Holy Shiite, Batman. Has the Nation Founds Its Collective Balls?

First we get the expected news: people are distrusting Geoge W. Bush and Dick-in-my-hand Cheney even more than they did yesterday. According to the latest CBS poll Dubya has 34 percent of the country behind him. Do you also read that as one-third? Oh, and of those 34 percent support of Dubya (why you ask), half don't respect Cheney. He is at 18 percent which is not even a good percent of three-point shots.

And then we have this wonderful paragraph from Lewis Lapham, the outgoing editor of Harper's:

"I don't know why we would run the risk of not impeaching the man. We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country's good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world's evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation's wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal--known to be armed and shown to be dangerous."

And then we have this from Garrison Keiller:

These are troubling times for all of us who love this country, as surely we all do, even the satirists. You may poke fun at your mother, but if she is belittled by others it burns your bacon. A blowhard French journalist writes a book about America that is full of arrogant stupidity, and you want to let the air out of him and mail him home flat. You hear young people talk about America as if it's all over, and you trust that this is only them talking tough. And then you read the paper and realize the country is led by a man who isn't paying attention, and you hope that somebody will poke him. Or put a sign on his desk that says, "Try Much Harder."

Do we need to impeach him to bring some focus to this man's life? The man was lost and then he was found and now he's more lost than ever, plus being blind.