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Rove strategy isn't unimpeachable (JESSE JAGMO PLANS FOR A DONK MAJORITY)
Chicago Sun-Times ^ | May 23, 2006 | JESSE JACKSON

Posted on 05/23/2006 4:39:01 AM PDT by Chi-townChief

There they go again. The Republican National Committee, the right-wing noise machine and their spear carriers in the mainstream media, have been in attack mode over the last few weeks. This time their target is Rep. John Conyers, the distinguished senior Democrat who will become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats win the House back this fall.

With the president and the DeLay Congress about as popular as big oil CEOs, the RNC is desperate to demonize Democrats. So they cooked up a campaign claiming that if Democrats win the House, Conyers is geared up to impeach the president. This threat, they suggest, will rouse the disaffected Republican base and bring them out to vote in large numbers.

The mainstream media fell for the bait. The ever-cooperative Tim Russert grilled Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi, suggesting that Conyers should take down the Web site explaining his resolution providing for a bipartisan committee to investigate the administration and to recommend whether or not impeachment hearings should begin. (Pelosi, to her credit, didn't fold. She said the Democrats would investigate the handling of intelligence leading up to the war, the corruption in the war and other administration misdeeds. She reminded Russert that checks and balances were the essence of the Constitution.)

But Democrats were spooked. Their excitable inside-the-Beltway strategists began worrying that the Democratic left would blow the election by alienating voters in swing districts. Pelosi then had her spokesperson announce that ''impeachment wasn't in the cards'' if Democrats took back the House.

It is hard to sort out which is more pathetic: the RNC for hyping this gambit, the press for falling for it or Democratic leaders for cowering at the first sign of a dustup.

I'd say let the RNC run the fall election on the issue of saving Bush's neck. ''This election isn't about you,'' Republican candidates would say, ''or your jobs, your skyrocketing health care and gas costs or your stagnant incomes. And it's not about the country being mired in a costly occupation of Iraq, saddled with record foreign debt, accelerating outsourcing and a $1 trillion trade deficit this year alone. No, this election is about George Bush. Vote to protect him and Dick Cheney from accountability. Vote Republican. We may not do much for you, but we'll keep George Bush and Dick Cheney above the law.''

The doyens of the press fell for the RNC's line that this pap would turn out their base, without a shred of evidence to support it. Ironically, just as the RNC's Conyers-demonization campaign was winding down, conservatives like Richard Viguerie and James Dobson were threatening that conservatives might stay home in the fall. Defending the president from impeachment was not high on their agenda.

Moreover, investigation and impeachment of the president isn't about election tactics. It is about preserving the Constitution, the Republic and defending our liberties.

This president has made a sweeping claim to national security prerogatives in a war on terror that has no end. He says he can make war without Congress, surveil you without a warrant, lock you up without a lawyer, keep you in jail so long as the unending war goes on without a hearing.

The Republican Congress has utterly failed to provide even a minimum of oversight and accountability. Their concern has been to protect their party and their president before protecting the Constitution and its people.

A Democratic Congress would have a constitutional duty to investigate and challenge the president's claims. Investigating potential high crimes and misdemeanors isn't partisan. It isn't about ''settling scores.'' It's about protecting the Constitution and preserving the republic and the rule of law.

White House political guru Karl Rove suggests that Republicans run this fall by creating a choice: Democrats will raise your taxes, cut and run from Iraq and impeach the president. Republicans will defend the president's tax cuts and economy, keep troops in Iraq till at least 2009, and keep the president above accountability. Let's have Rove's election. It surely would help Democrats take back the House.

mailto:jjackson@rainbowpush.org


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2006; bush; conyers; donks; elections; jesse; lefties; pelosi; rats; terrorism
Brother Jesse just can't wait to get his hand back in the cookie jar.
1 posted on 05/23/2006 4:39:04 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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CHICAGOLAND PING


2 posted on 05/23/2006 4:40:49 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief
"spear carriers"

Jesse calling some people "spear chuckers"?

Has he no shame? (It's a rhetorical question)

3 posted on 05/23/2006 4:42:51 AM PDT by Paladin2 (If the political indictment's from Fitz, the jury always acquits.)
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To: Paladin2

Yeah, I also noticed that he "colors" this rant with some vague pejoratives.


4 posted on 05/23/2006 4:46:17 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
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To: Chi-townChief

someone should tell this ignoramus to go look at Conyers' website. No "smear" was necessary. What a dumbass.


5 posted on 05/23/2006 8:22:30 AM PDT by Keith (now more than ever...it's about the judges)
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To: Chi-townChief
spear carriers?

But Democrats were spooked?

Uh huh....

6 posted on 05/23/2006 8:26:15 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (What is is about "illegal" you don't understand?)
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To: Chi-townChief

"conservatives like Richard Viguerie and James Dobson were threatening that conservatives might stay home in the fall."

Anybody who would agree to "stay home" because viguerie asked him to would be too old to remember he made that vow come Election Day. The Dobson people might stay home on the Senate races but not the House races. That's no big deal.


7 posted on 05/23/2006 8:28:46 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (John Spencer: Fighting to save America from Hillary Clinton..)
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To: Chi-townChief

Ah, now that is a big motivator. Stolen money by crooks. They also can't let go of the fact that their leader and I laugh, Booba Clinton was impeached(well sort of).

What should happen is they should put Booba and his frankenstein wife, Hitlery Monster in jail. There is certainly enough evidence.


8 posted on 05/23/2006 8:32:55 AM PDT by freekitty
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To: Chi-townChief
"The Republican National Committee, the right-wing noise machine and their spear carriers in the mainstream media, have been in attack mode over the last few weeks. "

Conservatives have "spear carriers" in the MSM?
Who knew?

Oh I see it's "Papa" Jessie the baby maker..with other women while still married to his wife.
Anyone not to the left of Stalin is right wing to this nut.
9 posted on 05/23/2006 8:36:43 AM PDT by Jameison
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To: Chi-townChief

Poor Jesse, so the syphilis went to your brain..... you know, simple antibiotics (or sexual monogamy) could have prevented this outcome........ now your brain tissue is congealing into amorphous grey puddles and you can't think clearly.......


10 posted on 05/23/2006 8:38:20 AM PDT by Enchante (General Hayden: I've Never Taken a Domestic Flight That Landed in Waziristan!)
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To: Chi-townChief
" will raise your taxes, cut and run from Iraq and impeach the president."

They would indeed...that's why the RATS will lose..yet again

"will defend the president's tax cuts and economy, keep troops in Iraq till at least 2009"

We will..and that's why we will win, just like we did in 2002 and 2004.

"Let's have Rove's election. It surely would help Democrats take back the House. "

Like you did in 2002 and 2004? :)

I seem to recall the same "Papa" Jesse confidently predicting on TV that the RATS were going to clobber us but good, in 2002 and 2004.
With leaders like this, it's no surprise the RATS just keep losing.
Keep right on ranting Jesse..we needed a laugh this morning.
11 posted on 05/23/2006 8:48:59 AM PDT by Jameison
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To: Paladin2

I thought "spear carriers" were people who volunteered to "carry spears" in an operatic performance that required more people than were in the operatic company. At least that's what they called it when I did it in high school!


12 posted on 05/23/2006 8:52:47 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Chi-townChief
Rep. John Conyers, the distinguished senior Democrat who will become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee if Democrats win the House back this fall.

Does Jesse mean the same John Conyers who abuses his position by using his staff as babysitters, tutors, chauffeurs, campaign workers for his wife, etc? One of the corrupt Democratic leadership?

13 posted on 05/23/2006 8:56:56 AM PDT by mak5
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14 posted on 05/24/2006 5:38:40 AM PDT by Mo1 (DEMOCRATS: A CULTURE OF TREASON)
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