hello yall, forgive me if that title upsets folks who think impeachment proceedings won't backfire; but what is more prudent at this point: impeachment, wasting time on Scooter-the-fall-guy, or GETTING Cheney in court? Like a KOS front page post mentions this morning, impeachment becomes nuclear & thus you'd better weigh TONS of fallout, and fallout has alot to do with WHICH darn way the winds blow--
and during campagin season, winds blow in many directions, eh?
And Libby? That is exaclty what they WANT us to focus on, but allow me to put that aside for a moment...
SURE we all fear more damage to US stature in the world if Bu$hCo does yet MORE damage ala Iran entanglements & oily Iraq civil-war quagmires fumbled from the wrong hemisphere-war-room that's spent the war deficit by borrowing from good ole China, our 21st century uber-power rival who will make a trillion on our loan-debt.
But choosing your battles--when the other side is sly as a long-tailed rat, is critical.
NOW the LIBBY angle:
Is there a person here who is naive enough to think that the various Repub$ who are complaining about the ethics of the Libby scenario is anything more than window dressing for their own religious rights' sense that "gee, maybe right & wrong DO matter as opposed to the ENDS justify ANY means"?? ..Too late to count on that for a grand slam.
Thus, it's obvious--as that post pointed out on the our front page--
impeachment will be too tangled AND contingent on various fallout & we all know that Bu$hy's brain, the R0ver, will just feed the media some diversion---
and impeachment may not FULLY backfire,
but it ain't gonna work, and I'm a blood n guts progressive and even I have no doubt on that game.
Folks, are some of u so naive that u want to waste energy on impeachment as we'd have to impeach BOTH Cheney AND dubya or else the uh, D!ck would officially run the country as opposed to comfortably sitting in the V.P. [Virtual President] seat?
What annoys me even WORSE is the way WE----yep, WE the progressives & Dems & Greens & such are PLAYING right into the hands of the administration by chasing the Libby issue---you doubt me?
Ok---while we put an incredible effort into a short term fight on Libby who is just the fall guy,, they are laughing at us since there is ONLY one REAL battle here:
WE need to get CHENEY into testifying in court via subpoena or other legal means. PERIOD.
Without the CHENEY in court scenario,
please tell me how waiting for the slow wheels of justice --that barely have any axles left with Bu$h & Cheney manipulating things---
well, please show me how wasting & thus focusing MAJOR energy on a damn fall guy is gonna amount to very much anyway?
The Repub$ will just say how nice & ethical it is to stand for justice while they smoke more cigars & laugh at the local country club from their golf carts.
CHOOSE the prudent BATTLE dagnabbit...
Cheney's little-Libby-fall-guy scenario works whether he serves 1 day or many months.
Does stragegy mean we're throwing away some "oh, but the children won't have role models of ethics" scenario?
NO----they lost their role models in the OILY sands LOOOOONG ago and a fall-guy is NOT the way to reverse it when campaigns, Iraq, Iran & other issues (ala R0verDIVERSIONS) will surely all contend for attention anyway.
Please understand that sometimes you just can't go for small fish when that's what the opposition has planned, eh?
I won't blab anymore-- JUST realize that getting Cheney via subpoena or ANY other legal mechanism that gets him to testify under oath on big game tv is the battle to choose,
Not some fall guy they've cleverly forced us to get angry about---
sure ethics matter, but at this point, the ethics are so skewed out of reality that it's time to realize that BESIDES impeachment & Libby lies the POWER goal: Cheney in court.
Choose your battle or go listen to that giant laughing sound at the local Shrublicant country club as they distract us YET again, it's just gotten rotten.