Posted on 06/30/2005 1:10:38 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Carol McKy of Middleton was the only self-proclaimed Republican in a room of more than 50 Wednesday evening who passed a motion urging Congress to begin the impeachment process for President George W. Bush.
"I, too, feel that George Bush does not represent me and the Republican Party," McKy said Wednesday at a meeting at Stoughton's Public Safety Building held by the Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace.
Others predicted that Republicans would soon be seeking the exact same goal as Democrats: removing Bush from office.
"Imagine a bumper sticker. Save the Republican Party: Impeach Bush," Madison resident Jim Cobb said. "I beg to differ with the idea that impeachment is hopeless. In one year or so, Republicans will be shooting for impeachment."
Cobb said "the truth is an invincible force" and that it would drive the process. "The truth is out."
At Wednesday's meeting, organizers explained impeachment and made the case that the Downing Street memo is evidence that the process should start.
"They planned the war before they went," Buzz Davis of Veterans for Peace said prior to the meeting referring to the series of memos that describe talks in 2002 between the British and U.S. governments during the lead-up to the war.
David said the Stoughton sessions and later ones (which have not yet been scheduled) are a means of helping the public think things through. Organizers urged citizens to circulate petitions calling for Bush's impeachment and they handed them out in thick information packets. The group also unanimously passed a resolution on a voice vote to send a letter to Congress urging representatives to start the impeachment process.
Is impeachment realistic?
"I sure hope so," Don McKeating of Veterans for Peace said.
And many meeting attendees agreed, although they acknowledged that Republican control of the House of Representatives and the Senate is a major obstacle. To restore spirits, attendees spoke of protests in Madison during the Vietnam War era and grassroots efforts that they said were influential.
"I started out feeling hopeless," Bill Kline of Madison said referring to the Vietnam era, adding that he watched the situation change, and that improvement started with meetings like these. "We're not a bunch of young radical students. I feel good about this."
On a bright note, Jane Jensen of Military Families for Peace told the crowd that her son, whom she hasn't seen since November 2003, is coming home from Iraq today at 1:45 p.m. That brought applause from the audience, but when someone asked whether her son will go back, Jensen quickly replied: "Probably."
On the Net: www.madveteransforpeaceorg
Get your children out of public schools.
This does raise the very interesting question:
1. In 1974 the GOP threw Nixon over the side and went through a long winter of continuing out of control of both Houses except for the Senate for a couple of years in the 1980s a short time frame. The GOP did however win back the White House in six years.
2. In 1998, the Dims dug in with Bill Clinton. Since then they have been out of control of both houses of Congress expect for the Senate for a few months in he early 00s. They failed to retain or win back the White house in the two elections since Clinton.
Which strategy was more successful? Well we can not really say yet and there are other influences, but certainly the Dims strategy of standing with Clinton does not appear to be working out any better for them than the GOP's strategy of tossing Nixon over the side.
"They planned the war before they went,"
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What is really significant about this group of morons is that they prove how stupid a frightening portion of our public really is....AND THEY ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE....
Well said.......
During the great war he was probably the soldier shoveling sh*t in Louisiana that Patton referenced.
"I wonder why she hasn't seen him in almost two years."
I know Jane. She worked as a civilian liaison for us during Operation Desert Storm when I was in the Army and we were absorbing and mobilizing ARNG and ANG troops from Wisconsin. She was not a nut back then, and was wonderful with helping other military families.
Her son has been in both Afghanistan and now Iraq...but I think she's finally flipped out about it, and has done a complete 180. Not that her protests or calls for impeachment will gain anything but ridicule or harm to her own son. Some people will just never "get it."
Or a House UNAmerican Activities Committee, same thing! ;^)
The Republican Big Tent is so big it even includes some Dimocrats.
ROTS OF RUCK-IDIOTS!
IT HAS been an exciting summer for Carol McKy of Madison, who in the space of six weeks has had her face beamed across the country on national television and been flown halfway across the country for a news conference.
McKy, 73, is originally from Racine. Like many people, she came to Madison to study at the university and never left. She has long been a Republican, and worked in the past for former Wisconsin Gov. Lee Dreyfus - "my favorite Republican," McKy says - but she has become disillusioned with President George W. Bush and has not been shy about saying so.
In early July, McKy's name appeared in a Capital Times story about local military families who had organized against the war in Iraq. McKy has a nephew who flies helicopters in Iraq and in the news story she identified herself as a Republican who was nevertheless unhappy with the current administration.
It wasn't long after that story ran that McKy got a call from national Democratic Party asking for a picture, which she duly sent. Then on the Wednesday night of the Democratic National Convention in Boston, at a break between speeches, McKy's picture flashed on the huge screen behind the stage. She was identified as a Republican who "wants laws that protect the environment and ensure our civil rights." A graphic was superimposed on the bottom of the screen: "Voting for John Kerry," which McKy will do.
Last week the Democrats flew McKy to New York City, where she appeared with numerous big-city mayors - including Tom Barrett of Milwaukee - at a news conference seeking to rebut the Republican National Convention being held in New York.
"I can meet the press as well as anyone," McKy told me Friday, and, indeed, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report on the event claimed McKy "stole the show" with "a litany of charges against the Bush administration on issues ranging from stem cell research to environmental regulation to the Iraq war."
I asked McKy how her Republican friends were taking all this. "They pretty much say, 'Come on,' " McKy said. "But I'm the one who reads five newspapers a day and knows what's going on." ...
"They pretty much say, 'Come on,' " McKy said. "But I'm the one who reads five newspapers a day and knows what's going on."
ROFLMAO! You made my day, Dilbert! Good catch! :)
Amen. Been feeling it for a couple of years now, and I'm ready. It wil be a swift civil war this time, because the peace activist liberals will hightail it to Canada, cowards that they are.
These people live on a different planet and don't know what's really going on in America.
How do you know when a liberal is lying?
Her lips are moving.
I do not believe that these people are veterans, if so, they were R.E.M.s. The reason I say that is: My dad and four uncles where in the South Pacific WWII, I was in Korea, my oldest son was in Nam, lost a hand, my youngest son Gulf war, now my grand son is in Iraq. None of these real veterans has said one word about our CIC. Damn these liberals socilaists that hate the United States, they should all go to Cuba.
MadisonWI+BerkeleyCA=stinkin'hippies
I know he is because the main stream media imply it and the socialists suggest it, but how is President Bush responsible for the Vietnam War?
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