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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Most expensive fill-up?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
What has been your most expensive fill-up so far at the gas station and what are you doing about it: carpooling, hyper-miling, trading in the SUV?
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Pointless to impeach Bush?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A Philadelphia Inquirer editorial notes that more than half the U.S. House members recently voted to send articles of impeachment against President Bush to the lower chamber’s judiciary committee. But the editorial questions the point of the exercise: “(U.S. Rep. Dennis) Kucinich’s effort, at this point, is counterproductive,” the newspaper writes. “Were it to proceed, it would bog down government in partisan rancor that would make the current state of battle between congressional Democrats and Republicans look like a church picnic. And with the Bush presidency down to months, many are asking: What’s the point?
“Well, there is a point, and give Kucinich credit for trying to make it. Each day, Americans are gaining more detailed information that suggests it was not so much erroneous intelligence that led the Bush administration to conclude war was necessary; it was hubris. The president and Cheney discounted any counterargument to war because their minds were already made up. They refused to believe they could be wrong.
“In fact, evidence suggests they didn’t care if they were wrong about Saddam Hussein’s having weapons of mass destruction. He was a bad player and they wanted him out of the way. The result, they believed, would be a remaking of the Middle East, with democracy rooted in Iraq blossoming throughout the land.
“No need to dust off the homily about where good intentions lead you. Suffice it to say, the Bush doctrine has been blown off the tracks, though some believe it could make a recovery over time. That might mean decades.
“As history is being written in the interim, Kucinich seeks to have it on record that Congress eventually laid down the law with Bush.
But Kucinich’s resorting to impeachment ignores Congress’ complicity in any crime, since it authorized and funded the war.”
Is the newspaper correct that Congress would be hypocritical to impeach Bush when it approved the war and continues to fund it.
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