"OPPOSING" Bush- if not "IMPEACHMENT" - is no longer a Dirty Word...
OpEdNews.com has a couple of terrific editorials this fine weekend in March, the last weekend of winter 2006. May the Spring Cleaning of the new season see a thorough and energetic CLEANSING of the abject CORRUPTION, LIES, INCOMPETENCE, CRONYISM, looting, theft, cowardice and propaganda that is the Democratic and Republican Parties of Washington DC these past five years.
OpEd Contributor Blair Bobier puts it about as succinctly as possible:
<< If your party can’t make hay out of illegal wire-tapping and torture, the bloody mess in Iraq, the Abramoff scandal and Hurricane Katrina, then isn’t it time to consider an alternative? >>
hmmm... that about says it all, doesn't it?
What with ALL the BLOVIATING coming out of Lyin New York Times, Cowardly Washington Post, not to mention the rest of the "lesser" media, the ABJECT LIES, DISTORTIONS, OMISSIONS, and SMEARS of the past fifteen years, the above line bears REPEATING, its own complete paragraph on this infinitesimal, unknown little blog:
<< IF YOUR PARTY CAN'T MAKE HAY OUT OF ILLEGAL WIRE-TAPPING and TORTURE, the BLOODY MESS IN IRAQ, the ABRAMOFF SCANDAL and HURRICANE KATRINA, then isn't it time to consider an alternative? >>
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_blair_bo_060317_beating_a_dead_horse.htm
To quote Mr. Bobier again,
<< The only thing more depressing than watching the Democratic Party cower cluelessly in a corner while the country goes to hell in a hand-basket is reading the pathetic pleas of the liberal punditocracy exhorting their party to grab the reins and forge ahead. >>
hmm.. "COWER CLUELESSLY in a corner".....?
It looks like CowardlyDemocrats.blogspot.com isn't the only source out there tossing around those "cowering" and "clueless" terms anymore!
As I'm writing this, I'm watching the movie "Dave", with Kevin Kline playing a body-double imposter standing in for the real President of the United States - Kline's character ("Dave") has been put there by reptilian presidential Chief of Staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) after the real president suffers a massive stroke, so to maintain Alexander's ruthless iron-grip on the presidency.
When President "Dave" counters Alexander's budget slashing of homeless children's funding by cutting $450 million in 'fat' elsewhere in the budget, to reinstate the children's care, Alexander (fired as presidential advisor the day before) retaliates by accusing "President Dave" of crimes in a Savings & Loan scandal that he (Alexander) had been party to with the real president. After reinstating the homeless children's program "President Dave" calls the cabinet and Congressional leaders to the White House to discuss his ambitous jobs program, but the congressional leaders tell the (stand-in) president that his jobs program wil be a tough sell while he is under suspicion for corruption and crimes:
"Mr. President, You're talking about obstructing federal regulators, violating election laws."
What has America become? We've become a nation where our Democratic "leaders" DON'T EVEN TALK about "OBSTRUCTING FEDERAL REGULATORS" and "VIOLATING ELECTION LAWS"!!
Proving yet again that FACT is STRANGER THAN FICTION, part of the ABRAMOFF SCANDAL was when JACK ABRAMOFF asked Republican House heavy TOM DeLAY to INTERVENE to STOP THE PROSECUTION of a workplace violations by employers in the Mariannas islands. (Violations that included indentured female workers in some cases being forced into prostitution and even forced abortions.) OF COURSE the Bush administration intervened to do exactly that - firing or replacing the federal investigation into workplace violations. Just as President George H.W. Bush (Sr.) FIRED the federal bank examiner who was investigating the fraud and losses of Charles Keating's LINCOLN SAVINGS and LOAN, replacing that federal bank examiner with INDUSTRY INSIDER and super-lobbyist M. DANNY WALLS. President Bush Sr's INTERVENTION to STOP the Lincoln Savings and Loan examination cost American taxpayers an ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION DOLLARS; when Keating's S&L was finally audited a full year later, the total cost to taxpayers was TWO BILLION DOLLARS. And the then-president's son, Neil Bush (brother to the current president) got a WRIST SLAP for his role in the SILVERADO S&L insider-corruption sweetheart loans, which cost taxpayers another BILLON DOLLARS.
By comparison Jim McDougal was sentenced to maximum security prison for his failures in the MADISON GUARANTEE S&L, the savings and loan at the heart of the "Whitewater" investigation that Ken Starr, the New York Times, and Washington Post tried so desparately to hang the Clintons with. McDougal's S&L only lost some $22 million, penny-ante compared to the huge S&L losses at other banks (eg Silverado and Lincoln S&L, among hundreds of others), yet despite his advanced age, despite his full cooperation with Ken Starr's investigation (up to and including PERJUROUS TESTIMONY at KEN STARR's BEHEST), Jim McDougal was serving his sentence IN ISOLATION in a MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON, under Ken Starr's gentle control, when HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK, alone, on the cold concrete floor.
As long as President George W. Bush is in the White House, there will not be "liberty and justice for all" Americans. There will continue to be a TWO-TIERED justice system, one for the slave-owners (er, "well connected Bush loyalists), and another for the slaves. (The rest of us American citizens, condemned to pay in taxes Mr. Bush's tremendous budget deficits and interest on that debt.)
And what is really pathetic about this situation, is the COWERING DEMOCRATS, running around in circles trying their damnedest to AVOID STATING THE OBVIOUS.
Oh, and to get back to our main point from the top of this editorial... OPPOSING Bush, if not the actual "IMPEACHMENT" word, is NO LONGER the exclusive domain of the wacky-left portion of politics and the blogosphere!
Wouldn't it be nice if our REAL LIFE Democrat "leaders" lived up to the Hollywood fantasy, where a president
<< obstructing federal regulators, violating election laws >> would actually be mired in SCANDAL ??
(Note: Unlike Mr. Blair's "Dead Horse" editorial, linked above, I realize that there is no viable "third party" option to oust the Bush agenda, certainly not in the next three years. Third parties have never garnered much more than 20% in presidential elections, and Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign, and Ross Perot's independent campaign, where much more from "within the establishment" than the Greens are today. Even Representative Dennis Kucinich fares poorly as a presidential candidate, although his campaign is a "wish list" of liberal-environmental goals. That is why it is incumbent on Democrats to stand up for American rights, laws, and justice, even if the current crop of leaders prefers to play the hapless Charley Brown, always to have Lucy snatch the football away.)
March 17, 2006
Republicans for Impeachment
by David Swanson
http://www.opednews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_060317_republicans_for_impe.htm
Everyone's on message. The right-wing pundits, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi. They're all trying to tell us that raising a demand for impeachment is good for Republicans.
Here's Barney Frank: "This is an understandable response from people who are very angry. But why do we want to energize Bush's people?"
This has taken fear to a new height. A politician not trained to begin from fear might ask "Why do we want to ignore the majority of the country that is very angry?"
Look at the polls
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling
In particular look at this poll
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7237
The vast majority of Democrats, most Independents, and a majority overall are supportive of impeachment. A remarkable 85% of Democrats in Pennsylvania (the only state polled) want to vote for pro-impeachment congressional candidates. And people don't just support impeachment. They're passionate about it. Bush is the least liked president on record, excepting only Nixon, and Bush is on track to break Nixon's record this spring. Nothing will energize people to vote against Republicans like talk of impeaching Bush and Cheney. Few other issues can provide the dramatic motivation to turn out voters in an off-year election.
The Democrats have been dealt a winning hand, and they're afraid – thus far -- to sit down at the table. Instead they're on the defensive, hiding from Feingold and whining about how opposing Bush will energize Republicans. The corporate punditry meanwhile is on the offensive, pretending that impeachment is actually good for Republicans.
Well, let's see them put their money where their mouths are: contributions to pro-impeachment congressional candidates can be made at www.impeachpac.org
Why is it that I don't expect a rush of Republican contributions?
For one thing, there just aren't that many Bush-Cheney Republicans left, outside of the hired guns in the media. Bush is a very, very unpopular president, and he's twice as popular as Cheney.
The goons promoting the talking points don't really want a stronger movement for impeachment. Look how fast somebody made Senator Chafey reverse his position on censure yesterday. He told multiple media outlets he'd consider voting for censure, and then – faster than you could say Weapon of Mass Destruction – angrily declared he'd never said it.
They don't want impeachment. No pro-impeachment activist group I know of is getting any help from Republicans in power. Certainly the After Downing Street coalition is getting help from lots of lapsed Republicans who want to free the country from Bush and Cheney. But the RNC has yet to contact us.
Fear is the driving force in the Democratic Party. Thus far 32 Congress Members have shaken free of their fears enough to back Congressman John Conyers' bill for an investigation into grounds for impeachment (H Res 635). Where are the others? What are they afraid of?
The media?
Didn't they see the media mock the spineless Senators who ran in terror from Feingold's restrained little foray into the realm of action?
When will the Democrats fire their strategists, ignore their so-called leaders, and listen to the people who have the power to replace not just Republicans but DINOs (Democrats in Name Only) as well?
I have never seen anything excite a crowd like the word impeachment does today. That situation would have the president peeing in his golf shoes if we had an opposition party.
It's our task to create one.
Fund pro-impeachment candidates: www.impeachpac.org
Demand that your representative sign onto H Res 635
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/635
Go to where we still have democracy, the local level, and get your town or city or county to pass a resolution in support of impeaching Bush and Cheney. Send it to the clerk of the House of Representatives.
http://www.impeachpac.org/resolutions
OpEd Contributor Blair Bobier puts it about as succinctly as possible:
<< If your party can’t make hay out of illegal wire-tapping and torture, the bloody mess in Iraq, the Abramoff scandal and Hurricane Katrina, then isn’t it time to consider an alternative? >>
hmmm... that about says it all, doesn't it?
What with ALL the BLOVIATING coming out of Lyin New York Times, Cowardly Washington Post, not to mention the rest of the "lesser" media, the ABJECT LIES, DISTORTIONS, OMISSIONS, and SMEARS of the past fifteen years, the above line bears REPEATING, its own complete paragraph on this infinitesimal, unknown little blog:
<< IF YOUR PARTY CAN'T MAKE HAY OUT OF ILLEGAL WIRE-TAPPING and TORTURE, the BLOODY MESS IN IRAQ, the ABRAMOFF SCANDAL and HURRICANE KATRINA, then isn't it time to consider an alternative? >>
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_blair_bo_060317_beating_a_dead_horse.htm
To quote Mr. Bobier again,
<< The only thing more depressing than watching the Democratic Party cower cluelessly in a corner while the country goes to hell in a hand-basket is reading the pathetic pleas of the liberal punditocracy exhorting their party to grab the reins and forge ahead. >>
hmm.. "COWER CLUELESSLY in a corner".....?
It looks like CowardlyDemocrats.blogspot.com isn't the only source out there tossing around those "cowering" and "clueless" terms anymore!
As I'm writing this, I'm watching the movie "Dave", with Kevin Kline playing a body-double imposter standing in for the real President of the United States - Kline's character ("Dave") has been put there by reptilian presidential Chief of Staff Bob Alexander (Frank Langella) after the real president suffers a massive stroke, so to maintain Alexander's ruthless iron-grip on the presidency.
When President "Dave" counters Alexander's budget slashing of homeless children's funding by cutting $450 million in 'fat' elsewhere in the budget, to reinstate the children's care, Alexander (fired as presidential advisor the day before) retaliates by accusing "President Dave" of crimes in a Savings & Loan scandal that he (Alexander) had been party to with the real president. After reinstating the homeless children's program "President Dave" calls the cabinet and Congressional leaders to the White House to discuss his ambitous jobs program, but the congressional leaders tell the (stand-in) president that his jobs program wil be a tough sell while he is under suspicion for corruption and crimes:
"Mr. President, You're talking about obstructing federal regulators, violating election laws."
What has America become? We've become a nation where our Democratic "leaders" DON'T EVEN TALK about "OBSTRUCTING FEDERAL REGULATORS" and "VIOLATING ELECTION LAWS"!!
Proving yet again that FACT is STRANGER THAN FICTION, part of the ABRAMOFF SCANDAL was when JACK ABRAMOFF asked Republican House heavy TOM DeLAY to INTERVENE to STOP THE PROSECUTION of a workplace violations by employers in the Mariannas islands. (Violations that included indentured female workers in some cases being forced into prostitution and even forced abortions.) OF COURSE the Bush administration intervened to do exactly that - firing or replacing the federal investigation into workplace violations. Just as President George H.W. Bush (Sr.) FIRED the federal bank examiner who was investigating the fraud and losses of Charles Keating's LINCOLN SAVINGS and LOAN, replacing that federal bank examiner with INDUSTRY INSIDER and super-lobbyist M. DANNY WALLS. President Bush Sr's INTERVENTION to STOP the Lincoln Savings and Loan examination cost American taxpayers an ADDITIONAL ONE BILLION DOLLARS; when Keating's S&L was finally audited a full year later, the total cost to taxpayers was TWO BILLION DOLLARS. And the then-president's son, Neil Bush (brother to the current president) got a WRIST SLAP for his role in the SILVERADO S&L insider-corruption sweetheart loans, which cost taxpayers another BILLON DOLLARS.
By comparison Jim McDougal was sentenced to maximum security prison for his failures in the MADISON GUARANTEE S&L, the savings and loan at the heart of the "Whitewater" investigation that Ken Starr, the New York Times, and Washington Post tried so desparately to hang the Clintons with. McDougal's S&L only lost some $22 million, penny-ante compared to the huge S&L losses at other banks (eg Silverado and Lincoln S&L, among hundreds of others), yet despite his advanced age, despite his full cooperation with Ken Starr's investigation (up to and including PERJUROUS TESTIMONY at KEN STARR's BEHEST), Jim McDougal was serving his sentence IN ISOLATION in a MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON, under Ken Starr's gentle control, when HE DIED OF A HEART ATTACK, alone, on the cold concrete floor.
As long as President George W. Bush is in the White House, there will not be "liberty and justice for all" Americans. There will continue to be a TWO-TIERED justice system, one for the slave-owners (er, "well connected Bush loyalists), and another for the slaves. (The rest of us American citizens, condemned to pay in taxes Mr. Bush's tremendous budget deficits and interest on that debt.)
And what is really pathetic about this situation, is the COWERING DEMOCRATS, running around in circles trying their damnedest to AVOID STATING THE OBVIOUS.
Oh, and to get back to our main point from the top of this editorial... OPPOSING Bush, if not the actual "IMPEACHMENT" word, is NO LONGER the exclusive domain of the wacky-left portion of politics and the blogosphere!
Wouldn't it be nice if our REAL LIFE Democrat "leaders" lived up to the Hollywood fantasy, where a president
<< obstructing federal regulators, violating election laws >> would actually be mired in SCANDAL ??
(Note: Unlike Mr. Blair's "Dead Horse" editorial, linked above, I realize that there is no viable "third party" option to oust the Bush agenda, certainly not in the next three years. Third parties have never garnered much more than 20% in presidential elections, and Teddy Roosevelt's "Bull Moose" campaign, and Ross Perot's independent campaign, where much more from "within the establishment" than the Greens are today. Even Representative Dennis Kucinich fares poorly as a presidential candidate, although his campaign is a "wish list" of liberal-environmental goals. That is why it is incumbent on Democrats to stand up for American rights, laws, and justice, even if the current crop of leaders prefers to play the hapless Charley Brown, always to have Lucy snatch the football away.)
March 17, 2006
Republicans for Impeachment
by David Swanson
http://www.opednews.com
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_sw_060317_republicans_for_impe.htm
Everyone's on message. The right-wing pundits, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi. They're all trying to tell us that raising a demand for impeachment is good for Republicans.
Here's Barney Frank: "This is an understandable response from people who are very angry. But why do we want to energize Bush's people?"
This has taken fear to a new height. A politician not trained to begin from fear might ask "Why do we want to ignore the majority of the country that is very angry?"
Look at the polls
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling
In particular look at this poll
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7237
The vast majority of Democrats, most Independents, and a majority overall are supportive of impeachment. A remarkable 85% of Democrats in Pennsylvania (the only state polled) want to vote for pro-impeachment congressional candidates. And people don't just support impeachment. They're passionate about it. Bush is the least liked president on record, excepting only Nixon, and Bush is on track to break Nixon's record this spring. Nothing will energize people to vote against Republicans like talk of impeaching Bush and Cheney. Few other issues can provide the dramatic motivation to turn out voters in an off-year election.
The Democrats have been dealt a winning hand, and they're afraid – thus far -- to sit down at the table. Instead they're on the defensive, hiding from Feingold and whining about how opposing Bush will energize Republicans. The corporate punditry meanwhile is on the offensive, pretending that impeachment is actually good for Republicans.
Well, let's see them put their money where their mouths are: contributions to pro-impeachment congressional candidates can be made at www.impeachpac.org
Why is it that I don't expect a rush of Republican contributions?
For one thing, there just aren't that many Bush-Cheney Republicans left, outside of the hired guns in the media. Bush is a very, very unpopular president, and he's twice as popular as Cheney.
The goons promoting the talking points don't really want a stronger movement for impeachment. Look how fast somebody made Senator Chafey reverse his position on censure yesterday. He told multiple media outlets he'd consider voting for censure, and then – faster than you could say Weapon of Mass Destruction – angrily declared he'd never said it.
They don't want impeachment. No pro-impeachment activist group I know of is getting any help from Republicans in power. Certainly the After Downing Street coalition is getting help from lots of lapsed Republicans who want to free the country from Bush and Cheney. But the RNC has yet to contact us.
Fear is the driving force in the Democratic Party. Thus far 32 Congress Members have shaken free of their fears enough to back Congressman John Conyers' bill for an investigation into grounds for impeachment (H Res 635). Where are the others? What are they afraid of?
The media?
Didn't they see the media mock the spineless Senators who ran in terror from Feingold's restrained little foray into the realm of action?
When will the Democrats fire their strategists, ignore their so-called leaders, and listen to the people who have the power to replace not just Republicans but DINOs (Democrats in Name Only) as well?
I have never seen anything excite a crowd like the word impeachment does today. That situation would have the president peeing in his golf shoes if we had an opposition party.
It's our task to create one.
Fund pro-impeachment candidates: www.impeachpac.org
Demand that your representative sign onto H Res 635
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/635
Go to where we still have democracy, the local level, and get your town or city or county to pass a resolution in support of impeaching Bush and Cheney. Send it to the clerk of the House of Representatives.
http://www.impeachpac.org/resolutions
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