Impeach Bush, Cheney!

It took President Bush's commutation of "Scooter" Libby's sentence for lying to a grand jury to break this camel's back! oldstyleliberal now thinks the president deserves to be impeached.

So does Vice President Dick Cheney, what with all this bunkum about the Vice Presidency being a fourth branch of government, accountable to no one.
While we're at it, if it is possible to impeach Supreme Court justices, today's "conservative majority" has to go. oldstyleliberal doesn't know which of their decisions this term is the most egregious: the gutting of school desegregation programs under Brown v. Board of Education (see here and here); the gutting of long-settled law prohibiting makers of consumer goods from price-fixing with retailers (see here, with critical article here); the setting of an all-too-short deadline after which employees charging employers with sex discrimination cannot sue (see here); or what. Add to that upholding the partial-birth abortion ban (with which oldstyleliberal happens to agree) and you have a clear picture of a Roberts court that has veered sharply to the right.

Seriously, folks ... what is happening now is truly scary. All the stuff happening abroad: secret prisons, endless detentions without trial. And all the stuff happening at home: warrantless wiretaps, various other kinds of government snooping, the suspension of habeas corpus rights. oldstyleliberal could go on and on, but the list is already familiar to everyone not in a coma since 2001.

oldstyleliberal has made an honest effort during the Bush presidency to be moderate in his criticism, and to seek ways in which we non-conservatives could look on the bright side. No more! All it once it becomes clear to oldstyleliberal that the neo-cons are playing for keeps. The guess here is that the hard right realizes that, come January 2009, they will be swept out of power in the White House, as the Democrats further solidify the hold over Congress they gained in the 2006 elections.

oldstyleliberal will even go so far as to say that these radicals who are running things in the Executive Branch are bent on bringing down the whole edifice of "liberal" policies of the recent (and not so recent) past, while there's still time for them to work their evil intentions. One of the prime beneficiaries, obviously, will be corporate America.

In other words, documentary filmmaker Michael Moore has been right about the Bush Administration all along ... and oldstyleliberal hereby takes back everything bad he has ever said about him.