Reply #41: It doesn't have to work in the sense that people become OK with this madness...

[warren pease]

It can also work when people become too scared to do anything about it, talk about it, write about it, even think about it.

And I think we're there now, done in as a culture by the combined toxicity of this horrible toady media, the gradual and steady elimination of our rights and freedoms, the crushing weight of consumer debt, the psychological chaos inflicted by job insecurity, deteriorating salaries and working conditions for those who still have jobs, watching kids becoming soulless android as teachers teach to the test while killing creativity and independent thought... Just a random sampling of life in BushCo land.

Others refuse to be silent: those who use the Internet to make their positions known, to advocate for the end of BushCo, and who will be singled out for a little special attention unless this goddamn useless congress impeaches these motherfuckers before they can do any more damage.

Conyers is waffling again, of course, playing the hard-to-get homecoming queen, begging to be convinced for the 97th time, holding out for more pleading and groveling, reveling in his own importance.

And then, just when you think it's maybe, finally going to happen, he'll cave again and the fondest desires of maybe 50 million Americans, not to mention most of the rest of the world, will be dashed one more time.

Jesus Christ! How much more of this crap are people willing to take? How is it possible to absorb seven years of BushCo's daily outrages without pushing back?

But who to push back at? How about the corporate slimeballs whose money has propelled these snakes into power and kept them there?

Maybe now would be a nice time to get into the streets, shut down what's left of the wheezing economy with a general strike, stop paying credit card bills, drag mortgage payments out till the last day before penalties set in, refuse to pay medical insurance premiums and use the ER instead, and generally screw up these vampires' revenue streams for a couple of months...

Appeals to decency, benevolence, fair play and cutting a little damn slack fall into the void. However, they're pretty serious about anything that might cut their quarterly earnings per share by a penny.

Using this pressure point as a guideline, why give them another nickel until dozens of CEOs -- who've gotten insanely rich (or richer) off of BushCo wars, surveillance obsession and propaganda spewing -- call their top political stooges and tell them to support impeachment or they'll cut off their allowances.

Nobody listens to the peasants, and nobody ever will. But when the heads of companies like GE, Time Warner, AT&T, Verizon, Viacom, Northrup Grumman, Blue Cross, Aetna, Lockheed-Martin, Dynacorp, Disney and the rest of these autocratic fiefdoms threatens to cut their political employees off at the pocket book, I have a sneaking suspicion that H Res. 333 might find its way back onto Ms. Nancy's table.


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