Folks, if we want to win 2006, Timing is Critical

[rpgamerd00d]

Strategy dictates that we "string this along" (the NSA stuff) until well into next year before we press the word "Impeachment" onto the airwaves and into peoples minds. If Impeachment hearings are going on during the 2006 election and the months just before it, it will tilt the elections in our favor. If the Republicans were smart, they would RUSH thru Impeachment hearings now, get it over and done with, and get it dead and buried before Aug 2006. Because if this is still going on as of Aug/Sept 2006, it will still be fresh on peoples minds during the Elections.

So, DONT RUSH THEM.

Let it play out at the proper pace. Its to our advantage that this takes the proper time. Rushing doesn't help.

[LSparkle]

1. We can hold "forums" but probably not hearings

since we're in the minority, but we should at least do that -- to keep the "i" word in play -- throughout the year. Nationalize the election, tie all Repugs to * and his corruption/cronyism and power grabs. Remind voters we NEED CHECKS AND BALANCES so give us more seats and you'll get it.

[PATRICK]

2. No, but prudence is a watchword

The Dems must always take a stand, but be wary that it will not be manipulated and bullied by spin so that the public, numb like a jury worn down by the lawyers and the repeated evidence or lack of information and the arguments for ambiguity, will in essence give dictatorship a pass.

Don't act passively as if a "free press" exists that will simply take a natural political course and not just slide away and change the subject. Don't act irresponsibly inert and silent as if the public would turn to us LATER as an alternative. Half the doubtful issue we are faced with is this fatal old King Log wisdom which presumes too much there will be something left to fight with when corruption entirely consumes the swamp.

It is only partly true and we shouldn't cringe as partial Democrats in fear of losing a partial advantage. The country and the suffering victims of this administration(all of us, by the way) hardly appreciate this all too blatant strategy. A cold strategy, I might add, that the media can pound into the consciousness of the nation before they ever get on the GOP case.

As far as progressives with armchair quarterbacking that might also be crudely ineffective, do WE have signs we can trust these prudent hopes and this party leadership? If we have doubts just what does one expect to do with rallying the people in 2006 to the positive deep mandate that is truly required in this crisis?

It may not be perfect but duty and oath demands that something be done and reason demands that it be done with better wisdom and real reform than has been shown in the past.

[baby_bear]

3. Impeachment has to come in its own course

Remember Nixon. To many citizens, it was clear that Watergate was impeachable before he was re-elected, but it took much longer than that to convince Congress and the majority of the citizenry.

If impeachment is called for too soon, it will embolden *'s base, just to spite those of us who cherich the constitution and civil liberties (to say nothing of democracy).

Let him twist in the wind awhile. We need to get this one right.

Remember that a lot of people don't get the nuance of doing what is legal vs. doing whatever Bush wants.

b_b