What kind of extremists will we be?

"This is horseshit" by Cindy Sheehan

It is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists will we be -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

Love that quote. Probably need to put it up on the website somewhere. Maybe right next to the George Carlin line. :)

You know, I don't care if it's not proper for a Congressional candidate to say: "horseshit." I don't care if it is not a good "tactic" to get kicked out of a Congressional non-impeachment hearing that was just a bunch of horseshit anyway.

If people can't see how this nation is teetering on the precipice of financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet down with us as we destroy our ecology, too…and if people don't realize how desperate our situation is, then I must say, that's horseshit!

That's Cindy Sheehan in the article referenced above. Go to her campaign website on that is linked over on the right side of this page to donate or volunteer.

Actually, I'd say its a cornerstone of the American political system, at least as it was designed by the writers of the Constitution, for a candidate to say "This is horseshit." That's the nature of a democratic and free society. The very strength of a democratic and free society is that someone can run for elected office saying "This is horseshit!".

If we restrict that in the quise of proper language and proper behavior, we've lost something. In fact we've lost something vital. Because it is vital that our political system be able to look at horseshit and call horseshit by its proper name.

When we see a political leader, like Ms. Nancy Pelosi, who is leading the country into war, torture, police-state spying, horrible deficits on a useless military, we need to have candidates who can stand up and call anti-American horseshit by its proper name. In fact its critical that someone stand up and say "This is horseshit!"

And especially when a political leader, like Ms. Nancy Pelosi, breaks the solemn oath of office that she gave to 'protect and defend the Constitution of the United States', and does so for only grass political gain, it is critical that someone stand up and say "This is horseshit!"

All of our American freedoms are based on the principle of a government divided into three separate and co-equal branches which all provide checks and balances against each other. The writers of the Constitution knew that there was a danger of one branch getting out of control and seizing too much power for itself. Especially the Executive Branch. These were people who had just fought a bloody and nasty revolution for nearly a decade to get themselves out from under a tyrant who had done just that. So, they were very careful to try to design for America a political system that would try to prevent the need to ever do that again.

Yet today, we see Ms. Pelosi and the Democrats destroying that system. And they are doing so purely for their own political interests. They are doing so for the small, crass motive of more political power for themselves and their party. America be damned is what they are saying. The Constitution be damned is what they are saying. If they think it increases the chances of a Democrat victory in the next election, they'll gladly toss it all away.

By the time the Democrats took the majority of Congress in early 2007, there was already a long record of abuses and usurpations by this current administration that demanded a serious investigation into whether impeachable offenses had been committed. The war in Iraq is one. Signing statements are another. Traveling around the world kidnapping people and disappearing them into secret prisons would be on the list. As well as torturing the people in those prisons. Unconstitutional, warrantless spying on the American people would be on that list.

Any one of these would certainly be a 'high crime' and worthy of impeachment. And each of these Democratic Congresspeople stood up and took an oath to 'protect and defend the constitution of the United States'. Given that oath, beginning an impeachment investigation would seem to be a mandatory and neccessary FIRST act of that new Congress.

Instead, the Democrats have violated that oath. They are destroying the structure of checks and balances the founders envisioned as neccessary to keep us free. And they've done so for only the crass political reason of trying to sieze power for themselves in the next election. At no point have the Democrats refuted all of the arguments leading towards impeachment. Instead they only talk about politics.

When Ms. Pelosi and Mr. Reid took impeachment 'off the table' long before the last election, they didn't do so for legal or constitutional reasons. They did it for political reasons. When they've consistently ignored the evidence that demands impeachment, they did so for political reasons.

If there is anything that should make almost all of the current Congressional Democrats declared unfit for office, it is this violation of a sacred oath and the abandonment of this sacred duty. They've declared themselves to be anti-American. They've made it clear that they would destroy America and its Constitution in order to obtain high political office. And that should be a clear sign that they shouldn't be given even the responsibilities of a local dog catcher.

There should be more than one of us saying, "This is horseshit!"