it on the news yesterday, that he’s no longer in the Executive Branch and was all “HELLS YEAH! THAT SLIMY BASTARD IS OUT OF OFFICE! Now he can crawl back under the rock he came out from and sit there and rot for all I care. He’s not part of this country’s executive office anymore! What a glorious day! What an incredible–

Oh.

Wait…what the hell?

They didn’t vote against Gonzales.

They didn’t vote against Roberts.

They didn’t vote against Alito.

As Keith Olbermann has pointed out, they were elected last year with one freakin’ job: Stop the War. Put the brakes on the Bush Administration’s all-or-nothing grab for power. And they’re not going to do it. Not even symbolically.

They have “compromised” on the war funding bill. This definition of “compromise” is when one side gets everything he wants and the other side gets nothing. An alternate term is “rolling over”.

Every single time they do this — and there have been many times over the past few years — they promise that they’re saving their strength for later. We hear that there will come a time in which they will be able to do more but this, now, is not that time.

Will it ever be that time?

Come Democratic primary season I’ll be remembering how the candidates voted on this one. And come November of next year, I don’t know if there will be much of a point in voting for a Democrat that simply bows to the wishes of the Republicans anyway. That’s assuming that by that time Bush hasn’t announced himself “President for Life” amid Democrats’ promises that soon, very soon, they’re going to do something about it.