Why not have the U.S. dollar tied to the barrel of petroleum?

Impeachment and Mitt

Impeachment is not a subject to be taken lightly.

However the Republican led impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton that impeachment is all about politics. The charges that were brought by Republicans showed that they were not concerned at all about what the founding fathers would be considered "high crimes and misdemeanors" against the Constitution. Rather their underlying concern was payback for the near impeachment of Richard Milhous Nixon because they would use any reason at hand for impeachment in the constitution as the ultimate weapon.

The Republicans then and now shows that they are against the founding ideals in the Constitution. Specifically they agitate for state sponsored religion and to have office holders submit to a religious test.

What we are witnessing is that for all of the pious pronouncements by Republicans about "morality" can now be rolled up into a concise summary by the speech given by Mitt Romney on religion and the national government.

Mitt Romney's speech is a direct challenge to the understanding that the state should never favor one religion over another. It is clear that Mr. Romney failure to understand that core principal is shared by all Republican presidential candidates.

What Republicans now hold forth is that religious morality of a candidate is the deciding factor.

Being president means for Republicans that any moral laxity would be grounds for impeachment because of the precedent they set.

Cold Comfort

Cold comfort

Cold comfort to those who no longer breathe

lying in some rigid position until flesh becomes dust

with stilled heart that will no longer hold the soul

the roaring engines of hellfire missiles

trailing plumes of black exhaust

in mini dawns of blasted light and supersonic fragmentation warheads

to slice the meat from the bones of the living

In an eternity to lie under the marble nondenominational marker

in the blanket of silence

in this sightless world do our brothers and sisters now inhabit

the whining transmission as a sixty ton ship of the desert dead stops

encased in flames from the penetrator shaped weapon

powered by 500 lbs of US manufactured propellent

as 60 year old designed Kalashnikovas' make sure that one one gets out alive

No one returns to their loved ones

in stately rows upon rolling hills in the bright and shining city

their lives prematurely extinguished when they heeded a call to duty and not to life

in the stinking Port-O-Lets that bakes their shit to bricks

never to be certain of the random falling whine of 60mm mortar rounds

wearing their dragon skin armor whenever they walk in the open

never sure of the sniper or radio controlled explosive to take their life or limb

In the house of white under a cloudless pallid depthless azure sky

a man sitting, reading nothing, seeing nothing but ranting in his mind

who has the power to yoke our lives to his reality of good versus evil

Busing to DC for Sept 15

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Abu Gonzalez resigns and Bush is Queeg

I am taken aback that Abu Gonzalez resigns as AG. Josh Marshall and others have pointed out that Gonzalez is the keystone that was preventing Congressional investigations from proceeding into numerous criminal actions the executive branch has committed.

This jumping from the sinking Bush administration by high administration officials however does not mean that those officials will escape from their criminal actions or intentions.

I believe and will advocate to my Congressional representatives that acts by those officials should be investigated by, at a minimum, a special prosecutor and grand jury. People like Abu Gonzalez and Karl Rove are responsible for their actions and those actions by their subordinates. Crimes committed cannot be crimes ignored.

Now, Mr. Bush is akin to Captain Queeg. A man who is rapidly losing his grasp on reality and sanity. The bunker mentality that pervades the White House staff is evident when their dialogue includes such kindergarten terms as "defeatocrats".

A recent book "Bush on the Couch" by Dr. Justin Frank utilizes applied psychoanalysis to understand the underlying psychological forces that makeup George W. Bush. What I find interesting is that such an approach was used by the O.S.S. during World War Two on Adolf Hitler by Walter Langer.

As the pressure builds on Mr. Bush there is the final question: Will Mr. Bush attack Iran as a way to salvage his presidency? This is like Adolf Hitler's gamble on Unternehmen: Wacht am Rhein. "Hitler believed that he could split the Allies and make the Americans and British sue for a separate peace, independent of the Soviet Union." Can an attack on Iran solve Mr. Bush's political dilemina?

One clue that it would not be so was uttered by former U.S. Secretary of State (under President Bush Sr., no less!) Lawrence Engleburger told the BBC:

"If George Bush [Jnr] decided he was going to turn the troops loose on Syria and Iran after that he would last in office for about 15 minutes. In fact if President Bush were to try that now even I would think that he ought to be impeached. You can't get away with that sort of thing in this democracy."

Give no money to John or Ken Salazar

Why do these two men, who are elected representatives of the people, vote for a man has delusions of being an elected King?

Mr. Bush and his minions advocate and implement policies that are clearly against the Constitution and Bill of Rights of this nation.

Both Salazars have voted to give a free hand to Mr. Bush's illegal surveillance program of Americans. This bill that was passed gives Mr. Bush a free "Get Out of Jail" card for his program to spy on Americans for political purposes.

The evidence that, for example, the color coded terror alert system was used for partisan political gain is vouched for by Tom Ridge. The use of Homeland Security for partisan political gain was never made more clear than by former Speaker of the House Tom DeLay in his fight to redistrict Texas Congressional Districts that was clearly against the Constitution.

This is why the currently passed bill by both the House and Senate should be killed in House and Senate conference.

The Salazar brothers do not understand the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

It is time for Democratic Party members to no longer give to money to John or Ken Salazar until they understand, through legislative action of repealing this bill, that the Constitution is not "just a goddamn piece of paper" as the thug against the Constitution so aptly puts it.

Nelson: HaHa! On the Blood King and Blood Queen (Smirky and Unka Dick).