Political Games - Where the fuck’s the reset button?

Violation of FISA
Violation of the Hatch Act
Contempt of Congress
Failure to produce subpoenaed documents

So many reasons. Via a diary on DKos, the last fucking straw:

What bothers me most about the pardoning of Scooter Libby is that he is the symbol of the lies and the deception and the smiling evil that has hung over this country since December 12, 2000. He represents the smug arrogance of an administration that has always, always, always put the Republican Party and political gain above anything this country used to be worth. Outing Valerie Plame wasn’t just about ruining a woman’s career to get back at her husband; it was a proxy for what has been done to anyone who tried to inject some truth into the government during Bush’s reign - they get undercut, and then they piss in your eyes once you’re on the ground. This administration - there is no regard for the truth whatsoever. It has been an all-out assault on reason.

So today, the only goddamn thing that anyone has to show for anything in terms of retribution for sending men and women my age over to Iraq to die for nothing was taken away by this.

Of course he can take the political heat - he’s broken 30% easily - and yet the Democratic Party hasn’t done a goddamn thing to make him stop. They capitulated on Iraq, and they’ve suppressed all talk about the only goddamn thing that will make it all stop, once and for all.

Impeachment.

Whether or not the Democrats in Washington, D.C. can stick a finger in the wind to find out what’s going on, it’s pretty damn clear that people around the country - in the cities, in the suburbs, in the motherfucking backwater - they’re all pissed as all hell at what’s going on in this country. And they’re just as pissed that the people who were elected to do something about it in Washington haven’t done jack shit about it to date. And it should be abundantly clear that dicking around and biding time for November 2008 is too damn long to wait. Because by then, everything will be swept under the rug or shredded or deleted, and no one will give a flying fuck about Bush once the loathsome turd goes back to Crawford for good - just like when Reagan left office, no one gave a half shit about Iran-contra anymore.

This is about accountability. This is the Democratic Party’s moment of truth. It’s time for the people we elected to suck it up and do what is required of them.

Impeach the motherfucker’s ass, starting right now.

So. How do we do this? I’m serious. We need to do this right. We need to prove beyond all reasonable doubt to the public that this needs to be done. How do we do this?

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I thought it might be fun to do a little early prognostication for how the Senate is going to look after the 2008 elections next November. I’m probably going to be very wrong, but what’s wrong with a little navel gazing? There are 34 seats up for grabs this time, 22 Republican and 12 Democratic. This is an obvious advantage for the Democrats, but we’ll they be able to take advantage? Let’s see how it looks.

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