[Grovenet] Vt. towns approve Bush-Cheney 'indictment'

[Walt Wentz]

>It would be okay if Cheney is impeached while Bush is still president 
>because the power to pardon would not be applicable.  Article II 
>Section 2 Paragraph 1:  the last sentence  '...he shall have power to 
>grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, 
>except in cases of impeachment."

Well, more evidence the Founding Fathers were on top of things, and 
had a secure grasp on human nature...

>We have seen record turn outs for people voting in this year's 
>primaries, especially Democrats. Part of the reason for this is 
>because Bush has given people high motivation to pull out their 
>constitutions and read the thing, be appalled at what is going on,  
>then go out and vote with gusto in the cold, in the rain, withstand 
>long lines, and on and on.

Next thing we have to look out for is the neocons declaring the 
Constitution a "subversive document"-- as indeed it is, it undermined 
the old world order.

>I like the idea of making Bush the ambassador to Iraq but his only 
>skill is in clearing brush.

Um... I hate to pour cold water on a lovely idea, but Bush don't know 
diddley-squat about clearing brush... You remember that famous 
photo-op on his ranch, of him wandering around in the bushes with a 
bunch of henchmen, pounding on mesquite like killing snakes, until he 
finally managed to uproot one? Well, that wasn't a brushhook he was 
"using..." it wasn't even an ax... it was a damn SPLITTING MAUL, a 
blunt wedge of a sledge-hammer thing that has no cutting edge at all, 
it is made to split blocks of pre-cut firewood! To try to chop brush 
with such a thing would be like trying to push butter up a wildcat's 
butt with a red-hot poker-- it just can't be done!  But at that, it 
is a sort of parable of Bush's foreign policy: trying to do the wrong 
job, with the wrong tools, and persisting despite repeated failure.

>The photos from my nephew in Iraq right 
>now show no trees or brush as far as the eye can see. I think we 
>should make him go over and help clean up the now dysfunctional sewer
>systems. That would be true poetic justice.

Well, I suppose, with effort, he could be trained to tell one end of 
a shovel from the other... and come to think of it, he will have 
eight year's experience in shoveling BS...
Walt