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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:32 PM Original message |
Why did Pelosi not want to impeach Bush? Why was she so adamant that |
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katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. Maybe she was psychic, knew Obama would be elected and insist on looking forward not back |
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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. Because... |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Yes, I wonder why so many don't realize that it would have been a total waste of time. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:05 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Yep. It would have been seen as completely political and would have hurt Dems. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
3. Maybe because Congress was complicit - never cutting the funding... |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Congress still is complicit. We're still warring on innocent people, |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Absolutely. nt |
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G_j (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:06 PM Response to Reply #7 |
18. many knew of the torture also, |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #7 |
21. The Leaders of a nation |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:11 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. At this point, government is a racket. n/t |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:00 PM Response to Reply #27 |
45. Good one. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:40 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. They're undoing the revolution. Before then, the East India Co. |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 03:41 PM Response to Reply #46 |
51. Yes, I think that's |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
28. yep. cannot impeach or investigate war crimes when you are doing them also |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:05 PM Response to Reply #3 |
17. And maybe because it would have been POINTLESS. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. How did that hurt the Republicans? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Clinton's popularity went UP after the Republicans went after him and then failed to convict. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #22 |
29. It backfired so completely that they kept their majority and took the White House. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:17 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. They took the WH because of election fraud in Florida and a corrupt SCOTUS. n/t |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:28 PM Response to Reply #31 |
36. One of the things the impeachment accomplished was a rift between Clinton and Gore. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:49 PM Response to Reply #36 |
41. The impeachment didn't accomplish that; Clinton, through his actions, did. n/t |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:53 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. Well, given that impeachment forced Al Gore into public statement |
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spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:10 PM Response to Reply #3 |
25. You nailed it |
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virgogal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
4. Maybe they were having an affair. :-) |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
5. It's a club. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Why doesn't EVERYBODY understand this? How hard is this |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:07 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Why doesn't everybody understand that an impeachment would have been toothless |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:11 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Because "everybody" doesn't define success as narrowly as you are. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. I think it would have cheapened the act of impeachment to have two Presidents |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:27 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. Filibustering seems similar. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. Bush was a criminal and so was his administration |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 03:08 PM Response to Reply #14 |
50. I've learned to look at my elected officals in a far different way in the last year. |
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Individualist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:53 PM Response to Reply #5 |
48. Correct answer. |
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Ysabel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
9. there was no money in it ? shrug / i dunno... |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
10. There was dirt on her hands that she didn't want publicized. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:04 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. You have no evidence that's her reason. But there is plenty of evidence |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
11. Why impeach -- indict -- him when he'd just laugh it off? Two-thirds of the Senate |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
12. She had nowhere near the votes and knew it would make the Dems look petty. nt |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
15. Her family would |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
23. Simple, it would have politically hurt the Democrats. |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:18 PM Response to Reply #23 |
32. +1 |
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ecstatic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #23 |
52. Yes. And she didn't have the votes nt |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:09 PM Response to Original message |
24. Why would she WANT to impeach him? Knowing that 2/3 of the Senate would never convict? n/t |
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NotGivingUp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
33. Because Pelosi and Co. were in favor of what Bush had accomplished. |
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branders seine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
34. "Justice" does not apply to the ruling elite, |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:31 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. +1 |
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Qutzupalotl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:37 PM Response to Original message |
39. Before 2008, if they convicted and removed both Bush and Cheney, |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
40. She remembered what happened to Neut when he failed to make his impeachment stick...n/t |
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WeDidIt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
42. Because of what timpeachment of Clinton did to the Republicans long term |
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GreenTea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
44. Pelosi's job & goal should of been to win back as many seats for a larger Dem majority in congress |
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TheKentuckian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
47. I've generally figured that leadership saw it as a failure from the jump |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
49. It would have been divisive and hurt all the unity we're experiencing now. |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 03:53 PM Response to Original message |
53. Pelosi took Impeachment off the table so that Obama & Clinton could run for office |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 03:55 PM Response to Original message |
54. Give it a rest |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-19-10 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
55. There's probably a worry about *every* president from now on being impeached on some pretense |
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