Impeachment Imperative and Deja Vu

On 06/12/2008, the Florida Sun-Sentinel ridiculed impeachment efforts, advising that "if Congress needs more things than impeachment to keep lawmakers busy, it has myriad options."

Is their sarcasm justified? Let's look at the options. The last time the nation replaced the "bad cop" with the "good cop" (1992), we spent eight years watching a president peeled layer by layer until the bad cops managed to return to the scene of their crimes and plunder the treasury AGAIN. All of this was easily predictable politically or even just by our mothers' teaching, "if you don't hold people accountable for their crimes....."

Cleaning up others' messes and moving on without accountability has worked out wonderfully, hasn't it? We went from billions lost in false S&L profits (which we're still paying off) and over 100,000 killed in a manipulated war... to trillions plundered in "myriad" ways, nearly a million dead, and four million refugees.... with no end in sight.

Back then the buried story was illegal slant-drilling into Iraq ("drinking the milkshake"), even though that particular crime will get you shot in Texas. We went from a VP turned president who ignored all the warnings about S&L fraud (even from prominent Republicans) to "All right, you've covered your ass now" as the presidential response to the latest warning of a pending terrorist attack. Loyalty and due diligence are simply not recognized as duties by this Board of Directors.

So, what advice does the Sun-Sentinel have for us to address this growing criminality? Move on, folks, nothing to see here. In other words, it's got NOTHING. Further, it's got WORSE than nothing.

Mother, help us.