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Bush’s abuse of power deserves impeachment With latest outrages, Bush puts impeachment talk into the mainstream
Recklessly and audaciously, George W. Bush is driving the nation whose laws he swore to uphold into a constitutional crisis. He has claimed the powers of a medieval monarch and defied the other two branches of government to deny him. Eventually, despite his party’s monopoly of power, he may force the nation to choose between his continuing degradation of basic national values and (…)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Large demonstrations broke out across the country Friday to denounce parliamentary elections that protesters called rigged in favor of the main religious Shiite coalition.
Meanwhile, a lawyer for Saddam Hussein said he saw evidence his client had been beaten.
Several hundred thousand people demonstrated after noon prayers in southern Baghdad Friday, many carrying banners decrying last week’s elections. Many Iraqis outside the religious Shiite coalition allege that the (…)

Since we’re well into holiday season, I thought it would be nice to remind all Americans what the great neocon administration of George Bush and his buddies are providing to Americans.
I have to admit, this was an easy one, in that there are so many different areas in which to satirize the worst President and administration in American history.
Here goes (the parts in parenthesis are not sung):
On the first day of Christmas, my Neocon gave to me:
A dictator in a sipder hole (Saddam (…)

by Tom Flocco
Is Bush using warrant-less spying as a pretext to monitor U.S. “enemies” list?
WASHINGTON-December 22, 2005-TomFlocco.com-There is evidence that President Bush’s executive order authorizing eavesdropping on phone conversations of U.S. citizens, monitoring email and gaining access to private computers while failing to follow the law requiring court-ordered warrants may amount to criminal activity.
Internet IP address logs from this writer’s computer firewall security (…)

Counterterrorism agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigation have conducted numerous surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations that involved, at least indirectly, groups active in causes as diverse as the environment, animal cruelty and poverty relief, newly disclosed agency records show.
President Bush said at a news conference Monday that a "two-minute phone conversation" could lead "to the loss of thousands of lives."
F.B.I. officials said Monday that their investigators (…)

As a Federal Judge Resigns to Protest Secret Bush Wiretaps, Leaders of Both Parties Express Serious Concerns Over Legality of President’s Covert Domestic Spying Program Date Published: December 22, 2005 Source: Newsinferno News Staff
On December 15, after sitting on the story for a year, The New York Times published a report entitled, “Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts.” In a country founded upon such ideals as, “Give me liberty, or give me death,” the reaction was swift and (…)

“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.” - Cicero (1)
The Roman masses finally figured out that their highly eccentric Emperor, Caligula, was a raving lunatic when it was revealed that he was having lavish dinner parties in honor of his favorite horse and that he had even considered making it a Consul! Caligula’s reported incestuous relationships with his sisters was bad enough for them to stomach; the “horse thing,” however, became the tipping point. (2) (…)

On Tuesday, Dec. 20, Washington Post polling editor Richard Morin participated in an online chat with readers. The liberal blog MyDD urged its users to take part, and evidently they did. In previous days, legal experts had declared that Bush had committed a federal crime by authorizing the surveillance of American citizens without a court order, and Morin was grilled about the issue of impeachment.
First, someone from Naperville, Ill., asked Morin why the Post hasn’t polled on public (…)

IMPEACH BUSH: NO PRESIDENT IS ABOVE THE LAW, NOT IN CHILE, NOT IN THE U.S.
Bush’s Slippery Slope Leads To A Police State, Plain And Simple
(Dec. 21, 2005, Ed. Note: It is a sad state of affairs to have the President of the United States admit to the nation and to the world that he is spying on the citizens he is elected to safeguard.
It is worse to have the President aggressively justify his “big brother” politics in the name of an ill-begotten, counter-productive war on terrorism (…)

Several recent presidents could have been impeached for selected unconstitutional or illegal actions during their presidencies. But the sitting president, George W. Bush, may win the prize for committing the most impeachable offenses of any recent president.
Yet when one thinks of bad behavior leading down the road to possible impeachment, Bill Clinton and Richard Nixon come to mind first. Although Bill Clinton was impeached for having sex with an intern and then lying about it to a grand (…)