when i heard this i smiled--it made me feel a little bit better
brent: you're going to be waking up in a day, in a week, in a month--there are going to be 20 front page stories about torture tapes and witnesses, and evidence. it's one thing after another. as the bush administration comes to a close the dirt is pouring out of the bag here on almost one issue after another issue after another issue.
randi: so the big question--do they run out the clock? is this a sport for them or is this really a nation of laws
brent: well, it will be a nation of laws 11 months from now when a new president is elected. i'm optimistic that we're going to like the results--certainly in congress. and what's happening is bush has already been psychologically impeached by the american people and the world community. seventy percent of america just loathes and despises this guy. they want him out, they want america to move on, they want it over. he's gonna be put in the dust bin of american history, spending the rest of his life reading what a lousy president he was. and if there is any satisfaction to people who want him to be impeached (and he may not legally be impeached) its that he has already been impeached. he's been impeached by the country--they want to get beyond him, they want him out. and that's what makes me optimistic because 12 months from this day you'll be reading stories about who's the new secretary of state and who's the new secretary of defense and who are the new supreme court justices that a democratic president will hopefully appoint and have a liberal court for the next twenty years.
it's gonna be a new america. this guy is dead history. he's out. so we have to just wait for the last year of the dead hand of the past to claw it's way through and survive meaning bush and then he'll either do his pardon or he'll spend the rest of his life worrying about the statue of limitations.
but every day there's a new scandal, a new story and a new lie. it's news when you don't have another lie by the president of the united states. and this iran thing was the ultimate humiliation because it was a replication of what happened on iraq. and it virtually rules out his ability to invade iran with more lies because then he may well be impeached by people who just wish he'd go away.
randi: i feel like celebrating christmas now. thank you.
brent: well, there is good news here: he's been impeached already by the heart and the soul and the spirit of the american people. and that's big news for us.
brent budowsky on randi rhodes show thursday december 13, 2007 (one hour & 48 minutes into the show) you can hear it by downloading from:
http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Rhodes.html