Post by g***@comcast.netOn Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:12:09 -0700, "owl"
Post by owlYou should hold the GOP accountable for this war of choice in Iraq that has
been, and continues to reach new levels of complete failure.
The US is weakened in our Credability, and Military strategic status due to
this waste of our military resources.
This Administration is so incompetent, they couldn't even get the execution
of Saddam correct. They couldn't even get bad guy + nuse + gravity right.
The footage gathered on A US base couldn't have been a better recruiting
tool for anti-american terrorism. We looked like thugs in that footage.
It was a display of behavior on a US controled base, Unbecoming of an
officer, unbecoming of an American. I don't want an administration who
allows this to represent America.
The Danes are withdrawing all their troops, all 460 of them. The
Brits are pulling out 1600 by summer and Italy has announced it also
plans a full withdrawal this year.
Meanwhile, the Commander in Chief wants to send more. It's like
pouring fresh water into a poisoned well.
Swill
yep.
How about an impeachment or two?
March 27, 2007
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While the people saved Clinton - by signaling to their representatives
that they opposed sanctioning a president's personal morals - it does
not appear that they are inclined to protect Bush.
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(The Nation) This column was written by John Nichols. Former Republican
Congressman Joe Scarborough had me on his MSNBC show Monday night to
talk about impeachment.
It was smart, civil discussion that treated the prospect of impeaching
the president as a serious matter.
Scarborough took the lead in suggesting that Bush's biggest problem
might be that Republicans in the House and Senate who -- fearful of the
threat Bush poses to their political survival -- do not appear to be
rallying 'round the president. The host's sentiments were echoed by two
other guests, columnist Mike Barnicle and Salon's Joan Walsh.
The impetus for the show was Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel's ongoing
discussion of the impeachment prospect -- Hagel's not quite a supporter
of sanctioning Bush, more a speculator about the prospect -- and a new
column by Robert Novak that suggests Bush has dwindling support within
the congressional wing of the GOP.
Speaking about impeachment on ABC's "This Week," Hagel said, "Any
president who says 'I don't care' or 'I will not respond to what the
people of this country are saying about Iraq or anything else' or 'I
don't care what the Congress does, I am going to proceed' -- if a
president really believes that, then there (are) ways to deal with that."
Novak wrote "The I-word (incompetence) is used by Republicans in
describing the Bush administration generally. Several of them I talked
to described a trifecta of incompetence: the Walter Reed hospital
scandal, the FBI's misuse of the Patriot Act and the U.S. attorneys
firing fiasco. 'We always have claimed that we were the party of better
management,' one House leader told me. 'How can we claim that anymore?'"
Scarborough drew the two statements together for the purpose of asking
whether Bush could count on Republicans to block moves by Congressional
Democrats to hold Bush to account for high crimes and misdemeanors.
When a conservative commentator who was on the frontlines of Newt
Gingrich's "Republican revolution" entertains a thoughtful conversation
about the politics and processes of impeachment on a major cable news
network, it should be clear that the cloistered conversation about
sanctioning this president has begun to open up.
No, Scarborough is not jumping on the impeachment bandwagon.
He is simply treating the prospect seriously, as did CNN's Wolf Blitzer
earlier in the day.
What I told Scarborough is what I have been saying in public forums for
the past several weeks: We are nearing an impeachment moment. The
Alberto Gonzales scandal, the under-covered but very real controversy
involving abuses of the Patriot Act and the president's increasingly
belligerent refusals to treat Congress as a co-equal branch of
government are putting the discussion of presidential accountability
onto the table from which House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has tried to remove
it.
Does this mean Bush and Cheney will be impeached? That, of course, will
be decided by the people. Impeachment at its best is always an organic
process; it needs popular support or it fizzles -- as with the attempt by
House Republican leaders to remove former President Clinton in a process
that, fairly or not, seemed to be all about blue dresses.
While the people saved Clinton -- by signaling to their representatives
that they opposed sanctioning a president's personal morals -- it does
not appear that they are inclined to protect Bush.
With each new revelation about what Gonzales did at the behest of the
Bush White House to politicize prosecutions by U.S. Attorneys, the
revulsion with the way this president has disregarded the Constitution
and the rule of law becomes more intense. And citizens are not cutting
their president much slack.
A new USA Today/Gallup Poll -- conducted over the weekend -- shows that,
by close to a 3-to-1 margin, Americans want Congress to issue subpoenas
to force White House officials to testify in the Gonzales case.
Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed say the president should drop his
claim of executive privilege in this matter, while only 26 percent agree
with the reasoning Bush has used to try and block a meaningful inquiry.
If the president wants to get in a fight with Congress over how to read
the Constitution, it appears that the people will back Congress. And
that backing is what will begin to restore the backbones of House
members who, despite Pelosi's attempts to quiet talk of impeachment, are
getting more and more intrigued by the prospect of holding this
president to account.
As Hagel says, "This is not a monarchy. There are ways to deal with
(executive excess). And I would hope the president understands that."
If Bush doesn't recognize this reality now, he soon will.
By John Nichols
Reprinted with permission from the The Nation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/27/opinion/main2612221.shtml
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