The assassination of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney seemed to be an underlying mandate of the American people. While most citizens would not be so brash as to suggest actual assassination (more from a fear of reprisal than their lack of conviction), a poll in the early summer of 2007 revealed startling statistics. 45% of Americans polled believed Bush should be impeached; 54% of Americans believed Cheney should be impeached!
The Bush administration's maladroit performance was a festering scab on American society. As the puss poured from the gaping wound of a crippled administration, more and more Americans were quite ready and willing to get rid of the very leaders they'd elected. Prior to Bush's election, President Bill Clinton had been the target of impeachment proceedings by an overzealous, vindictive Republican-led Congress that squandere hundreds of millions of taxpayers' dollars trying to remove Clinton from office. Clinton's 'crimes' included lying to Congress about some shabby land deals, and trying to deny an adulterous sexual liaison with another consenting adult. Republicans dragged Clinto through the moral muck and slung more mud at his administration than was appropriate, all in a holier-than-thou attempt to showcase the moral superiority of Republicans. It was a sensational distraction as special prosecutor Ken Starr grilled Clinton relentlessly. Grown men argued over the definitions of the words "sex" and "it". The public peered on in stunned fascination as the entire U.S. Congress disregarded the important business of managing the country. Meanwhile, at the end of an exhausting, grueling day of interrogating the President of the United States on his sex life, Republican Congressional opponents would quietly retire to their private Capital Hill offices, where a fresh, seductive young intern would be waiting with accommodating lips and a carefully chilled, stirred and shaken martini.
The first four years of the feckless Bush presidency was protected, of course, by a Republican-led Congress that would never hang its own party's President out to dry, regardless of his wrongdoings. As Commander-In-Chief, Bush had been responsible for the mass murders of thousands of Iraq citizens and several thousand U.S. soldiers. But George W. Bush could have murdered his own wife and daughters, and his chicken-hearted Republican partisans would have found ways to exonerate him from any blame or responsibility. By the middle of his second term in office, mid-term elections had effectively put Democrats in control of Congress. Even though there were tenable opportunities to initiate impeachment proceedings, Democrats seemed to lack to tenacity, the will, or the gonads to put Bush's feet to the fire. Maybe they wanted to wait it out and let Bush completely self-destruct before landing the final blow to his prickish presidency. Maybe they were too afraid of public backlash, who might view it as politically-motivated. Perhaps some Democrats were genuinely concerned about putting the nation through another grueling, expensive, tedious political firing squad. Still, Bush had provided Democrats with plenty of ammunition:
In many minds, Bush had lied about 'weapons of mass destruction' solely to give him unconstitutional, illegal, unjustifiable and immoral grounds to attack Iraq. Bush had violated the terms of the Geneva Convention, to which the United States was a signatory. He had violated the terms of the UN Charter, to which the U.S.A. was a signatory. As Commander-In-Chief, he had condoned the torture and abuse of 'detainees' in Cuba. He presided over one of the most scandal-ridden administrations in U.S. history. His total disregard for the most fragile of American citizens was blatant, as he wiped out funding programs designed to help America's poor, sick, elderly, underprivileged, hungry, disabled, unemployed, disadvantaged, under-educated, and homeless. He even cut veterans' benefits, slashed soldiers' pay, and underfunded a military endeavor that he himself had initiated. U.S. soldiers were fighting a dirty 'war' in Iraq all for the sake of OIL and WAR PROFITEERING, and fighting it with inadequate equipment, malfunctioning machinery, and leadership whose hands were tied by Washington "suits" who wouldn't know which end of a rifle to point toward the enemy. Democrats had all the reasons in the world to impeach George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. All they lacked was the tenacity, the will, and the gonads. Obviously, Democrats weren't nearly as bloodthirsty, revengeful, and mean-spirited as their Republican opponents.