http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/08/impeachment_at_our_peril.phpThe link points to a jaw-dropping piece by David "Pone" Corn:Constitutional patricide! This oedipal stuff really unnerves me. It's always a bad sign.
Impeachment At Our PerilImpeachment would be a suitable punishment.... Still, congressional Democrats ought to resist the calls to engage in constitutional patricide....
The key question is not whether there is a case, but whether it should be prosecuted. The Democrats would do so at their peril—and at risk to their agenda.... [I]mpeachment will force its proponents to act as extremists.
Well, he got the "risk to their agenda" right, though maybe not in the sense he meant. Their agenda is to keep the war going, and keep the blame on the other team.
Patricide, though... I share J Alva's horror. The last father-figure President we had was Dwight Eisenhower. This gang, it's more like George and Dick's Excellent Adventure. It's scary to imagine the museum of neo-Roman civic sculpture in David Corn's head -- all those marble togas and pecs and stern expressions.
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politics of the liberal goo goo at bay :
imagine a heroic
marmoreal republican dreamscape
ahhh ...the tempting thoughts
triggered by hard lumpy pecs and delts and ....
all wreathed in shifting drifts of steam ...
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and yet
father dearest
don't ya think
it must not be a bit wild at all
inside
that Corn guys head
when the final returns are in
yes there could be aweful
disgraceful .... mindblowing ...happenings
indeed there could
if it were not for
those stern looks of stoic adjuration
piercing thru the mists
no wonder the patricidal projections eh ??
Posted by royal paine | February 12, 2007 3:48 PM
Posted on February 12, 2007 15:48
I wish ANSWER would crash another anti-war rally just so Corn would knot himself up in another frenzy of pompous 21st Century Red-baiting.
And I don't even like ANSWER. But Corn deserves them, and vice versa.
Posted by ms_xeno | February 13, 2007 3:50 AM
Posted on February 13, 2007 03:50