The I word.

[Fenian_Bastard]

Conservative website. Not going to happen but, damn....
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/MattTowery/2007/05/08/bush-cheney_impeachment_might_be_idle_talk,_but_numbers_show_true_trouble

These numbers floor me. I'd have guessed 25 percent. Maybe.

 

[RokSki]

Expect more conservative sites to offer more such polls as they try to remove the Bush Anchor from the party's collective neck before the next major election

 

[zagoshe]

Expect more conservative sites to offer more such polls as they try to remove the Bush Anchor from the party's collective neck before the next major election

You took the words right out of my mouth -- this is clearly another part of that vast right wing conspiracy that exists out there....

 

[leo1]

first step: impeachment
next step: try 'em (and rummy, rove, wolfy and rice) for war crimes

 

[markvid]

I thought another Imus thread

 

[Football_Bat]

The House Judiciary Committee took up Nixon's impeachment on May 9, 1974. By August 9, Nixon was gone.

So it's not too late to start. But we need a two-fer.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

What's amazing to me is that, if what the majority of the country now believes is correct (that Bush lied to take us to a war he had planned all along), the number favoring impeachment is that small.
Think about it -- Clinton was impeached for getting blow jobs and being sneaky in the way he answered questions (we can argue about whether he lied or simply didn't tell the whole truth).
Bush is guilty for thousands of deaths for absolutely no honest reason.
You tell me which is worse.

 

[jimmymcd]

Every president from this day forward will be threatened with impeachment. It will never end. Go ahead, whatever.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

Every president from this day forward will be threatened with impeachment. It will never end. Go ahead, whatever.

Maybe, but who is to blame for that?

 

[jimmymcd]

Who is to blame? More like "what" is to blame.
I firmly believe that if the internet had been around when FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, whoever, was president, there would have been calls for impeachment.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

I blame the witch hunters who went after Clinton for no (honest) reason.
They just couldn't stand the man, so they tried to find any reason to get him out of office.
Remember that Starr was supposed to be looking into Whitewater. That word wasn't even mentioned in his report.
So after Bush's buddies did their garbage, now Bush has to take the heat in a society that remembers that impeachment is an option.

 

[jimmymcd]

Of course you do. Wouldn't have expected anything different from you. Believe what you want.

 

[ADifferentOkie]

Of course you do. Wouldn't have expected anything different from you. Believe what you want.

I suppose I will.
But I'll also point out that there is a difference between calls for impeachment and actually doing it.
That, to me, says a lot about the difference between the parties.
Republicans will go after Clinton because they hate him.
Democrats won't go after Bush even when they believe he lied us into war.
Both made huge mistakes in how they have handled the situations.

 

[jimmymcd]

I wish the Dems had the cojones to actually cut off all funding for the war effort and file articles of impeachment. Get it over with already, or STFU about it, Congress. You got your mandate last November, now do something.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I wish the Dems had the cojones to actually cut off all funding for the war effort and file articles of impeachment. Get it over with already, or STFU about it, Congress. You got your mandate last November, now do something.

I wish I could disagree with that last sentence, but I can't.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON | People think that the Democratic-led Congress is doing just as dreary a job as President Bush, following four months of standoffs and little progress on Iraq and many domestic issues.

An AP-Ipsos poll also found that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, is a more popular figure than the president and her colleagues on Capitol Hill, although she faces a gender gap in which significantly more women than men support her.

The survey found that only 35 percent approve of how Congress is handling its job, down 5 percentage points in a month. This gives lawmakers the same bleak approval rating as Bush, who has been mired at about that level since last fall, including his dip to a record low for the AP-Ipsos poll of 32 percent in January.

“It’s mostly Iraq” plus a lack of progress in other areas, said Rep. Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican, who heads the House GOP’s campaign committee. “These are not good numbers for an incumbent, and it doesn’t matter if you have an ‘R’ or a ‘D’ next to your name.”

Rising gasoline prices could also be a factor, lawmakers said.

In another measure of popular discontent, the survey found that 71 percent say the country is on the wrong track — about even with the 73 percent who said so last May, the worst level since the AP-Ipsos poll began in December 2003.

The sad thing is, even with those numbers, there's no chance in hell of a viable third party for a long, long time.

 

[User 1019]

$100 says it'll never happen.

 

[jimmymcd]

Your money is very safe, 3BF. The 535 people in that big building are more worried about whoring themselves out to lobbyists and media to worry about doing what they say they will do.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

jimmymc --
And if they defunded the war tomorrow -- which they need at least 20 Republicans to do, by the way -- what would you post on the topic?

 

[User 1019]

We've seen the Democrats' stomach to fight this thing ... and I wasn't very impressed.

They sent a bill they knew he'd veto, just so they can put they're hands on their collective hips and say, "Well, we tried, but the Big, Bad Boogeyman is playing politics."

*Boy, I wish that was a more coherent statement.*