Bill (of impeachment) wins Straw Poll of AfterDowningStreet conference

[arendt]

Hey - its just as meaningful, in terms of stopping Bush from driving America over a
cliff in the next eighteen months as any dumbass straw poll.

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For the slow among you, I have decided to parody all the manufactured, marketing-driven,
psuedo events that people post on this board as if said events changed anything. And,
believe me, it is soooo easy to parody.

I may not change your mind, but I will get rid of some of the steam that builds up in
mine as I watch this mindless drivel.

900 posts and there is nothing on.

arendt

[rodeodance]

1. a critical mass who want impeachment has not been met

[arendt]

2. Oh, you can talk up your candidate, and I can't talk up mine?

How do we get critical mass if every time we try to discuss the details we get
met with this "horse race" bullshit talking point?

Just like all we hear about candidates are there polling numbers, and not their
votes or their written proposals, all we get to hear about impeachment is its
polling numbers.

arendt

[pat_k]

4. Vote Bill O'Impeachment 2007!!

It's time for bumper stickers. Lots and lots of bumper stickers.

[pat_k]

3. When did leadership become "find a parade and jump in front" ??

When 100% of the beltway aristocracy, both Republican and Democratic, have pulled out ALL the stops to suppress any calls for impeachment from inside, or outside, the beltway, any residual level of support for impeachment at all would be impressive.

We've got 58% !!!

How much more "critical mass" could you possibly want?

Geez. They'd be thrilled with that kind of support for something they'd been ADVOCATING. To see it with something they are OPPOSING is incredible.

How big must the parade be before the chicken little leadership on the Hill jumps in front??

Give me a break. Insufficient "critical mass" my ass.

And even it if were true, So What? If the public actually had their heads as far up their asses as the people on the Hill, how would that excuse the men and women who took the Congressional oath from fulfilling that oath? Their oath is an oath to fight -- to support and defend. Not to win.

They aren't blind. Our so-called leaders know Bush and Cheney have been waging open and all out war on the Constitution. And they REFUSE to defend.

That is intolerable dereliction. To try to blame their own dereliction on "the public" who sent them there to do a job -- to "support and defend" -- is reprehensible.



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Note: While I'm sure they they were just trying to adhere to the blackout on impeachment polling, but when Newsweek asked, "do you personally wish that George W. Bush's presidency was over" they asked a question that strips away all the impeachophobic excuses that impeachment can't/won't/shouldn't happen. They unintentionally managed to capture the ACTUAL level of support for impeachment.

Newsweek Poll, 27-Jan-07

"At this point in time, do you personally wish that George W. Bush's presidency was over, or don't you feel this way?

58% Yes, wish it was over

37% No, do not

5% Don't know/refused

The breakdown by Party found that 21% of Republicans, which constitutes 7% of all Americans "wish it was over"

Tragically, 12% of Democrats, which constitutes 4% of all Americans "do not" want it over.