Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, May 15, 2006
Impeachment is too good for him
To underline the point Mickey, Blair would certainly run as a Dem. We have the ‘left-wing of the corporate party’ in power, and it makes no difference, internationally at least.
Channel 4 don’t seem to want to make up for there recent hatchet job on Chavez, here’s their report on his visit to London last week.
Count the unchallenged smears there. You’re all shocked, I know.Posted by Mew on from mew's snugglehouse 05/15 at 06:37 AMSuccinct, yet right on MZ…
Posted by RT on from The Buyou City 05/15 at 07:27 AMGood morning Mew, rt, and Mickey. Great article, Mickey.
I am still unimpressed with the call for impeachment. As I keep saying, it trivializes the crimes, but beyond that too many forget that Congress was complicit in the most serious of the crimes so therefore it is unlikely that they will call for impeachment. State legislatures can call for Impeachment. Vermont and 2 other states have movements in that direction. It just seems like a red herring to me...more of the politics of convenience.
I don’t get it. You kill thousands of innocent civilians and the consequence is that you lose your job??? That’s the result of Impeachment, right? You get fired. If we are really serious about addressing the problem, we should be calling for war crimes trials. Maybe they had the right idea at Nuremberg.
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 05/15 at 07:47 AMI object to tasty peaches being maligned in this manner.
It would indeed be too good for him, however perchance a few lives might be spared in the few moments during the melee.
Thanks for the childfree mother’s day wishes, although I’m not the CatLady, I am the cat-mommy of two such wonderful monsters. And they don’t grow out of their clothes, just their litterboxes. Speaking of Catty Moms - attempted pleasant wishes took a wrong turn. Bad idea all around.
Ot - but catching up....Mudge I’m sorry to hear of your encounter with a crazy caddy - (arnica’s good for speeding up the elbow) I hope you’re feeling alright and on the mend.
Mickey the Green Party Hit Man...need a bowler had and cob pipe to make that fit - you’re much more original than that moniker would allow.
Good morning Expendable “Nation”! (I hope)
Posted by Amelopsis on from Canada 05/15 at 07:57 AMHello Mew, nice to see you as always. Likewise RT, you’re in pithy form yourself today.
Owen, from last night: No, I wouldn’t WANT to wash clothes at any laundry-o-mat-lette anywhere. I don’t much want to wash clothes at all, I’d rather wear ‘em once and donate ‘em to charity and buy new ones. I loathe doing laundry. To postpone the Evil Day as long as possible, I have 120 pairs of underwear, 160 “vests” or t-shirts as we call ‘em, and about 40 polo/henley-style shirts, and I’m afraid to count the socks. I wash pants about once a week, and consider myself put-upon and abused. There are things I love about being a spoiled, comparatively rich Murrican.
Mike, from last night: PICO GALLERY!! I am very impressed! I love their stable of artists (I visit them online every so often to see what I can’t afford to buy anymore). Many congratulations, and please let us know when the show is set to go up.
MZ: Impeachment, now? Why bother? The damage is done, and the future is mortgaged to the hilt. Confiscate the Bush family money, use it to pay 12 hours’ interest on the national debt, and threaten the same treatment for all the vampires who run the banks unless they forgive the interest on all sovereign debt from today forward. Aaannnd, ACTION!
RMJ, from last night: Oh my yes, I love the blame from all segments of the political spectrum going to “the Gummint” as though they themselves did not elect and sustain through inaction that assembly of their fellow citizens. Like Christians blaming “the Church” for being rigind and inflexible...whom do you imagine makes up “the Church” or “the Gummint” anyway?! Intellectual dishonesty at its finest.
Where’s CatLady?
xoxo
MudgePosted by Mudge on from Austin 05/15 at 08:00 AMOh, and a quote a propos impeachment:
“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.”
--Ogden Nash, author (1902-1971)
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/15 at 08:03 AMGood points about impeachment Mickey!
Yesterday I listened to Barbara Olshansky speak about her book-- archived here: http://kpfa.org/1pro_bio/1b_sunda.htm
Dave Lindorff is one of my favorite writers-- what I like best about him is his eternal hope that the the Democratic Party can somehow “get back on track.”
Can it? Was it ever really on track?
I suppose it was if you look at the Party as a Wave and Not Particles!
Can we have a Quantum Party?
(We are all stuck in the muck that is fer sure-- personally, I believe the key to getting unstuck is to go back to 9/11 and uncover what was hidden by corrupt and fearful politicians there.)
RBLivingston
http://tinyurl.com/mbzstPosted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco 05/15 at 08:06 AMEmpress #4: “Mudge I’m sorry to hear of your encounter with a crazy caddy - (arnica’s good for speeding up the elbow) I hope you’re feeling alright and on the mend.”
Am indeed on the mend, thank you for asking, and have been ingesting arnica since Thursday. I am always amazed at the natural pharmacy’s immense assistance, and its willful disregard by “the Medical Establishment”...offends me MIGHTILY to say the least. I confess, however, to a gleeful use of the chemical pharmacopia to control my self-inflicted ailments (diabetes, stress headaches). Aloe gloop, BTW, is working wonders on my road rash.
Good morning, dear RMJ: “I don’t get it. You kill thousands of innocent civilians and the consequence is that you lose your job??? That’s the result of Impeachment, right? You get fired. If we are really serious about addressing the problem, we should be calling for war crimes trials. Maybe they had the right idea at Nuremberg.”
Emphasis added to show skepticism. It’s on the way to 90F today, dearie, wanna come visit?
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/15 at 08:13 AMHi Amelopsis and Mr. Livingston.
Mudge...for sure I want to visit. I need a little warmth and sunshine. It is cold and wet up here. Almost time to start building an ark.....Mudge, I am especially empathetic to your current injuries from the reckless caddy. Remember I was run over by the largest dump truck anyone can imagine. My whole left side was injured and right now my knee is blown up and hurting.
And yes, I do not expect that in my lifetime there will be war crimes trials but who is responsible for that? The people will get what they want and right now it looks like they want more of the same...more spying, more wars, more transfer of wealth to the top, more of the epirization of the american psyche. Meanwhile coming to a neighborhood near you (just a few thousand miles to the south) is the Bolivarian Revolution. What do they know that we don’t?Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 05/15 at 09:54 AMHello Expendables from rainy Astoria. Thanks for all the comments above. RMJ, a line of yours (too many forget that Congress was complicit in the most serious of the crimes) inspired me to add one line to my original article and that version is now up at Counterpunch (click the link in the main post to see it).
I’d also like to clarify that I’m not demeaning Lindorff or Olshansky. Their book is useful for anyone who needs convincing about how “the Gummint” works. But, as you all declare above, impeachment is not the answer.
Btw, in case I haven’t said it lately: The Expendables rock. I’m so lucky that you all chose this blog as your hang-out.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/15 at 02:11 PMInteresting post, Mickey - a while ago Lewis Lapham made his support for impeachment of GWB public. Still have to read your contribution to the subject - after I have finished this comment.
And hello, Mew (that snugglehouse sounds cosy, especially when one has temperatures around the 58F mark), RT, Rosemarie, Mudge and Robert B. Livingston. Ah San Francisco .. we last visited in March 2003 - beautiful place!
Ciao,
HelgaPosted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/15 at 02:59 PMAnd Mew, I noticed that the BBC is following the American line more and more - they broadcast quite a few BBC items on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, so no surprise there!
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/15 at 03:13 PMSorry, Mew, but on re-reading #1, I noticed that you were referring to Channel 4!! And here I was thinking that they were better than the BBC ..
It is only 6:14 am down under, so am not fully awake.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/15 at 03:14 PMOh, and I’d love to visit Austin, Mudge! 90F sounds heavenly .. Maybe one day we might be able to visit the US of A again - we actually have to SAVE now as we have cut up our credit cards. What a revolutionary idea!
captcha: ‘love’ - as in sending my love to all you expendables and to you, Mickey. Now I’ll really click on the link to your piece.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 05/15 at 03:20 PMGreetings, all.
I agree that impeachment should just be the appetizer for Bush. A full on war crimes trial would a well deserved main course. Speaking of criminals, Karl Rove, who apparently suffers from a condition that causes him to shit out of his mouth, defended Bush’s “border control policy”:
My favorite Highlights include:
“On the other hand, we’ve also got to deal with the reality that people die. I’ve seen a couple of corpses out there. I don’t want to see them again.”
For a man with such a well developed sense of compassion, the 100,000+ Iraqi civilian corpses must really put him off his lunch.
“And I look at those polls all the time,” Rove said. “The American people like this president. His personal approval ratings are in the 60s. Job approval is lower. And what that says to me is that people like him, they respect him, he’s somebody they feel a connection with, but they’re just sour right now on the war. And that’s the way it’s going to be.Personal approval ratings? What does that mean? The American people like his haircut? The fact that his socks and tie match? That he smells good? Goodness, for a second there I thought a President should be judged on the job he did.
Fortunately, since the American public is just “sour” on the war in Iraq, things are looking up.Pardon me a moment while I lose my mind.
Posted by Cart on from near Warshington DC 05/15 at 04:59 PM58f? In new money thats...14.5C. It was 14.5 today (according to Uncle Joe the Weatherman) and it felt really toasty...Helga dear sunchild, I fear the snugglehouse isn’t going to be snuggly enough for you.
Weren’t there War Crimes Tribunals during and after Vietnam and Yugoslavia (against the aggressors, the US and NATO respectively?) To little immediate effect - how do you make these things stick?
Law is for the weak, so these administrators have to be removed from power before they can be made to stand trial, yes?Posted by Mew on from mew's snugglehouse 05/15 at 05:20 PMHowdy do y’all from toasty Texas,
It neer made it to 90F today, only 82F...eight VERY important degrees. It was, in fact, a perfectly lovely day, with breezes and sunshine and clouds and a cute young man telling me I rocked and should go on a date with him (too young), so I am in a lovely lovely mood.
Texas’s twilights are long and slow and peachy-golden in color...there’s a slanted solidity to the light as it moves slowly from the tops of the trees to the sides of the houses to the water-browned white limestone and cement curbs of the neighborhoods. What I love best is the moment, just before the sun slips away for good, that the hills of the Hill Country turn a dark violet-green, hazily masked by that peachy-gold glow...there is a reason I’m still here. New York is home to my head, Texas to my heart.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin 05/15 at 08:00 PMHello again everyone. (Awfully poetic post, Mr. Mudge.) Excellent mix of personalities here today. Hope y’all come back for a link-o-rama tomorrow.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/15 at 08:08 PMI’ve said it here before: the only reasonable thing to do with George Bush and his cronies is send ‘em all naked to the Moon.
Perhaps the only thing left to discuss is whether their toenails should be slowly removed while in transit or after they arrive.
Poor Moon.
Posted by Keir on from The Hague 05/15 at 08:12 PMOh dear. It looks like the Washington Post removed the article on Rove’s speech to the AEI and replaced it with commentary on Bush’s speech tonight. Thus fouling my link and sending it’s absurdity into the ether. Where it belongs, no doubt.
Posted by Cart on from near Warshington DC 05/15 at 08:55 PMWhat about criminal charges against Bush&Co?
I understand that a deception which is acted up with negative results is a fraud. Surely Bush is guilty of fraud in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq?
Also, isn’t fraud causing death either manslaughter or murder?
There was an article a while ago commenting on Bush’s fraud and Clinton’s perjury. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles7/Mills_Bush-Fraud-Deceit.htmAny word on when “There is No Good War” might be released?
Posted by Chris Cheer on from New Zealand 05/18 at 08:29 PMHey Chris. As far as I know, the president has to be impeached before he’s indicted but perhaps someone can clarify that. Still, your point is well taken.
As for the release of my book, who knows? You can try contacting someone at the publisher:
http://voxpopnet.net/index.php?id=43Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 05/18 at 08:36 PM
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