"We rather quickly ran out of cons" -- Impeachment Snowballs

[pat_k]

Resolution urges Bush's ouster

AUGUSTA -- The question was whether to accept a resolution to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. . .

"We rather quickly ran out of cons," said Rita Moran of Winthrop, chairperson of the Kennebec County Democratic Committee. . .

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Dems in Maine get it!

There is NO DOWNSIDE!

Must impaach Bush & Cheney

Impeachment is not just the RIGHT thing to do, it's the WINNING thing to do!!

Help the members of Congress that represent you and the Candidates you support see the light. Challenge their bogus rationalizations for deriliction of duty.

. . .Rarely, if ever, do we hear that taking up the fight to initiate impeachment proceedings will benefit any leader who does so. This omission is mystifying, particularly because there is solid evidence that fighting for impeachment is a political winner.

• Being an accomplice to crime is NEVER good politics.
  
  Our leaders just need to look at their failure to take a stand against the Iraq war for proof. The public believes that most of them voted for the war because they feared they would be called names ("unpatriotic" or whatever). They are now paying a serious price for giving in to threats of "backlash" then.
  
  There are reports that our leaders are allowing the same fear to deter them from taking up the fight for impeachment. ("We can't demand an impeachment inquiry. If we do they'll call us unpatriotic for attacking a president in a time of war").
  
  If our leaders do not overcome this fear and act, they will be digging themselves into a hole they may never get out of.
  
  When we find out the magnitude of the crimes committed by the Bush administration (and we will, sooner or later) do they really want to pay the political price for being accomplices in those crimes?


• Standing on principle always benefits the leader who does so.
  
  As President Clinton says, people will always choose "strong and wrong" over "weak and right." It's certainly no secret that of what legitimate support Bush gets, much of it is simply based on a, carefully crafted, "strong leader" perception.
  
  Should the Democratic Party finally recognize that they have a duty to take up the fight for impeachment, even if it turns out to be a "charge of the light brigade," it would not be surprising to see them garner an additional 5-7% of the white male vote, simply for showing the fortitude that demographic respects.

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[ClassWarrior]

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[annabanana]

2. This is the quote that makes ME nutz!

It is clear that the author has marginalized the power of a compromised media to make black, white and up, down...

This omission is mystifying, particularly because there is solid evidence that fighting for impeachment is a political winner."

Anyone who has been paying attention is NOT "mystified".

(nom)

[pat_k]

3. Intended as innocent sarcasm -- apparently poorly done.

Asserting that we are MYSTIFIED BY YOUR IDIOCY challenges them. We can elicit their rationalizaitons by demanding an explanation for their inexplicable behavior (inexplicable to anyone outside their insular little world). When we elicit there rationalizations, we must directly challenge them.

Citizen lobbyists engaging them (or members of their staff) in dialog is the MOST effective way to insert reality.

[Hissyspit]

4. kicked and recommended

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Upsidaisy

Has the DLC taken a stand on impeachment yet? When are they going to come out against it?

Just wondering.

[pat_k]

7. Inquiring minds want to know!

Worth poking around. I'm sure they've got some sort of dismissive statement on the record.

Gees. Even Barney Frank made an asinine comment about Impeachment being a useless distraction -- that activists should be spending their time on other things (Like what, you've gotta wonder. What do you work on when your laws aren't worth the paper they are printed on??)

[Wilms]

6. K&R n/t

[autorank]

8. Rove can work at a Lobster Shack, milk cows, weave nets...

Maine, show us our attitude...this is great. Thanks.

[katinmn]

9. K&N!

[gratuitous]

10. Stand for something, indeed

How many brain-dead repetitions of the meme do you hear that Stupidhead is "decisive" or "resolute"? Sure, he's wrong as can be, and people are dying by the thousands because of his poor decisions, but by golly, he sticks by his decisions no matter how wrong they are.

A little passion might not be a bad thing from the Democrats. Show people that you care about the mess Bush and his corrupt administration are making out of our country.