Impeachment? Inconceivable!

Working at a TV news station does have its advantages. For instance, we have access to governmental video feeds that are not readily available to the public at-large. Occasionally, I'll spend the last half of my lunch hour watching Tony Snow's White House press briefings or some congressional hearing on a satellite feed (a rare opportunity to see our government in inaction).

Just this past Friday, we were privy to the entire Valerie Plame hearing, which may very well have been on C-Span as well; either way, it was very interesting. Not because of her predictable testimony, but because 1) there were other people watching over my shoulder for a change, anxious to see what she would say (and because she is kinda hot)
and 2) about 4-5 minutes into the hearing, there was a lady in the audience behind Plame at the hearing that could be seen attempting to insinuate herself in a position such that her torso, but not her face, could be seen by the television camera. Why, you ask? Advertising.

What was she selling?



Ok, that's not really her. In reality, she was wearing a simple white shirt with hand-drawn black letters reading, "Impeach Bush".

Of course, this one lady is hardly alone in declaring the desire to "impeach" our current president, but to her and those like her, I offer the wisdom of Inigo Montoya from The Princess Bride: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Impeachment is a process that requires a majority vote in the House to bring a charge, then a 2/3 vote in the Senate to convict. If they can do that, they can definitely pass a law reducing carbon emissions by eliminating all cars and requiring all human transportation to be via "the most glorious rainbow"s.
(Gratuitous and wonderfully unnecessary Anchorman reference)

If this nameless, (literally) faceless woman, or any of the other impeachementistas out there think 1/3 of Senate republicans would vote for the removal of a sitting Republican president, we should lock them up with the illegals in T. Don Hutto Internme...ahem, Detention Center, until they gain their sanity. Talk about government inaction.

In the end, maybe Bush should have taken Vizzini's rebuke in The Princess Bride to heart: "You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The most famous is never get involved in a land war in Asia, but only slightly less well-known is this: never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line!"

That Vizzini knew his history too well, and we appear to repeat it now because we didn't listen to the man. Then again, even if the Italians had sent us some Sicilians with their experience, instead of those artsy-fartsy Florentines and those ever-nostalgic for "Pax" Romans in their 'coalition of the willing' allotment, would we be out of Iraq by now? In the words of Vizzini: Inconceivable!