Either or Both

Congratulations are in order for Congressman Dennis Kucinich. I'm thinking nothing will come about as a result of his bringing articles of impeachment against Cheney. But there is a certain wry pleasure that one gets from the resonance of this action. Cheney is perhaps the impeachment heavyweight, no one more deserving.

I was reading through Cheney's short list of medical procedures... WOW. Its somewhat amazing that the man is still vertical and running on vitriol to boot. My understanding used to be that cortisol did not do a body good. Cheney refutes science on this issue. Perhaps this is the basis of his intractable contradiction of all things factual from global warming to no links between Iraq and Al Qaeda while tacitly approving the Bushrovian neo-pseudo science doctrine.

Otherwise the sense is that Bush is in damage control mode. Two events point in this direction.

First comes Bush heaping praise on his (and our) Attorney General. This is equivalent to looking at a train wreck and praising the conductor for getting the train to this destination. Of course the obvious thing to do would be to get help and do rescue work, not here, not at this train wreck.

The second event comes from the Office of Special Counsel investigation of Karl Rove. The true virtue of this action already looks pretty questionable. A setup some would suggest, undertaken by Bush to do somewhat less than a thorough and complete investigation, and then what do you know, Rove comes up smelling like a blossom.