You must act. A terrible convergence is upon us, and the moment has come to stand up, through impeachment, for your democracy or wave goodbye. If you won’t believe a Texas liberal, just keep reading–Reagan’s Assistant Treasury Secretary is even more alarmist. It’s the sort of thing that has often been said, but events have moved so quickly of late that it is clear the real deal, the real crisis of democracy in America, is upon us. Now is a time to be concerned about what unites us: our constitutional role as not merely the governed, but also as the government itself.
Bush and Cheney and all their ilk derive their power from us. At least they used to. But now they are declaring themselves independent of the people of the United States, and independent of even the legislative branch who is to oversee the executive precisely in order to prevent what is now happening.
What I mean is this: One the one hand, we have an establishment Republican (Paul Craig Roberts, a member of the Reagan administration) telling us we must impeach now, that he believes Bush and Cheney will employ "false flag" events–terrorism either allowed to take place or falsely attributed–to turn the U.S. into their own fiefdom and to expand their war eastward to Iran. On the other hand, we have a "leaker" in the Bush administration saying Bush’s claim of executive privilege means that he can instruct the Department of Justice not to act to hear the contempt charges he now should face in light of his refusing subpoenas. In other words, "me king, you subject."
Now we see why all that "keeping the powder dry" stuff was so unfathomably stupid. Now the Supreme Court, chock full of Bush appointees, might well rule in Bush’s favor in this matter. We are that close to losing, really, truly, actually losing democracy. The crisis does not loom; this is the crisis. Either we impeach Bush and Cheney now, or we sit around on our hands and nervously hope Roberts’ prediction doesn’t come true.
Me, I like democracy. I have had enough and more. I will devote every bit of energy I can muster to convincing the namby-pamby congressional Democrats to impeach. Will you do the same? Everything else must wait, because everything else pales in comparison.
