Did you guys see the "give us the bike!" clip from the Daily Show this week? If not, here's the clip titled, "Clusterf#@ the Poor House: President Goofus and President Gallant"
Crazy part is how easily we could have our bike/new president. President-elect Barack Obama could start working right now if it weren't for the blindness of Congress.
For me, the story of the Bush administration will not have a happy ending unless George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are removed from office early. In the end, do they really get to finish their term? Do they really get away with it? If that happens, doesn’t the Constitution lose? Don’t we lose?
Is that the ending we want? We elect the good guy in the election and that’s it? Really?
Barack Obama has done his part. He won the election. It took two full years. He beat the Clintons. He beat the Republicans. Come on. He has done his fair share.
This last step is on Congress. There is no other way. But they don’t seem to get it.
Oh, and how should he do that? Military coup? Ignore the Constitution? How should the President-elect best overthrow the sitting president? Do tell.Frank, who has been dealing with both the bailout of the financial industry
and a proposed rescue of Detroit automakers, said Obama needs to play a more
significant role on economic issues.
“At a time of great crisis with mortgage foreclosures and autos, he
says we only have one president at a time,” Frank said. “I’m afraid that
overstates the number of presidents we have. He’s got to remedy that
situation.”
Reality is that no one can blame Barack Obama for what is happening now because he is not the President. But he could be in practice if Congress would remove Bush and Cheney from office. Only the House of Representatives can file articles of impeachment (or use the ones that Dennis Kucinich already filed). Only the United States Senate can remove the president and vice-president from office.
Good news. They could do it in just a few hours if the votes were there. The hard work (the presenting of evidence and proof) is already done. Lets pick an easy one.
Torture = Proven and well known = war crime = impeachment.In reality, it's not hard anymore. It's a matter of changing Congressional minds.
If Congress were to do the happy ending thing, Nancy Pelosi - the Speaker of the House -would become President, and she could work with President-elect Barack Obama to get started on fixing this mess now. Before we lose everything.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney? Well, at least they wouldn't be in power any more. Although it lost a lot of battles, at least the Constitution would win the war.
I like that ending. And I love the added bonus that the race for the first woman president and the first African-American president would end up a beautiful tie in 2009. A happy ending for the primary race story too.
To get this happy ending though, we need the people in the media, the people with the biggest microphones, to step up and remind the country that impeachment is an option. They need to help the word "impeachment" get into the heads of our Congress. They must do it quickly.
Rachel Maddow. You're the best we've got. I’m calling on you.
3 comments:
As I watched the video... and laughed, I kept thinking that this was funny, but that it was not funny.
What a contrast!
And who does not love a Goofus and Gallant reference? Especially when it is as fitting as this one.
Deep sigh.
I keep on hoping, Jen ....and telling myself: breathe deep.
..Rock :-)
Hope 2009 is treating you well.
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