Posted on 08/07/2006 5:32:36 PM PDT by Mike10542
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Payback for the Impeachment of their precious boy Clinton.
Clinton deserved Impeachment, and if the Senate had gonads, he would have been removed from office. All the talk about impeaching Bush is just raw anger and vengeance.
I would expect that as the country's divisions harden, impeachment will become a rather common occurrence whenever the party controlling Congress differs from the party of the President.
We shouldn't let them get the chance, but I'll tell you what impeachment against Clinton got us. A huge blowback where we nearly lost Congress.
President Bush wouldn't be convicted in the Senate any more than Clinton would.
It's a sad day in American history if we get to the point where every time a party holding the majority in the House feels compelled to impeach a President of the other party.
If it prevented them from 'doing the people's business' I'm all for it.
They can try what they want- they will fail.
The Republicans failed to offer a simple message: We'd rather have Clinton as a lame-duck president than have to run against an incumbent Al Gore in 2000. But it doesn't matter that leaving Clinton in office would be better for us politically than removing him. If it turns out he committed acts worthy of removal from office, we will be duty-bound to remove him even though we'd rather not.
How could the Democrats have responded to that?
If the Republicans don't hold onto the house this will all be reality. In the meanwhile Islamic terrorists will be targeting us as much as ever if not more.
That argument, true as it is, was well over the head of the American public and the media who filtered the news to them.
The Democrats had a much more simple message that resounded. It's all about sex.
It wasn't, of course, but politics isn't about winning the argument intellectually. It's about winning the argument emotionally.
This Fall's election is enormously important.
I never heard anyone even try to make that argument. Did someone (besides me) actually do so?
Conyers is a half-ass nitwit....talks with mush in
his mouth....worst Congressman from Michigan and he
uses the race card every damn chance he gets....the
impeachment of President Bush would be a boon to the
terrorists in the world..but let them go at it...it
wlll be the crowning blow in the death of the party
with the "D" by their names...... Jake
Dem bozos fergit who has da guns...
I'm not sure. We hashed every angle imaginable back in those crazy days.
It is clear that had Clinton been removed, we'd probably have Al Gore as President today, or at least we'd sure have had him until 2004. Incumbency would have been worth 538 votes in Florida, without a doubt.
I'd be willing to speculate that if Bush is impeached next year by Nancy Pelosi's gang, it will backfire on them bigtime. It will send Hillary down in flames.
If it weren't for the WOT, it's almost an outcome I'd like to see play out.
But fact is, this country doesn't need the political distraction. There's a war going on.
We may actually need to split the country up somewhere here before too much longer. We probably ought to have some sort of a plan for it.
It's a testament to show how sad the voting population is and how ill informed most people are.
What kind of plan?
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