OK, I’ve gone on long enough. The bottom line follows.
Bill Clinton could be impeached because, despite his moderate economic conservatism reflected in welfare reduction and deregulation, he was considered a mild threat because he raised taxes, attempted universal health care and had a populist streak that could have borne fruit for the lower classes at the expense of the upper had he been able to sell that part of his vision undistracted by impeachment. In short, impeachment served the interests of great wealth.
George Bush is the elitist, capitalist, big corporate, gilded-age, Robber-Barron, uber-class’s wet dream. He really is. Everything he does that makes absolutely no sense at all to most people, makes perfect sense to great, vested wealth. Everything Bush does is designed to protect and enable that wealth and to allow it to grow and grow at any and all cost. Anyone who tries to end the wet dream will be treated quite nastily by this extremely powerful and ruthless class of people.
We cannot expect people like Nancy Pelosi, John Kerrey and the other multi-millionaires to rock the boat of unfettered capitalism that has been so good to them and their families for so long.
We can’t expect elected officials who are wholly dependent on donations from big corporations and wealthy individuals to take on the direct vested interests of those on whom their careers depend. John Edwards is perhaps an exception, if only because he got wealthy taking on big corporations as a trial lawyer on behalf of injured people and does not fear the corporations or believe his future is as tied to theirs as others apparently feel.
No, sadly, just like the 2004 Presidential election, the 2004 and 2006 Congressional elections, and just like run-up to the 2008 primaries are currently going, the most significant factor in impeachment of Bush and Cheney is MONEY.
MONEY says no, and we all know,
MONEY TALKS
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