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[...] og NEJ, en USA-dækning som er totalt anti-republikansk, er ikke borgerlig. [...]

Kommentar hos Ulla.

Kære Kimpo: I 6 år har republikanerne siddet på magten i D.C. Præsidentembedet, flertallet i Repræsentanternes Hus og Senatet. Desuden består et flertal af dommerne i USAs føderale højesteret SCOTUS af konservative.

En kritisk omtale af noget, der sker som et resultat af udmøntet politik i Washington, må nødvendigvis ende med at være – overvejende – en kritik af republikanerne.

Listen er længere, men jeg orker ikke.

Med hjælp fra John Nicols fra The Nation og Bruce Fein fra The Washington Times (aka Moonie Times): Impeach, impeach now:

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BRUCE FEIN: Yeah, of course, the– difference is one thing to claim that, you know, Gulf of Tonkin resolution, was too broadly drafted. But we’re talking about assertions of power that affect the individual liberties of every American citizen. Opening your mail, your e-mails, your phone calls. Breaking and entering your homes. Creating a pall of fear and intimidation if you say anything against the president you may find retaliation very quickly. We’re claiming he’s setting precedents that will lie around like loaded weapons anytime there’s another 9/11.

Right now the victims are people whose names most Americans can’t pronounce. And that’s why they’re not so concerned. They will start being Browns and Jones and Smiths. And that precedent is being set right now. And one of the dangers that I see is it’s not just President Bush but the presidential candidates for 2008 aren’t standing up and saying–

BRUCE FEIN: –”If I’m president, I won’t imitate George Bush.” That shows me that this is a far deeper problem than Mr. Bush and Cheney.

BILL MOYERS: That struck me about your writings and your book. You say your great– your great fear is that Bush and Cheney will hand off to their successors a toolbox that they will not avoid using.

JOHN NICHOLS: Well, let’s try a metaphor. Let’s say that– when George Washington chopped down the cherry tree, he used the wood to make a little box. And in that box the president puts his powers. We’ve taken things out. We’ve put things in over the years.

On January 20th, 2009, if George Bush and Dick Cheney are not appropriately held to account this administration will hand off a toolbox with more powers than any president has ever had, more powers than the founders could have imagined. And that box may be handed to Hillary Clinton or it may be handed to Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or someone else. But whoever gets it, one of the things we know about power is that people don’t give away the tools. They don’t give them up. The only way we take tools out of that box is if we sanction George Bush and Dick Cheney now and say the next president cannot govern as these men have.

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Og hvordan man end vender og drejer det, så vil en rigsretssag ende med at være en kritik af republikanerne. Det kan end ikke al spin i denne verden ændre på, beklager. En politisk USA-dækning, der er overvejende kritisk overfor republikanerne er bare funderet i virkeligheden og ikke i et verdensbillede, hvor Bush er den hujende cowboy, der redder verden fra den røde brune fare.

Så altså, må jeg godt skrige nu?

(Opdateret med citat fra Fein/Nichols)

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