The impeachment circus never takes a holiday
Democrat leaders might have thought they put the impeachment circus to rest on November 6. But as I noted, the nutroots are gearing up for a stage production of a Beltway impeachment play that’ll open after New Year’s–and over this Thanksgiving holiday, Denny K’s peeps have been pounding the I-drum and hounding Democrats over their reluctance to go with the impeachment flow.
In the Seattle P-I, guest columnist Linda Boyd rallies the moonbats: “If not now, when?” Check out the P-I graphic that accompanies the article. Looks like something straight from the After Downing Street art clip file. Boyd fumes:
George Bush and Dick Cheney promote an imperial presidency. They assert that the executive is the most powerful branch of government, undermining the judiciary and Congress in violation of the Constitution’s bedrock principle of shared power among three co-equal branches. This subverts the very nature of our system of government.
“This is an attempt by the president to have the final word on his own constitutional powers, which eliminates the checks and balances that keep the country a democracy. … That’s a big problem because that’s essentially a dictatorship,” Fein said.
Washington For Impeachment and Citizens to Impeach Bush and Cheney are working to inform the public, collect signatures to petitions, provide forums, and lobby representatives. Washington was the second state to sponsor a bill for impeachment in the state Legislature.
Washington State Democratic organizations have passed resolutions in 11 Democratic legislative districts, five counties and the Washington State Democratic Central Committee. Jay Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island, has received impeachment resolutions from almost every legislative district within his congressional district. When will he represent the will of his constituents and honor his oath to protect the Constitution?
Inslee’s not the only Democrat feeling the heat. New York liberal Dems got an earful yesterday:
Brooklyn residents lashed out at local congressman over their inability to end the war in Iraq at a Park Slope meeting recently.
What was billed as a town hall discussion on why the US was still in Iraq and the best way of getting out quickly turned heated, Brooklyn Representatives Anthony Weiner, Yvette Clarke and Jerrold Nadler withstood over two hours of sometimes hostile questions about the ongoing war in an event sponsored by the Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats at Old First Church.
All representatives spoke forcefully against the war and advocated a quick withdrawal from the country.
In opening remarks, Rep. Nadler called the U.S. presence in the country “stupid” and said that the threat of Al Queda in Iraq was greatly exaggerated. “Al Qaeda is not a problem,” said Nadler. “If we left tomorrow, the Sunnis and the Shiites would fight each other to see who could eliminate Al Queda first,” comments which reflected recent analysis suggesting that the terrorist group enjoys little popular support in the country.
Rep. Clarke expressed frustration at the inability of the Democratic majority to withdraw, saying that a number of newly elected members of Congress were concerned about maintaining their seats. “Sometimes you feel like you’ve been stabbed in the back by one of your own,” Rep. Clarke said. Rep. Clarke drew cheers when she suggested that impeachment proceedings were in order.
A woman held up a sign which read in red block letters “IMPEACH.”
Weiner sounded a similar note to the others saying that removing the U.S. from the country would “remove an irritant” from the country. Rep. Weiner, however, came under withering criticism - perhaps unexpectedly for the strongly anti-war congressman - for his refusal to support the initiation of impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. While stating that the two leaders had done “impeachable things,” Weiner said that impeachment proceedings would occupy the congress and prevent them from doing anything else with their majority.
The position elicited a mix of applause and boos as subsequent questioners expressed strong disagreement. “It blows my mind that you equate impeachment with looking backwards,” said one.
The moderator was forced several times to remind audience members to keep their questions to under a minute. Eventually, Rep. Nadler came to a haggard-looking Weiner’s defense, saying that he agreed with him.
New York Senators Clinton and Chuck Schumer were invited to the forum but declined to attend.
No wonder.
Meanwhile, Kucinich is busy priming the impeachment pump in New Hampshire, where he’ll be holding an impeachment teach-in on Monday. It’ll be streamed on KucinichTV and St. Cindy Sheehan is leading a letter-writing campaign to the Speaker of the House.
Nancy “Impeachment is off the table” Pelosi’s not out of the woods yet.
Go, nutroots, go.
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Durrr, unhuh, unhuh, well goofbot, it could come as a surprise that unless the Pres. has actually done something illegal (like lie under oath), that co-equal means Congress can legislate or litigate till they’re blue in the face and it doesn’t mean anymore than what a Bull does after breakfast.
Speaking of illegal aliens..when will Denny K get back
into his spaceship and blast off?
President Bush may deserve to be impeached, but not for the reasons given by the Looney Left Leaning Liberals. Us conservatives have more to complain about than they do. No matter which Republican was in the WH, they would be screaming for impeachment, but the current “compassionate conservative” President is definitely not conservative with his push for amnesty for illegals, kowtowing to the Democrats, etc. No, we conservatives who have problems with President Bush aren’t suffering from BDS, but we tired of being gored by all the RINOs tramping around in DC.
Oh my, the Democrats met in a church. I guess when Democrats use a church as a meeting place its called ‘voter outreach’. Say what you will about Nadler and Weiner, at least they know a stinker idea when they hear one.
The art work kind of reminded me of something from the mind of Andy Warhol if he were still around today. As far as Ms. Boyd’s arguments go if we are really living in a dictatorship she would be on her way to Gitmo right now or she would just simply disappear like so many did in the old Soviet Union. I guess they don’t understand that President Bush can’t run for re-election and the troops on the ground are winning the war as well as the hearts and minds of Iraqi’s (I also realize it remains fragile over there). All they are doing is playing into the enemies hands providing aid and comfort to them due to their BDS issues. What or who will they vent their frustrations against after January 2009?
So, exactly what is it that Bush and/or Cheny has done that has been Imperialistic? After all, he is out of office in just over a year, is he not? Basically, whoever takes office next can remove, take away, revert, change every darn thing he ever did while in office, should they so desire, am I right? Did I miss the part where he has disbanded Congress, arrested the Supreme Court, declared himself Emperor For Life and suspeded the Constitution? Because unless he has done these actions, I fail to see where they are gedtting off with their paranoid caterwauling and hyterical screeching about doing the same.
And would someone please explain to them that this country is a Republic? It is NOT a Democracy? For criminy sakes, you would think if people were going to keep screaming about the Constitution, they would at least read the damn thing, and maybe even the Federalist papers as well. It might actually shut a few of these idiots up.
And as far as lying under oath, if that ever became a condition for impeachment, then we will NEVER have any elected officials, and we would have to impeach the whole lot of them what are in there now.
Sigh… Don’t read to much into the Church thing…
Here in Brooklyn the prayer books are little & red.
I find it amusing to watch these people lose it in this manner.
Like rats on a wheel, they run and run and run and don’t get anywhere.
As an aside, the Administration has, in fact, asserted executive powers more forcefully than CLinton and perhaps even Bush #41. But Reagan faced down Congress many times vis a vis their implied powers - especially the War Powers Act, daring them to take him to court.
And I have yet to see any evidence that the lefties big bugaboo - the Signing Statement - has been used to usurp Congressional powers in any instance whatsoever. Just more paranoia from them about Bush.
Don’t these people have real work to do?
Cripes…circus indeed. Or might ‘carnival’ be more appropriate?
I guess those two words are just in the wrong order, but if the Boyd bimbo actually said it that way it would sure help illustrate her idiocy.
I think he should be impeached too…for allowing this country to be invaded by MILLIONS of Illegals. There is no excuse for this and anyone who continues to support a guy who has worked so tirelesslly to destroy the sovreigntry of this country needs their head examined.If you may recall the overthrow of England was due to Taxation without representation….and my money going to countless invaders makes me very,very angry! IMPEACH HIM and most of the congress and let’s start over!
They had their chance to “impeach” Bush three years ago. In something called the “2004 Presidential Election.”
They lost.
So deal with it, moonbats.
For the democrats, there is little incentive to distinguish between action and the illusion of action. Both will do the job fine, but the latter is cheaper, less riskier, and will keep the base primed for the elections, i.e. a base wallowing in lunacy is far superior to one that is bored. In any event, a real impeachment would be a serious distraction for the Dems: it might negatively impact the 2008 campaign and that is a nightmare which they must avoid. The smartest of them know that 2008 is their’s to lose. Why go all out to blow it?
Always remember the words of Ms. Rand: don’t question an absurdity, just see what it accomplishes. Personally, the spectacle of the democrats going off the rails doesn’t distress me, but the fact that they are so determined to take the country with it, is beyond worrisome.
Their leaders do listen to their base, however, which is more than the Republicans ever do. Want your politicians to listen to you? Then get out there and jump up and down in the streets everytime you want something. This is “Peter Pan” politics, the politics of cultural despair in action. And it sucks.
The illegal alien mess started in the sixties with the 1st amnesty. Then during the Reagan years with the
2nd amnesty. This Pres Bush didn’t “allow” millions of
aliens to invade this country..they were already here
and more were just coming in. Any time there is an
amnesty or talk of an amnesty..the word gets out in
other countries and here they come!
Stop and think. If Pres Bush and VP Cheney are
impeached, Nancy Pelosi is next in line.
we all know these loons are living in a pre-9/11 world … but it actually worse than that … you see … time stopped for them on Wednesday, 11/08/2000 … the day after the people elected George Bush … they are still obsessed with the results of that election … and you will see them still pushing all this BS after GW is out of office …
I agree, we have a do nothing Congress as it is. Our beloved troops are in the field, fighting the good fight, the President requested funds in August 2006 and the moonbat democraps will not vote to fund the troops until January 2007 knowing full well they are risking the lives of our forces for political gain. Now, throw impeachment into the mix, we will have the first Congress in a long time that accomplished absolutely nothing. Nothing.
Poor Dennis. One step forward, two steps back.
I dunno, but that thar yeller logo looks more like a noose.
Hasn’t it already been decided by the elites that nooses are a extreme form of hate speech and unworthy of ANY free-speech protections? If so, then there can be no debate nor excuse for using a noose in any stylized form or fashion.
CDS (Cognitive Dissonance Alert): Liberals + Free Speech + Hate = “BDS”. Oh… Never mind, all’s fair by any means necessary for the nutroots, my bad.
To hear whining from the Dems while they are pretending to be in session over the Thanksgiving holiday in order to prevent the executive branch from doing any business while they are home sitting on their fat butts! Now thats acting imperialistic.
Before the election all we heard from the dems was how they were going to “clean up DC” when they got
into office and how things were really going to get done when they got into office. Seems the only part of
those two promises they kept was getting into office.
This talk of impeachment is so much hoopla because
at the rate they are doing things by the time they get
around to actually impeaching anyone, Pres Bush and
VP Cheney will be out of office. Are they going to
try to impeach them once they become private
citizens again? If it works, I still have some issues
with Bubba such as why he let Osama get away.
Go, nutroots, go.
I agree wholeheartedly. Starting an impeachment would put the contenders of the Democrat party on record. This show could only help the Republican nominee.
Totally OT, but I have to celebrate!!
WOO HOO MISSOURI!!!
Wait a minute. There is actually a “KucinichTV”?
HAAAAAAAAHAHHAHAHAH *gasp* AHAHAHHAHAHA
#22katieanne also OT. Let’s go MOUNTAINEERS!!!!!
If the impeachment parade got any real traction, the Democrats in Washington would start twisting their knickers. None of the so called charges the impeacher wannabes make can stand the light of day.
Republicans would love to have the entire 2008 campaign season dominated by a deranged attempt to impeach the president or vice president. Even the most lethargic of the sheeple would see this for the insanity that it is. Dispite some evidence to the contrary ordinary folks do not vote for the certifiably insane.
Rep. Nadler obviously does not read Bill Roggio’s The Long War Journal:
Perhaps Democrat Representatives John Conyers, Dennis Kucinich, Jim McDermott, Jim Moran, Jerrold Nadler, Charlie Rangel, and Lynn Woolsey were only playing politics when they all voted for the ‘Iraq Liberation Act of 1998.’
This would be good for the Conservative cause if we were not at war. What would suit the benefit of the country in this war-time environment would be to round up these seditious and subversive fools and lock them up for the duration.
What type of a deterent is prison to those who are willing and ready to blow themselves and others such as women and children, up in the name of their god and their religion? how can the threat of jail keep them from committing heinous acts? While the threat of spending even one hour in a jail cell may keep a normal, law abiding person, such as myself and those here, from doing illegal acts such as kidnapping, murder, beheading, ambushing American military convoys, assassinating political figures and the like, to Al Quaeda and other Islamic terrorists, who have committed themselves to the sick, perverted quest of sexual pleasures that only 72 inexperienced ugly, fat, smelly women that no man would ever want to touch, let alone want to see naked could hold, who wish only to strap explosives to their persons, place pound upon pound of explosive materiel into their vehicle only to drive full speed into a road block, bus, school, building, etc., place bombs in school cafeterias etc., being arrested, placed on trial and spending time in prison only serves to delay the inevitable. It serves to allow them to network with other like-minded citizens who, in turn, will seek out those stunning beuties in the after-life following the removal of as many innocents as possible in the name of their perverted god.
This thought that they can be dealt with as criminals shows a deep misunderstanding and ignorance of what it is we are dealing with and a blindness of the problems we face when dealing with jihadi’s and their beliefs. It is the difference between electing a Republican in the Fall next year who understands that it is not about using the FBI in order to arrest them in order to bring them to trial, but to use them in order to identify where they are to assist the Special Forces and allow the SF too do what they do best, and electing a Democrat and having more of the same as we had for 8 years dring Clinton when every act of terrorism went unanswered, hoping it would go away if we showed compassion and understanding to their “plight”, if we just arrested and tried the evil doers, if we treated them as common criminals, only to have them get into the American Justice System where, with the right attorney, they can be let go on a technicality, or allowed to skip bail and flee the country, only to turn up at a later date having a bomb strapped to them with more bodies to their credit.
Geez, RetFireman, you shouldn’t be so bashful. It’s not healthy to bottle up your ire-let it out and tell us what you really think!
Yeah, it’s definitely a noose.
But since when are those types of people bound to the rules of hypocrisy?
YEAH!
Who does he think he is, the Supreme Court?
I wonder how many of these “nooses” will show up on professor’s doors?
I can here the screaming now about how they feel intimidated. Oh the Humanity!
/sarc off
Thanks for the reminder. But I doubt those who would argue against you realize they are just as vulnerable.
Those that would argue? Please. they just sit there and claim that I am “too emotional” and “need help”. They have yet to debate anything I have ever put forth. the best thing that any of the Liberals on this site can ever do is attempt a 3 year old style of a playground insult which does nothing but expose them as the feelings based Liberal lemmings they are.
And sorry Vet. I do have a tendency to go off on a rant. I end up taking over Bear’s area on occasion, but once I get on a roll…
I have always admired yours and bears reticence retf.
Funny, after I heard the joke, I have always thought,
72 Virginians. I prefer that picture in my mind.
The problem with the left and suicide bombers is that,
under the skin they are all kindred spirits. One group
is as destructive as the other. The left may not have
blown our troops up but they are attempting murder
by withholding funding and by blocking shipments to
the troops. No wonder they don’t want us at war with
these people…they feel we are making war on family
members.
The “News Hits” column in the Detroit Metro Times is sometimes a good source for where the impeachment issue is headed. Below are two recent columns where John Conyers was recently pressured on impeachment. If you can stomach more on this issue, I found these fun to read. The first column centers around Randi Rhodes meeting with John Conyers, the second column centers around Cindy Sheehan meeting with John Conyers a week later. Both columns end with impeachment most likely going nowhere because there is not enough public support. Many on the far left may be serious about impeachment–but from these two columns I only get the impression that Conyers is just holding them at bay, to get past election day.
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12025
http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=12047
Yes, but you can only receive it through the antenna on your tin-foil hat.
All that matters to these people is hate, not the good of the country. If what is going on in our country truly mattered, these people would be focusing on illegal immigration, national security, Social Security, healthcare, education, etc.
Actually, I hope they continue so people see what is really the foundation of the Democratic Party…hate. This is the best thing that could happen for Republicans in 2008.
The trouble is, most people don’t pay enough
attention to politics to see what is going on in DC.
They pick up on headlines and blurbs from the talking
heads on tv, if even that much. I have heard people
brag about only watching the weather on the news and never reading anything. I have also known of people that “always vote for the first things on any
place on the ballot.” In TX for a long time that was the
Dem party. Most people, I am ashamed to say, in this
country, are so busy acquiring and achieving that
they only pay attention just long enough to go to the polls.
I know, I know. Bear and I do tend to hold back and be shy. It isn’t that we have nothing to say so much as we just have a hard time getting it out and putting somplete sentances together in a cohearent fashion. I really do apologize. I can’t speak for the furry one who should be hibernating in a cave some where at this time, but I will try to be less quiet and withdrawn in the future. I know how you Texans like everything BIG!!!!
O/T Wow, even when I use preview I miss stuff. I just can’t stand this keyboard and really need to take it in. Anyone know who does HP warranty service?
Linda Boyd - please tell us just exactly where the evidence is for your assertions of an imperialistic presidency. Is this anything like the way Clinton behaved when he sent the IRS after his political enemies or made sure the executive branch turned a blind eye to the illegal antics of his favorite Chinese fund raisers?
Don’t know about HP warranty service but am having
trouble with printer since installing Leopard. HP says
it’s hurrying to catch up. Thought I was the only one
that missed typos when I preview.
Seriously, ya’ll always make me think and that’s a
good thing! Goodness knows the MSM doesn’t.
Nutroots; the Republicans best friends.
What’s ironic about the liberal fearmongering about a “dictatorial” President making up the rules for himself is that they have absolutely no problem with five Supreme Court justices fabricating law by fiat; discovering new “rights” in imagined emanations and penumbras.
Then again, they call the 5-4 Gore v. Bush decision a “coup d’état” that destroyed democracy but the 5-4 Roe v. Wade decision an irrevocable stare decisis which none may dare question its legitimacy.
That’s exactly right. When it goes in their favor, there are no problems at all. When they win an election, then everything wored as it was supposed to, no voter fraud, no intimidation, no anything. However, when they lose an election, well the Brown shirts came in with their dogs and kept blacks from voting, intimidated the elderly, corrupted machinery, did everything they could to make sure that Democrats were not allowed to vote, thus making sure that there was voter fraud etc. and if it was an initiative that passed, well then they just take it to court and then get it thrown out on a technicality and the will of the people be damned.
When it comes to getting people on the Supreme Court and other courts, it is a sin to get Conservative judges on the court, especially those that are against abortion, however, they have no problem with stacking the courts with Liberal judes and we all know that abortion is the litmus test for everyone going into a government position of any kind and if they are not for it, chances are they can kiss their appointment good-bye. It is always their way or the highway, and they will always be the ones screaming “Bi-Partisanship”. That, of course, translates into “Vote Liberal and you are voting bi-partisan. Vote Conservative and you are voting as nothing more than a partisan havk and are a racist.”
However, it is known by it’s more simplified name….HYPOCRISY!!!!!
On the topic of the 72 virgins again…on Family Guy tonight, they had the best description yet. They had a homicide bomber show up saying, “I’m here!” open armed, only to be met by acne encrusted Dungeons and Dragons and Magic, the Gathering playing geeks, freeks and tweeks dressed in Star Trek costumes with wizard hats and other nerd type acoutremont. I damn near fell out of my chair. Now that would be the best type of justice there could possibly be.
Cindy’s starting with an uppercase A and then moving on to B and C.
Re Sheehan..isn’t there a mental disorder where one
considers oneself way more important that one
actually is? You know, sort of like delusions of
grandeur on a larger scale. Maybe she needs on of
those special jackets where the arms fasten in the back and one of those little rooms with the soft walls.
It’s called NARCISSISM! I thought she retired from the spotlight. I thought she was tired of all the bullies saying all those mean things about her and how disappoint she was that nothing was getting done. I thought she realized that everything was going to happen anyway. I thought she was going home to Vacaville to take care of her family because she finally realized that they needed her too, what with the trouble with the law and drug problems her other children have been having since she went off on her quest for fame and fortune riding on the coat tails of her other sons death.
For someone who retired, it took her, what, two days before she came back? It just shows you that she is not only insane, but a liar as well. She is perfect to run for Pelosi’s spot. Forget the fact that she doesn’t live in her district, that is just a minor technicality, and never let it be said she lets technicalities…like her son re-upping for service, volunteering for the mission he was killed on, being against the things his mother was for and would more than likely be embarrassed by his mothers actions, stand in the way of what The Holy Mother Sheehan would ever do. Speak ye not poorly of her, for she has the ultimate moral high ground. Her loss far outweighs other parent’s losses for she is against the war, and thus can never be shouted down as the parents of soldiers who are for he war are shouted down. She walketh upon the waters of the culverts of the souls of those who wouldst speak out if only they could were it not for that evil man Bush and his warlords.
Ok…I can’t say it anymore. it was making me nauseated.