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Is It Time For Some People To “Can It?”
Is talk among some (not all) on the left about the “I-word” option both politically unrealistic and politically reckless? One view here.
16 Responses to “Is It Time For Some People To “Can It?””
Impeaching Bush might feel good for some but it robs important amounts of time from accomplishing the people’s business. I’d rather spend time fixing the rules that the GOP abused than hanging Bush’s head on a wall.
Listen to Al Franken. Win the White House in 2008, and then impeach Bush. I know, that would be mostly symbolic, but it does set a precident for future leaders.
I have to admit, I spent about five minutes trying to figure out what could be the “I-word”. I just assumed Minnesotans didn’t swear enough…
In the wake of Dick Cheney using the F-word on Pat Leahy, there was a great Doonesbury strip about the mythical “J-word”.
Journalist?
I never figured it out. I’m not sure if there even was a word in mind..
Both Bush and Cheney so deserve it, but it is a waste of time. Subpoena power and blowing the secrecy doors off the whole stinking Bushco mess should provide as much pubic shame as impeachment and also pave the way for undoing the damage.
Drag the oil execs and exec branch administrative republican staffers before congress while repealing the handouts to the oil companies
Drag the pharma execs and their admin assistants before congress while undoing the anti-negotiation language in medicare
Testimony from crippled vets and mid-level Haliburton execs while undoing the no-bid contracts and assuring it never happens again
Pull the NSA records of who’s been spied on, and how many of our phone, medical and library records were grabbed as if we’re all criminals or terrorists
There’s more than enough fodder to convict these creeps in the media
Then, under a Democratic Justice Dept and Atty Gen, prosecute them criminally. Forget impeachment. I’d like to see some of them in orange jumpsuits doing the perp walk.
Look forward not back. Bottomline, we don’t have the time or resources to spend on the I word. We shouldn’t have bothered with the Clinton impeachment either, but it was a different day and age back then. That doesn’t excuse it, but maybe explains it. Let’s learn from the past and move on.
There are way too many in both parties who still think the Patriot Act, NSA wiretapping and Military Commissions Act only target terrorists. Rigorous investigation of these travesties is the only way I know to blow the covers off so legislators can vote them out without being smeared as unpatriotic or “coddling terrorists”.
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself”, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Impeach the Bastard.
Its tempting, very tempting. But you’d have to try Cheney as a war criminal to get him out of the line of succession. Leaving the next in line– Nancy Pelosi. Wouldn’t the neocons and am radio crowd go crazy!!!!!
Not that W doesn’t richly deserve it for arrogance and incompetence while on duty, but it would tear a hole in this country that we’d never recover from. We’re going to have enough trouble repairing the damage done to our reputation and system of law after he moseys back down to the ranch in Crawford.
Why does everyone who thinks of that moonbat scenario ignore the fact that the VP position would have to be filled in either case, whether the VP was removed first or the President was removed first. Anthing else would be a coup, and un-Constitutional.
Most of the comments before mine state it is a waste of time and we should move on. I disagree. It is the one thing we could do to regain the world’s faith in us as a country. I would be in favor of impeaching both of them at the same trial. I do not know if this is Constitutional but if it is, I would do it.
The tone of the deliberations needs to be stately, not with rancor, informative as a lesson in Civics for all Americans to understand what laws were broken on bad advice from Gonzales and what laws were broken with total disregard for the Constitution and the will of Congress. There is a difference. It is important for leaders to reap the consequences of their actions and both President Bush and VP Cheney have done much harm to our nation and to let them off would be a travesty of justice. So I believe it would be courageous to do this and not a waste of time but rather a demonstration of who we are as a people. There is no short time limit to prosecute most crimes, and these so egregious are no exception.
After we impeach them both, we should be willing to turn them both over to the World Court for prosecution of War Crimes with respect to approved violations of the Geneva Convention.
Look, I want to see Bush-Cheney not merely run out of the WH, but serving time in a real prison, preferably for the rest of their lives.
However, impeachment will take too much time and consume too many resources. More to the point, impeachment proceedings won’t stop Bush from doing whatever he wants to do anyway (like bomb Iran, torture people, etc.)
The reason the Democrats won is because the country is disgusted with corruption, brutishness, and the war in Iraq. Of the 60% of the electorate that turned against Bush and the GOP, going off on impeachment will delight maybe 30%, but the other 30% will wonder, justifiably, why Congress isn’t addressing the issues that matter most to the national welfare.
I agree, Casey. I guess we’ll have to settle for their prospects in the historical record, which is almost certain to hold their misdeeds up to unflinching scrutiny. May they live in infamy throughout the ages.
AustinRoth
Incorrect.
Richard Nixon resigned in shame, Spiro Agnew resigned in shame, so the VP post was vacant when Nixon resigned in shame. The Speaker of the House Gerold Ford became president with out an election.
That would be Nancy Pelosi coming this January.
That would be Nancy Pelosi coming this January.
It would almost be worth it, just to see Limpy going ballistic, LOL!