Posted on 03/01/2006 10:28:41 AM PST by SRU308
SAN FRANCISCO -- While it carries only symbolic weight, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has taken another vote to draw the ire of conservatives across the nation. They have taken a vote to impeach President George Bush.
The board's vote was not the first in California. Santa Cruz has already passed such a measure while Watsonville's leaders approved a resolution last month that calls for the president to bring California National Guard troops home from Iraq.
Still it's San Francisco that has drawn criticism from national conservatives including Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly. Spurred on by O'Reilly's comments, Highland -- a small town of 50,000 people in San Bernardino County -- passed a resolution not to send any officials to San Francisco for state meetings.
"The City of Highland will not spend public money going to the City of San Francisco," said Highland city councilmember Jody Scott. "We will not spend one dime of public money."
The San Francisco Supervisors took the action by a 7-3 vote, they claim, because Bush has destroyed civil liberties in his wiretapping program, and failed miserably in his response to Hurricane Katrina.
"I think the case is clear, and I think it's appropriate for us to weigh in," Supervisor Chris Daly told the San Francisco Chronicle.
But only Congress can impeach the president, and no one there is attempting it.
Mayor Gavin Newsom, not one to shy away from controversy, said signing the resolution was not high on his priority list.
"It's probably going to shatter the status quo in this country when it passes,'' a joking Newsom told the Chronicle. "I imagine, immediately, Congress will probably convene into session and begin impeachment proceedings."
But one thing was for certain -- San Francisco would once again be fodder for conservative talk show hosts.
LOL! A sense of humor does help when you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, doesn't it!! ;>)
Whatever.
Still it's San Francisco that has drawn criticism from national conservatives including Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly.
Since when did Bill O'Reilly become a conservative? You'd have to actually care what these howling moonbats thought in order for it to rasie any ire.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Says a lot more about the nitwits running S.F. than it does about the President IMO. One of these yo-yo's from S.F. was on Hannity and Colmes last week saying we don't need a military. Good thing they can only run S.F. into the ground and sad they don't realize that about 97% of the rest of the country thinks they are screaming lunatics.
Baghdad on the Bay. Are they still a declared haven for any Soldier who decides to AWOL as a C.O.??
Useful Infidels.
They've also said they don't want and would be better off without a military. I say we oblige and let them fend for themselves.
In the spirit of symbolic acts carrying no weight whatsoever, I hereby officially grant the San Fran Board of Supervisors the "Marxist Tools of the Year" award.
The surprise is that it took them so long!
Especially considering I grew up in Kennedy country! Between those drunken rum-runners and the (now quenched) Red Flops championship drought, I have a well-ingrained sense of "gallows humor" which my wife (a mid-westerner) just can't seem to figure out at times.
I just checked with some co-workers and we voted to impeach the SF board of supervisors. Means just as much.
Can we vote to send San Francisco to Outer Mongolia?
My sense of humor and my flame retardant suit are my two most valuable assets!! ;>) I come from a long line of smart alecs, and do believe being raised in San Francisco may have much to do with it!
I vote we try the SF Board of Supervisors for treason with a possible sentence of being hanged if found guilty.
If anyone would care to thank my City officials here is the email address
highland1@eee.org
I have it on good authority that the islamofanatics hate the SF liberals and the Liberal City Council will be the first ones taken out when they take over. If any are left over after they nuke the place though.
In a similar meeting, a group of cockroaches voted against light.
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