mmm … impeachment
so i was wandering the alternet the other day and ran across this vid. it’s intriguing in some ways, but ultimately worthless. not because it wouldn’t be fun to watch. it may actually spark an interest in politics for me, but look at it this way: what’s the difference?
getting rid of the prez and vp won’t make us a better country. it’s more likely that it will lead to faltering. we won’t help our global image. with bush in office we at least have a recognizable face. what’s so wrong with waiting out his term? he only has a couple years left and for the duration the democrats have control of the legislative branch. it’ll be hard for him to ignore. he may actually start thinking of consequences. … ok. i’m getting ahead of myself and starting to sound idealistic. fuck that.
we’ll still look like complete fuckbags because we don’t care enough about anyone else’s culture or beliefs. bush is vacuous and socially retarded, but there’s nothing saying anyone else would be significantly better. sure they’d avoid awkward shoulder rubs and almost certainly be a competent speaker, but how are we getting out of the clusterfuck that is iraq? is there going to be some transparency in the white house? are we not going to be outright lied to as we were just before rummy booked it? will we stop being a bunch of power-hungry shitheads? will we come to terms with our diminished role as world power?
… unlikely. we’ll never have successful foreign relations until we get over ourselves. so who the fuck cares who’s in office? the brand sucks and changing the logo won’t effect the stock prices. just chill dems. there’s a new ceo coming in ’08 that’ll knock your socks off. or at least hopefully change the company’s direction.
what we need now is to get over this party-polarization and focus on a plausible exit from iraq. but we should have thought of that before we went in? sure. but we didn’t. get over it. what’s done is done and we’re not getting the 2853 as of eight-o-clock yesterday lives back by bitching about it. you were too weak-willed to stop the neo-con machine then so stand up and do it now.
we can use the political resources we’d waste on impeachment to better our country instead. if we dwell on the past too long we’ll be like the old guy in the retirement center’s lounge complaining about how all the channels are in chinese or spanish, and how back in his day we spoke english and manufactured our own goods.