America's bread and circuses
From staff reports

Lake County Record-Bee, Lakeport CA

Let's impeach the neo-cons before they do any more damage, or before Bush declares himself the Emperor of America for life ... He has already named himself the "Decider", probably because he has not yet learned to pronounce the word emperor.
The "decider" remark was a joke of course, but his claims of unprecedented and unchecked executive powers are not, and are about as un-American or as anti-American as anything could ever be, because they oppose the constitutional balance of powers upon which this government and this nation are founded.

There is a growing, nationwide movement to impeach Bush and Cheney; impeachment resolutions have been introduced in state legislatures in Illinois, California and Vermont so far, and resolutions supporting impeachment have been passed in the following California cities, among other cities in the nation: Santa Cruz, Arcata, San Francisco, Berkeley, Sebastopol and Fairfax.

Perhaps the breaking of some domestic laws, the disregarding of the Bill of Rights and of congressional authority, the breaking of some international laws such as the Geneva Conventions, all of these things and more, which are said to warrant impeachment by people who are a lot more informed and knowledgeable than I am, could be eclipsed by a transgression which, in the myopic eye of the media, is supreme, if Bush and Cheney were to fool around outside of their marriages as did Clinton.

After all, who really cares about the Constitution when a president can be dragged into a soap opera, the supreme American entertainment! (Let them have bread and circuses, as the Roman Emperor Nero said with an arrogance which sounds familiar ... )

Raphael Montoliu

Lakeport