by M.L. Bushman

Created on: October 24, 2008

I wouldn't give Congress the right to vote on removing a dog turd from my yard, let alone removing any President from office. Why? Several reasons, but first let me say this to those who say the Constitution already provides a remedy. This is true. The Constitution's remedy for a poor President is impeachment. Too bad our Congress isn't too interested in abiding by our Constitution any longer, any more than it's interested in preserving our civil rights.

First you'd have to define what constitutes a poor President. If you ask a Republican, it'll be a Democrat, and vice versa. The two-party system exists now as a smoke screen to hide what's happening behind the scenes. By voting for the bailout, Congress has virtually given nearly unlimited power to Secretary of the Treasury Paulsen, the mouth piece for Bernanke of the Federal Reserve, so who's really in charge of our welfare and well-being? Or lack thereof? At whose mercy are we now courtesy of our so-called Congress?

Why on Earth would you give these jokers I laughingly refer to as Senators and Representatives one more reason not to work? Can you imagine? A vote of no confidence would require months of "tense" deliberation and at least several committees to hold hearing after hearing after hearing in a vain attempt to preserve the pretense of actually caring about the People they have willingly sold down the river time after time after time. A Congressional hearing is make-work at its finest. The committees holding the "hearing" resolve nothing and yet manage to look so supremely busy doing it.

Need a third reason? A majority of the members of Congress have already been bought and paid for, not to serve your interests or mine, but those whose interests put dollars in their pockets. The office of the Presidency has less power than that of Secretary of the Treasury by far. Although the face of the Secretary will change once the presidential election is over, the power remains and the Federal Reserve will ensure the successor they desire is the only one that gets the job.Congress will rubber stamp the selection because they serve their own interests and have for many, many years.

So, no, I wouldn't give a Congress I have no confidence in the right to remove a President they have no confidence in because neither the President nor the Congress have any more to do with governing the people of the United States than the dog turd in my yard. The bloodless coup de tat was made complete the day our self-serving Congress passed the bill to bailout the banks. At our expense.

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