What Does It Take To Get Rid Of Cheney?

[Me.]

Effectively we are living under a dictatorship. We have a rez and veep who consider themselves to be above the law. But even worse to my mind, they twist and subvert the laws when they're not ignoring them. Measures are snuck into bills secretly, in the dead of night. One man has stomped on everything the Constitution stands for, aided and abetted by the thumbsucker at his side. Where is the outcry, the outrage? From Congress, the so called pundits, the people? Rahm Emmanuel says he will remove funding. I'll believe it when I see it. Even he, snorting with anger, backed away from impeachment. We have become a nation where party is more important than country. And I have yet to figure out what is holding the dems up. Too afraid they'll be called shrill for defending the basic tenets of this nation? As for the conservatives and that awful group of presidential candidates, none of them should ever be allowed near the government again.

If something doesn't change soon, if the malfeasance of the last six years isn't addressed full on, we are done for.

[Philosoraptor]

1. Nuke him.

[mmonk]

2. A congress we don't have.

[lonestarnot]

3. If this if that... we are already medium rare.

[hughee99]

4. A wooden stake. n/t

[LiberalEsto]

9. And garlic nt

[Kingshakabobo]

5. About an ounce of pure plaque.........if we are lucky n/t

[abluelady]

6. A Hunting Trip. eom

[jojo54]

11. ...with eyesight worse than Dickless!!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[Demeter]

7. One Brave Human--or An Act of God

[Me.]

16. An Act Of God May Be Our Only Real Hope

No lesson learned by the country, and the door wide open for the next American Stalin.

[GeorgeGist]

8. An unlikely hero ...

worthy of our trust and confidence.

[LWolf]

10. It takes Democrats

willing to actively, aggressively, support the Democrat who introduced articles of impeachment.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/24/AR2007042401542.html

[helderheid]

12. HR 333

[jollyreaper2112]

13. Buffy

While technically a Vampire Slayer, she's been known to handle all manner of demons and soulless hellspawn.

[Marr]

14. One cheeseburger.

[DemoTex]

15. WAPO's Sally Quinn Says GOP Looking to Oust Cheney (Kos)

In this morning's Washington Post, Sally Quinn writes that the GOP is trying to figure out how to remove Vice President Dick Cheney from office. She says that even before this weeks's "blockbuster" series in the Post, "discontent was rising in the Republican ranks".

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/26/61020/8043

[Mz Pip]

17. I don't believe it.

Let's see if one Repug steps up to the plate and back R. Emmanuel's idea to cut funding to Cheney's office. Bet it won't happen.

If discontent happens and no one hears it, does it really happen?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[mmonk]

20. How does that work anyway?

[Mz Pip]

24. Congress controls the purse

Write a bill cutting funding. Bush would veto it, but with enough votes they could over ride the veto. They'd need Republicans to do that. Fat chance.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Me.]

18. Interesting

So even they want him gone. For the wrong reasons of course, again party above country. But Thompson, by fiat? Mr. Lobbyist?

[Me.]

23. The Wapo Article

“Removing a sitting vice president is not easy, but this may be the moment. I remember Barry Goldwater sitting in my parents' living room in 1973, in the last days of Watergate, debating whether to lead a group of senior Republicans to the White House to tell President Nixon he had to go. His hesitation was that he felt loyalty to the president and the party. But in the end he felt a greater loyalty to his country, and he went to the White House:" cont…


www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/25/AR2007062501038.html

[hvn_nbr_2]

44. That's the difference between old-time real conservatives like Barry G...

and the current crop of Neanderthal thugs. In the end, he felt more loyalty to his country. The Neanderthal thugs priorities are: 1. power and greed; 2. hating whoever they hate; 3. power and greed for their friends; 4. party; 5. posturing and hearing themselves talk; 6. perks... 88. (if at all) country.

I probably forgot something that should be there in the list. Feel free to re-do to your own satisfaction.

[Me.]

48. Looks To Me Like You Have It Covered

Though perhaps we could say that there isn't a single brain between the lot of them, so they'll never be able to figure it out.

[AlCzervik]

19. Dead hooker in the trunk or a live pool boy?

[Philosoraptor]

21. Is Monica Lewinsky available?

[JHB]

22. Didn't we already have that? (Gannon) n/t

[hvn_nbr_2]

45. If it's not on CorpPravda, it didn't happen. nt

[H2O Man]

25. It does not

appear that the members of congress dare to challenge him, with very few exceptions. A few of the democrats want to pretend that they are brave enough to stand up to him for his actions which display utter contempt for the rule of law and, indeed, the Constitution. But they lack the courage to take any serious steps.

In the past few days, I have noted several times that Cheney scares the members of congress in a manner similar to the way Hoover did. I thought it was interesting that Mr. Matthews used the Hoover example yesterday. It fits.

[Virginia Dare]

26. Who doesn't think that he ordered the anthrax hit on the media and the senate?

yeah, and I'm one of those wackos who thinks he probably had a hand in the planning and execution of 9/11. I think he's one of Poppy's hatchet men going way back, and he's got plenty of dirt on the Bush family which he has carefully and judiciously used over the years to get where he is. He's easily one of the most, if not the most, dangerous and blood thirsty men in the world.

[Me.]

28. Blackmail?

Knows where their bodies are buried? That would account for the chicken little act.

[ReadTomPaine]

47. All it would take to bring this administration down is a powerful Democrat willing to do the job

As usual, you've hit the nail on the head. Democrats will take back the White House when they want the executive branch more than the GOP wishes to keep it. The party knows what to do and how to accomplish that goal, it has simply chosen to do otherwise.

[tbyg52]

49. Yep,

people who stand up for what needs to be done without counting noses and conceding defeat without even getting up out of their chairs. And enough of them. I keep pushing mine, for what it's worth.....

[shifting_sands]

27. Good question

"What will it take." I ask myself that over and over as I watch the complete ineffectiveness of the Democrats. I just read today that only 22 Democratic Senators had signed onto the bill to restore habeas corpus, even Chuck Schumer hasn't signed on. Dumbfounded, I can't figure out what on earth is going on in Washington. In one of your posts Me, you once said how irritated you were with the Washington pundits repeating that we the people just aren't knowledgeable enough to understand, perhaps so, but there are a ton of people who are completely knowledgeable scratching their heads. So what will it take? Bush and Cheney have in effect declared themselves dictators, responsible to no one. I hope Congress does do something about taking the funding away, if Cheney is responsible to no one but the President, let the President pay for his services out of his own dollars from the taxpayers, and if the President isn't responsible to anyone, cut his funding as well. I don't have a lot of hope that would be done but it would be somewhat of a solution.

Good question Me and needs to be asked everyday.

[shifting_sands]

29. good question

In reality, I think what we the people don't know or understand is how complete the selling of their souls and the soul of America has been. I don't think their is anyone with the courage to stand up and tell us the truth and that's why we cannot answer the question.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

30. A strong electromagnetic field. -nt

[Solon]

31. 5 gallons of holy water...

A cross blessed by St. George, the Ark of the Covenant, a couple of tantras to expel demons, a Shaman, and a wooden stake, that should do it. :)

[hyphenate]

43. You forgot a few things

The potato buried under the full moon, the eye of Newt (Gingrich would be preferable!), and the voodoo doll with a few well placed pins in it. :)

[Individualist]

32. An opposition party

Unfortunately, there is no opposition party.

[Beelzebud]

33. A real oppostion party would help.

[DemReadingDU]

34. someone who is

an excellent marksman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marksman

[pat_k]

35. A cure for impeachophobia

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/23

[Gregorian]

36. Strangle him financially.

His money is how he's protecting himself. Isn't he the richest man in the world?

But that would be impossible, legally.

Edit- No. That is totally wrong. I'm confused. His money has nothing to do with it. But still, if we choke his funds, bla bla bla. Basically I don't have a clue. Waaaah!

So I'd say exorcism and a sprinkling of antimatter.

[Me.]

41. His Money Would Have Something To Do With It

If he has been riggng the system so he and his cronies could steal more

[BlueStater]

37. The Democrats growing a pair would certainly help things n/t

[dkofos]

38. Let him go hunting by himself!!

[Gregorian]

39. He's already dead. That wouldn't work.

Night of the living Cheney.

[rec_report]

40. Him to go hunting with himself.

Polar Bear

[hyphenate]

42. There are only three ways

to get rid of both of them. The first is the end of their "terms" in office. The second is impeachment. The third is something I can't write in a public forum because Agent Mike might decide to pay me a visit. :)

[liberalpragmatist]

46. A majority in the House (check) and 67 votes in the Senate (d'oh!)

I'm very amenable to trying anyway; much moreso than going after Bush actually. Reason being that there simply isn't time or political capital to go through two impeachments (and it's highly unlikely that either would remove one of them from office) and if we only got rid of Bush, we'd have PRESIDENT Cheney (a scary enough thought).

But getting rid of Cheney and neutering Bush completely? Close to impossible, but I'm quite willing to try, especially since he's clearly breaking laws and with approval ratings in the teens, I don't see the political downside.