Editorial for July 24, 2008 edition:

No end in sight?

Close your eyes, gentle readers, and imagine Shari Lewis and her friends Charlie Horse and Lamb Chop commenting on the war in Iraq:
This is the war that does not end, it just goes on and on, my friend.
Will, in fact, the war ever end? Like so many of their fellow Americans, members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War hope it ends soon, and, like so many folks, they see now that it is a war based on false pretenses.
Is the bloody battle continuing merely because of the two most powerful people in the White House — a stubborn cowboy from Texas who, aided by his trusted, fear-mongering puppetmaster, refuses to admit he made a gigantic mistake?
Or is the war continuing because Congress and the news media were too scared to ask tough questions following the 9/11 terrorist attacks and instead put their total faith and blind loyalty in the president?
The answer is yes.
When it comes to its duty to challenge a president and vice president who act like monarchs, the legislative branch is comprised of too many spineless cowards terrified of standing up to the leaders of one of the three co-equal branches of government. Instead of putting its legislative power where Democrats’ mouths were in the 2006 midterm election campaign, the Democratic-controlled Congress has played dead.
The House of Representatives was perfectly justified in impeaching Bill "The Liar" Clinton in 1998, although the Senate wimped out of its duty to convict him and remove him from office. Now, the House and Senate are afraid to begin impeachment proceedings against George the Great and Dick Dastardly.
The Democrats have little to show for their 2006 clarion call for change. ••

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