Posted on 09/12/2005 8:39:23 AM PDT by rface
WASHINGTON, DC — Pat Buchanan, former communications director to Pres. Ronald Reagan and two-time presidential candidate, has come to the conclusion that some courageous Republican legislator should move a bill for impeachment against Pres. Bush. Buchanan has many complaints, but the main reason mentioned in his syndicated column last week was that immigration reform, including a proposed "guest worker" program, would encourage a massive influx of illegal immigrants.
Although Democrats don’t agree with that argument, some have been pushing the Gallup poll organization to ask how many people in the United States support impeachment. Bob Fertik, who leads Democrats for Unity, argues in an Internet column that it’s a hot topic, pointing to 723,000 Internet links.
But Gallup Poll editor-in-chief Frank Newport has so far refused to pose what he sees as a hypothetical question. “We will certainly ask Americans about their views on impeaching George W. Bush if, and when, there is some discussion of that possibility by congressional leaders, and/or if commentators begin discussing it in the news media. That has not happened to date,” he wrote to Fertik.
In response, Fertik noted in an article that has appeared on Common Dreams and other websites that many discussions of impeachment have appeared in the media, including statements or references by Buchanan, MSNBC newsman Keith Olberman, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. U.S. Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, Fox News commentator Alan Combes, consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, and Nixon era White House Counsel John Dean. He also pointed to a poll on impeachment of former President Clinton that appeared in January 1998, shortly after allegations about his affair with an intern surfaced.
In June, a Zogby poll found 42 percent support for impeachment if Bush lied about Iraq.
Pat Buchanan has lost his last remaining marble.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!! No, really ROFLMAO!!!!
Yada Yada Yada. I would support impeachment if Bush purposefully lied to get us into Iraq. But the evidence doesn't support the claim.
However, I would like the Libs to try an impeachment; it would make everyone see their pettymindedness.
Yawn.
I'm one of them.
Here we go again. Yawn.
...lol
Although Democrats don’t agree with that argument....
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Since when have the leftist Dims EVER agreed with anything, good or bad? Negativism and obstructionism is their only mode of operation. They are irrelevant and useless and only support issues WHICH GENERATE VOTES FOR THEM.
On what grounds?
Marbles usually follow scruples. And this anti-capitalist racialist bigot did not appear to have had any.
Buchanan has lost his marbles if he thinks the republicans would push for this.
But, I do think that Bush is out of touch with reality when it comes to the border issue and is going to hurt the republicans chances in 2006 and 2008 if he doesn't start addressing the issue head on.
Kind of shows how the media views itself.
I would guess that Pat thinks that the immigration issue is an issue where maybe he could make a 3rd party run. Of course the Democrats would love that to happen because it would divide the Republicans and put another Clinton in the White House.
Pat Buchanan needs to just shut up. He is not helping anyone with this kind of talk.
He did not lie..He was misinformed.
ALSO
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1482652/posts
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Part of the answer is to dismantle the structure that supports them -- destroy their training camps, freeze their funding, and coerce rogue nations into ceasing their support for them. America has been doing those things, working with allies around the world who see the threat unrestrained terrorism can pose.
Another part is attacking the root cause of terrorism -- changing the kind of oppressive governments that lead to that kind of hatred and fanatical madness. We've been fairly successful at this so far, considering that -- as usual -- America has had to fight this war from a dead stop, while our enemies have been geared to the fight for a long time. We are not a warlike country by nature; we don't usually function in a state of war. Afghanistan and Iraq are well on their way to becoming self-sufficient democracies, even as Syria-backed al-Qaeda tries desperately to cow the Iraqis into accepting their Islamofascist rule. Increased demands for democracy have echoed throughout the Middle East: from Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and even from the oppressed subjects of theocratic Iran.
What makes the fight against terrorism difficult is those in our own country who refuse to let us fight it.
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The downside to the impeachment of Clintoon, is now every time any president does something unpopular, the word will be thrown around. Ronald Reagan had what amounted to an amnesty plan for illegals and (while I was a kid) I don't seem to recall this jibberish. If President Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction, so did Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, etc, etc, etc...
Pat Buchanan can be so clear, concise, and intelligent in one moment and just raving lunatic in another. He should be checked for being bi-polar.
Shoot, I thought this was going to be about impeaching the justices who substitute their opinions and feelings and wishes for the written law in accord with the Constitution. Too bad it is only about something stupid - it sounds like push polling to me.
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