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by Alec Baldwin
My prediction for 2006 is a multiple, all connected
politically. I predict that another barrage of fierce
storms and hurricanes will so disturb the American
people, that the Democrats will take the Senate in the
’06 election and whittle away at the House in those
races as well. Whether those storms can be attributed
to global warming conditions or more normal
meterological cycles will not matter. Americans
typically arrive, albeit slowly at times, at the
sensible conclusion and wiill vote accordingly. This
government, ferociously and blindly partisan, has been
for sale since the 2000 election. Hastert and Frist are
moral cowards who wanted to hide behind fealty to their
President as a means of passing the buck and all of
their responsibilities onto the administration. (The
results have been disastrous. Only in this universe can
a fool like Ted Stevens say that defeat of ANWAR
drilling is the saddest day of his life. This tired old
Oil Whore has been selling the American people and his
colleagues a line of this nonsense for too long.
Conservation and alternatives are the answer. Not
letting corrupt pols like Stevens line the pockets of
their contributors.)
Secondly. the resultant Senate turnover will give
Democrats greater power to launch independent
investigations. The current Frist-Hastert regime
wouldn’t dream of doing anything to embarass the White
House. No matter that honest, decent Republicans like
Tom Kean have exhorted this administration regarding
the 9/11 Commission’s findings. No matter that
Republicans on that commission have stated that America
is not safer since the formation of a Homeland Security
Department. Not safer since the passing of the Patriot
Act. The Commission’s recommendations have been ignored
and America may suffer for it. But a looming Democratic
Senate may cure that. And cure the Valerie Plame leak
issue and the Iraqi pull-out issue and other issues, as
well.
Thirdly, a Democratic Senate, and its influence on what
may also be a diminished Republican majority in the
House, will lead to Cheney’s impeachment. Many
Democratic partisans and common Bush-haters dream of
ending his second term prematurely. That will never
happen, nor should it. Bush is the puppet of wealthy
corporate interests and red-faced Christian
conservatives who know the real power lies elsewhere.
Besides, keeping Bush in office through the’08 election
can only benefit Democrats. Every day Bush is in office
pays dividends to his opponents. Bush’s incompetence is
the gift that keeps on giving. Cheney, however, is
truly the dark side of the Force. Nearly every
controversy that this administration has created has
Cheney’s fingerprints on it. Secret energy policy
meetings that may have unduly influenced the California
governor’s race? Cheney. Valerie Plame. a woman and
mother who served her country and was maliciously
outted in the press by way of that Hack/Weasal Robert
Novak? Cheney. Lies about WMD and Iraqi-Al Qaeda links?
Cheney. Nearly everywhere you look, you see Cheney
directly or, more often, his shadow, ruining peoples
lives, stealing their freedoms and liberties and/or
destroying whole countries to serve his warped goals of
an American foreign policy that seemed dated 25 years
ago.
The seeds of Cheney’s impeachment will be sown in 2006.
He will be impeached by 2008. And with him and this
administration may go the destructive image of America
not as global policeman, but as a corrupt policeman. A
lawman not interested in the law but in pure power. Not
interested in giving aid but in taking just about
anything that’s not nailed down. Cheney represents a
view of American political power that is old. Dead.
Finished. And that, once buried, will lead to America
beginning to assert its role within a new, cooperative
global alignment. Not afraid to use its power, but not
obsessed with flaunting it with everyone at every turn.
Not a kinder, gentler US. Only a smarter one.