Here it comes…
How will you spend your summer?
April 28th – Delawareans for Impeachment will be spelling out the word IMPEACH on large posters and basically making a ruckus on the sidewalk next to the highway. Across from the entrance to the Concord Mall (Boscov’s end). Concord Pike (Route 202), north of Wilmington. 12:15 PM to 1:30 PM. Contact danyre@verizon.net.
UPDATE: Joe M at Merit Bound Alley reports that Bush caved to Wiccans and will now allow Wiccans who die in the service of the country to have the Wiccan Pentagram carved on their military headstone.
Bush’s last remaining supporters to flee in 5, 4, 3, 2….
any bloggers going to be there? that is right up the street from me, man maybe I could do a post on some of the protesters!?
I am starting a new group, on this front :
Nixons for Impeachment.
My family is in, but we the group will be accepting honorary members too.
I need some questions to ask these people so I can report back on Del liberal this weekend. Give me some ideas people.
I’d ask the Booze Journal for tips but (insert joke here:) _________________________________
If you had to choose, who would you rather impeach, Bush or Cheney?
Ideally Bush would be impeached as part of a deal where Cheney resigns and is replaced by a caretaker VP. Maybe Bob Dole still has a shot at being President.
Note: The key to a Cheney resignation is to first indict him on something, and then let him off the hook if he resigns. Congress is doing exactly the right thing by starting with the little guys, then following the leads to Cheney.
Bush and Cheney should go down together, but Cheney would have to go first for obvious reasons.
One would think if you can actually get enough support to remove Cheney, Bush’s ouster would be a foregone conclusion. However, the “political capital” expenses of booting Cheney could end up saving Bush in the end.
We are getting way ahead of ourselves in wishful thinking here. But at the rate these bastards are sinking, while brazenly flipping off pretty much most of the country, they may be laying the perfect conditions for their own legal and political annihilation.
Here is, literally, a blast from the past :
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-mcgovern24apr24,1,4495915.story?coll=la-news-comment
Incidentally, neither Bush nor Cheney will EVER resign. To think so is to ignore the utter megalomania of these two.
Great quote from the above link :
On a more serious note, instead of listening to the foolishness of the neoconservative ideologues, the Cheney-Bush team might better heed the words of a real conservative, Edmund Burke: “A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.”
Why would Cheney step aside for a Bob Dole type? Two words: President Pelosi.
Huh? What? Oh sorry, I was waiting to hear that the Dems will ask for Harry Reid to resign from his leadership post following his declaration of surrender to al Quaeda, Iran, Mookie al Sadr, and anyone else he can think of. I mean, if they can pillory Delay for saying nice things about Strom Thurmond, you’d think somebody would be upset by treason.
Kucinich’s Battle Against Cheney Not So (Im)Peachy Keen
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, April 25, 2007; 8:18 AM
Washington Post
“I do not stand alone,” Dennis Kucinich said as he stood, alone, in front of a cluster of microphones yesterday evening.
The Ohio congressman, a Democratic presidential candidate, was holding a news conference outside the Capitol to announce that he had just filed articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney. But subsequent questioning quickly revealed that Kucinich had not yet persuaded any of his 434 colleagues to be a cosponsor, that he had not even discussed the matter with House Democratic leaders, and that he had not raised the subject with the Judiciary Committee.
Kucinich did have one thing: a copy of the Declaration of Independence. And he was not afraid to read it. “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” the aspiring impeachment manager read at the start of his news conference. He continued all the way through the bit about the right of the people to abolish the government.
“These words from the Declaration of Independence are instructive at this moment,” he said.
A reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer encouraged USS Kucinich to contact planet Earth. “But Nancy Pelosi says this is not going anywhere,” she pointed out.
“Have you talked to her today?” Kucinich shot back.
“Yes, I did,” she replied.
Kucinich had not expected that answer. “Then I would say I have not talked to her,” he acknowledged.
It was not an auspicious beginning for the impeachment of Richard B. Cheney.
Kucinich had called his news conference for noon on the terrace of the Cannon building. But minutes before the event, his office sent out a statement: “News reports this morning indicate the Vice President was experiencing a medical crisis. Until the vice president’s condition is clarified, I am placing any action on hold.”
This was odd, because the vice president’s spokeswoman had already announced that Cheney had merely gone to a doctor’s office to check on a blood clot in his leg, which is improving. Cheney himself, far from suffering a medical crisis, joined Senate Republicans for lunch at the Capitol. “The leg’s doing good,” Cheney announced after lunch, his lips in his trademark snarl. Indeed, he was feeling so well that he chose to start a new fight with congressional Democrats. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was not only “uninformed and misleading,” but also practicing “defeatism,” Cheney said. Democrats are guilty of “political calculation” and “blind opposition.”
Reid visited the same microphones minutes later to return the playground taunts: “I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9 percent approval rating.” And: “I’m not going to get into a name-calling match with the administration’s chief attack dog.”
Kucinich evidently realized there was no reason for him to get cold feet just because of Cheney’s leg. A few minutes after the Cheney-Reid showdown, the congressman arrived in the Speaker’s Lobby off the House floor, handing out news releases to any reporter he could find: “Kucinich to Move Forward with Impeachment News Conference.”
Washingtonpost.com’s Paul Kane showed the news release to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), who declined to endorse the Kucinich crusade. “He was busily engaged in handing that out,” Hoyer observed. “Beyond that, I don’t have any thought about it.”
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House Democratic caucus, was equally dismissive — “Dennis can do what he wants; I’m not going to support it” — but used the occasion to try out some Cheney material: “This is the biggest setback for the vice president since oil went under 65 bucks a barrel.”
Kucinich, however, did not find humor in the matter. Standing perhaps 5 feet 6 inches tall in shoes, he wore a solemn face as he approached the microphones, which nearly reached his eye level. He beckoned to aides, who handed out thick binders detailing the case.
Kucinich read at length from his articles of impeachment, undeterred by rush-hour traffic noise on Independence Avenue (“I’ll wait till the truck goes by here,” he said at one point) and wind that ruffled his text and the few strands of his hair that were insufficiently weighted by Brylcreem.
Tom Ferraro of Reuters asked Kucinich if any other lawmakers supported impeachment.
“Because this resolution is so weighty in its import, it’s going to be important for members of Congress to have sufficient time to study the articles,” Kucinich answered.
We’ll take that as a no. “So at this point you stand alone?” Ferraro pressed.
“I believe I stand with millions of Americans,” Kucinich parried.
Someone else asked why Kucinich targeted Cheney but not Cheney’s boss. “There’s a practical reason,” the congressman explained. “If we were to start with the president and pursue articles of impeachment, Mr. Cheney would then become president. . . . You would then have to go through the constitutional agony of impeaching two presidents consecutively.”
It was a valid point. If Kucinich is having this much trouble impeaching one vice president, imagine the difficulty impeaching two presidents.
G – If Reid is so anxious to “surrender” to aQ, then where is his call to pull out of Afghanistan?
It’s Bush who has treasonously surrendered to bin Laden by letting him run free.
bin Laden stated his plan is to bankrupt the US by drawing us into foolish and expensive conflicts. Basically bin Laden said to Bush “Pull my finger.” So who is the traitor?
Maybe bin Laden is hiding out in a cave somewhere with all of Karl Rove’s email.
Anon, Reid’s poll numbers tell him the Afghan front is still popular enough to preclude calls to withdraw, whereas Iraq is just unpopular enough for him to rail against. My analysis is that the idea of Bin Laden at large and unpunished still resonates with the American public, despite the fact that he no longer controls al Quaeda, if he’s even still alive. The catch-22 is that if we ever find the body, any residual support for fighting al Quaeda in any theater will evaporate.
Insert conspiracy theory here.
As for Rove’s magic bullet e-mail, I’d look in Sandy Berger’s socks.
G.,
You are so fucking full of shit. Your act is so played.
Perhaps we should check Wolfowitz’s socks.
You’d think Wolfie’s highly paid main squeeze could buy him a pair of socks.
What act, Mike? Are you frustrated by the fact that I refuse to jump on the Bush-hating bandwagon so I can be popular like Tyler?
No…not frustrated at all. Just fascinated that you continue to remain under the intoxication of the Kool-Aid after your boy Bush has been continually revealed for the thug he is.
You disappoint me, G. I despised Bush long before this or any blog in this state even existed. You should know that.
I supported McCain in Delaware in early 2000. I have never trusted or liked ANY of the Bushes or their politics. I have also met them personally and was most certainly not impressed otherwise.
Did you think I EVER supported this Bush’s assaults on the Constitution? his war? his banal henchmen? their Orwellian manipulations? their fear-mongering? Did you think I ever sat by silently?
Get real, G. There was no bandwagon in existence, certainly not this one to jump on, when I began railing against these people. I saw back in 2000 that this half-wit and his Machiavellian controllers would be the GOP’s undoing, for a good while, if not our country’s.
All this is why I have no fear stating my piece on a liberal blog or any other for that matter. I am happy to visit a place where others share my view about this epically pathetic scoundrel. They know I remain a Republican and I have taken plenty of heat for it. But I could give two turds about whether it makes me popular or unpopular.
Mike, I don’t think being 50-50 on GWB makes me a Kool-Aid drinker. And I’ll bet the fine people at Kraft hate how we use their brand name these days, BTW. Did you know they used to call it Fruit Smack before it was powdered? But I digress.
In a nutshell, I believe that the Iraq War was justified, and was not waged for the benefit of Halliburton and the oil industry. I also believe that the President’s goal of a unified, democratic Iraq is no longer achievable, if indeed it ever was. The troop surge to secure Baghdad is the right thing to do, and General Petraeus is the right man for the job, but it’s probably too late. Rumsfeld’s “small footprint” postwar strategy was absolutely worth a shot, but the destruction of the Golden Mosque and subsequent outbreak of sectarian violence should have triggered an end to it. I fault him for stubbornness on that point. McCain called for more boots on the ground, and it looks like he was right. I’ve been a proponent of the Balkanization of Iraq for quite some time now, perhaps even before Biden called for what he’s been calling federalization. Unification is out the window, maybe they can reunify 15 or 20 years down the road.
Tyler, maybe you never liked Bush, fair enough, but “worse than Hitler” crosses the line. Now you’re just Jim Webb.
“Now you’re just Jim Webb.”
Thanks, G. That compliment makes up for everything.
Oh, and as someone who considers myself an American patriot and constitutionalist, I care a lot more about what Bush is doing to my country today than about what Hitler did to Germany and Europe 70 years ago.
What Bush has tried to make of our nation, the same nation that destroyed Hitler and what he stood for, makes him worse than Hitler in my opinion. Hitler was certainly worse in how far he carried organized mass murder.
But aggressive imperialistic national socialists don’t always wear swastikas. The ones who wrap themselves in the American flag while destroying everything it stands for are, to me, WORSE THAN HITLER.