Every country gets to interpret the Geneva Conventions as it likes … that’ll work, eh? How much do you have to pay people to say things that stupid and that evil?

Personally, I blame Sloan.

I blame Dr. Spock.

Ouch.

I will only remind you that that “mess” includes ending Jim Crow (the reason Republicans won back the South and rose up again), ending an illegal and pointless war based on a lie and a bogus theory of “national security” (the reason the Right blames the Left for America’s first military defeat) by going into the streets and creating havoc to make people listen (which, so far, few in your generation seem willing to do), ending the millenia-old repression and ghetto-ization of women, and re-animating the whole concept of participatory democracy after nearly 2 decades of conservative “shut up and do as you’re told” oppression (a period Studs Terkel once described as one where people were allowed “to talk about babies and money and not much else”).

I realize you were joking - the winking smiley-face was a dead giveaway - but I thought it was important to remind you - andf everyone else who makes fun of us - that if you are anywhere near as successful as we were:

a) you’ll be doing pretty well,
b) you’ll be hated for the rest of your life for it by the people who lost because you won, and
c) 40 years later some smart-aleck kid will come along saying how you fucked it all up and everything that’s happened since is all your fault but they’ll clean up your “mess” for you.

When that day comes, you will, I hope, take it as I’m taking it: proof that we did well enough that smart-aleck kids don’t think twice about assuming they can improve on it. Had we not done what we did, there would be so much for you to do that you’d be overwhelmed and most likely hiding out in your home bomb-shelter with the covers pulled over your head.

Say “Thank you”.

Gah. Coffee. Stat.

Short of mass hypnosis (FOX news?), there’s no way an entire populace can be so totally oblivious!

It’s time to ACT….before your complacency suggests complicity!

Grant me my idealistic pragmatism, Mick. Am still (relatively) young; hopefully my generation can undo the mess your contemporaries left us. Gonna damn sure try.

Whether you believe, as I do, that there’s very little difference between Red authoritarians and Blue authoritarians, or you buy into the notion that the Dems are pandering to a fear they ought to be attacking, no longer matters. The end result is the same. Glenn Greenwald said it yesterday: the Dems will do NOTHING. Impeachment is “off the table” (Pelosi), and in fact the Congress has been busily covering Bush’s ass for him with the MCA vote, the FISA vote, and their refusal to demand accountability for the torture memos.

There will be no impeachment. If I’m right, there will be no impeachment even if millions are marching in the streets, swamping Congress with telephone calls and letters demanding it, or giving massive support to pro-impeachment pols and challengers. Oh, they’ll do the Kabuki. They’ll talk tough, they’ll make promises, then they’ll make excuses and somehow nothing will ever get done except more support for whatever he wants.

The Donkeys want the same powers for their president that Bush has taken for himself, probably for pretty much the same reasons. No political group ever renounces a power once it’s been accepted. The genie’s out of the bottle and they have no intention of putting it back, not when it will be at their beck-and-call in a very short 18 months. Impeachment would force them to renounce powers they want for themselves, for - of course - all the best reasons. Therefore, there will be no impeachment. Ever.

I hope I’m wrong but I’m afraid I’m not.

Which should make plain why impeachment is imperative, and has been for quite some time, even if not politically expedient.

Mick lays out the pragmatic case for impeachment succinctly: “The tactic has worked, and it continues to work.” Congress has not only the power but the duty to quit enabling this criminal administration, even if the two-faced beltway Heathers in the MSM are almost guaranteed to buy out every goddamn fainting couch in the fucking greater DC area.

They’ve simply been playing a game of semantics all along.