Democratic Underground Latest Greatest Lobby Journals Search Options Help Login
Google

What's With Ed Schultz Talking About Repugs Pushing Impeachment Of Obama.....

Printer-friendly format Printer-friendly format
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend
Printer-friendly format Bookmark this thread		 This topic is archived.
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU
 
global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:27 PM
Original message
What's With Ed Schultz Talking About Repugs Pushing Impeachment Of Obama.....
Why even give this any credence? Him talking about it - in my opinion - gives it legs.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:28 PM
Response to Original message
1. No point hiding from the truth. It's coming - we need to be ready...
The other side won't take it off the table.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:29 PM
Response to Reply #1
2. It will depend on how many turncoats we have in the Senate.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:38 PM
Response to Reply #2
19. It's the House that votes on articles of impeachment...the Senate has a trial on the charges...
it originates in the house and essentially the Senate can't do anything except hold the trial if the house acts.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:57 PM
Response to Reply #19
32. I know that.
We no longer control the house. Between the repugs and the blue dogs...
The Senate is where it stops. We need our own Treason trials to put an end to this foolishness. Rush, beck, etc.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:29 PM
Response to Original message
3. Uh, because that's what they've said they'd do?
Issa can't wait to start the investigations. Ed's just stating the obvious.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:32 PM
Response to Reply #3
13. Exactly. the one thing the ReBPugs do is make good on threats. nt
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:33 PM
Response to Reply #3
14. Under What Grounds Could They Even Suggest Impeaching Obama?.....
There is nothing of substance there to impeach Obama on. I'm sure that they'll make things up - but to talk about the prospect - just gives them the moxie to go ahead and do it.

Instead - if Ed or anyone else wants to talk about impeachment - it should be spoken about how silly and partisan the Repugs will look if they even bring of the prospect of impeachment. It should be spoken about in a way that dissuades Repugs from even thinking about trying to do.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:39 PM
Response to Reply #14
22. we don't need no stinkin' grounds...
trust me, quite a few of the numnuts will introduce articles of impeachment pretty damn soon...totally bogus articles, but they're gonna do it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
dgibby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #14
27. They think the the WH offered Sestak a job to keep him from
running. They also think that's an impeachable offense.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DearAbby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:47 PM
Response to Reply #14
28. Two years of BIRTHERGATE
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 01:49 PM by DearAbby
while people are losing their homes and unemployed will make the GOP ripe for picking 2012. The GOP have two choices, they can compromise and get things done to move this country forward, and lose their base. Or they can stoop to that level, have their witch hunt.

The mantle is on them to produce. They saddled up this pig, now they have to ride it, just how?

Investigations and ignoring the pain and plight of the people, or compromise and lose their base. KARMA Baybee
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:29 PM
Response to Original message
4. Because he wants it to happen
.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:34 PM
Response to Reply #4
15. Not. He's calling out rwangers like Bachman about things they ran on
It's not so much that he wants to see impeachments and hearings into UnAmericanism as he wants to demonstrate to his followers that all these wild ass assertions by the crazy candidates were just wild ass assertions.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:34 PM
Response to Reply #4
16. That's crap. Ed wanted Obama to FIGHT the other side...
If he had, he - and we - wouldn't be in this situation.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:29 PM
Response to Original message
5. It will probably happen. The POTUS will soon found out why
it was an unwise decision to give the Bush/Cheney crime family a free pass. If the newly ballsed up Republicans in the House hear Obama has lint in his navel, they'll demand hearings. We'll be looking back on the Clinton/Lewinsky years as the good old days.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
SargeUNN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:29 PM
Response to Original message
6. not really
They have said as much and now it is just a matter of if they decide to do it. I wouldn't be surprised if they do but then they might decide they have already shown the "liberal" Obama who rules this nation. Don't think they will try if Obama fights them too much.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:30 PM
Response to Original message
7. TPM has "The GOP Plan To Investigate Obama: The First Four Potential Investigations"
1. New Black Panther Party
2. Joe Sestak's Job Offer
3. ACORN's Offspring
4. BP Oil Spill

It's a good read: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/the_gop_plan_to_investigate_obama_the_first_four_potential_investigations.php?ref=fpa
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
global1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:38 PM
Response to Reply #7
21. And These Represent The Potential To Impeach Obama? ......
Come on now!!! There is no there - there. And putting this out there to suggest that there is - just gives the Repugs the foolish guts to go ahead and go through with this.

Instead we should be putting out there all sorts of reasons that cause the Repugs to think twice about this - starting with the fact that the American people will see right through this as a partisan stunt. It will backfire on the Repugs and just boost the popularity of Obama in the eyes of the people.

Maybe this is why Shultz is talking about this. Could he be luring them into a trap to shoot themselves in the foot.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Azathoth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:30 PM
Response to Original message
8. Schultz is the liberal equivalent of right-wing radio
He's nothing but ranting and partisan provocation.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
glinda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:32 PM
Response to Reply #8
12. So your point is? Repugs have 20 and we have one? Ed is dead on actually.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Azathoth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:38 PM
Response to Reply #12
18. My point is that he's churning the waters because that's all he does
Harping about impeachment is just designed to rile people who already are pissed off and demoralized; this is exactly the kind of shit Jon Stewart was rallying against.

Right now there are no serious signs of impeachment, just teabagger fantasy. When there are, then we can all get emotionally worked up over it.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
gort Donating Member (567 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 02:47 PM
Response to Reply #8
31. That is total bullshit
The right wing radiots are liars. Ed may be loud but he is telling the truth.


Your rhetoric and that of John Stewart saying both sides are guilty reminds me of a quote:

Those who will not choose sides sit on tall fences, look down their noses and are above it all

Jon Stewart is sitting on a really tall fence because he's acting all high and mighty.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:30 PM
Response to Original message
9. Meh, let him. Let their Teabagger faction get all hot and bothered,
then force Boehner and Co. closer to that cliff.

As much as they may actually want to, and as craven as they are, a few of the more sane Rs have to know that as freaked out as people are about jobs and the economy, it well might be political suicide this time around to waste everyone's time on impeachment proceedings.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
T Wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:55 PM
Response to Reply #9
30. I agree CakeGrrl. If the topic can be kept in the news, the baggers will eventually notice
that their rethug HoR is not delivering. They will shift their anger toward them, hopefully.

If it fades from air and memory, it will disappear as something that actually happened like the Rand Paul curbstomp.

Our inability to have any input into the media is the main thing killing the Democratic Party.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
kjackson227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:31 PM
Response to Original message
10. Yep, the writing is on the wall. Impeaching President Obama...
and repealing HCR will be their main objectives.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:31 PM
Original message
Because Darell Issa promised it
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:40 PM
Response to Original message
23. We need some ethics investigations of Issa.
Actually, we need to push criminal investigations of the old car thief.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:45 PM
Response to Reply #23
26. No argument from me, but good luck on that
his district is so vermillion red it ain't funny. That is part of the problem actually.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
arbusto_baboso Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:49 PM
Response to Reply #26
29. Well, it could come from CAs new Ag.
I mean, COME ON, the guy is as dirty as the day is long!
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Duke Newcombe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:31 PM
Response to Original message
11. Because it's what they will do.
Acknowledging the facts is not equivalent to lending credibility to them.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:35 PM
Response to Original message
17. Dan Burton called the press to his house
so he could shoot a watermelon to demonstrate to them that Vince Foster was murdered. These people are now back in charge of the house. Their history gives it credence.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:38 PM
Response to Original message
20. Actually we want them to try it. We want to let them show that their agenda
Is not America's agenda.

Fire up those committees and congressional investigations. We want them to slap Obama in the face for his attempts at bipartisanship. We want them to be unreasonable.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:42 PM
Response to Original message
24. He also said last night, in the middle of all the action, that he has
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 01:42 PM by Subdivisions
never had as much fun as he was having at that moment.

That was while he was watching Democrats go down.

Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 01:43 PM
Response to Original message
25. Hey our leaders aren't just yellow, they're ORANGE! Conservative Cowards indeed.
They won't face the real problems.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Gaedel Donating Member (802 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:04 PM
Response to Original message
33. No way
Even the GOP isn't that dumb. They would just embarrass themselves like they did with Clinton.

Yes, they will investigate up a storm.

I think they will want to embarrass Obama (and weaken him) by picking off members of his team.

Look for Holder to be the first coming out of the NBP voter intimidation incident.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
Pab Sungenis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:25 PM
Response to Original message
34. Ed Schultz is a registered Republican.
He only switched to "progressive" talk because it was easier to get ahead in a smaller field, and he could tell that the political winds were shifting towards the Progressives. Now that it looks like they might shift back the real Ed shows through.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
upi402 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 03:30 PM
Response to Reply #34
35. He WAS a Republican
Edited on Wed Nov-03-10 03:31 PM by upi402
Cenk was too. Glad they saw the light, wish more would!

Is it a hush-hush "eyes only" secret that Repukes love grabbing power away from Clinton Republican appeasers? NO.
So discuss the elephant in the living room.
Printer Friendly | Permalink |  | Top
 
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed May 01st 2024, 02:24 PM
Response to Original message
Advertisements [?]
 Top

Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) Donate to DU

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.

Home  |  Discussion Forums  |  Journals |  Store  |  Donate

About DU  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy Policy

Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.

© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC