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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 07:38 PM
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Note to Republicans: impeach Bush
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24691

Note to Republicans: impeach Bush
Submitted by davidswanson on Sun, 2007-07-15 00:16. Impeachment

By Jonathan David Morris, Renew America

It's great to see so many Republicans jumping off the George W. Bush bandwagon. Now that it's considered political suicide for the GOP to support its own president, maybe we'll finally have a party in Washington with the guts to impeach him.

I don't care how crazy or drastic you think this sounds. I don't care if it makes you cringe. There's nothing extremist about it. The Constitution gives us a way of holding these guys accountable for a reason. In the late 1990s, we spent a whole year talking about Bill Clinton's penis. If we could impeach Bill Clinton for not having sex with that woman, Monica Lewinsky, then impeaching George Bush should be the simplest, most straightforward decision we've ever made.

There are people who will tell you impeachment is "not what this country needs right now." I disagree. I think it's exactly what this country needs right now — while there's still time to fire this president. If this were about his last 18 months in office, I'd say it wasn't worth it. But it's about something more than that. It's about making sure no one ever tries to duplicate what he did in his first six and a half years.

The Bush Doctrine took us into Iraq under the premise that we should deal with grave and gathering threats before they strike us. By that very same logic, if we don't impeach Bush, we'll be telling future presidents it's okay to be even worse than him.

If we don't impeach Bush, we'll be telling future presidents to use torture, hold people without trial, and break international treaties.

If we don't impeach Bush, we'll be telling future presidents to start whatever domestic surveillance programs they desire, and get us into whatever wars they feel like getting us into.

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If you're a Republican, do your party a favor — do all of us a favor — and lead the charge for impeaching this president. We don't know who, and we don't know when, but we know there will be someone worse if we don't.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 07:39 PM
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1. K&R
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ben_meyers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 07:41 PM
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2. Fat chance
Call a Repub and demand impeachment. Do you think that they don't read their own polls? Look closer at the poll everybody is so excited about,
http://americanresearchgroup.com /

Question:
Do you favor or oppose the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush?

7/5/07 Favor Oppose Undecided

All Adults 45% 46% 9%
Voters 46% 44% 10%

Democrats (38%) 69% 22% 9%
Republicans (29%) 13% 86% 1%
Independents (33%) 50% 30% 20%

3/15/06 42% 49% 9%

Based on 1,100 completed telephone interviews among a random sample of adults nationwide July 3-5, 2007. The theoretical margin of error is plus or minus 3 percentage points, 95% of the time. Of the total sample, 933 interviews were completed among registered voters.


Only 13% OF THE REPUBS WERE IN FAVOR!
The whole poll was weighted in favor of the Dems!
It would make more sense to call the Independents, at least they agree 50%.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 07:42 PM
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3. Bush doesn't care any more for the congressional Reps than he does for the country.
In fact, if they are in Congress they are his enemies--and they don't even know it.

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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 07:48 PM
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4. If the rethugs woke up and smelled the roses, perhaps they'd
do something about that.
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Poiuyt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-14-07 10:30 PM
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5. We need to enact the Bush Doctrine to pre-emtively prevent future Fascist presidents
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