Impeach Bush - I think not

Readers of these musings are bombarding me with calls to blog for George Bush’s head. “Impeach Bush,” is becoming louder background noise as his poll numbers head for the range of sub zero frigidity. A number of my independent, moderate and libertarian friends indicate that they are facing this increasing buzz as well.

I hope that I’ve established my anti-Bush bona fides sufficiently that my readers do not think I’m going soft, but the president’s done nothing that I’m aware of to warrant impeachment.

Harold Meyerson took on the subject in a column in today’s Washington Post, and his well stated views go directly to the heart of why we can expect to watch George satirized by comics for another three years. He has committed no high crimes or misdemeanors. Here’s a link:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/07/AR2006030701200.html?referrer=emailarticle

Failure, stupidity, lack of comity, rigidity, and looking at the world through rose colored glasses are not high crimes. Incompetence in policy execution is may be maladministration but it ain’t a misdemeanor. Looking like a deer in the headlights plays well on late night monologues and may be funny, even hilarious, but it’s constitutional. “No one could have anticipated…” may not be true and might even be a lie, but after a failure to convict his predecessor for telling whoppers while under oath leads me to conclude that there’s nothing there to call upon The Donald to bark, “You’re fired!” at our leader.

Even the disaster in Iraq, while a calamity for the nation, contains no seeds for changing horses in midstream. Favoring big business to the point of being tone deaf to the plight of poor Blacks in New Orleans or the nation’s seniors as they wend their ways through the ridiculously rococo regulations of Medicare, Part D, means nothing when it comes to bringing the president to the well of the House for an accounting.

I hate to say it (no I don’t) but the answer lies in rising up in the next two federal elections and throwing the bums out. Let’s make sure that my preaching – and that of thousands of others - for divided government becomes so ingrained in the electorate that, except in times of extraordinary national emergency like the Great Depression, we never again invest power over both chambers of congress and the White House to the same party at the same time.

The Republicans were corrupted by their power over the past five years just like their Democratic counterparts were in similar circumstances in the past.

There’s but one solution: make your poor congressman rich. Elect somebody else and send your favorite incumbent to riches beyond his dreams of avarice on K Street.

Oh, and a final tip to make you feel better two ways: buy stock in companies producing antacids! Why should your representative be the only one getting rich?

Blog on!

Wild Bill