"I have a dream!"

Well, I think we should have a U.S. option, much like California has. A "recall" election. It would probably be the quickest way outta this dizzying national tail-spin we're in. Only, I wouldn't allow any campaigning (read "buying") of candidates. That would limit the amount of influence pedaling, hence, obligations those elected would owe special interests.

Now while, by not campaigning, Americans would have little idea whom they're choosing to possibly replace our current band of thugs with, that'd be okay. Look who they put in the last two times, while supposedly "informed".

(NOTE: Dada's being facetious here. A slug could run for president and get elected if that's what the right wing powers-that-be who control the vote counting want. They've already stolen the last two elections "fair and square".)

Oh, an impeachment would be nice. But lifting the rocks and exposing these criminals dwelling in the dark places 'neath them would be a long drawn out process that would only add to the pathology of our extreme national psychosis. The current administration would have time to carry out their horrific ambitions against nations like Syria and Iran. But being a government with no checks and balances, impeachment proceedings are really just a pipe dream that haven't a snowball's chance in hell.

(But--BUT--it'd be nice if the minority opposition party would stand up and advocate for such a process.)

After eradicating the pestilence from our government, international justice could be executed (whoops--sorry, I realize that's a "nervous word" for all you neocons, isn't it?) against these war criminals.

Of course, I'm just fantasizing here. Hence my daydream of a recall. Some of you may remind me of what happened in California, where an "informed" electorate opted for the glitz of Hollywood and elected an Austrian body builder whose approval is at new lows there. Yes, but how much worse could Bush and Cheney's replacements be?

First there'd be the honeymoon with the nation. That'd take at least a year before realizing we'd replaced idiots with idiots. But it'd be a glorious year of respite for the national psyche. By the time the romance began to fade and their popularity sink, we'd be less than 12 months from the next national "free" election.

And who knows? Maybe, just maybe, we'd elect someone who'd end the war and bring the troops home. It could happen. And who knows how many billions of dollars and hundreds or thousands of lives that would prevent from being lost to a hopeless cause?