We often say Bush should admit mistakes and change course.

Dear Mrs. Speaker Pelosi,

We often say Bush should admit mistakes he has made, reconsider, and change course. It would be exactly hypocritical of us not to apply the same standard of behavior to ourselves.

Try as I might, I cannot give you the benefit of the doubt on the reasoning as to why you made the illegal and absurd maneuver of 'taking impeachment off the table'. It was an absolutely heinous action. It is difficult for me to express to you in civilized terms how gutted I feel in your doing so. I am robbed, stripped of power as an American citizen, castrated and muzzled. It is like betrayal from those who are supposed to be on your side. Impeachment is a tool that belongs to the American people, not to you, and you cannot, and should not try, to take it away from us. Every system must have a release, a reset mechanism, and impeachment is an essential one in our government.

After the whole Bill Clinton debacle, you may be afraid of the word and the action of impeachment, but I am not. The Clinton episode may have left you and others with a lingering feeling of adversity toward impeachment. But that is an emotional mistake and folly. Maybe Bill deserved to be impeached. Maybe he did not. The republicans made the decision on that one. But whatever decision republicans have made in the past, in no way shape or form, exempts you from your duties as a United States Congresswoman, Speaker of the House, member of a body of government whose duty it is to check the power of the executive branch. Put another way, no you don't have anything better to do. This is at least as critical as any of the other funtastic legislation you may be considering, it cuts to the heart, soul and core of the way life in this country will proceed both abstractly and tangibly.

Whatever political calculus was involved in your single handedly castrating the American people in 'taking impeachment off the table', be it to act above the fray, be the bigger person (how did that work out for John Kerry?), be the adult, to not be distracted with retribution, or because of fears that it will tear the country apart, that it will give the rethuglicons strength, etc. etc.-- whatever the reasoning that brought you to that action, I am telling you now from the bottom of my heart, it is wrong at this time. It is very very wrong at this time. We need strength. We need competence. The two are inextricably necessary. We cannot be competent without strength. And we cannot be strong without competence. Do not make the mistake of thinking that your great brilliance and competence can compensate for a lack in strength. 'Taking impeachment off the table' (it is such a rediculous concept, I cannot bring myself to state it without putting it in quotes, it makes my spine shiver- yes, this Liberal has a spine) made our position so weak, tactically and in perception, that I am furious. Simply furious.

By the time you read this letter, and I really hope you do read this letter, you will have undoubtedly seen the Bill Moyers special on impeachment. But if you haven't, or if you haven't watched it closely enough, here it is. You make me feel like an idiot and a sucker for having passionately supported the democrats. Please, be what the Rethuglicons cannot. Be decent enough to recognize an err of your own, reconsider, and correct it.

TOUGH TALK ON IMPEACHMENT

In Grave Sincerity,
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By the way: Good work on the minimum wage bill.

WTF are 'Conservative Values'?

First let's establish what they are not. They are not a conservative, isolationist foreign policy. They are not fiscal conservatism or fiscal responsibility. And they are not small government. I assert this based on the actions of those self-proclaimed conservatives elected to power by the self-proclaimed conservative, republican party. The so called 'conservatives' with their ever more referenced conservative values, have, with complete power in their hands, spit on fiscal responsibility, spit on conservative foreign policy, and spit on small government.

So, these bare-faced facts beg the question, what the hell are conservative values??? Huh, Newt, Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, O'reilly? I'm talking to you hacks. Are these ever more piously preached about conservative, family values of yours not having sex before marriage, not getting divorced, not exposing children to adult content like 'R'-rated movies? They can't be, because, generally speaking, self-proclaimed conservatives do all of these things at least as frequently as everyone else. Are conservative values hating gays and denying abortions? This could be a fairly reasonable articulation of so called 'conservative values', I think, because it aligns quite clearly with the political platform of the so called 'conservative party'. I am not exaggerating. That is the whole point of this post, to initiate people taking a square look at all of this fraudulent, rhetorical propaganda about 'conservative and family values' that has had such a catastrophic impact on our society since the political revolution of 1994.

What I am pointing out, is that the revolution was an utter fraud, led and implemented by con men who ultimately only raped and pillaged the country's treasury. You only have to have been moderately conscious in this country to have heard the political platform of the 'conservative party' drilled into your brain: anti-homosexual, anti-abortion, small government, and fiscal responsibility. So that is what has been said. That is the talk. Now what has been done? What have been the actions? Because who gives a shit about talk, right? Only actions are relevant. So what have been the 'conservative' actions? The 'conservative' actions have been dramatic bloating of the government, and drunken, juvenile, catastrophic fiscal recklessness. Some small actions, however, over the past twelve years of 'conservative' rule, have been made in support of anti-homosexuality, and anti-abortionism.

So let's reassess here. Of the four articulated cornerstones of 'conservative values' the 'conservative' ruling party has unequivocally betrayed two of them, small government and fiscal responsibility; and in some small ways, it has supported two, anti-gay and anti-abortionism. An objective inventory, then, shows clearly that 'conservative values' distinctly and in no uncertain terms amount to hatred of homosexual human beings, and the denial of legal abortion. This is substantial such that it warrants repeating, considering the impact that the propaganda about 'conservative values' has had on our society. So again, so called 'conservative actions', by objective measure, in deed, are accurately defined as hatred of homosexual individuals, and making abortion illegal. Wow. Does that sound like an inspirational platform to you? Does that sound like the kind of rich active vision that has the power to make the world a better place??! Fuck no it doesn't. Of course it doesn't. Because, as I will get into as I enrich and develop this post, the 'conservative' agenda and set of 'values' can be clearly seen to be distinctly money, money, and money.

Ann Coulter doesn't say what she says because there's a shred of value in what she's saying, she says it because it brings her more money. The same goes for Limbaugh, O'reilly, Hannity and all the other hacktrons, of course, including their corresponding politicians. If you analyze and distill down republican 'conservative' actions you will see at their core, a common unwavering thread: financial gain. They spit on government welfare, until there comes a chance for them to gain from corporate welfare. One of the most radiant displays of their true values is their contempt for environmental conservation. What conceivable reason could there be to contradict a 'conservative' platform by acting against environmental conservation, other than the priority value of money?

It is way past the time when we should have been calling out the republican, 'conservative' agenda for what it is. It is way beyond time to call a spade a spade, to use the words that actually, objectively describe the physical thing we are trying to describe. The republican, 'conservative' party, in general, is a greedy, morally and ethically bankrupt gang allied together for the purpose of financial gain, facilitated by manipulating peoples emotions through hatred and fear. This post could alternatively have been titled, "Call a spade a spade." So let's do it already.

Please advise

In the context that we as people- our DNA is 99.9% identical. Keep this fact in mind as you review the following comments, as I will ask for your help at the end. The Repuglican's record after 12 years of dominance in Congress and 8 years dominance in the Executive is:

• $9,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) debt (China owns us)
  -Does anyone know what the interest is on 9 trillion dollars?!
• $500,000,000,000 deficit (China owns us)
• $9,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) debt (China owns us)
  -Does anyone know what the interest is on 9 trillion dollars?!
  $500,000,000,000 deficit (China owns us)
• $9,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) debt (China owns us)
  -Does anyone know what the interest is on 9 trillion dollars?!
  $500,000,000,000 deficit (China owns us)
• Vietnam 2.0 is falling to pieces and bleeding our military and treasure with no end in sight
• Terrorism has been Increased by the Iraq war as reported in the recent Pentagon estimate
• The Rich are way fucking Richer, The Poor are way Poorer
• Education is in the Shithouse, financial aid has been Gutted
• The world f*#king Hates us, our Alliances are Shit
• Health care costs are insane and getting insanely worse
• Oil companies are Subsidized, fanning the flames of our oil addiction, infinitely financing the 'terrorists' with the ultimate effect of indefinitely sustaining the 'war' with terrorism!!?? WTF???
• Clean Domestic renewable energy sources are staring us in the f*#king face
• Environmental standards, air and water, have been Gutted (how's that Mercury taste in your drinking water? how do those carcinogens taste in your breathing air? and how do those filthy air particles feel in your children's asthma induced lungs?)
• Clean Domestic renewable energy sources are staring us in the f*#king face
• The writ of Habeus Corpus has just been Bludgeoned
• The government has seized KGB, Gestapo like authorities, spying on Americans and incarcerating them 'To Keep us Safe'
• We are giving up our liberties to 'keep us safe'. What more poignant symbol of the terrorists defeating us could there possibly be?.. Surrendering that which is most fundamental to our 'great country' our 'way of life' our 'nationalism'.. our freedom, for fear of terrorism? How possibly could we hand them a better more gratifying more symbolically comprehensive gesture of our surrender and defeat than giving up our FREEDOM out of fear of their 'Terrorism'? How does Bush act so arrogant and tough while he is surrenduring utter defeat to the 'terrorists'?
• How many times, how sickeningly many times can a politician and his machine invoke and exploit a human tradgedy that was 9/11?? He says it is his job to remind us of 9/11, those are his words, he says that.. where is the collective outrage against this 'premise'??? To remind us of 9/11??? What the Fuck?? Are you kidding me?? Someone please explain to me how it is the president's job to 'remind us' of the national fucking tradgedy that was 9/11??! Remind or exploit, what is the real purpose of invoking that goddam phrase over and over and over and over and over and over like a broken goddamn record as if we don't fucking remember it??! I mean how can he be serious?? And how can we, as the people, not rage against the abomination??
• Nowhere, nowhere in the sickening rhetorical propaganda, 'Terrorist, terrorism, terrorist, global fucking Terror.....' No where in that sicking rhetorical propaganda is there a sliver of reason. Reason. This reason- We have crushed the Middle Eastern peoples, directly and by proxy, for decades to have unfettered access to their oil. This is common fucking obvious knowledge, yet nowhere does it make it into the rhetoric. This is why it is exactly rheotric and not reasoned debate. Just rudimentary propaganda. The Iranians and Saudi Arabians LOATH us. LOATHING takes energy. Any sliver of reason applied begs the question, why expend all that energy LOATHING us, on the other side of the world. The rhetoric- because of our freedom?? Are you fucking kidding me?? Is that the conclusion of a semi-retarded grade school child?? What else could it possibly be?? 'They hate us for our freedom'. When you crush a people by proxy for decades to steal their only natural resource, are they not supposed to respond with hell's fire and rage? Fucking duh. Where is the goddam mystery in that? Americans would do the same if they were in the same desperate position, in fact they did during the revolutionary war, remember? The British called us 'Terrorists' for not fighting them on their terms, in standing armies. Why don't we remember and care about this!?!?!
• Now, on the issue of the CIA, is there anyone who can say with a straight face that the CIA is not in part a terrororist organization? ter‧ror‧ism: the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes. Hello?! So why this childish rhetorical propaganda that is all an American can hear or read when tuning into the 'news'.
• The terrorists are not only the desperately poor misguided Islamists, the terrorists are these greed driven shitbags running our country. What sets them apart, of course, is that the former has at least some excuse
• $9,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) debt (China owns us)
  -Does anyone know what the interest is on 9 trillion dollars?!
  $500,000,000,000 deficit (China owns us)
• $9,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) debt (China owns us)
  -Does anyone know what the interest is on 9 trillion dollars?!
  $500,000,000,000 deficit (China owns us)
• $9,000,000,000,000 (that's trillion) debt (China owns us)
  -Does anyone know what the interest is on 9 trillion dollars?!
  $500,000,000,000 deficit (China owns us)

And now, I promised that if you maintained my first comment in your mind while reading the rest of the post, I would ask your help with a question. So, here it is. Having in mind that we are 99.9% identical, at the blueprints of what we are, our DNA- having that in mind, what are the possible conclusions to be drawn from the brief comments made in this post? What are they? Really? Please advise me, because the only one that burns in my mind is something in the realm of impeachment, and revolution via ballot box or...