Thank You!

A big thank you to Congress, for voting to set a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq.

Another big thank you to the American people, who wised up after many years of disastrous Rethuglican government, to vote for a change of direction and to install a Democratic-led Congress — the same American people, the majority of whom now want to see a timetable for withdrawing troops from Iraq, and only 28% of whom now think President Bush is doing a good job.

Finally, a big thank you to Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), who today submitted a bill calling for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. Kucinich backs up his bill with lots of documentation. Now we need other Congressmen with similar amount of nerve as Kucinich. I will be writing letters.

How Many Scandals?

How many scandals, with fingers and evidence pointed directly at the White House, does this country have to endure before Congress finds the courage to impeach?

Here is a partial list of scandals perpetrated by the evildoers in the White House: taking no action after being informed that Osama bin Laden was determined to strike inside the USA; lying about weapons of mass destruction to get the United States into a war with Iraq; the incompetent management of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; Abu Ghraib; Katrina; Walter Reed; outing of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame, causing huge damage to the country’s ability to monitor weapons of mass destruction; firing of United States attorneys for political reasons afterd pushing those same attorneys to pursue politically motivated investigations.

Any one of these scandals ought to be ground for impeachment. Any one of these would have been grounds for impeachment when Bill Clinton ... oh wait, the standard was different then. Now let me think for a minute ... which party wanted Clinton impeached and which party has done nothing from 2001 through 2007 to investigate and punish President Bush and his gang of criminals? Which party will try to stop any impeachment today?