Q: Incompetence? Absolutely. What can the American public do about it? Nothing but wait until January 20, 2009.
A: "Well, we could do this."
Q: From someone named skyscape: "yes, nothing, so stop this bashing day and night if you know nothing will come out of it. A smart person sees he cant do anything about something, and he moves on, but the dumb bastard sees that he has super power to change the world, and gets burned over and over."
A: skyscape to the Founders: "Sure the King is a brute. You keep ranting about it, throwing tea into the harbor and writing pamphlets. Nothing has come of it, and nothing will. What a bunch of dumb bastards."
skyscape to Gandhi: "Yes, the Indian people should have self-rule. But why bash colonialism day after day - going on hunger strikes for crying out loud? Nothing has yet happened. How dumb."
Q: The left just hates Bush and will rant about anything and everything he does. He's a lame-duck president, so why can't we move on to focusing on the new candidates?
A: Let's focus for just a bit longer on the current occupant of the White House who may yet find a way to entangle us in another war in the middle east. After all, his management of the war in Iraq is costing us (and our kids, and their kids) a cool half million a minute and thousands of lives. It's just plain dangerous, in my view, to take the focus off of this man and his cabal.
Q: This will be about as effective (and funny waste of time) as the "9/11 general strike".
A: If at first you don't succeed, quit. Nice political theory.
Q: From toxicity: "great idea! lets just stop working and bring the economy to a crawl. that'll show him!"
A: Exactly toxic - too bad no one told that Gandhi guy about your theory of the disutility of nonviolent protest. As others have pointed out, there is a huge cost in *not* changing course. Billions of dollars to carry on for an unending series of Friedman Units, untold damage to our ability to affect international relations in the future, and the damage to our own rule of law, the backbone of our once-thriving economy: all of these, and much more, represent the costs of doing nothing.
Q: Why should we do anything since only Congress has the power to impeach?
A: Read the Keizer piece, and then reflect on history before arguing that because only Congress has the legal power to impeach the president (and vice-president) a mass action by the 65%+ Americans who believe this President is inept and dangerous will do nothing. America was not founded by waiting for politicians to come around. India was not freed by waiting for politicians to come around. Maybe you believe that our system of government is not threatened by the Boy President. I do.
Link of the day. And yes, I appreciate the irony. Can we do better?
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