Nostrabobus Predicts: Up from the Fœtid Comment Sewers under Ciudad Vleeptron

President George W. Bush Jr.
Permanent National Memorial

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this blog is Evil. It's interesting, colorful, entertaining, smart, thoughtful ...
Do not read this blog. Read VLEEPTRON only.
Your eyes are getting sleepy.
Here, drink some more Blue Stuff.
The Evil iFlipFlop guy says these gas prices were
in Malibu California on 15 March 2006.
Can he see the future? Is he an Alien? Is he dating your little sister?
Maybe it's a typo. If it is, and he meant 2005,
I have no way of knowing whether he's lying or not.
He could be not wearing any clothes, how would we know?
Okay, the nozzle shut off, now insert your credit card
to pay for the -- HOLY SHIT!!!!!! HOW MUCH?????

jim olson said ...
Oh, but Bob, you forget that we have the Chimperor's personal assurance that he knows Harriet and that she is the same now as she was 20 years ago, and that she will not change once she is on the Bench.

Personally, I want a Justice who is willing to learn and grow into the job.

Bob Merkin said ...

He says he knows her heart. He also said he knows Vladimir Putin's heart, and he knows Vladimir's a Good Guy. He has amazing mystic powers.

Have a little pity on the guy. His House Majority Leader just got fingerprinted and had his mug shot taken on Texas felony charges. His Chief of Staff has spent the past month talking to a grand jury and may get indicted momentarily -- federal felony. Three times a week they take a poll to see how many people approve of the job he's doing, and them numbers have just been diving into the toilet lately.

And don't forget -- the hurricane itself wasn't his fault.

Well, here's the good news: No matter who the next president might be, we only have George W. Bush Jr. for 1187 more days.

Anonymous said...

George should be impeached. Found guilty of treason and lying to the American public during a War. And then face a firing squad.

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Yo Anonymous -- thanks for dropping by. (If you've been dropping by regularly, but just clamming up and lurking, make a little more noise in the future. That goes for ALL you lurkers.)

Nostrabobus stands on a chair and gazes into the future, and doesn't see any impeachment in George's immediate future.

Bill Clinton was impeached in 1998 for allegedly lying about an extramarital sexual affair with a consenting adult. He was the first president to be impeached since Nixon in 1974; the only other president to be impeached was Andrew Johnson (Abraham Lincoln's vice-president) in 1868.

Nixon resigned before a Senate trial could begin. Both Clinton and Johnson were acquitted in their Senate trials.

In 1998, and today, both the House and Senate were Republican majorities.

Both houses were Democratic majorities when Nixon was impeached.

Nixon wasn't impeached for being fellated by someone other than his wife. He was impeached for allegedly participating in and covering up acts everyone recognizes as criminal and serious: breaking into and burglarizing private property, illegal warrantless phone buggings, obstruction of justice, and a general White House conspiracy to sodomize the presidential election of 1972.

The idiot had made secret tape recordings of his own conspiratorial Oval Office conversations, so there wouldn't have been a problem with evidence at trial. (That's when the phrase "the smoking gun" jumped into American politics.)

The House Judiciary Committee was considering one count against Nixon for his allegedly illegal conduct of the Vietnam War (the secret bombing of Cambodia), but that count failed to pass the Committee to be voted on by the full House.

If he'd gone to trial in the Senate, he wouldn't have had to defend himself against any aspect of his war conduct.

That's particularly instructive. Even Republicans who had up to that time been Nixon's political supporters voted with the Democrats to impeach him -- but both parties were very uncomfortable with voting to indict him for any war-related acts. And Congress is just as reluctant to interfere with Bush's broad war-making powers as it was to interfere with Nixon's.

When American troops are actively committed to foreign combat, voters will murder any Congressman or Senator perceived as meddling in the Commander-in-Chief's conduct of a war. The very few Democratic Congress members who criticized the Iraq war when Bush first began it were promptly thrown out of office.

In other words, in our lifetimes, a president can declare any war he wants, for any reasons he wants, and wage it any loopy and incompetent way he wants, and Congress will never exercise its Constitutional authority to call him to account for it. Every Senator and Congress member is desperate to keep his/her job for life, and voting against a commander-in-chief while there's a war on is one of the few ways an incumbent could lose his/her job. It's political suicide.

(World War II was the last American war that was waged with a formal Declaration of War by Congress -- a power the Constitution specifically gives Congress. All wars since then -- Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq 1, Iraq 2, etc., etc., etc, -- have been strictly White House jobs.)

That's the Bad News from Nostrabobus.

And now the Good News:

I think I just paid $2.67 a gallon for gas yesterday, and the mainstream media is routinely predicting gas will hit $3 a gallon.

That's going to be Bush's Permanent Legacy after January 2009:

The $3+ Gas Guy.

Followed by the government-assisted mass drowning and life-destruction of the citizens of New Orleans and the Gulf states, where how likely it was to die and how badly your life was destroyed was a function of skin color and economic status.

But by all means phone or write your Congressperson and demand Bush be impeached. It will have an effect. Your Congress member will interpret it correctly as a sign of voter outrage, and if the Congress member keeps voting Bush's way on everything and keeps kissing Bush's ass, you and your neighbors have given him/her very clear notice that you'll vote him/her out of office the next chance you get (November 2006).

There's every possibility, if the American voters get as ripshit and outraged as you are (and I am, and Jim O. is, etc.), we may get a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress again after the 2006 elections. If that happens, impeachment could be a very real possibility. Happened to Nixon, it could happen to Bush.

Whether he'd survive a Senate trial, or whether he'd have to hop the Marine helicopter and flee back to Texas ... hmmm, the mysts of my Crystal are very cloudy. Clear them up a little by making a phone call or sending an e-mail to your Senators and your Congressthing on Monday.

(They DO pay very close attention to those calls and letters. They're terrified of losing their jobs.)