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Can a ***** save America?

By DOUG THOMPSON

May 15, 2006


At lunch the other day, a relatively-refined female friend blurted
out:

"I wish somebody would catch George W. Bush getting a ***** from an
intern so we could impeach him."

Kind of says a lot about where this country is headed.

We can impeach a President for cheating on his wife and then lying
about it but we can't seem to do a damn thing about one who lies,
spies on Americans without legal authority, consistently abuses the
power of his office and sends thousands of Americans to die in a
baseless invasion founded on deceit.

Polls show Bush sliding into that nether region of political hell
occupied by other Presidential failures like Richard Nixon and Herbert
Hoover but while we know he lies, cheats, ignores the law and runs
roughshod over the Constitution, those charged with removing despots
from office sit frozen like deer in headlights, unable to move while a
freight train of corruption barrels down on them.

You don't need the latest polls to know George W. Bush is in trouble.

Just look at the prime-time TV schedule.

When Bush schedules another 8 p.m. EDT speech to the nation it's a
sure sign he's trying to squirm his way out of another mess.

Tonight's speech topic, we are told, is immigration.

In other words, the Prez wants to try, once again, to sell his failed
immigration reform to a nation that no longer listens to him,
certainly doesn't believe him and just wishes he would go away.

So the networks, in the midst of May sweeps, will shuffle their
schedules so Bush can trot out the snakeoil once again to see if there
is anyone left out there to buy his failures and missteps.

Then Americans will do what they wanted to do in the first place:

Settle into their recliners to see if Jack Bauer can save America on
24 and if Horatio Caine's new bride gets bumped off in CSI:Miami.

On Tuesday, pundits will pontificate, the loyal opposition will
respond and the immigration reform bill will sit stalled in a Congress
paralyzed by political polarization.

In Iraq, more Americans will die.

In Washington, a grand jury will decide whether or not to indict
Presidential guru Karl Rove for his role in the shameful outing of
covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.

I'll join friends for lunch to listen to the usual mantra about how
Bush has destroyed America and we need to do something to stop him.

But Bush will remain President.

Congress will remain mired in gridlock as any real chance of change
sinks into the toxic cesspool of politics.

A new poll will come out and show Bush's job approval rating falling
even lower.

Nothing will change, unless...

Anybody got Monica Lewinsky's phone number?

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Jeff Gannon's phone number would be more appropriate in Georgie's
case.

Harry