Posted on 04/21/2006 11:58:30 AM PDT by neverdem
Conservatives are going to be facing tough decisions when at the polling station.
Not that tough! Vote to keep the Repubs in power or sacrifice it to the Dims. I, for one, do not wish the latter.
This "Bush will get impeached if the 'Rats win the House" is nonsense. You act like he's already guilty and the Republican House is the only thing standing in between him and impeachment!
Exactly. It would be better to lose the House than the Senate. Though we need a more conservative Republican Senate. Since the House tends to overspend no matter what, it would better to go back to blaming Democrats for that angle. They can't actually increase spending all by themselves anyway.
I'd be glad to. But if that effort fails, then we're back to square one.
It requires 2/3 of the Senate to get an impeachment conviction, and I don't think there's anything close to that.
As for higher taxes, we appear to be headed for that either way, unless we can really reform the party in time. Doing that successfully will likely involve the application a little tough love. Republicans had a chance right after the '04 elections, when they were riding a wave of popularity, to get the tax cuts made permanent. Instead, they lunged right toward Social Security, pushing a plan of dubious benefit that had little popular support. That started the new term off on a very sour note that made it difficult to push any further toward the Republcans' domestic agenda.
Sometimes, a temporary setback is the price that needs to be paid in order to get the lead out.
Not quite. I just remember Conyers and Pelosi well enough to understand that the hard left wants revenge for the impeachment of the first black president, for which you only need a majority of the House. They never forgave Bush for 2000.
I have sung along with a Republican party that refuses to do anything about our invasion by "Illegals" for too long. Twenty years ago, I went to Tijuana and viewed the filth and corruption and said, "Thank God for the United States!"
Ten years later I visited a local flea-mart and cried, "Oh no, Tijuana is here!"
Now, I only have to visit the local mall or see the Mexican-gang grafitti all over town to realize Tijuana is everywhere.
Our emergency rooms, jails and social service offices ar overwhelmed by Illegals.
Politicians bully voters into supporting one of the "Do nothing to secure our borders," parties by declaring that a vote for a third party candidate is a wasted vote. Too bad! To me, Illegal Immigration is the number one problem facing our nation! That "We can worry about that after we are returned to power," crowd can stifle. I will vote only for candidates who will vote to stop the invasion. If both candidates are for open borders I will leave that portion of my ballot blank. I've had enough!
Don't worry. Be happy. Bush will NOT be impeached EVEN IF the 'Rats win the House this year.
But I'm just looking for ONE BIG FIGHT at home from Bush before he leaves office. I don't want to regret voting for him twice.
There's a touch of "blame the victim" reasoning in this issue. President Bush and the pubbie leadership are destroying this nation with their immigration policy failure. Yet, if we, the victims, fight back, we are blamed for the mess that ensues.
President Bush and the pubbie leadership are to blame, and if they fail to correct their path, they will be causing the loss of majority status, not us, their victims.
Votes largely fell on party lines
"The first article alleging Clinton lied under oath when he testified before Independent Counsel Ken Starr's grand jury about the details of his extramarital affair with Lewinsky was adopted on a 228-206, largely party-line vote. Only five Democrats voted for that article, and five Republicans against.
"Article II failed 229-205, with many more Republican defections.
"But the GOP majority again prevailed, 221-212, on Article III accusing Clinton of obstructing justice by tampering with witnesses and taking other steps to conceal his affair with Lewinsky."
The Senate convicts with a two thirds vote. The dems would impeach if they had the chance, regardless of the unlikely chance of conviction in the Senate. This is not a loyal opposition. They will do anything for political gain.
It's not a question of loyalty. Attempted impeachment convictions that fail are not likely to work out well for the party bringing the impeachment, politically speaking. It'll make them look shrill and petty in time of war.
A straight party-line vote, which is what this would be, would not make the Dems look good. They need to get a few liberal Republicans onboard (like McCain and Specter) so that they can market themselves as "bipartisan". Without that, nobody but the most diehard Democrats will buy into their game.
They already look like that but it hasn't stopped them from retaining a very high majority of seats. If they gain any then the shrillness and pettiness will have paid off. Never overestimate the intelligence of the voting public.
I can understand their frustration.
You would actually allow Democrats control over our national security and over our men and women in the armed forces in the childlike fantasy that the Democrats would then be immediately be replaced by more-conservative Republicans??
No, I didn't. Check my name. What makes you direct that comment to me?
I used the pronoun,"you", to pose the indicated question collectively to those who hold such views.
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