What will it take?

[bobquasit]

I'm tired of asking this question. I'm tired, period.

But I just saw some of the tapes of Bush, himself, promising state authorities that the federal government was fully prepared and would be - hell, here, I'll transcribe it:

"I want to assure the folks at the state level that, uh, we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm to help you deal with the, with the loss of property and we pray for no loss of life of course."

This was BEFORE Katrina hit.

After the storm, of course, he was amazingly quick to imply that it was all the fault of Louisiana's Democratic governor and New Orlean's Democratic mayor.

And we know that despite what that lying bastard said, the White House was TOLD that the levees could be breached.

What will it take to get this son of a bitch IMPEACHED?

Comments

[ocean-state.livejournal.com]

Maybe if he bites the head off a chicken on live TV?

[polocrunch.livejournal.com]

I was watching the video and found it weird that he basically said nothing the whole way through until the end, and then sounded like a complete idiot. Bush is so bloody incompetent.

[howlgirl.livejournal.com]

The Board of Sups in San Francisco voted to impeach the bastard. It's a start...

[moonlitmagik.livejournal.com]

i dunno since clinton got inpeached over oral! bush has surrounded himself too well..ive been signing inpeachment things for 6 months now and all it seems to have done is just keep it mentioned not forwarded

[klyfix.livejournal.com]

Whatever the original hopes of the Founding Fathers as far as the impeacement thing goes, the reality is that when it comes to the President it ends up being a political exercise. Barring the mid-term elections turning control of Congress over to the Democrats in a really massive way the only way I can see Dubya getting impeached is if the GOP decided that he had to be sacrificed to save their own backsides and he was unwilling to resign. I did have the sick thought that if terrorists got him on his trip to Pakistan and India the GOP would benefit hugely.

The problem at base, I think, is that the President is essentially an elected King. While he perhaps has less power than an absolute monarch, in some ways he's less restrained than, say, an English king back when they still had power. And the "seperation of powers" for practical purposes really means responsibility can be avoided even when both the President and the Congress are controlled by the same party. Let us realize that had we a Parliamentary system like unto the Brits Dubya would never get anywhere near the wheels of real power. Our system lends itself to giving a fool utter power.