The other day I posted a DIARY on an idea one of my friends in the Aggresive Progressives Yahoo! group came up with:
Taking it upon ourselves to finance some more Polling about impeaching bush.
She raised a few hundred dollars but many people were leary of donating to an “unkown group.”
Fortunately for neversurrender (the girl that came up with the idea) the leaders over at Democrats.com and AfterDowningStreet.org got wind of the idea and here you go:
AfterDowningStreet.org
Polling on Impeachment
Does the public favor an investigation into grounds for impeachment of President Bush? We have no way of knowing, because the pollsters aren’t asking. The After Downing Street coalition has begun collecting donations to hire mainstream professional pollsters to ask the questions that need to be asked. It doesn’t take much money, but can have a tremendous impact. Learn more and contribute here:
AfterDowningStreet.org
Go there, then come back! I’ll still be waiting for you to click on.
And remember that you read it here on the Boo Trib first!
(Well? if you visited my last diary! lol)
Click on for some after thoughts…
Don’t think of impeachment as the answer… Or expect it to happen at this point. (Not enough Senators to make it happen now)
Remember that just asking the question is an extremely aggressive way to discredit all of the GOP whackjobs in office. It is a strong tool to use leading up to the 2006 and 2008 elections.
It creates a seed of doubt in peoples minds when the question gets polled, especially when the results are as good as the last Zogby Poll’s results on the impeachment question.
The more it is asked, the more the doubt grows.
Realistically, even if we were to start impeachment proceedings to day bush would likely finish out his term in office before there could be any results… But we can make his finishing out his term as miserable as possiple!
And huge Kudos to AfterDowningStreet.org and Democrats.com for taking up the cause, and especially to neversurrender for taking the intitial action.
Be an Aggressive Progressive…
Lead from the rear, since it is plainly apparent that many that are supposed to be front and center in these fights are content to do very little.
Push your ideals hard… Rock the boat a lot.
Eventually someone should get the point.
Plant the seeds of doubt in the minds of the cult followers. Make them think and listen to their hearts.
In my humble opinion, it should be worked into almost every discussion, post, diary, about bush and the GOP in some way or another.
The more you ask, the more they see it, the more they have to think about it. And eventually it sinks in that they all deserve it. And the more it drags the GOP down like a lead weight!
Just an election tool… Sharpen it like a knife and drive the point home.
Anyone that is against bush must realize that this is a mirror of the tactics used by the GOP to discredit Clinton.
Any arguments over whether that was successful?
Remember that you are talking about one of the most famous BJs in the world…
Yep… It works.
is Bernard Weiner, Ph.D. in government & international relations and former writer for the San Francisco Chronicle.
After you read an extensive suppostition list of GWB’s high crimes and misdemeanors, that prescribes guilt, he begins his argument for impeachment.
It’s a thoughtful, not sensational, exploration of this issue, and can be read here:
To whet your appetites, this sample paragraph. . .
To me, the more interesting part of his essay concerns why Republicans might want to join in the impeachment and he concludes this portion of his essay with a statement aligned with the organizations cited in this diary.
Weiner maintains the Crisis Papers blog.