Alright, what he did was bad. It was really bad. His attempt to sell the empty senate seat Obama left behind was an incredibly corrupt act. The arrogance and disregard for ethical behavior he displayed was so ridiculous it borders on farce. The nation has responded appropriately, calls for his resignation, steps towards impeachment if he refuses to resign, a quickly organized investigation, and widespread public outrage. Now that's all well and good, but when I sit back and think about it, it seems incredibly absurd. It's a lot like desperately scrambling to treat a paper cut, after you have just been repeatedly shot. All this concern over little old Rod Blagojevich while Bush, Cheney, and his cronies still sit in the White House.

Where is this kind of mass outrage and media coverage over just one of the things that Bush has done, let alone his entire presidency? Sure, we had a few occasions where people paid attention for a few days, but never did we have a huge public outcry to condemn or remove Bush or Cheney for their actions. But now the country seems to be up in arms about Blagojevich's misdeeds, and for what, because he tried to sell a senate seat? I agree, that is no small thing, but the ramifications of it were not that severe. To put it simply, no one died. The same thing, however, cannot be said for the actions of Bush and Cheney.

The war in Iraq, a war started on lies straight from their mouths, has claimed the lives of about 4,131 American men and women, that is 1,380 MORE than those who died in the 9/11 attacks. I would like to emphasize here that, despite the efforts of the Bush legacy team to rewrite history, it was a war begun on lies, not faulty intelligence. Make no mistake; this administration deliberately and intentionally corrupted the intelligence that we did have because they were determined to start this war. Shouldn't there by much more outrage, infinitely more, about those responsible for the deaths of our young men and women? Americans died, thousands of them, and the blood is on the hands of this administration, and yet people seem more bored or tired of Bush than they are infuriated.

Doesn't just the war justify impeachment proceedings? Doesn't just the war justify serious calls for resignation, from both sides of the isle? This administration lied; they lied to and misled congress and the country, all to start a war that they had no business starting. They lied because they knew that we didn't want to send out brothers and sisters to death for no good reason, so they didn't even give us the option to consider it in the public discourse, instead they sold us lies, and they carried themselves more like crooked used-car salesmen then leaders of the nation. Except that the car they sold us exploded, killing thousands. If the blood of thousands doesn't justify their removal from power, then I don't understand how anyone can justify removing Blagojevich from power.

The Iraq War does not stand as the sole reason for the impeachment, and imprisonment, of Bush/Cheney and their lackeys, but even without mentioning the dozens and dozens of other incidents of scandal, corruption, and abuses of power; there is more than enough reason to be tremendously outraged and call for their removal, and yet somehow it isn't really happening in a widespread way. There was tremendous public anger over Blagojevich, over Clinton, and over Nixon, but Bush, whose crimes are greater than all three of those combined, has somehow evaded justice better than any of them. The sad fact of it all is that the nation will most likely continue to treat the Blagojevich scrape, and ignore the blood gushing from all of the wounds left by Bush. In the grand absurdity of it all, we will execute the thief and let the murderer go free.