A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Perhaps some BuzzFlash readers are right in asserting that the goal of Bushevism is chaos, because that allows them to argue for more dictatorial powers to tame the beast that they created.

There may be some truth to that.

It’s certainly within the realm of possibility.

After all, their goal – as a multiple-pronged campaign of power grabs have proved -- is to seize the apparatus of the state – Stasi style. And to use any power at their means (including eavesdropping, trumped up indictments, theft of computer data, signing statements, etc.) to consolidate power.

They are like the shark in "Jaws." You can’t reason with them. They just keep chomping away.

But there is also the theory that they are complete and utter bunglers, who have survived with the support of a cheerleading, obsequious corporate press and a Democratic Party that still has trouble defining the terms of the political debate.

Many BuzzFlash readers have become so numb to the complete and thorough fiasco of the Bush/Cheney administration that they have given up on any counter force emerging to end the Iraq War or force the arrogant, mendacious, and totally feckless duo from office.

We don’t know about the political practicality of achieving impeachment, but it is a moral imperative to pursue it. It is the only redress that can restore our Constitutional rights, integrity and the rule of law, at this time, to our nation.

The Republican Party has come to symbolize the party of failed leadership, which runs on the nearly empty fumes of lies and mainstream media puffery.

The GOP cannot lead a nation, except into a land of deluded visions that have been shattered by the loss of thousands upon thousands of American and Iraqi lives.

We long ago stopped fighting terrorism. Now we are just fighting so as not to be perceived as losing. We are just fighting to keep a hand in the Iraqi oil reserves, and may start a conflagration to regain the control over the Iranian oil reserves we lost with the fall of the Shah.

The Neo-Cons have come to recognize the importance of embracing failure, because it is now their last chance to succeed at a power grab to control a nation. But the control they seek is over America. Iraq is just a sideshow.

As we write this editorial, the Bush Administration is calling for even more secret eavesdropping powers over Americans [1]. As we pointed out in a previous editorial, Alberto "Consigliere" Gonzales could not assure the Senate some time ago that the current illegal eavesdropping is not being used for political purposes.

Of course, we know that it is -- just as the U.S. Attorneys are being used to try and help ensure Republican victories in elections – just one of many efforts to create an infrastructure of surveillance and party-serving prosecutions and media slander.

The Democrats in Congress may hold a slim majority, but that wouldn’t deter the Republicans from asserting their power, would it?

Until the Democrats on Capitol Hill realize that Cheney and Bush have an Endgame in mind other than Iraq, they will continue to turn away from impeachment.

The Endgame that Cheney and Bush have on their mind is Republican Party control of American politics by having Congress allow them to legally enact provisions that enable the Busheviks to assume a grip on the American government apparatus – and to use all means possible to maintain Republican power for years to come.

If you think that a Democratic victory in the presidential election in 2008 is relatively assured, you have forgotten that the election of 2000 was stolen.

The Republicans haven’t forgotten how to mug democracy.

They don’t plan on going quietly into the night.

Only impeachment will restore a semblance of our Constitutional system of checks and balances – and prevent the legalized creation of Stasi-like powers that will not be possible to roll back.

We almost reached that point until the Democrats assumed leadership of Congress.

But, remember, the right wingers have a lot of tricks up their sleeve.

Do you think that they are continuing to amass dictatorial-like "unitary authority" for a Democratic president to use in less than two years?

BuzzFlash doesn’t think so.

They don’t just plan to turn over the White House if they lose the popular vote.

Or maybe we will never know that they stole it this time, because Congress will have given them so many powers that the theft will not leave a trace.

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL