Precious freedoms

The Grand Poobah himself, Feckless Leader, told us today that everything was going swimmingly in Iraq. He's also been passing out orders to private citizens and Congress, basically informing them that he is our Commander in Chief, and that we should all just shut up and listen.

The private citizens are also Republicans, so their reaction was, naturally, to bow and genuflect, while our guardians of freedom in Congress said something on the lines of, "Oh, really.", in a soft but disappointed voice. That's telling him, Congress!

It's good that Pelosi has taken impeachment off the table (unlike nuking Iran), because talk of impeachment might anger Feckless Leader and he would have to take stronger measures against Congress. We wouldn't want to lose our precious freedoms to score political points, would we?

Despite my love of my precious freedoms, I would still like to see the start of impeachment, just to see how Bush would push his executive privilege diktat in the face of an impeachment investigation. I'm fairly certain that he would not cooperate, and that possibility is what really scares Congress. Better the sham of a democracy than no democracy at all, right?