Impeachment is a Move Backwards

Part of me would relish impeaching President Bush. But really, it would just be another volley in the wasteful, trivial game of ping pong the left and right have been playing since the Reagan era.

Bush deserves impeachment, of course. Few if any administrations have abused the power as much. But in creating a balance of power we have established the corrective measure needed so that government can be conducted sensibly. If Rush Limbaugh can say he is now "liberated" from now being the mouthpiece for the ruling right wing, then W. ought to thank God he has now one last shot at redemption. Yes, if he listens to his Daddy (not the one in heaven, but in Kennebunkport,) he may be known for an act or two of decency in his homestretch. A Democratic victory will turn out to be his saving grace. Because the Cheney-Rumsfeld presidency is effectively over, the Vice President might resign and Bush will bring back home Condi to serve and he will for the first time revert back to the persona he had as the hail-fellow-well-met governor of Texas.

Clinton's impeachment was spearheaded by the very same vicious, mean-spirited assassins who have just been shown the door by voters. In 1998, we were not in the muck of war. Impeachment would be a sweet dessert if we had time to kill, but we have no time. This is not just a new Congress. This is a PARAMEDIC Congress that has too much emergency surgery to perform right away than to diddle around with impeaching George H.W. Bush's errant little boy. In fact, if the boy has any of the Christian heart he claims to have, he can probably be of use in helping mop up some of the mess he's created, and that his bosses (us!) have hired a new crew to correct.