Another strategy democrats should remember,...

[Parisle]

--- If I am going to barter (or "haggle") with my neighbor over a private, informal sale of a second-hand lawnmower,... and I want to get $40 for the old mower,....then maybe I'll start out by asking for fifty bucks, eh? Maybe more, depending on the neighbor. The principle here is self-evident.

--- Now apply it to some of the issues confronting the new democratic majorities in Congress, as they try to rein in a megalomaniacal president who is pursuing one-man military dictatorship at the secretive behest of his neo-nazi PNAC junta.

--- Impeachment? Oh, if only that was the only question. But legal issues are involved. International charges of war crimes. Constitutional transgressions. We're afraid that we're going to end up faced with the decision of capital punishment vs. life imprisonment,.... when it comes to seeing that justice is carried out, of course. Once out of office, Bush may find himself facing charges at the Hague,.... sure enough.

--- The PNAC? Well, unfortunately,.. the offenses of this administration very definitely attach to the Kristol-Kagan organization, too. We would be hard-pressed NOT to view them as a traitorous and subversive group and, as such, ALL of their members could end up facing prison time. Hell,.. Douglas Feith could be executed for his OSP lies..... We never wanted it to come to this, though.

--- Windfall profits and war-profiteering? Hmm,... well frankly, our concern reaches further than the recovering of fraudulently-obtained monies,... but to the actual charges which could be levied against the CEO's and board members of the firms in question. If they were in league with the PNAC, then their outlook is not very good. If it was just good old-fashioned corruption, then probably no more than a handful of corporate officers will actually go to prison and have all their property confiscated. We hope that is all that happens, anyway. But we expect to recover no less than $100 billion.

--- Ask for way more than you want,... and set your tone as if it was a "done deal." Get the idea?