olbermann has it right: bush must resign

Tonight’s Countdown featured Keith Olbermann’s most pointed, focused and necessary commentary on the corrupt folly and danger that is the presidency of George Walker Bush that has ever been set to video or audio archive.

Olbermann’s point: Bush must resign to preserve what’s left of this delicate union we call the United States of America.

And I agree with him 100 percent. And just to make things right: Cheney should resign, too.

And both should be tried for crimes against the United States and the people of this great country.

Crooks & Liars has the full video, as well as a full transcript of Olbermann’s powerful piece, and I urge everybody – Democrat and Republican, liberal and conservative, American or non-American – to watch the piece, hear it out, and simplydo something to bring back a true moral center to the United States.

Bush and his theocon friends have so warped the definitions of what “morality” is that it’s no wonder that the United States is no longer held in high esteem by most of the world. Recent elections in France and Germany, and the turnover of power in the United Kingdom, point to this reality: the world is no longer willing to take our word on anything. We are no longer “The Greatest Nation”; rather, we are listing ever closer to the edge of irrelevance on the world political stage.

Since taking office in January 2001, the Bush administration has done more damage to this country than any foreign or separatist power ever managed to do before. The Constitution is in tatters. Civil liberties are mostly a thing of the past. Intelligent reason is damned by the powers that be, replaced by pseudo-religious zealotry and closed-mindedness that borders on the cult-like.

And congress needs to wake up and take action.

The Democrats who currently preside over the two houses of the people – both being representational bodies that act for the will of the people – are taking a mostly spineless approach toward dealing with the corruption of Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzales, and the other criminal cronies who revolve around 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW. They are not fulfilling the promises they made to their constituents: to act as a vital check against power run amok in the executive (and judicial) branch. They are looking for safe soundbites, rather than speaking truth to power and doing their best to salvage what little this country has left.

And let’s face it: the Republicans should also stop drinking Mr. Jones’ spiked fruit punch and realize that they have done more to hurt their country, their constituents, and themselves by buying into the false idolatry that they practice in being Bush apologists. This goes doubly for the traitorous Sen. Lieberman, for whom no door out of congress could be shown too soon.

Keith Olbermann is a true patriot. He should be commended for using his rights to their fullest. It’s a pity that he is seemingly alone in his outspoken attitude on the increasingly Murdock-controlled and influenced mass media, because so many people blindly follow and believe what a talking head tells them on a small video box (or, in the case of Utah and other states with theocratic tendencies, from a pulpit born of a warped interpretation of Christ’s teachings).

So on this anniversary of the independence of the United States from a monarchy that could indiscriminately take away the rights of its people, take the time and watch or read Keith Olbermann’s commentary. And if it has any effect on you, please get out and do something to help bring sense, reason and responsibility back to Capitol Hill. The United States is a country of, by and for the people – and that means all the people, not just those who get the votes every four years.

We can’t wait for 2008 – the time to act is now.