Play: "The Impeachment of George W. Bush" ?

[Hissyspit]

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Thursday, September 20, 2007
Impeachment Play will premiere January 2

My new stage play, "The Impeachment Trial of George W. Bush" will premiere on January 2. With the help of Constituional scholar Bruce Fein, we've created a play that dramatizes what would happen if the House impeached Bush and the Senate tried him for high crimes and misdemeanors. I've been meeting with Congressmen here in Washington DC to give the play the necessary verisimilitude. Check back often for progress on the production.

Play Synopsis -
When Justice John Roberts calls the Senate to order in the impeachment trial of George W. Bush, he unleashes a battle of titans. With everything on the line, the most powerful legal minds in the country lock horns over whether the President should be removed from office for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” As the apparently incontrovertible evidence of Bush’s guilt piles up from witness after impassioned witness, you’d be a fool to bet on W. But in the second act, the President himself testifies and pulls out all the stops, delivering a speech reminiscent of Jack Nicholson’s “You can’t handle the truth” monologue in A FEW GOOD MEN. He correctly indicts a complicit Congress, a silent press and an apathetic public of being just as guilty as he is. In the end, as the audience files out of the theater, it’s up to each individual to decide where the truth lies.

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[JDPriestly]

1. Complicit press. Complicit Congress, yes. Complicit public, my eye.

Lied to public is more like it. The American people do not know the truth. Your play starts at the wrong point. You need to write a play that reveals how the Bush administration lied and lied over and over and how the press did not even question his lies. That is the real drama here. No, I don't buy into the plot of your play.

[Hissyspit]

2. You do realize, JD, that I'm just quoting the blogger, right?

I have no intention of writing any plays - no time, nor talent to put towards such an endeavor.

(I did have the idea about two years ago of doing a satire of the Bush administration as taking place in a whorehouse in Texas...)

[Vilis Veritas]

3. And to what is the root of the public apathy?

Is it really apathy, or is it simply math, the rule of the odds?

Odds would dictate that; Some people are apathetic. Some people have it good, some have it bad and some have worse than those that have it bad. Some are sick. Some are rich. Some are middle income. Some are happy. Some are sad. Some are just plain ignorant. Some are uneducated. Some have other things that are more important. Some have been manipulated by the 4th Estate...ad nauseum...

To broadbrush paint the 'public' as apathetic is, in my estimation an easy out, albeit probably a necessary device, given the time contraints placed on the constructs of a play.

No Fear.