I'm not a fan of the Huffington Post, which tends to come across to me as cynical and flamingly liberal. Nevertheless, I was caught by this post, with the catchy title: Will George Bush Ever Suffer The Consequences? The author doesn't come up with an answer, except to say that if people let him, then yes, he will.
Other than censure and/or impeachment, are there plausible, viable consequences? I ask because I doubt either will happen (I'm reminded of the photograph of the woman holding a placard proclaiming 'Will somebody please give him a blowjob so we can impeach him?), and I'm wondering if thats all there is in the punitive cupboard.
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I don't claim to know all the crazy things teens do these days, but your title did have me thinking your post was going to be about 'huffing'. :/
I haven't followed what Bush has been doing lately .. but by what I've read on your blog .. he's in big big trouble?
Actually,no -- at least, no more than he's been in for a while. He's lost a lot of support, but his management style is to press on, anyway. He took an action which a number of people think was unethical, but legal, relative to a convicted, sentenced, but not yet incarcerated assistant to the vice president -- he commuted the guy's sentence so that he does not have to go to jail.
I thought the same thing Rach about the "huffing".
Bill I was going to write my Congressman about this, but what he did was legal. He can't be impeached for doing something the law legally allows him to do. Ethical? Now that's another matter.
Very good article though and some pretty valid points. When the new Congress came in power in January, I did not want them to push for impeachment. I just wanted us to move on as a country now that Bush would have some restraints put on him.
Now...I am all for it. I like what the article said about it no longer being about politics so much as it being Congress' duty to uphold their sworn duties, one of which is keeping the Executive in check.
Okay, it DID occur to me, afterwards, that that title had a second meaning...but I thought that the linkage of 'Huffington' and the fact that they get 'huffy', a lot, was worth it.
Yep, what he did was legal. Scary, though. Used to be that the general image was that a lame-duck President has no effective power. Now we find 'or restraints, either'.
I'm not sure about the Congress having it as a 'sworn duty', but I think I'm being picky there. Yes, I've come around to thinking impeachment, too. I am trying VERY hard to keep from thinking 'Impeach Clinton over oral sex, will you? Take THAT!' The motivation has to be defensible - not just in public, in the clamor of Oh Yeah? Sez who? but also, when you're alone, sitting quietly and telling yourself the truth.
Lately, that hasn't been too much of a problem.
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