{"id":1435,"date":"2006-04-24T08:34:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T15:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/04\/music_to_my_ears\/"},"modified":"2006-04-24T08:34:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-24T15:34:24","slug":"music_to_my_ears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/04\/music_to_my_ears.html","title":{"rendered":"MUSIC TO MY EARS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Living<\/a>Have you heard the song, “Let’s Impeach the President,” on the new Neil Young album<\/strong><\/font><\/a> (due out in May)? I haven’t. But the song title sounds catchy.
\n[April 28: Click to listen<\/strong><\/font><\/a> to the album’s songs. They’re being streamed in sequence. “Impeach” comes seventh.]<\/i>
\nYoung has a better opinion of the American people than I do. He says, “I think there’s a conscience in the country, and I don’t think it’s being spoken. Only a part of it is being spoken.” Yeah, well. As written here<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, during the 2004 election campaign:<\/p>\n

On the third anniversary of 9\/11, the best way for Americans to honor the dead is to look to the future by realizing that the upcoming presidential election will be a referendum not on the candidates for the White House but on the conscience and convictions of the electorate itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the election, there were<\/i> signs of conscience. Remember the truly sorry<\/strong><\/font><\/a> hit magnet? Sincere but powerless. Come the November mid-term elections, we’ll find out whether that has changed. Maybe the price of gasoline<\/strong><\/font><\/a> will strengthen America’s conscience. In the meantime I’m joining Young’s army. This is my enlistment form. Click the album cover. It will take you to the video clip of a great CNN interview with Young. (Just ignore the “ShowBiz Tonight” intro blather.)
\nPostscript:<\/strong> Could impeachment happen? Not likely. But “the Illinois State Legislature is preparing to drop a bombshell<\/strong><\/font><\/a>,” blogger Steve Leser reports. Apparently, “a little known and never utilized rule” of the U.S. House of Representatives “allows federal impeachment proceedings to be initiated by joint resolution of a state legislature.” Voilà: Illinois House Joint Resolution 125. We’ll see if it passes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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