If you want a little light reading, something to take your mind off all the polls and attack commercials and he said/she said ridiculousness of the midterms, here you go:
A
plan is in place to censure and impeach President Bush and Vice
President Cheney. Orchestrated and organized by the radical Left and
Congressman John Conyers, Jr., this plan is ready to go should the
Democratic Party take control of the House of Representatives in
November.The
plan is the ultimate manifestation of left-wing hatred for George W.
Bush rooted in the contentious election of 2000. Since failing to
defeat Bush in 2004, the Left has focused its efforts on destroying his
presidency by assembling a list of charges aimed at impeaching him.
Impeachment plans began seriously coalescing in 2005, after the NY Times
published classified aspects of the NSA surveillance program. In mid-
December of that year, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, asked a group of
presidential scholars whether President George W. Bush had committed an
impeachable offense when he authorized the NSA foreign surveillance
program. John Dean, the long-time Bush critic of Watergate fame
provided Boxer with the answer she and most other Democrats were
looking for: “Bush is the first president to admit an impeachable
offense,” he said.
Around the same time, Senator John Kerry, D-MA, told a gathering of 100 Democrats
that, should they capture the House in 2006, there would be a “solid
case” for impeachment based on President Bush’s “misleading” the
American public over prewar intelligence. Kerry was picking up where
another prominent Democrat had, on November 1, 2005, left off. On that
day, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid called a rare closed Senate sessionwith other Democrats to look into the “misinformation and
disinformation” used by the Bush administration to justify Operation
Iraqi Freedom.
Boxer
and Kerry weren’t the only prominent Democrats discussing the
possibility of impeachment during 2005. Such matters were also being
discussed by Diane Feinstein, Carl Levin and Ron Wyden, who, along with
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and left-leaning Republicans Chuck
Hagel and Olympia Snowe, called for both Senate Intelligence and
Judiciary Committee investigations into the NSA wiretaps. And on
December 20, 2005, Rep. John Lewis, D-GA, underscored those calls, saying:
I
look forward to further inquiry in the House and Senate on these
matters. The American people deserve the truth. We must gather the
facts and determine once and for all whether the law was violated.
There is no question that the U.S. Congress has impeached presidents
for lesser offenses.
More recently, Rep. Brad Miller, D-GA, said,
“The Democrats on the House Science Committee are collecting stories of
the intimidation or censoring of scientists. We’re building a case for
hearings by the Committee, which may be unrealistic to expect under the
current majority, or to be ready for hearings next year if Democrats gain the majority in November.”
[Emphasis added.] Miller was making that threat in relation to
accusations by leftists and Democrats that Bush was silencing those
concerned about global warming.
And then there are the constant calls by congressional Democrats, led by Senator Carl Levin,
D-MI, to investigate the treatment of terrorist prisoners held by the
U.S. at Guantanamo Bay and other locations. But most telling of all was
Senator Harry Reid’s November 2005 attempt to begin the “Phase II“
investigation into the Bush administration’s use of intelligence in the
run-up to the Iraq War. Reid said Congress must subpoena administration
officials and documents in order to determine how Bush built his case
for war.
To
some observers, the Democrats’ endless calls for investigations might
appear to be simply a dead-end continuation of the 2000 election –
heavy on anti-Bush vitriol and posturing, light on concrete action. And
such observers might have been right, if not for the fact that a bill, H.R.635, aimed at investigating articles of impeachment, was submitted to Congress on Dec.18, 2005. The submission of that bill by John Conyers Jr. was, first and foremost, a legislative victory for the radical Left and its sugar daddy, Shadow Partyleader George Soros, who for all practical purposes guides the
anti-U.S., terrorist-sympathizing agendas of the Democratic Party by
funding groups that push far-Left candidates and threaten the careers of existing Democratic Party members who do not tow the radical Left line.
Or maybe the administration deserves to be impeached. That’s another possibility.
Wish it were true!
But let’s get that discussion really going only once Congress is won.
wish it were true, too
minor grammar correction:
re: Tow the Line…
Toe the mark – at parade, sailors and soldiers were required to stand in line, their toes in line with a seam of the deck.
http://www.biography.ms/Glossary_of_nautical_terms.html
damned homophones, anyway
Don’t count on Dems. It’s up to us to make it true.
Okay, I think I just saw the greatest play in baseball history.
“The plan is the ultimate manifestation of left-wing hatred for George W. Bush rooted in the contentious election of 2000.”
lol. Hating on George Bush is SOOOOOO pre-9/11 thinking.
Thank you for posting the winning entry in this year’s “How Many Right-Wing Talking Points Can We String Together In One Article?” contest.
There’s a drinking game in there someplace, I just know it.
…. I lost it at “shadow party leader George Soros…”
Sigh. It would be far easier to dismiss this kind of thinking if it was just a radical right fringe… there will ALWAYS be radical fringes, on all sides, who are very far out of touch with reality or reason.
Unfortunately, this kind of diatribe has become far too widespread and accepted, in part simply because it’s been parroted far and wide, when no challenge has been forthcoming (or permitted on the air). Presented not only in the rantings of talk radio hosts like Limbaugh (who, even if I were philosphically bent towards being conservative, sets off my idiot warning alarms)…. but also in a far saner, more “professional” and credible-sounding way by FOX news, by paid journalist shills, official Republican spokespersons, and of course, the White House itself.
Just as I find it hard to take seriously the notion that approximately half the entire frickin’ country, and thus just less than half the Congress, who are in strong disagreement with this Administration’s policies on so many levels, must really hate America and be pro-terrorist… (I mean, REALLY. Half the COUNTRY?!!? How can anyone take that even remotely seriously??)
But we also have to think about how to deal with the half of the country… or third, or quarter, or whatever the real percentage is… that actually truly believes the claptrap they’ve been inundated with over the past… oh, decade or more… about the evils of the other half. Because they ARE half the country (or whatever)… if not half, then at least a huge chunk of the population. And the vast majority of them are decent people…. who sincerely believe a pack of lies.
Whatever happens in the next two years, and in 2008’s election, we need to UNITE this country again, as much as is possible. And I think it is possible… as diverse as this country is, there are still a LOT of things we all have in common, and can agree on. But it’s going to take work, and patience. You can’t just convince them by telling them, even a hundred times. They need to SEE it, they need to figure it out for themselves, based on what they see and experience. Put the truth out there, and let them challenge it, poke it, compare what they see to what they think they know… eventually, the truth will prevail, at least for most of them…
And so, any investigations and/or impeachment proceedings (if we can manage that at all), must be as open and transparent as possible. We must put the welfare of the people and the nation first above all, and work at listening to the concerns of those who didn’t vote for Democrats as well as those who did. We need to be the uniters… leave the dividing for those who’ve already done almost too good a job already. There will always be disagreements and clashes of priorities… but there have to be ways to prevent disagreements from becoming all there is, to fester until the tide of politics starts turning the other way again.
Whatever happens in the next two years, and in 2008’s election, we need to UNITE this country again, as much as is possible.
JanetT, it would be nice. But that’s not going to happen, not any time soon, maybe not in our lifetimes.
Already there have been an avalanche of editorials telling the Democrats that their job is to “raise the level of political discourse and end partisan backbiting.” Bollocks. That’s what they always say when they want Democrats to sit in the corner and shut up. That’s what they say every time Democrats disagree with administration.
We’ve been taking their vitriol for far too long. It’s time for more partisanship, not less. It’s time for progressives and patriots to stand up and say the truth. If that pisses off the republicans, hand them a box of tissues. I’ve had enough, and I’m not interested in trying to get these small-minded, bigoted, violent people to come to my table.
It’s time for Republicans to realize that their ideas don’t work, that divisiveness and lies don’t bring people together, that constant war isn’t the same thing as governing. When they come to that conclusion, I’m more than happy to discuss the state of the nation with them. Until then, forget it.