Nothing Ever Grows in This Rotten Old Hole, and Everything is Stunted and Lost

Have you heard this nonsense that Dennis Kucinich is trying to impeach President Bush?

Now, let's make one thing perfectly clear - I wholly support this effort, if only retroactively. Impeaching Bush at this point, or even more so by the time they actually got around to the impeaching, would have absolutely no effect on anything. The only consequences would be to solidify and make absolute two things that will almost certainly happen anyway - Bush's legacy will be tarnished, and there will be legal record that the administration knowingly lied to the public in starting the war in Iraq.

First, the legacy. I know Bush is out there trying to get his public image back in order, but he's still the least-approved President since they started measuring the public's approval of the man in the Oval Office.* And nothing he started in the last eight years will end well, so there won't be any instance years from now where we say "Yeah, but if not for him, we wouldn't have THIS." At least not in any positive way. The closest he'll come to having a bright spot on his record will be for being there when 9/11 happened.**

As for Iraq...the only part of my above statement there that can't be proven using media records is the word "knowingly," and I'm sure you could even prove that with some digging. The jury's out of this.

So really, Kucinich, as much as we all appreciate the effort...too little, to late, friend. Isn't there something worthwhile all this time and effort and money could be spent on?

*Interestingly, he has a 60% approval rating among Republican voters, which explains much of John McCain's campaign, though that's still the lowest he's had since taking office.

**I did also hear a news story a few months back in which he personally took mosquito nets to children in some third world country (or possibly just New Orleans). There was a huge mosquito problem so he brought all these nets to the kids. I know it sounds small and a weird thing to bring up, but for all the complaining we do about the Government not offering concrete solutions to real problems, there's one right there.