Why does a Smart President Scare Conservatives?

I'm on a conservative email list and I received this image this morning with the text:

Are You Packed Yet?
Canada's readiness preparedness plan...November 2008

This cracked me up for so many reasons. First, I guess Republicans are accepting that Mc$ame/Palin are done.

Second, I was laughing out loud because Canada is so much more liberal than the USA (don't tell the conservatives, let them find out after they move).

Third, I imagined our country minus the people who are responsible for the nightmare of the last eight years:

Iraq
Abu Graib/torture
WMD
Katrina mess
warrentless wire tapping
Stock Market crash
Alberto Gonzolas
Florida elections
Dick Cheney
Karl Rove
Donald Rumsfeld
surplus to gigantic debt
4185 of our soldiers dead in Iraq
signing statements
our plummeting reputation around the world
health care crisis
end of the American dream (remember the American Dream? Summer home, boat, two cars, a JOB...)

But then I realized that some of my favorite cities such as Montreal and Vancouver would be full of Bush supporters and I stopped laughing.

Bush Administration IS Above the Law!

Do you believe that Bill Clinton should have been held accountable for lying to the Grand Jury? I do. It is easy for any armchair political analyst to proclaim that he should have just said, "that is none of your business!" But he didn't and he lied and he should be held accountable. Politicians are not above our laws.

I know what you liberals are saying (though this should not be limited to liberals but to anyone who values our constitution and the values this country was build on):

Lying to the American people and dragging our nation into an unethical war that has killed over 4,000 US soldiers (over 33,000 casualties) and easily over 150,000 Iraqi civilians, plunging their country into complete chaos, wire tapping our own people illegally, kidnapping and torturing often innocent people and many more crimes are much worse than receiving oral sex while married and lying about it.

Yes, even though no one died when Clinton lied (or was tortured or spied on or illegally fired because of their political beliefs...), he broke the law.

Should he have been impeached?

The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: "the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

Is what Clinton did "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors?" I think not.

But it appears many members of the Bush administration have broken far greater crimes and if so, they must be held accountable. Lets start with one of the worst. Karl Rove.




Go to SEND KARL ROVE TO JAIL and sign the petition. Tell your congress people that accountability is important to you as a tax payer and as an American who votes. Lets clean up our government before they harm any more Americans or other members of our global community.

sources: infoplease.com, Wikipedia, iCasualties.org, Financial Times