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William F. Buckley
IMPEACH BUSH?
Fri Oct 26, 7:57 PM ET
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What stands out this time around is that there are no serious people urging impeachment. By “serious” is here intended, men and women of sobriety who weigh conscientiously what constitutes impeachable presidential behavior. Mr. Bush is swimming in very low political tides. Although he beat down with ease the outrageous and insulting charges of Rep. Pete Stark of California, it is striking that a member of Congress felt free to indulge in that level of public obloquy. There was enough of that for Bush in the election of 2006, which was interpreted, reasonably, as a repudiation of his leadership. If ours were a form of government patterned after that of the Europeans, Bush would probably have been replaced as leader of his party. But the majority of the American people still think of him as a man of good will and very stout heart who is pursuing his duties as he sees them, a man, moreover, of conspicuous incorruptibility. Let the people pronounce on his stewardship in November 2008. |
Well if you ever needed to have it spelled out for you there it is.
We are not serious people.
We are not “men and women of sobriety who weigh conscientiously what constitutes impeachable presidential behavior.”
And just so you know what “serious” is?
Lying about a blow job.
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Let’s be “serious”.
What an old dick.
..even if he doesn’t recognise the ICC.
As I’ve stated before, I know the way, what the building looks like and am quite prepared to drive. Just kick his ass off a nuclear crap boat at an English Northeastern port, I and others like me will do the rest.
If not….
Bollocks.
Open a fuckin’ drunk tank and try him by his peers.
shrub is making a lot of rich people even more obscenely wealthy. Oil people. Texan Natural Gas terminal entrepreneurs. Lockheed-Martin. Blackwater. Halliburton. KBR. All the best people are getting wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of avarice as what aspired to become western democratic civilization burns around us.
Clinton made no one rich except people who could invest in real estate (homes) and their retirement account (401k, IRA). But that’s punk money.
“But the majority of the American people still think of him as a man of good will and very stout heart…”
Yeah, right.
I never expected impeachment to get anywhere but I always felt it was my responsibility as a citizen to push for it. If Bush’s lies weren’t impeachable, what is?
We’ve got a long uphill battle in improving the Democratic party.
shows how weak and moribund the American Left is. For all the blog-triumphalism that goes on in left-blogs, what has been accomplished really? Compare it to the political situation that got Clinton impeached. The point is the had the *power* to do it.
Impeachment is a political act–it doesn’t have much to do with a statute being broken. Technically Bush is a scofflaw–the national and international laws he has broken are well-documents and unambiguous. But he has his hand on the hammer of power. I’m not going into why or how it this comment but he has 24% approval and still the Democrats won’t impeach or investigate his crimes or find out where all the money went that has been stolen during the so-called “War on Terror”. What does that tell you? Really, I repeat what does that tell you?
So next time you feel warm and fuzzy about the power of the the left blogosphere (and it does have some power) ask yourself those questions and start investigating how power actually works in this country. And for a start get rid of you high-school mentality (i.e., “it’s not fair”) and your addiction to the mind-control tricks created by the mainstream media propaganda organs.
That anyone can write this about Bushie
“a man, moreover, of conspicuous incorruptibility”
shows we haven’t done our job. That Bush isn’t connected to the “lost” billions” in Iraq, the no bid contracts to Halliburton, the secret energy meetings, etc, shows we have a weak media and a quiet constituency here. Blasted improprieties online accomplishes nothing–calling editors and elected officials is much more effective. Tying unnecessary war with abortion was a play waiting to be written. Same with the environment–which is getting some traction –supplied by rightious clergy (who knew there were any left).
The internet has become a distraction–a place to vent uselessly. I’m proud to have badgered Walter Jones’ office–and he’s a crazy Republican against the war. I didn’t convert him, but my calls might have had some effect.
Pelosi has made us not “serious.” She is the Devil’s helper.
is Buckley living in?
Yeah! Like pardoning Scooter. Nothing corrupt about that!
I gotta admit I’m having fantasies of waterboarding ol’ Buckley.
“this time around”?
“…the majority of the American people still think of him as a man of good will…”
really?