Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are doing what they want and behaving as they are because:
1. They can…and
2. Too many Americans are supporting their behavior.
3. Almost 100% of the top 2% Wealthiest Americans support and condone their words, deeds and behavior.

Until a MAJORITY of Americans realize Bush and Cheney and the top 2% of Wealthy Americans are in the process of STEALING THIS DEMOCRACY FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES, America deserves what it get! Hatred from most of the 1st. and 2nd. world nations ahd CHAOS in Iraq!

I agree with Joseph Conrad but I’m still glad for G&B.  If it wasn’t for them the questions and points Mr. Conrad raises wouldn’t have shown up on this thread.

Have you guys seen this?

http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/mcdermott-to-cheney-resign-or-face-impeachment-2007-06-29.html

What are the odds?

There is no question that Cheney exerts much influence over Bush and it is proven that Cheney’s influence is, at times, illegal and entirely undemoratic.  Take Libby’s situation for example.  Frankly, Libby deserves to serve his time for the crimes he has committed.  If the world were fair, Cheney would also see his time in prison. It is vital that we hold on our political leaders accountable for their actions in every arena and on every issue.  In the realm of global poverty, for example, we need to push our leadership in Washington to abide by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, which the United States along with 191 other nations signed in 2000 and which commit the global community to eliminating extreme poverty by 2025.  So as Bush saves Libby from being held accountable for his illegal and undemocratic actions, we are compelled to think about what our other political leaders are doing (or, rather, what they aren’t doing) and hold them accountable, just as we have tried to hold Libby accountable.

Impeaching this neocon Satan would be a good first step.Forcing Rove and the rest of his staff/co-conspiritors into Congressional hearings to testify (under oath)as to their respective roles in the mess Dicko got us into,is an appropriate second step. Then just leave Dubya’s butt in place to further destroy his performance/record as President. His legacy, justfiably so, should be regarded as the “worst” that ever served the office of President of the USA.

It was from the beginning right after Bush stole Fla.  The person who should have been president was Gore, but Chaney knew that Gore was toast because they had the Judicial Dept in their dishonest hot hands, now the people can see that this Chaney is not just underhanded but hungry for power, he cannot get it first hand so he is the ghost president, and therefore he should be Impeached first followed by Gonzales, then the president might just resign, after all who is going to advise him?

Seems this government wants America a place where every product, everyone’s labor and health and retirement, their complete future, is on their auction block. A betting contest if you will. Okay, I’m game. So where do I put my money on who in the current administration, as accountability nears, offs himself first?
(sheesh)

Mr. Gellman and Mr. Beck did a professional job in their pieces on Cheney. Yet they failed to discuss several points in sufficient depth and with the candor to make their efforts more than good, though rather workman-like, Grad School Journalism bits.
I’m sure they feel they did an excellent job. Who am I smack them in the brain with callous reality?

First, they failed to deal with his Trilateral Commission membership - and who got him signed on - in any depth at all. To do so would begin to give insight into his profound psycho-social malfunction.

Second, a comprehensive discussion of his relationships with the two key women in his life - his daughter and his wife - would shed more light on his emotional inadequacy as reflected in his callous social and political relationships with men and strong African-American women his age…

Third, little mention is made of his substantive relationship with Osama bin Laden and his family and how is linked to Blair’s BAE Scandal.

Fourth, not a word is said about the public policy impact of his profound, incidious Racism, rudeness and callousaness toward African-Americans, Mexican Americans and Muslims. His posture and facial expressions toward and when around them in person and in photos, particularly Ms. Rice, Mr. Gonzales and Mr. Colin Powell, are stark testimony to his ‘Plantation Racist’ mentality. (‘Plantation Racist Mentality’ is a white male’s confirmed sense of prodigious superiority manifested consciously in word and deed and unconsciously in posture and facial expressions.

‘Ordinary or Simple Racisim’ is that which a white male manfifests when he had is unsure of himself vis a vis African or Mexican Americans in general or in a particular instance. It is most readily revealed in jaw muscles and body posture (hips). 

Not a soul in the white Euro-American media has had the temerity to examine and discuss for American readers just how destructive to America’s presence and Future is the inveterate Racism of both Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney AND ITS CLEAR MANIFESTATION IN CURRENT US INTERNATION POLICY.

This will become more stark to Americans and the US as it attempts to contend with China in Africa and the Middle East, particularly as China becomes more sure of itself and more ‘worldly wise. Already, African nations and leaders are telling this Administration and this nation to change its Racist posture, policies and demeanor or risk losing the Continent’s Oil and Mineral Riches to Bejing!

But is Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney or their Underlings noticing, listening or responding? Of course not!
Africa, particularly the Oil and Mineral Rich nations, MUST BEGIN TO REALIZE this Administration is FAR TOO UNAWARE OF & UNCONCERNED WITH JUST HOW RACIST THEY COME OFF TO THE WORLD.

Gellar and Beck needed to devote at a least a chapter on the growing manifestation of Bush+Cheney Racism and the impact it is having on ‘Foreign Relations’, particularly when the US is trying to CON OR ‘SWEET TALK’ A Black or Brown nation out of ALL ITS NATURAL RESOURCES without or before just blatantly COERCING it as in the case of Iraq and Afganistan - and all too soon - Iran.

For people who feel an attempt to impeach V.P. Chaney is now a reasonable course there is a web site taking a poll,
http://www.usalone.com/
cheney_impeachment.php. (also part of URL)
You can vote for or against the idea.

Last year I thought even discussing impeachment was ridiculous. But not now. Bush may be fit for his age but he is only human; he could become fatally ill or have an accident. And then Cheney would be President and Commander In Chief of our armed forces.

Back in 1999, when the Poppy41 and the GOP dispatched Cheney to seek a running mate for then Governor Dumya, and Cheney returned, claiming he couldn’t find one, subsequently becoming the VP nominee, everything the Whore Post is now reporting became the official portfolio of the Vice President. The GOP and the its shadow incendiary force knew they could not take over the Nation with Beavis the Butthead at the helm of the ship of state. They needed a functioning brain for this poorly conceived political beast of state. Dumya hasn’t so much as broken wind sans Cheney’s approval and permission every moment since then. Sworn in or not, Dick Vader is the real PRESIDENT. Thus, Dumya exists at Dick Vader’s pleasure and amusement, like the oft implored Reagan, another doddering idiot being led around by one nostril by his VEEP. In my estimation, Conyers and the DEMs need to go after impeachment of Cheney first. He’s the guiltiest and the most criminal.

By its own admission, this article is incomplete. Based on my reading of this, I do not understand how the authors conclude that Chaney is not the real president. and that Bush is mainly an empty vassle.

I have read Part 4 of the Gellman/Becker articles, so I was a little puzzled by the mirror in your picture. And the I realised…

...silly me! It was a DUMMY you were using…

...that’s why there was a reflection!

Here is a good thing for democracy when a Pres and Vice Pres are popular and heading us into war go to correspondents dinner and when the war is a disaster and their popularity is lower than the freezing point of water do tell us how messed up it is.You do not get points for standing up to tell the obvious. You get them for standing up when it is difficult.Bush is a moron and Cheney runs the show.Bring me my Pulitzer.