Dear George,
When compared to your crimes, Richard Nixon’s crimes were tantamount to running a stop sign. Yet, Congress forced Nixon to resign while you are as secure as ever in your Oval Office. Obviously, there has been a major paradigm shift over the last thirty-plus years.
The catalyst for this shift is congress. Nixon fell because he faced a Congress peppered with great minds like Sam Ervin, whose dedication to the Constitution was so total that he would not tolerate Nixon’s misbehavior. Great minds create the ethical tension that keeps politics from sinking either into the apoliticalism of authoritarianism or into a cesspool of corruption.
You are more fortunate. There is not a great mind to be found in your congress. Instead of Republicans and democrats, the congress you control is made up of cronies and cavers You are also fortunate that your climb to the office of Supreme Leader came at a time when fate decreed that instead of an opposition party history would give you a convergence of the greatest gaggle of craven cowards ever to grace the halls of congress.
Exhibit A is the fate of Dennis Kucinich’s bill, HR 333, to impeach the Big Dick. When he tried to introduce that baby, your cronies were like organ grinders as they made the cavers jerk to and fro.
The cavers shit bricks when the cronies threatened to allow an up or down vote on the bill. God, what a dilemma! The threat of having to take a stand on saving the Constitution absolutely terrified the caver leadership. The one thing Pelosi and her ilk cannot stand is the ethical tension of the great mind. So they fell all over themselves referring the bill to the house judicial committee that is controlled by the cavers, thus assuring that the bill would die a natural death.
[C]aver majority leader Steny Hoyer summed it up when he said, “Speaker Pelosi and I have made it clear that this [C]ongress is not going to proceed with impeachment, and it going to focus on critical issues facing our nation, such as healthcare for children and the war in Iraq”
The was echoed by house judiciary committee chairman John Conyers who told Fox Ness,” If she (Pelosi) were to let this thing out of the box, considering the number of legislative issues we have pending…it could create a split that could affect our productivity for the rest of the [C]ongress.”
There you have it, George. [C]ongress has too many “important” issues in the docket to save the Constitution. They are too busy caving on Iraq and giving you all the money you need to sink further into that quagmire; they have to rewrite the children’s health care bill to meet your exacting specification since you vetoed the first one because it cost too much money, but, screw it, you’ll probably veto it anyway because you want to reestablish you cred as a fiscal conservative.
In short, congress will not bother to save the Constitution (correction: we can make that lower case—constitution) because it is drowning in inactivity and is too busy bowing to your every whim.
All if this is abetted by a mainstream media that refers to those who want to preserve democracy and the constitution as “the radical party in congress.” Even the New York Times, America’s paper of record, refers to impeachment as “embarrassing distraction.”
Comparing your situation to Nixon’s only confirms the axiom uttered by that great sage, Pepe Escobar, “History repeats itself—as farce.”
Your admirer,
Belacqua Jones
6:33:26 AM 
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