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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-11 10:46 PM
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47. +1
Republicans play power games. Democrats try to govern as best they can.

We don't have time for the games.

And the evidence is not as easy as some claim.
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  -Why didn't the Democratic Party Impeach Bush? revolutionnow45  Mar-21-11 08:39 PM   #0 
  - three words  notesdev   Mar-21-11 08:41 PM   #1 
  - Three more words...........  TheDebbieDee   Mar-21-11 08:59 PM   #13 
  - I like your answer better.  bigwillq   Mar-21-11 09:01 PM   #15 
  - had no balls  DainBramaged   Mar-21-11 10:22 PM   #36 
  - I like your answer, too  Keith Bee   Mar-21-11 11:21 PM   #56 
  - But the other one is just as accurate...  JHB   Mar-22-11 11:15 AM   #71 
  - Three more words...  Javaman   Mar-22-11 10:32 AM   #67 
  - Dems were complicit. n/t  slipslidingaway   Mar-21-11 10:42 PM   #43 
  - +1  eowyn_of_rohan   Mar-22-11 11:23 AM   #73 
  - Not. enough. votes.  treestar   Mar-21-11 10:45 PM   #46 
  - The last word in three words were from Pelosi: (it's) "off the table." /nt  Festivito   Mar-22-11 11:22 AM   #72 
  - Or they could have been implicated  WhiteTara   Mar-21-11 08:45 PM   #2 
  - Two Words...  WillyT   Mar-21-11 08:47 PM   #3 
  - They never had the votes, period.  JoePhilly   Mar-21-11 08:47 PM   #4 
  - they always pretend they 'don't have the votes' even with the exec and both houses  revolutionnow45   Mar-21-11 09:07 PM   #18 
  - The most the Democrats had was 49 Senate seats between the beginning...  MilesColtrane   Mar-21-11 10:39 PM   #41 
  - The Democratic plan: Don't stick your neck out too far!  ReggieVeggie   Mar-21-11 10:15 PM   #32 
  - +1  treestar   Mar-21-11 10:46 PM   #47 
  - They most definitely had the votes to impeach just as the Republicans did under Clinton  Bandit   Mar-22-11 08:16 AM   #61 
  - Because most of our weak-assed congressional and Senatorial Dems  Vanje   Mar-21-11 08:48 PM   #5 
  - Yup  MuseRider   Mar-21-11 08:51 PM   #7 
  - + 1000 n/t  slipslidingaway   Mar-21-11 09:35 PM   #23 
  - 67 reasons  Richardo   Mar-21-11 08:50 PM   #6 
  - Yep  EstimatedProphet   Mar-21-11 08:54 PM   #10 
  - ask Pelosi, she won Speaker running on a no impeachment promise  Motown_Johnny   Mar-21-11 08:52 PM   #8 
  - She did not.  Richardo   Mar-21-11 09:00 PM   #14 
     - Yes, facts are important  ReggieVeggie   Mar-21-11 10:20 PM   #35 
     - Crap!  Richardo   Mar-21-11 10:24 PM   #38 
        - So can you now agree that she holds some responsibility for this  Motown_Johnny   Mar-21-11 10:47 PM   #49 
           - No - see my other posts  Richardo   Mar-21-11 11:44 PM   #57 
              - Impeachment is simply holding the trial, you do know that.. right?  Motown_Johnny   Mar-22-11 08:16 AM   #62 
                 - Impeachment is the indictment - the Senate holds the trial  Richardo   Mar-22-11 09:33 AM   #63 
     - I believe you are mistaken, not about facts being important. I agree with that  Motown_Johnny   Mar-21-11 10:42 PM   #44 
  - Congress is/was a bunch of spineless hacks that couldn't get behind Kucinich's  flvegan   Mar-21-11 08:53 PM   #9 
  - +1  smokey nj   Mar-21-11 09:04 PM   #17 
  - Because our party acts as if legitimizing the Republicans is more important  EFerrari   Mar-21-11 08:55 PM   #11 
  - we have a lot of work to do because it is completely out of our hands at this point  revolutionnow45   Mar-21-11 10:53 PM   #53 
  - We need to expose him still!  revolutionnow45   Mar-21-11 08:58 PM   #12 
  - Complicity  Rage for Order   Mar-21-11 09:02 PM   #16 
  - Show of hands... how many of you on this thread think 'impeachment' means 'removal from office'?  Richardo   Mar-21-11 09:08 PM   #19 
  - Blow-back? American would have thanked them once the entire truth came out  revolutionnow45   Mar-21-11 09:57 PM   #24 
  - Well, now, hey, revolution...  BeFree   Mar-21-11 10:10 PM   #30 
  - I have never seen anyone point to a specific clause in the Constitution  cherokeeprogressive   Mar-21-11 10:03 PM   #27 
  - That rather important part seems to always get overlooked.  Travelman   Mar-22-11 10:13 AM   #66 
  - Elizabeth de la Vega's Criminal Indictment of George W. Bush Et Al. -- A BuzzFlash Interview  revolutionnow45   Mar-22-11 11:27 AM   #74 
  - Um, you may not have noticed this, but leaving Bush in office had catastrophic blow-back  EFerrari   Mar-21-11 10:04 PM   #28 
     - Um. There's a Democratic Senate and a Democratic President  Richardo   Mar-21-11 10:11 PM   #31 
        - The political cost of never confronting the Bush Mafia  EFerrari   Mar-21-11 11:11 PM   #54 
           - Calling it 'The Bush Mafia' is one reason why it will never be confronted  Richardo   Mar-22-11 09:35 AM   #64 
              - No, my affectionate nickname for the Bush crime family is not the problem.  EFerrari   Mar-22-11 11:01 AM   #68 
  - This should help.  mmonk   Mar-21-11 09:11 PM   #20 
  - and Koch was supporting the DLC...big surprise!!  revolutionnow45   Mar-21-11 09:59 PM   #26 
  - Because Congress VOTED to authorize the use of force  Lurks Often   Mar-21-11 09:19 PM   #21 
  - Because there isn't a case against him that doesn't indict the Congressional leadership too (nt)  Recursion   Mar-21-11 09:26 PM   #22 
  - ugh because they were in on the warmongering. They're called blue dogs.  lonestarnot   Mar-21-11 09:59 PM   #25 
  - NSA wiretaps meant Bush and Cheney had the donkey pictures.  Octafish   Mar-21-11 10:08 PM   #29 
  - Why didn't we impeach Reagan?  MrSlayer   Mar-21-11 10:19 PM   #33 
  - We Never Had Anywhere Near Enough Votes  AndyTiedye   Mar-21-11 10:19 PM   #34 
  - It's funny. Republicans are never motivated by whether or not they'll get the votes  ReggieVeggie   Mar-21-11 10:23 PM   #37 
  - They *cash-in* bigger campaign contributions.  Amonester   Mar-21-11 10:27 PM   #39 
  - It's All About the Media  AndyTiedye   Mar-21-11 10:40 PM   #42 
  - They didn't get Clinton convicted and removed from office.  MilesColtrane   Mar-21-11 10:46 PM   #48 
  - They do not get what they want  treestar   Mar-21-11 10:47 PM   #50 
  - Exactly.  Ganja Ninja   Mar-22-11 09:48 AM   #65 
  - Impeachment is the process. You can impeach a president and lose the vote  Motown_Johnny   Mar-21-11 10:51 PM   #51 
  - The case against Obama is just as strong, and they have the votes.  Toucano   Mar-21-11 10:33 PM   #40 
  - Keeping our powder dry for, well, for something REALLY big, later, sometime, in the future.... nt  riderinthestorm   Mar-21-11 10:43 PM   #45 
  - no sarcasm tag?  Motown_Johnny   Mar-21-11 10:51 PM   #52 
     - Just a small sob (with that damn pesky sarcasm tag buried in there somewhere...) nt  riderinthestorm   Mar-21-11 11:18 PM   #55 
  - Too little public support for such a thing.  Kaleva   Mar-22-11 12:04 AM   #58 
  - They were too lame and they still are....nt  old mark   Mar-22-11 01:01 AM   #59 
  - Still waiting for HealthCare Reform to kick in....  Scuba   Mar-22-11 06:32 AM   #60 
  - Because they were wimps. Nt  krabigirl   Mar-22-11 11:02 AM   #69 
  - Obama thought - and boy, oh, boy was this naive - that if he decided  Vinca   Mar-22-11 11:13 AM   #70 
 

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