Coo Coo Coo... Coup? Anyone?

   
San Anselmo in No California, in protest of the 2004 (re)election of W

Well, Clemons is entirely too cute here, “end run around the president”…  a helpful commenter fills in,

Would that not be a coup?

Another says,

argument in the Bush administration?? it’s like choosing  between the cannibal serial killers and the paedophile serial killers…

However, now that the sun does not set on our Empire… it seems the coup was a while ago and the news is just now being read at home…

But, still a good read.  Tho SC is entirely unconvincing that there is anything like consensus on the State and Diplo side of the Bush bed.  (ew…)

It is a very good thread, with this as the last comment:

The Problem is not so much Cheney, Bush, etc but who will come after them. All the crimes commited now will set a precedent for future presidents, who grab ever more power with an amazingly shrinking constitution.

Bush is not the devil, he is just opening the door for the next tyrant. Already now he has enough power to rule without congress, but not enough for the end-game: an unlimited term, plus a heredetary throne. Watch out for Bush III.

Sorry my spelling, english is not my language.

Posted by: nobody at May 25, 2007 09:30 PM

oh raise a top notch top shelf Margarita - or your favorite poison - to our cloudy future… more blood soup no doubt, with humans as croutons. 

If only there were a god and hell for eternity.  Someone other than the dead, the dying, the suffering and the dispossesed, might pay.

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UPDATE, 5:49 am

Spotted this at Counterpunch, from the 22nd

Democratic Disconnect

A Widening Chasm on Impeachment

By DAVE LINDORFF

The divide between Democratic leaders contemplating their re-election prospects in 2008 and rank-and-file Democrats is becoming a chasm–one so wide that Congressional Democrats may soon find it hard to straddle it.

The issue is impeachment.

So far, Democrats in Congress and at the top of the party hierarchy, out of touch with public sentiment and worried that impeachment could hurt them with “independents”–whom they mistakenly consider to stand somehow “in between” Democrats and Republicans–have been following House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s vow that for the 110th Congress, “impeachment is off the table.”

They’ve been doing more than that: they have been actively working to tamp down, and even to crush, impeachment campaigns in the states.

For example, in the state of Washington, an effort to get the state to pass a joint legislative resolution which would have compelled the Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings was derailed after the Democratic leadership dispatched two of the state’s leading federal elected officials, Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Jay Inslee, to press legislative leaders to block a floor vote. Similar pressure doomed efforts that might have passed in the legislatures of New Mexico and Vermont (The Vermont Senate did pass the resolution).

Meanwhile, down at the state and local level, Democratic Party committee after Democratic Party committee is voting out resolutions calling for impeachment.

The latest Democratic Party organization to call for impeachment of both Bush and Cheney is the Massachusetts Democratic Party, which at its state convention on Saturday, May 19, voted out a strong measure calling on the state’s elected representatives in Washington to investigate Bush and Cheney for misleading the nation into war, for authorizing torture, and for warrantless wiretapping. The message concludes: “If the investigation supports the charges, vote to impeach both Bush and Cheney as provided in the Constitution.”

Massachusetts Democrats thus join California’s huge Democratic Party, which passed a similar resolution less than a month ago at its annual convention, in what was widely perceived as a slap at Pelosi, who represents a district in San Francisco.

To date, 14 state Democratic Parties have now called for impeachment. [snip]

HA!  The part of San Francisco (CA 12, whereas I live in CA 8) that Nancy does NOT represent, a swathe out in “the Avenues”, is represented by Lantos.  Our very own West Coast Lieberman, in every sense (Swett in NH, whom they really want to shoe horn into the congress, somehow, is his daughter). Lately he has been down in Miami, railing agaisnt … … wait for it, it is SO vital to our nation… railing against Chavez.

Our dear little Internationalists in congress.  With the empty coffee tables.  And no regard at all for us.

BRAVO to the states, cities and committees voting on impeachment!

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NYT:  Air strikes over GAZA

 
Left, Mahmud Hams/AFP-Getty Images; right, Adel Hana/Associated Press

Palestinians, left, ran as a missile fired by the Israeli Army came down on a Hamas post in the central Gaza strip. A Palestinian boy, right, reacted to the blast. The Israelis hit at least eight different locations.

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Via IraqSlogger, on the troop reduction story in the NYT:

White House advisors are discussing the possibility of drawing down US forces by as much as 50% in 2008, David Sanger and David Cloud write in the Times.

For their big scoop, the reporters anonymously cite high-level administration officials. A revised US role in 2008 would focus less on providing security to Baghdad and other areas and more on training Iraqi forces and battling al-Qa’ida in Iraq. The debate falls along familiar lines, they report, with a Rice-Gates faction supporting the drawdown and redeployment and a hawkish faction, possibly associated with the vice president, supporting larger troop numbers.

 “Still, there is no indication that Mr. Bush is preparing to call an early end to the current troop increase, and one reason officials are talking about their long-range strategy may be to blunt pressure from members of Congress, including some Republicans, who are pushing for a more rapid troop reduction,” they write.

Looming next year is the election campaign:

“Several administration officials said they hoped that if such a reduction were under way in the midst of the presidential campaign, it would shift the debate from whether American forces should be pulled out by a specific deadline — the current argument consuming Washington — to what kind of long-term presence the United States should have in Iraq.”

Officials cautioned that no firm plans had emerged from the discussions, which have apparently not yet solicited input from US commanders in Iraq or the Iraqi leadership.

As if anyone cares what the commanders think, as if they don’t regurgitate on cue…  

Oh can’t you hear the ringing eve of election (months long) debate now…   Hillary saying:  I will go to Iraq!  I will end the war!  I can be CinC!  I can salute!

And the Republican saying:   take a look, it’s ending.

Both lying thru their bleached and scraped teeth.

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