Barbra Streisand, a lounge singer popular around 1970, has called for the impeachment of George W. Bush and an unspecified number of his colleagues.Barbra Streisand, a lounge singer popular around 1970, has called for the impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. of George W. Bush and an unspecified number of his colleagues. The grounds for the impeachment would be, let's see, oh yes: The president deceived the country about weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or in Iraq. To conservatives and, we suspect, to most other Americans not of the rabid-Left persuasion--this really comes under the heading "Showbiz Gossip," bearing about as much excitement, newsworthiness, and political substance as Jennifer Lopez's latest divorce. To small cadres of Left activists, however, it is, we suppose, a call to arms. You can hear the copy machines whirring whir v. whirred, whir·ring, whirs v.intr. To move so as to produce a vibrating or buzzing sound. v.tr. To cause to make a vibratory sound. n. 1. and the phones ringing. Let them whirr whirr v. & n. Chiefly British Variant of whir. whirr or whir Noun a prolonged soft whizz or buzz: the whirr of the fax machine , let them ring. One of the late-night comedians is wont to describe politics as "show business for ugly people." No further comment. |
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