Message to Dems: Impeach away. Impeachment is A-Okay.
This metaphor is a Zendo stick. In Zen training the masters would occasionally whap their meditating students with a stick and then ask the question, "What, at this moment, is missing?" (Answer: Impeachment.)
This is the call to the present moment. The call to focus, the call to stop pretending... the call to the NOW. Impeach. How about these numbers?
90% of Dems and 81% of Independents disapprove of W. Republicans are also jumping ship (only 67% approve, and this is dropping).
Don't like those numbers? How about these? U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq: 2436 U.S. Miltary Wounded in Iraq: 17,648 Iraqi Civilian Deaths (minimum) 35,119 (maximum) as many as 250,000.
Millions of Americans under surveillance.
Wake up.
Message to Dems: Impeach away. Impeachment is A-Okay. Say it loud and say it proud. Impeach away.
Go find your colleagues across the aisle. Twist their arms. Find the Olympia Snowes and Chuck Hagels and Chris Shays and "Freedom Fries" Walter Jones. Take them to coffee. Buy them an ice cream--buy them a beer. Talk. Laugh. Form a Left-Right Alliance--for the good of the country. And impeach away.
Why wait until November? It's a long, hot summer ahead. You think those Iraq numbers are going to change? Who wants to be the last one to die for George W Bush?
Americans are bright: we know that the GOP has been home to some of our brightest apples (Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt) as well as our very worst (George W Bush, Abramoff, Richard Cheney). The Democrats are no party of angels either--if they were, I wouldn't be a Democrat. I like real people, with dirt under their fingernails, and who sometimes make mistakes.
But sometimes those mistakes go way too far and happen far too often. Sometimes those mistakes are criminal. Beyond criminal.
That's when you use the I-word. Use it. Do it. Demand it. Impeach. Impeach away.
Sadly, we do not have the vote of "No confidence" that younger democracies across the world have adopted. With numbers like 29% (in the younger democracies), George W Bush and Richard Cheney would be long gone. Our system is older, but not quaint. What is quaint is to hear that modern, thinking, rational, thoughtful, scientific, kind, thorough, fact-finding, sober Democrats would quail from Impeachment.
WHAP! This is an Impeachment Stick. WHAP! It is a metaphor. It is the NOW. Impeach away. Say it loud. Say it proud. Impeach.
The paid DC consultants are asking the Dems to play a kind of Aikido... "Don't hit back... just dodge the W administration, let them flail around, and let them sink in the ocean of their own mistakes." Dems think this will help them. It will not.
The Dems' script is like a new variation on the story of David and Goliath. "Watch Goliath flail and storm around. He'll fall down eventually. Just avoid the fall." The old story as metaphor was far superior. At least the old David had the good sense to pick up a rock.
WHAP! This is my Impeachment Stick. WHAP! It says Impeachment is OKAY! WHAP!
What are you waiting for? Impeach. sf.nancy@mail.house.gov