A Reputation in Tatters -- GOPer bigwig: "Impeach Bush!"

[Octafish]

A former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Pruneface Reagan madministration, Paul Craig Roberts is the John M. Olin fellow at the Institute for Political Economy, a research fellow at the Independent Institute, and senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. This guy's so conservative, he's not funny. But he is right, as in "correct" when it comes to the BFEE.

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

A Reputation in Tatters

George W. Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers have destroyed America’s reputation. It is likely to stay destroyed, because at this point the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach and convict President Bush for intentionally deceiving Congress and the American people in order to start a war of aggression against a country that posed no threat to the United States.

America can redeem itself only by holding Bush accountable.

As intent as Republicans were to impeach President Bill Clinton for lying about a sexual affair, they have a blind eye for President Bush’s far more serious lies. Bush’s lies have caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people, injured and maimed tens of thousands more, devastated a country, destroyed America’s reputation, caused 1 billion Muslims to hate America, ruined our alliances with Europe, created a police state at home, and squandered $300 billion dollars and counting.

CONTINUED...

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/roberts.cgi

It's out there: The real conservatives -- the ones who trust in the Constitution of the United States -- know what's what and who's who. And the only way to restore America's image as a nation of laws is to impeach and convict the traitor and war criminals in office.



Chimpeach the crazy monkey!

[Lucky Luciano]

1. It is fair to say that most DUers would disagree with

this guy on most issues, but he is spot on with regard to Commander Cuckoobananas.

I have seen several articles from Dr Roberts about the BFEE (CCFEE?) and he really nails it. It is important for others to see true conservatvies villifying the commander.

[Octafish]

2. Pukes listen to pukes.

What this fellah has to say resonates with the monied types and their toadies. A credentialed conservative is just the ticket to get the pugs an earful of what Bush is doing to America and the world.

Smirk, Sneer, Rev. Moon, Ralphie Reed, Kenny Boy and the rest of the turds and slugs of the BFEE think they will to survive the rapidly approaching Chimpageddon. Those who support them should wake up to the fact that they won't be one of the lucky few Bush intends to keep around when World War IV is done. Membership in the Republican Party won't matter.

What can prevent that day from appearing is enough informed people -- Conservatives, Liberals, Republican, Democrat. To save the world from the little turd from Crawford's destructive ways, we need all hands on deck.

[HamdenRice]

15. Chimpageddon ?!?!?!?

This is a fantastic word. I will always use it. I guess the definition is the shit storm of war, violence, financial collapse, and military defeat that the Chimperor is propelling the world into.

[Octafish]

24. I've been using it for a while...since wherever I first saw it...LOL.

If I didn't laugh, I'd cry. And thus, from a post a long time ago, I write:

BFEE Final Solution: Environmental Degradation

Through their enablers, the Bush Organized Crime Family, the Fourth Reich plans to implement their Final Solution. It will not come through a militaristic or police-state holocaust, but through the subtle and “natural” means of environmental degradation.

Consider the planet is quickly becoming uninhabitable. The oceans are dying, fishing stocks are 90-percent depleted. Arable farmlands are depleted through urbanization and over-use. The planet’s rainforests are being destroyed. Clean water is becoming a rarity for the majority of the earth’s people. Global Warming only makes things worse, meaning disaster unimagined awaits. And all this is happening within OUR lifetimes.

This is no joke. We must ask ourselves “Why?” would the modern neo-conservative hold the socio-economic perspective of Darwinism? The answer: To rid them of their enemies: Political, Social, and Military. And save the earth’s dwindling life-support capabilities for themselves.

Just like George Herbert Walker Bush and his Dim Son — Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini wanted Total and Absolute Power. Consider how the fascist leaders in World War 2 worked to destroy their enemies. They applied the day's manpower, science and technology through direct violence and were opposed and defeated by a united humanity.

As wars declared and undeclared haven’t worked for fascism, it seems today's Fourth Reich is trying something new. This approach is a governmental policy of sustained environmental degradation.

Their environmental destruction plan works across cultural and physical borders of the third-, second-, and first-worlds. And like the frog in slowly boiling water, most people will not notice until it is too late to do something about it.

So, one all-too-soon day, the earth won’t be able to sustain humanity. And the vast majority will die out. Being a fascistic model, not everbody will suffer. The GOP-NAZI-Secret Government and Ruling Elite will find security in their sancturaries in Paraguay or the Swiss Alps and in their underground and secret facilities around the world.

The unfortunate Outsiders — the world’s Untermenschen and the “unwashed masses" and the intellectuals and Liberals and those who are True Democrats who believe that “All men are created equal” — they will be left to fend for themselves for the diminishing scraps of water, food and air. In the process, the neo-fascists hope the survivors manage to take each other’s lives.

Only after the mass of humanity is gone will the BFEE-NAZI-GOP-CIA-MI-Complex-Mafia Super Elite emerge from their secure luxury survival condominiums and secret redoubts in Paraguay and Switzerland to re-inhabit the earth, like modern Adamants and Evabrauns. They’ll join in ruling the earth their brethren, the cockroaches. May they all choke together.

— Octafish

[CrispyQ]

32. You might enjoy this guys take on the current administration of thugs.

The Republicans Secret Sinister Plan
http://fixco1.com/bushplan.html

snip...

The Republican Party (GOP), and the few families who they really represent, have been secretly colluding and conspiring to do what is best for themselves, and not what is best for America. They are using their positions of power inside our government to help them get what they want. What they want is more money, more power, and more control over our government. They will not stop unless they are forced to stop and we cannot stop them until the vast majority of the American people recognize them for what they really are; treasonous liars, con-artist, and money whores.

The few extreme right-wing families, who the GOP really represents, spare no expense in making sure they have control over the Republican Party. They keep it free of any individuals who are rational, independent, free-thinkers, or leaders who are willing to refuse the direction of the party's leadership. They infiltrate their operatives into the Democratic Party, and they keep the other honest Democrats at bay by intimidating, discrediting, or destroying any real potential opposition. The payoff for their corrupt shills in Congress is big bucks, fat cat jobs, and other under the table fringe benefits.

more...

If the U.S. government goes bankrupt, which it could easily do if interest rates spike up or foreign investors stop buy our treasury notes, these few mega rich families will step in, sell off of their stocks and bonds, and then use those trillions of dollars to buy up everything our government owns for pennies on the dollar. If the Social Security funds just happen to be invested in the stock markets at that time, than tough luck for the people counting on that money because the stock markets will collapse.

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Be sure to scroll below the 30%/70% black/grey map & read the 13 stages of his take on their plan. Stage 12 is the only really out there idea.

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final snip...

In order for this plan to succeed the America people must be keep in the dark about the true face of the Republican Party until the critical bankrupt stage, stage nine, has been completed. Once the American government assets are gone the American people will have lost their democracy and there is no way to gain it back.

[Just Me]

21. Yep. We will require "all hands on deck",....

,...being mindful that all hands will be negatively impacted by these ruthless, barbaric profiteers.

"Chimpageddon" *LOL* I love it!!!!

[lonestarnot]

22. Let them listen, but I'm not willing to embrace a repuke just because he

gets one damn thing right.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. If he worked with Reagan

I'm sure he knows all the dirt on GHWB.

[Al-CIAda]

4. If he were just coming out it would be more effective, but he has

been blasting monkeyman for several years now. He has said he is alienated and gets all sorts of hate mail from the kool-aid drinkers. He is unwelcome to publish in circles he once did.

The lunatics are free to run the asylum.


The Brownshirting of America

by Paul Craig Roberts
James Bovard, the great libertarian champion of our freedom and civil liberties, recently shared with readers his mail from Bush supporters. For starters, here are some of the salutations: "communist bastard," "a**hole," "a piece of trash, scum of the earth." It goes downhill from there.

Bush's supporters demand lockstep consensus that Bush is right. They regard truthful reports that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. – truths now firmly established by the Bush administration's own reports – as treasonous America-bashing.

Bovard is interpreted as throwing cold water on the feel-good, macho, Muslim butt-kicking that Bush's invasion of Iraq has come to symbolize for his supporters. "People like you and Michael Moore," one irate reader wrote, "is what brings down our country."

I have received similar responses from conservatives, as, no doubt, have a number of other writers who object to a domestic police state at war with the world.

In language reeking with hatred, the Heritage Foundation's TownHall.com readers impolitely informed me that opposing the invasion of Iraq is identical to opposing America, that Bush is the greatest American leader in history and everyone who disagrees with him should be shot before they cause America to lose another war. TownHall's readers were sufficiently frightening to convince the Heritage Foundation to stop posting my columns.

Bush's conservative supporters want no debate. They want no facts, no analysis. They want to denounce and demonize the enemies that the Hannitys, Limbaughs, and Savages of talk radio assure them are everywhere at work destroying their great and noble country.

Con't-
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=3798

[tsuki]

14. "everyone who disagrees with him should be shot before they cause America

to lose another war."

Does any one have the feeling that the freepers are still fighting VietNam? That after 12 years in VietNam, we could have won if not for the peace movement? Are they trying to redeem VietNam?

Everytime I read something like the above, it is a punch to the gut. Did we illegally invade Iraq and murder its citizens, kill our boys, to appease a bunch of chickenhawks that never "got over" Vietnam?

[Octafish]

35. Great column: The Brownshirting of America

The guy P.C. Roberts knows of what he writes. These are not normal, educated conservative Americans. These are fascist nutjobs raised on Reagan and Bush and Gingrich and Smirko.

Speaking of brownshirts: Whatever happened to the bully who kicked the female protester at the GOPHateWeek? I seem to remember someone ID'd the little turd as Dr. Laura's boy.



SOURCE:

http://talkleft.com/new_archives/007794.html

[Pachamama]

5. If more prominent "real Republicans" start to call for his impeachment, it

could become a reality...

There is not a day that doesn't go by in which I try to pray and put out to the universe that "Real Republicans", the ones that still haven't been blackmailed or bought (or even ones that have who wish to repent) and the ones who actually remember what it once meant to be a Republican, will start speaking out like Paul Craig Roberts and the domino effect will happen as they all get the courage to speak up....

[Finder]

16. Unfortunately, if they lose seats in congress...

they won't want to impeach and if they gain seats but they are fundy congresspeople it won't pass. The only way the party will impeach is if moderate repubs win in 2006.

A connundrum for sure! I think this week will be interesting as far as how loyal the parties really are.

[Just Me]

27. There is great risk the whole Republican party will be brought down,...

,...if the moderate Republicans fail to block tyranny by these extremists.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. And Cheney was just as guilty of spreading the lies!

So was Rice and Powell!

[carnie_sf]

6. We need

to turn this into a movement

[oasis]

7. "Bush and his gang of neocon warmongers". P.C. Robert's lifted our lingo.

If he reads DU he may as well write down the following:

A groundswell of anti-Bush sentiment is going to rock Washington D.C. until every criminal cockroach is shaken loose.

[Starfury]

8. Reading the writeback responses are fascinating as well...

For example:

" Clyde Wilson wrote
If attacking another country at discretion without a declaration of war is not impeachable, what is?

Daniel Larison wrote
Dr. Wilson is absolutely right. The president had no constitutional authority to start a war, and he should be impeached and removed for it. Very simply, he violated his oath and the (supposedly) fundamental law of the land. I wouldn't have thought that calling for impeachment would strike anyone here as out of line or extraordinary. As for Mr. Roberts, he is very passionate, and why shouldn't he be? He sees the government run not only incompetently but unjustly and unconstitutionally, and he sees his country being used for the purposes of men of dubious loyalty. We should all be as outraged as Mr. Roberts, if our Constitution and country mean much to us at all. I think that I have not been fiery and active enough in opposition to the moral and constitutional crimes of the administration. Mr. Roberts shouldn't be faulted for his passionate denunciations. The question should be why there aren't more men like him saying the same thing with the same fervour.

T. S. Loosli wrote
Finally!
Mr Roberts GETS IT! I thought I was the only rational conservative left on the planet. GW Bush and Co. have compared themselves with FDR, JFK, and; of all people, Ronald Reagan! Our national reputation is in tatters? DUH! Our Economy is built upon IOU's to my children and thier children. And Talk about "liberal spending..." When did conservatives, of any ilk, become the creators of big govemenment and increased bureaucracies? It is time for true conservatives to lock up the criminals of the Republican party and take the reigns back once more.

RL wrote
Bush is the worst President we have ever had, and not only that he is the biggest liar to hold the office. He should be impeached for all the lies. My head hurts when I think of all the falsehoods they have bestowed upon the American public through a complicit media machine. So, please allow me to mention a select few that come easily to mind: 1. Fake connection between Saddam and 9/11. 2. Fake mission accomplished propaganda on a Navy carrier. 3. Fake turkey used as a prop for soldiers in Iraq 4. Fake journalist Jeff Gannon/Guckert in the White House Press Corp for over 200 visits, and never any explanation why he was allowed to be there. 5. Fake Social Security crisis. 6. Fake town hall meetings staged with Bush only supporters. 7. Fake news reported by fake reporters to promote the administrations Orwellian agenda, paid for with real tax dollars. This equates to propaganda, and is leading us to a fascist state. I, for one, am glad to finally read a conservative journalist point of view that makes sense to be loyal to ALL American values and the Consitution for a change, instead of being so loyal to the party "

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And on and on and on....

I've barely begun reading their comments! That snippet was just the first few out of 100+ comments...

[spindoctor]

9. Who was it that predicted a schism in the Republican Party?

I can't remember. Some NYT reporter?

Anyway, this guy predicted that if Bush was reelected, there would be a revolt in the Republican party.

Not bad.

[ConsAreLiars]

10. "the only way to restore America’s reputation would be to impeach

and convict President Bush." Unfortunately this is all too true. Kerry and the Dems lost because they failed to see this. If you don't stand against fascism, well, then, you aren't worth shit.

[DFLer4edu]

11. He hit the head on the nail

[chknltl]

12. Paul Craig Roberts...you just joined George Galloway....

...on my "HERO" list! Along with A. Lincoln, the only other Republican on that list. If you could get the impeachment ball rolling you would easily become a TRUE PATRIOTIC HERO for a GREAT MANY despondent,(voting), Americans! Roberts/Galloway in '08! :)
chknltl

[Swamp Rat]

13. Great Chimpeach pic!

:D

:kick:

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Thanks, that's a great link and the story below the one that you

posted is a good one too! It's the economy STUPID signs may make a comeback real soon!

More Jobs Hype


Careless journalists and commentators are hyping the 274,000 new April payroll jobs as evidence of the health of the U.S. economy. An examination of the details of the new jobs puts a different view on the matter.

April’s job growth is consistent with the depressing pattern of U.S. employment growth in the 21st century: The outsourced U.S. economy can create jobs only in domestic nontradable services.

Of the 274,000 April jobs, 256,000 were in the private or nongovernment sector, and 211,000 of these were in the service sector as follows: 58,000 in leisure and hospitality (primarily restaurants and bars), 47,000 in construction, 29,200 in wholesale and retail trade, 28,000 in health care and social assistance, 17,300 in administrative and support services (primarily temps), 11,700 in transportation and warehousing, and 8,800 in real estate. A few scattered jobs in other service categories complete the picture.

Americans regard themselves as “the world’s only superpower,” but the pattern of American job growth in the 21st century is that of a Third World economy. The U.S. economy has ceased to create jobs in high-tech sectors and in export and import-competitive sectors. Offshore outsourcing of manufacturing and of engineering and professional services is dismantling the ladders of upward mobility that made the American Dream possible. Not only is the U.S. economy creating Third World jobs, according to analysis by Edwin S. Rubenstein (vdare.com, April 2, 2005), it is creating the jobs for Hispanic immigrants. Rubinstein examined job growth by ethnicity and found that Hispanics (13 percent of the workforce) are gaining 60 percent of the new service jobs.

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/cgi-bin/roberts.cgi

Is there ANYTHING Bush has told the TRUTH about?

[seemslikeadream]

19. It's the American thing to do

[Just Me]

20. "IMPEACH AND CONVICT" ,....ahhhhhh,...music to my ears.

The tide is changing. The wave of opposition is growing. :bounce:

[murielkane]

23. So Bush is losing both the libertarians and the Paleocons

The libertarians don't like the Patriot Act, Real ID, and other intrusions on individual rights.

Paleocons like Roberts don't like Bush's interventionist foreign policy, and they're extremely suspicious of the Neocons. (There's more than a hint of anti-Semitism in that suspicion. Paleocons aren't necessarily racists, but most of them seem all too ready to keep company with those who are.)

But both those forms of opposition are based on ideological grounds. They help chip away at Bush's support, but the bottom line in American politics is always, "It's the economy, stupid."

When the Reagan Democrat/yuppie/soccer mom contingent realizes that Bush is destroying their children's futures, and when business people discover that operating in a third world economy leaves them no future as well -- that's when Bush's support will get reduced to nothing but the fundies and the chickenhawks.

Until then, statements like Roberts' may be good for our spirits, but they leave a lot of real work to be done. Especially if we want to take back Congress, where pocketbook issues are always key.

[peekaloo]

25. Chimpeach! LOL!

I lurve Octafish!

[Toots]

26. Kick

:kick: this story has been around for a while but needs to be read by a lot more people.

[seemslikeadream]

28. Has President Bush committed any impeachable offenses?

Zeese: Has President Bush committed any impeachable offenses?

Bamford: It would seem logical that if Bill Clinton could be subject to impeachment for an alleged deception over a minor consensual sexual affair, George W. Bush should be subject to the same treatment for launching a deadly and seemingly endless war based on lies, distortions and deceptions. If that doesn’t qualify as a “high crime” I don’t think anything does. The key problem is massive public apathy and extremely poor press coverage. I think the only way to prevent such wars in the future would be to make every citizen an equal shareholder in the war -- not just the families of the 140,000 troops currently in Iraq. This would require legislation mandating a draft upon the deployment of a certain number of troops to a combat environment. Also legislation forbidding deficit spending for a war should be enacted. The cost of a war would have to be paid as a surcharge on all taxpayers in the year the fighting takes place. In this way, nearly every citizen would have both a personal and financial stake in a war. If such were the case today we would not be in this situation -- and if we were, there would certainly be calls for impeachment.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/May05/Zeese0523.htm

[Just Me]

30. High Crimes and Misdemeanors

Intentionally deceiving the public in order to manipulate them to do what they otherwise would not have done is fraud. But for the intentional misrepresentation of threat posed by Iraq, but for the betrayal committed against the American people, over 100,000 lives may not have been lost and tens of millions impacted and $300 BILLION dollars saved. Where is all that money? Who benefitted most from all that money?!?!?!?!

[Miss Chybil]

34. That makes a lot of sense to me. As much as I'm against the draft

it seems it may be the only way to wake people up to this war. It's like it doesn't even exist anymore. Americans are used to it. Now, which dress looks better? The print, or the solid? Do you think I should wear sandals, or pumps? Did you hear what happened to Michael Jackson today? No, no, no! You're going to mess up my hair!

[kodi]

29. i have only one question: why does Paul Craig Roberts hate America?

Criticism of our Great Helmsman will not stand!

[Fire Walk With Me]

33. "Our Great Helmsman"

Good one.

Too bad he's done an Exxon Valdez with the country. Oops! An oil reference!

[bobthedrummer]

31. The War President lied US into Iraq.

This is what the neo-conservative traitors wanted so badly that they've attempted a coup of sorts.

They've gone a bridge too far now. These traitors and their base have names.