Comments on: Rising Odds of Impeachment http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/ Author James Bovard Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:33:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: David http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-39232 David Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:47:48 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-39232 The Nigerian uranium documents were declared false by the UN before the US army crossed into Iraq. Since the documents were not produced by Nigeria, I wonder who paid to have them forged? The US law allowed the use of force only in the case of self defense. Bush-Cheney violated this doctrine The Nigerian uranium documents were declared false by the UN before the US army crossed into Iraq. Since the documents were not produced by Nigeria, I wonder who paid to have them forged?

The US law allowed the use of force only in the case of self defense. Bush-Cheney violated this doctrine

]]> By: Timothy Kelly http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34688 Timothy Kelly Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:01:47 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34688 I despair for political solutions. If limited government couldn't survive in this country with its constitutional safeguards, I don't hold out much hope for it anywhere. However, government doesn't work and when the Federal Government finally goes belly up and there's a global repudiation of the dollar, who know's what will emerge from the rubble. I am reminded that it took the collapse of the Roman Empire for the seeds of liberty to be planted in Europe in the first millenium(political subdivision and competing sovereigns). I don't think I need to remind you that there is a distinction between the US Government and the American people. When people speak of American power they are usually referring to the Federal Government and its armed might. America's global military and political presence attracts more enemies that it deters and leaves the taxpayer holding the bill. We currently spend far more on military operations in the Middle East than we spend on imported oil from that region. Only a government would strike that ''bargain.'' Anyway, my point is that while a decline in American power abroad will weaken the government, it could the free the American people from burdens of high taxes and inflation that are inevitable with every empire. I despair for political solutions. If limited government couldn’t survive in this country with its constitutional safeguards, I don’t hold out much hope for it anywhere. However, government doesn’t work and when the Federal Government finally goes belly up and there’s a global repudiation of the dollar, who know’s what will emerge from the rubble. I am reminded that it took the collapse of the Roman Empire for the seeds of liberty to be planted in Europe in the first millenium(political subdivision and competing sovereigns). I don’t think I need to remind you that there is a distinction between the US Government and the American people. When people speak of American power they are usually referring to the Federal Government and its armed might. America’s global military and political presence attracts more enemies that it deters and leaves the taxpayer holding the bill. We currently spend far more on military operations in the Middle East than we spend on imported oil from that region. Only a government would strike that ”bargain.” Anyway, my point is that while a decline in American power abroad will weaken the government, it could the free the American people from burdens of high taxes and inflation that are inevitable with every empire.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34344 Jim Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:51:45 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34344 I don't think so. I think the Bush team is going to find themselves in a lot more trouble than they expect... The clock is ticking on a whole heap of Pandora's Boxes... "Zombies dancing ballet" - good image. Better than zombies doing Irish step dancing, per St. Pat's DAy... I don’t think so. I think the Bush team is going to find themselves in a lot more trouble than they expect…

The clock is ticking on a whole heap of Pandora’s Boxes…

“Zombies dancing ballet” - good image. Better than zombies doing Irish step dancing, per St. Pat’s DAy…

]]> By: KoWT http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34165 KoWT Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:58:05 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34165 This is beyond the petty ante partisan politics so many are conditioned to reduce it to. It is about the rule of law, and the future of our Republic. The Bush league has been allowed to practice their fear laced cryto-fascist-imperialist statescraft with impunity for so long that it's now difficult to soberly examine any current aspect of their questionable doings without exposing even more serious goings on from days gone by. The dems may want to prolong the agony of having a felon-in-chief, so they can seize the office and preserve the presidential ability to break the law (and keep secrets, and grease crony palms) with impunity, but it's not gonna happen that way. Watching the Bush league work is like watching a zombie dance ballet. They can't execute. They make all sorts of high minded plans all the time, but when it comes to executing those plans (not to be confused with the execution of the mickey mouse dictator they made out to be a bogeyman), they simply aren't up to the task. Nothing they try works. Nothing. They've gotta be alarmed as all getout. Lengthy losing streaks suck. Imagine a world where Iraq is riding the wave of a booming democracy, the citizenry's burbling about Jefferson's Federalist Papers in kaffeeklatches on George Bush Blvd in beautiful (and oh so safe) downtown Baghdad. A regular beachhead of democracy. Massive influence on their less free brethren in less enlightened middle eastern states. If that were the case, would there be any interest in going after Bush and co. for defrauding us into a war of aggression? It would still be fraud, but the fact that it succeeded would reduce those interested in calling foul to a sourpuss fringe element (strict constitionalists, libertarians, wonks). As it stands, Gonzalez at AG is warding off well deserved criminal indictments. But how many times can he stand being called up to Capital Hill to explain WH goings on? I've seen a lot of his appearances. Like his boss, he's a graceless kinda guy. I'd put the odds of him opening his mouth and shooting himself in the foot at 60% for any given Congressional grilling session. Congress calling him up 4 more times is about the length of his shelf life. And if he goes down, the call for an AG that serves the law of the land, rather than the scofflaw in chief, will be strong. I highly doubt that Congress would approve a John Yoo or Jay Bybee kinda nomination. But anything less would certainly mean indictments. What's a besieged failure law breaker of an administration to do? Can they just leave the office of AG sit empty for the rest of their reign? /ramble This is beyond the petty ante partisan politics so many are conditioned to reduce it to.

It is about the rule of law, and the future of our Republic.

The Bush league has been allowed to practice their fear laced cryto-fascist-imperialist statescraft with impunity for so long that it’s now difficult to soberly examine any current aspect of their questionable doings without exposing even more serious goings on from days gone by.

The dems may want to prolong the agony of having a felon-in-chief, so they can seize the office and preserve the presidential ability to break the law (and keep secrets, and grease crony palms) with impunity, but it’s not gonna happen that way.

Watching the Bush league work is like watching a zombie dance ballet. They can’t execute. They make all sorts of high minded plans all the time, but when it comes to executing those plans (not to be confused with the execution of the mickey mouse dictator they made out to be a bogeyman), they simply aren’t up to the task. Nothing they try works. Nothing. They’ve gotta be alarmed as all getout. Lengthy losing streaks suck.

Imagine a world where Iraq is riding the wave of a booming democracy, the citizenry’s burbling about Jefferson’s Federalist Papers in kaffeeklatches on George Bush Blvd in beautiful (and oh so safe) downtown Baghdad. A regular beachhead of democracy. Massive influence on their less free brethren in less enlightened middle eastern states.

If that were the case, would there be any interest in going after Bush and co. for defrauding us into a war of aggression? It would still be fraud, but the fact that it succeeded would reduce those interested in calling foul to a sourpuss fringe element (strict constitionalists, libertarians, wonks).

As it stands, Gonzalez at AG is warding off well deserved criminal indictments. But how many times can he stand being called up to Capital Hill to explain WH goings on? I’ve seen a lot of his appearances. Like his boss, he’s a graceless kinda guy. I’d put the odds of him opening his mouth and shooting himself in the foot at 60% for any given Congressional grilling session.

Congress calling him up 4 more times is about the length of his shelf life.

And if he goes down, the call for an AG that serves the law of the land, rather than the scofflaw in chief, will be strong. I highly doubt that Congress would approve a John Yoo or Jay Bybee kinda nomination. But anything less would certainly mean indictments. What’s a besieged failure law breaker of an administration to do? Can they just leave the office of AG sit empty for the rest of their reign?

/ramble

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34158 Jim Fri, 16 Mar 2007 04:13:54 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34158 Timothy - Yes, presidents have been going to seed constitutionally for a long time. But the Bush-Cheney offenses are a quantum leap beyond the desultory norm for the post WWII era. Timothy - Yes, presidents have been going to seed constitutionally for a long time.

But the Bush-Cheney offenses are a quantum leap beyond the desultory norm for the post WWII era.

]]> By: Skip Allen http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34154 Skip Allen Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:33:00 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34154 My greatest fear is that Bush and Cheney will be allowed to "run-out the clock" since Bush's second term is rapidly coming to an end. It would be the greatest unprosecuted crime (against the American people and the World) in history should Bush and Cheney manage to ride-out the remainder of their term without ever having been held accountable for at least some of their SERIOUS CRIMES. My greatest fear is that Bush and Cheney will be allowed to “run-out the clock” since Bush’s second term is rapidly coming to an end. It would be the greatest unprosecuted crime (against the American people and the World) in history should Bush and Cheney manage to ride-out the remainder of their term without ever having been held accountable for at least some of their SERIOUS CRIMES.

]]> By: Timothy Kelly http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34139 Timothy Kelly Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:00:45 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34139 Has not every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt committed impeachable offenses? The expansion of executive power in the 20th century is a direct consequence of the overall uncontrollable growth of government since the Civil War. Has not every president since Franklin D. Roosevelt committed impeachable offenses? The expansion of executive power in the 20th century is a direct consequence of the overall uncontrollable growth of government since the Civil War.

]]> By: John Lowell http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34122 John Lowell Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:35:30 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34122 Ryan, And if anyone accuses you of being cynical, I think you'll find either that (1) they haven't lived long enough or (2) that they're in need of some kind of aggressive purgative. John Lowell Ryan,

And if anyone accuses you of being cynical, I think you’ll find either that (1) they haven’t lived long enough or (2) that they’re in need of some kind of aggressive purgative.

John Lowell

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34118 Dirk W. Sabin Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:12:38 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34118 Kyle Sampson is the tip of the petri dish. Sometime back in his hallowed College Republican days, Secret Karl was rumored to have sent several Gerbers "Pureed Green Peas" jars of his, excuse me, eh..., genetic froth to gut alte B.Y.U.. The underlying reason behind Karl's rather sordid delivery to the Land of Zion was the establishment of a covert GOP program at this venerable Mormon institution, code named "S.B.U.E.", acronym for "I wanna be a Sunbeam for the Unitary Executive". With CIA backing in Neo-Conservative, Capitalist-Socialist Utah, S.B.U.E., or, colloquially "Spew" could embark upon a genetic experiment led by a Doctor Of Forensic Genetics named Heinrich Jensen Smith Jr.who had a fondness for the "Schmoos" of the Lil Abner Cartoon series. Well, fast forward to today and now we see the perhaps the first evidence of Karl's Neo-Nerdy Aryan Army of Kafka-esque Unitary Executive Spartans and his name is Kyle Sampson. If this really is the first graduate trainee, there will be thousands more, jess like the Schmoos and they will be popping up with relentless regularity. They shall be identified by a cult-like devotion to Authority and an extremely bad case of passive aggressiveness fostered by a genetic disposition toward pasty nerdiness enshrined within an awful fashion sense. The silliness of the appearance is part of the ruse. Although the SBUES look innocuous and sunny-dispositioned, they are bloodthirsty operatives capable of naked aggression in service to the State. They are known to sprout invisible tentacles that attach themselves to hidden sources of soft money ...said tentacles only visible to the members of the cabal who are trained to look into a hat containing seer stones and a well-worn edition of "The Idiots Guide to Machiavelli's "the Prince"". When a pasty faced roly-poly government factotum smiles at you in a manner that is sweet but oddly malevolent, give them a furtive evil eye whilst rotating thrice counterclockwise and muttering "Albert J. Nock" five times. Then , run like hell while throwing away any cash you might have to slow them up a bit. SBUE's like cash almost as much as they do the Unitary Executive. This shall be a rough ride folks, stay alert. We are seeing the beginning of the Latter Days whence the establishment of the United States of Utah begins the tribulations of the End Times. Horde liquor and skepticism. Kyle Sampson is the tip of the petri dish. Sometime back in his hallowed College Republican days, Secret Karl was rumored to have sent several Gerbers “Pureed Green Peas” jars of his, excuse me, eh…, genetic froth to gut alte B.Y.U.. The underlying reason behind Karl’s rather sordid delivery to the Land of Zion was the establishment of a covert GOP program at this venerable Mormon institution, code named “S.B.U.E.”, acronym for “I wanna be a Sunbeam for the Unitary Executive”. With CIA backing in Neo-Conservative, Capitalist-Socialist Utah, S.B.U.E., or, colloquially “Spew” could embark upon a genetic experiment led by a Doctor Of Forensic Genetics named Heinrich Jensen Smith Jr.who had a fondness for the “Schmoos” of the Lil Abner Cartoon series.

Well, fast forward to today and now we see the perhaps the first evidence of Karl’s Neo-Nerdy Aryan Army of Kafka-esque Unitary Executive Spartans and his name is Kyle Sampson.
If this really is the first graduate trainee, there will be thousands more, jess like the Schmoos and they will be popping up with relentless regularity. They shall be identified by a cult-like devotion to Authority and an extremely bad case of passive aggressiveness fostered by a genetic disposition toward pasty nerdiness enshrined within an awful fashion sense. The silliness of the appearance is part of the ruse. Although the SBUES look innocuous and sunny-dispositioned, they are bloodthirsty operatives capable of naked aggression in service to the State. They are known to sprout invisible tentacles that attach themselves to hidden sources of soft money …said tentacles only visible to the members of the cabal who are trained to look into a hat containing seer stones and a well-worn edition of “The Idiots Guide to Machiavelli’s “the Prince”".

When a pasty faced roly-poly government factotum smiles at you in a manner that is sweet but oddly malevolent, give them a furtive evil eye whilst rotating thrice counterclockwise and muttering “Albert J. Nock” five times. Then , run like hell while throwing away any cash you might have to slow them up a bit. SBUE’s like cash almost as much as they do the Unitary Executive.

This shall be a rough ride folks, stay alert. We are seeing the beginning of the Latter Days whence the establishment of the United States of Utah begins the tribulations of the End Times. Horde liquor and skepticism.

]]> By: Ryan http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34116 Ryan Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:32:45 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/03/14/rising-odds-of-impeachment/#comment-34116 I believe some of you are correct about the Democrats not wanting to do anything about Bush. It looks like they would rather hang Bush around the Stupid party's neck as a cinderblock for the next election. I believe some of you are correct about the Democrats not wanting to do anything about Bush. It looks like they would rather hang Bush around the Stupid party’s neck as a cinderblock for the next election.

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