An UnOfficial DU "Last Straw" Straw Poll On Impeachment !!!

[WillyT]

Poll question: An UnOfficial DU "Last Straw" Straw Poll On Impeachment !!!

While many of us here have been promoting the idea of Impeachment (pick your poison: Bush, Cheney, Gonzales), there have been quite a number who have counsel against it. Yet over the last couple of months, or several weeks if you prefer, I've seen many a post that went something like, "That's it. Enough. I am now onboard the Impeachment Train."

So I'm curious, and this IS NOT intended as any type of "I told you so" post, but rather an attempt to gage if folks here are in our little political microcosm are changing their minds about Impeachment. And if so... when did you change your mind, and what was your "final straw"?

For me... although I started tossing the "I" word around after the 2004 elections, I really started seriously considering it a viable option after Katrina.

You?

:shrug:

[JTG of the PRB]

1. I've been hoping for it ever since the 2004 "election."

There is NO WAY Dubya should have won Ohio. It was fixed.

[tblue]

3. 2000 was fixed, too. And not just by the Supreme Court.

[JTG of the PRB]

9. Agreed. But I was willing to have faith in the system back then.

After all, in 2000, I was only 17 - never voted, never particularly though beyond the city of Boulder. I wasn't angry about the 2000 fixing until Chimpy invaded Iraq in 2003. The 2004 election, the first Presidential election I ever voted in, made me even angrier because I could SEE it being fixed for Shrub.

[tblue]

15. If you'd seen this, you would've been pissed in 2000, too

http://www.unprecedented.org/UnprecedentedPress.htm

What they did to black voters in Florida was unforgivable.

[rucky]

2. September 20th, 2002

The Bush Doctrine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine

[Jack Rabbit]

4. The ivasion of Iraq was a war crime on its face

I've been for impeachment since then, but then I've never regarded Bush as the legitimate president. Impeachment is to humor those deluded into thinking that he is. It should suffice to throw his belongings out on the White House lawn and the squatter, face first, after them. He can hoof it back to Crawford.

[Rosemary2205]

5. Congress will not impeach and convict.

I wish it would (there've been plenty of illegal activities to choose from) but it isn't going to. I'm so confident in this that I have promised to eat and entire RAW cow's liver if they do.

I started wishing at the warrantless NSA spying news. Wishin' ain't gettin'.

[WillyT]

6. We'll Be So Happy If They Do, That We'll Let Ya Cook The Liver First, LOL !!!

And don't forget the onions and bacon!!!

:hi:

[Lerkfish]

7. for me, the dereliction of duty in New Orleans was an impeachable offense

so, since then I've seen no other sane option.

When our own citizens are left to die and the govt PREVENTS aid from reaching them, the administration should have been impeached.

[fasttense]

8. Well to be honest, I've been hoping for it since

the dancing supremes made them king in 2000. But I never thought it would get off the ground until after the 2006 elections. I knew the immoral and Un-American repukes would never vote their king down. I thought the Democratic Congress would put it on the table when they had a peak at what the king was hiding under his robes.

[WillyT]

10. Kick !!!

:kick:

[Vidar]

11. I always enjoy youyr posts, Willy, & dagnabit, I like taking polls.

[WillyT]

13. LOL !!! - Why, Thank You !!!

:toast:

:hi:

[madokie]

12. first one

hell I didn't even need to read any further and didn't

[Poiuyt]

14. I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt at first

It was clear very early that he was going to be a bad president, but I didn't think he should be impeached until he committed the supreme international crime...a war of aggression.

[Blue_In_AK]

16. I was willing to give him a pass at first - reluctantly

but the 2004 election did it for me.

[BringEmOn]

17. Since 9-11

[WillyT]

18. Kick !!!

:kick:

[dkofos]

19. For the record, my first thought after the scotus decision was,

HOLY SHIT THIS IS A COUP!

[bdamomma]

27. I believe it was a coup also, they had this premeditated.

[WillyT]

20. Requesting Bigger Sample Kick !!!

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

21. "Impeachment is a bad idea."

[adamuu]

22. sorry to be a pain in the butt

but I've gone back and forth on it.

At the moment i feel that it is an obligation to impeach Bush and Cheney, whether or not it is a good idea politically.

On the other hand, along the way it has occurred to me that keeping them in office demonstrates to America the real dangers of the unitary executive philosophy. In a way, I don't want America to move forward without learning this very hard lesson, for risk that we might go through this whole thing again someday, and pay an even higher price. It seems that there are still some who don't realize what this all means.

So, I didn't vote in the poll.

[WillyT]

That's OK... We Are All Gonna Be Forced To Confront This...

I'm thinking sooner, rather than later.

But thank you for your thoughts.

:hi:

[WillyT]

23. That's OK... We Are All Gonna Be Forced To Confront This...

I'm thinking sooner, rather than later.

But thank you for your thoughts.

:hi:

[WillyT]

24. Oops... LOL !!! - Sorry...

:blush:

[Solly Mack]

25. that Selection 2000 was allowed to stand....

anyone who thought that that wrong could somehow be righted or controlled over time was a fool...

and to ever once - ONCE(for ANY reason) - support a "President" that got into office that way?

pathetic

[Nunyabiz]

26. I find it hard to believe that 11 "alleged democrats" are against Impeachment

on this site, they must be either a closet freeper or clinically insane.

[bmbmd]

29. Impeachment is not important to me.

Investigation, arrest, trial, conviction, and imprisonment are what I seek. Any thing which imperils the likelyhood of those two bastards, plus Scalia, Roberts, and Thomas-being thrown in the tanks is counterproductive.

[Nunyabiz]

30. Great, however none of those will happen until Impeachment starts

[sanskritwarrior]

37. Well most polls say

Bush still has the support of 10% of all Democrats, this poll would seem to bear that out....... :shrug:

[Lost4words]

28. Since December 12 2000!

[KAT119]

31. K&R! Thank you....

[Phredicles]

32. Katrina was when it became blatantly fucking obvious, in my book;

going to war in Iraq was a criminal act, but congress in its alleged wisdom gave him cover to do that.

[Initech]

33. Been in favor of it since 9/11/01.

[WillyT]

34. Last Kick From Me

:kick:

[That Is Quite Enough]

35. I'm ashamed...

...The idea of impeaching Bushco has been crossing my mind pretty much since Afghanistan and Iraq, but only in recent months have I become really adamant on seeing it happen. I feel bad for not wanting it sooner.:cry:

[WillyT]

36. Don't Be Ashamed, Work Toward That Goal !!! - And Welcome To DU Snicker-snack !!!

:toast::bounce::hi::bounce::toast:

Glad ta have ya aboard!!!

:grouphug:

[mdmc]

38. kick

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