Recent Polls - Congress 2008

Expect to see the Democrats losing more seats than they gain in 2008.

One part of the problem as I see it, is the existing system of Congressional seniority that is in play here, and which significantly undermines the majority opinion of Americans to impeach and to get the hell out of Iraq.

In effect, we're being told by Congressional "leaders" what's important and what's not. That they know what's best for us better than we do. That to impeach Bush/Cheney would divert attention away from "more important matters." And that to "abandon" Iraq would create a level of Middle East instability that Americans would later regret. Particularly the threat that would be made against a continuous supply of oil. And the electorate in the various Congressional districts are hard pressed to vote against their own reps for fear of losing out on the influence, clout and control that is availed to those in power through their committee assignments, if they're forced to start all over again with a newbie. And the incumbents play that song for all its worth.

As to the impeachment diversion, I would think that if America could hold an election during a civil war, we can probably impeach a President and a Vice-President while conducting an illegal war in another country. And while there is certainly truth to the instability question if we leave Iraq, the Middle East has been unstable since Harry Truman recognized the state of Israel in 1948. To me it seems to be more a matter of degree of instability which fluctuates somewhere between terrible and absolutely abhorrent.

Its the paradigm that needs changing. Because we should have been moving in the direction of energy independence since the first oil embargo in the early 70s. The handwriting was on the wall -- and we ignored the message. No one thought in the early 70s that those backward little sheikdoms would ever pose a serious threat to the "greatest nation on earth." Congress didn't want to deal with those realities then either. Just like we aren't now. Yet by refusing to change the paradigm of how and where we get our energy, we tie ourselves to those who possess it and become beholden to whatever issues that are important to them. And the more we divide people by our policies and actions the more they resent us. Its a descending spiral that can only end badly for everyone. IMHO

DeSwiss -