Castle flip/flops on Impeachment Hearings: Now Opposed
No matter what party you belong to, I think we can all agree that George Bush has committed “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” while in office that make lying about a blow job look like…well lying about a blow job.
Heck, even Bush die hard, Mike Castle thought that prospect of the President’s criminality was worth looking into a few short weeks ago.
Well, Old “both sides make sense” Castle just flipped back to the GOP party line and voted to for the ongoing executive branch cover-up.
Shocking, I know.
And oh yeah….this is day 1,675 of the News Journal not covering Mike Castle’s Bush loving record in Congress.
Going for impeachment is like admitting your balls have dried out.
Won’t be long before you start growing boobs.
Dude,
Every one of your comments contains ball, boobs, or some euphemism sperm. Get thee to a therapist.
Sensitive?
Jason began with:
No, we do not all agree to that.
This, I think, is a huge and mistaken assumption y’all make. You seem to think that because, in your judgement, President Bush has committed “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” while in office, that everybody agrees with you.
Sorry, no. Even though most Americans disapprove of President Bush’s performance in office, that does not mean that most Americans think he has committed impeachable offenses.
Gerald Ford famously said that an impeachable offense is anything a majority of the House of Representatives says it is, but y’all can’t get even that much. And the Constitution specifies that two-thirds of the Senate is required to actually remove an impeached official from office. With 49 Democrats, one socialist and one moderate independent who sides with the Democrats on most things but certainly supports President Bush on the war — which is your biggest gripe — you’d still need at least sixteen Republican senators to agree to remove President Bush from office.
Sorry, but it ain’t happening this year!
George Bush has just six months and three days left in his term. John McCain has rather lukewarm support from parts of the Republican base; y’all want to go ahead and unite Republicans like never before? Just go ahead! 🙂
How does this sound, No matter what party you belong to, with the exception of Dana, I think we can all agree that George Bush has committed “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” while in office?
Better?
The country agrees that crimes have been committed. The only question is what to do about it.
Hmmm…think grandly of yourself don’t ya?
Hmmm….think grandly of yourself, don’t ya?
censoring loser!
Jason wrote:
Really? The whole country except for little old me? Then why, if it’s really 299,999,999 to 1, haven’t y’all gotten it done?
The Democrats have a majority, all they need, in the House of Representatives, to pass Articles of Impeachment. You’d think that if it is really 299,999,999 to 1, they’d go ahead and do it, wouldn’t you?
But they haven’t, and they won’t, and you know that they won’t.
I am shocked repuke McCastle flip flopped on impeachment! I am waiting for the reports from Cap Hill as to who voted and who didn’t. This is par for the course for McCastle. Ever studied his voting record? There are times when in the am he voted no and in the afternoon voted yes. Goes to show McCastle is truly a Bush enabler, and a Party “go along to get along”. Castle has given the impression to many democrats and independents that he is a moderate, while his voting record with Bush and the GOP is at 96%.
Now I am curious who the 9 republicans who did vote for impeachment?
Dana: I couldnt disagree with you more on this one. We need impeachment, the only consitutional remedy, to assure that regardless of who becomes president, NO president will ever “act like a dictator outside the Consitution”, pre-emptively strike innocent nations, continue to steal away our constitutional/civil rights. There are already 36 articles of impeachment with 28 more waiting in the wings. Remember Nixon resigned at the threat of impeachment. Reagun should have been impeached over Iran/Contra, if we had impeached these republicans, perhaps our country would be following the rule of law, not believing they are above it. Karl Rove is giving congress the finger, refusing to testify. The Bush regime has also denied the right of a Colonel in charge of Gitmo, who wanted to expose the “innocents at Gitmo”, who wanted to testify to the inhumane treatment, the lack of military justice. What has happened at Gitmo is neither military or justice. Impeachment is the only way the Bush regime can be brought to justice as soon as they leave office.
Bush deserves the Metal of Freedom for his leadership. Only wing nuts would say he is guilty of high crimes.
This just in…Kucinch has a “foreign agent” to speak at the Hearing. Kucinch will not reveal the name of this person….its gonna get interesting.
David: what the hell is your “idea of high crimes and misdemeanors”? Have you even bothered to read the articles? Probably not, because “you are one of those party loyalists who would “stand by your party” no matter what crimes they have committed. John Stewart or Colbert referred to people who stand with Bush on his great show last night..”emotionally retarded”.
I guess “connecting the dots” was a game you never played.
No we all do not agree, only the rabid left seems to think that a President doing his job has committed impeachable offenses. Google the Iraq War resolution, it was approved by a huge majority. The Congress approved the war. If that is your impeachable offense then impeach the whole Congress.
Just because you say that all agree does not make it true. Jason you seem to have if you think it makes it true, like you ignorant opinions on guns.
only the rabid left seems to think that a President doing his job has committed impeachable offenses.
Keep telling yourself that.
Miss Allen wrote:
You know, y’all tried this message in 2004 as well, and the voters — you know, the people who have the ultimate responsibility — re-elected George Bush by a decisive margin, the first candidate to get a majority of the votes since his father did it in 1988.
How, exactly, has he “act(ed) like a dictator outside the Consitution?” For almost everything he has done, he has gotten the approval of the legislature. The invasion of Iraq? His idea, certainly, but approved by large majorities of both Houses of Congress half a year in advance.
The most you can say — reasonably, anyway — is that he has had some different interpretations of what his constititional and statutory powers are, and he has been subject to the courts and the Congress in both.
Jason, the 2004 election of George Bush told me that the country thought he was OK in starting the Iraq war. If not they could have voted him out. The 2006 election was against the Republicans in Congress.
IT is the rabid left, Code pink nuts etc. that think that a Congressional approved war is an impeachable offense for the President.
Jason wrote:
The evidence would seem to support RAH’s position. If President Bush is some great criminal, why hasn’t the Congress impeached him? Even the Democrats don’t want to do that, with the notable exception of the truly nutty ones like Dennis Kucinich.
This is the huge problem with your “logic.” If there was such a huge majority which wanted Mr Bush impeached, the Congress — a body populated by politicians — would have moved to do so. Yet Mr Kucinich’s Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Cheney went nowhere last November, and his Articles of Impeachment against President Bush are going nowhere now.
Let me make this very clear and simple, so that even a liberal can understand: come January 20, 2009, neither President Bush nor Vice President Cheney will have been impeached, period.
Rabid Left = 67% of Americans in recent polls.
It must be getting lonely at the pro-Bush side of the political spectrum.
When you 23% ers get together do you comfort each other will tales of yellow cake uranium?
No, we smile, knowing that, like Harry Truman before him, President Bush will leave office with very low approval ratings, but twenty or thirty years down the road will be regarded as having been one of our better presidents.
But we see that you’ve now put a percentage on “all,” one that seems somewhat lower than 100%. 🙂
And I’d ask a fairly serious question: for the impeachment advocates out there, do you really want Dick Cheney to become president that much?
After all, if George Bush leaves office, by impeachment, by death, by resignation, whatever, prior to January 20, 2009, the new president would be Dick Cheney! 🙂
but twenty or thirty years down the road will be regarded as having been one of our better presidents.
Here’s another serious question: Is there nothing these people will feed you that you won’t just believe? Although Truman left office unpopular, he did leave behind him a series of strong alliances and institutions and thinking that laid the foundations of the Cold war. BushCo has been busily destroying or crippling institutions and alliances and certainly leaving this country drowning in debt and constrained by a weak dollar. And, of course, the doctrine left behind is largely of the you are with us or against us variety. Unless someone can come up with some long term coherence out of what these folks have been failing at the for the last 7 years, there is no way anyone sees this guy other than the Worst. President. Ever.
67% of what? Daily Kos folk?
What poll says 67% of Americans want Bush impeached? I think I would have heard about that, or is that the figure you created?
Look I know BDS is a real problem, but he is not running for election.
Dana: Gitmo, war crimes, rendition, torture, false imprisonment, invading soverign nations on lies and deception, politicizing every dept in our government. Executive orders to get around the law, Blackwater goon squads, theft of billions of dollars from the treasury, letting oil companies set our energy policy, de-regulating the bankster/gangsters, Katrina, outing CIA agents, no bid contracts to his cronies….have you read the Articles of Impeachment?
If this guy isn’t impeached, then no one will ever be. All we have done is set a precedent for the next traitor President who wants to be Dictator, to tear up the Consitution upon taking office. Sorry, we over threw one King George, its time Congress did its duty and overthrow this one.
Dana, I don’t seriously believe you believe he shouldnt be impeached, but have taken this stance to make us all “try to convince you”. Damn don’t you people watch c-span, or Democracy Now, anything but corporate TV? Try a little Mosaic/Link Tv, you can get on the web. (See what the rest of the world thinks of America under the Bush regime).
The crimes commited in Abu Ghareb, and 16 other prisons in Iraq, “sex crimes discussed in the white house to be used on detainees” by Bush Cheney, Rice, Yoo, and Gonzalez!
These people aren’t just above the rule of law, they made up the law as they went along. They set aside the Consitution. They lied to Congress about Iraq. And the Congress did not give Bush permission to invade Iraq, they gave him the go ahead to go get approval at the UN. He is an international law breaker, tore up the Geneva Conventions. Set aside “habeus corpus” a rule since 1215! These men believe they are the new monarchs.
Liz – Go back and read the Declaration of Independence. Bush is no King George, not by any stretch of the imagination.
And Liz – if you’re going to say
Sorry – If you’re going to say Reagan & Nixon should have been impeached then LBJ and FDR should have been as well. Certainly FDR. Hell, Clinton committed perjury and told a straight-up bold faced lie to the entire country on primetime national TV. I don’t care that what he lied about wasn’t “important,” perjury under oath isn’t something to be taken lightly. Clinton got off way easy.
Miss Allen wrote:
Miss Allen, you may seriously believe that I don’t believe President Bush should be impeached; if he could run again, I’d vote for him again!
President Bush has not been a perfect president in my mind: he has spent way, way, way too much money on things that should not be funded at all: welfare for lazy scum who won’t work, ridiculous luxuries like the National Endowment for the Arts, the repugnant No Child Left Behind scam (education should be a state, not federal, responsibility), just a whole host of things.
But he has done many positive things: he has recognized that the war against Islamic fascism is a war, not a law enforcement action, and has fought back against our enemies. He has cut taxes for the working class, dramatically. And he has done a pretty good job with his judicial appointments.
Miss Allen, you may seriously believe that I don’t believe President Bush should be impeached; if he could run again, I’d vote for him again!
Let them eat YELLOW CAKE!!!
Surely, that can’t be Dana Garrett? Is this Dana an imposter?
Harry Truman was not a great prez in my book, bombing with an atom bomb on two cities, without knowing the results on the innocent makes him a war criminal in my book.
Study the real story on Pearl Harbor, they were warned, just like the incompents in the Bush regime were warned, but Bush went off on a month vacation, while Rice didnt read the Memo warning. My question is why we are bombing in Afganistan, the terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, the best buddies of the Bush Crime familiy who have received more than $1.5 billion from that regime.
There is no evidence that Bin laden is alive, and no evidence he is in Afganistan, hell he could be anywhere, if you actually believe a “guy with kidney failure in 2001” on kidney dialysis machine actually has a machine in a cave in Pakistan, continue to believe the bs. His obit was in the Pakistani Times Dec. 2004, and Bhutto stated on a BBC tv show..that Bin Laden was dead.
We dont’ have a war against the “terrorists”, we have a war against “muslims everywhere”, led by a neo nazi President who needed an excuse to go into Iraq a weak oil producing country, under lies deceit and lying to the Congress, american people and the United Nations.
This Dana is not Dana Garrett, Liz.
But he has done many positive things: he has recognized that the war against Islamic fascism is a war, not a law enforcement action, and has fought back against our enemies. He has cut taxes for the working class, dramatically. And he has done a pretty good job with his judicial appointments.
You can tell because Dana Garrett would not mistake the recitation of wingnut talking points for real history.
It is Dana Pico, from Common Sense Political Thought. You could have clicked on his name…