Blitzer: "VERY VERY VERY unlikely Cheney will be removed"

[Bluebear]

Here we go.

[ClassWarrior]

1. Sounds like a challenge to me...

:evilgrin:

NGU.

[LisaM]

2. Doesn't matter, as long as he's under the spotlight

which is exactly where he does NOT want to be. He likes operating behind the scenes. It's my opinion that putting the glare of scrutiny on him will be almost as effective as removing him.

[Bluebear]

4. Very astute, Lisa.

I love DU, you are exactly correct!

[ClassWarrior]

12. That's right. Just entertaining the idea of IMPEACHMENT...

...benefits us. Go Dennis!

NGU.

[salin]

30. Moreover,

just taking him out of office leaves the "bad apple" excuse for voters - fence sitters in a cycle or two coming back to the GOP. BUT these ongoing multiple investigations that lead to more and more crying for impeachment - show to the public how deep the corruption goes - far beyond Cheney - how the GOP members in congress acted either as enablers (many) or as partakers in the corruption (also many). The longer he sits in the spotlight - the more things come out - the more likely that the general public conventional wisdom moves far past the "one bad apple" explanation for bush/cheney and to the "Repubs are Bad for Govt" position.

Remember it didn't take many years for Reagan to emerge after the Nixon disgrace. We can't afford another GOP administration (at least until that party purges the neocons and corruption folks and the wacko far religious right from its party - and there are so many of those that it will take a long time for that too happen) at anytime in the near future.

[seafan]

3. Wolfi doesn't want another Cheney spanking. nt

[Fridays Child]

14. Oh, that's right! His butt is probably still smarting from the one he got from Darthette Cheney.

I'd almost forgotten about that!

[TahitiNut]

18. Well, that's what Wolfie gets for pledging the fraternity of corporate necrophilia.

:shrug:

[ourbluenation]

5. which will make it VERY, VERY, VERY delicious when he is.

[speedoo]

6. It won't be the first time idiot Blitzer was wrong, "big time".

Worthless excuse for a journalist.

[libnnc]

7. So Wolfie thinks he's Sybil the Soothsayer now?

Hey Wolfster, you forgot to add the "Some people say..." :eyes:

[Bluebear]

9. 'Sybil the Soothsayer'

:spray:

[NightWatcher]

8. He's just kissing Dick's ass per AIPAC commandment

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Rewarding...Very Very Very...Rewarding.

[WI_DEM]

11. He's probably right.

[Fovea]

16. Nah.

He's just very very very possibly right.
Big dif.

[Bluzmann57]

13. Blitzer is likely correct

I mean in reality, how many Senators are going to convict cheney, should he get impeached? The Dems majority is razor thin, and Lieberman will not vote to convict, that's for sure.

[Fovea]

19. Just the ones seeking future reelection.

all the rest will be safe to vote against conviction.

The rest have to sleep with the idea that their opponent's billboards will all scream--
I would have impeached the bastard!

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

15. wolfoblitz

[spanone]

17. One 'very' might have been forgiven, but three? Complicit criminals.

[fooj]

20. At 9%? What are they waiting for? A negative reading?

[MonkeyFunk]

21. He's right

I'm sorry to be a buzzkill, but the fact that Kucinich is offering articles of impeachment really doesn't mean squat. I'd say it has less than a 1% chance of even making it to the floor.

[ClassWarrior]

22. Doesn't matter, as long as he's under the spotlight

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=744497&mesg_id=744519

NGU.

[MonkeyFunk]

23. well

I don't think this is gonna be much of a spotlight, either.

This doesn't require hearings, it doesn't require a floor vote. It's very likely to be sent to committee where it just dies.

[Bluebear]

24. So it's up to CNN to tell us this?

I thought Blitzer was an anchor, not a political interpreter.

[MonkeyFunk]

25. he's a bit of both

he discusses politics. That includes discussing likely outcomes.

[mmonk]

31. Everybody wants to tell us.

It's so in to give the people the finger.

[ClassWarrior]

26. Yeah, no matter what the Dems do right, it's probably gonna...

...suck or fail anyway, right?

:eyes:

NGU.

[MonkeyFunk]

27. No

but in this case, Blitzer is right - it is extremely unlikely that Cheney will be removed.

[mmonk]

32. It would get hearings and a trial with a positive vote.

Hearings people would pay attention to vs. what we've got now.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

28. Oh well, Wolfie says no, might as well call it a day.

HA! Ya gots ta be kiddin me.

Impeach 'em all, let the Hague sort 'em out.

:patriot:

[symbolman]

29. It's a warning

Like in the movie ALIEN, when you slashed one, the BLOOD of the ALIEN was ACID, and cut through everything, would even burn your arm right off..

Does America want Cheney Blood burning holes in us.. gosh, no. :)

Just leave a trail of dead babies from the gate of his hidey hole into a sunny patch, and he'll melt like any monster.. :)

[cooolandrew]

33. Well, even if it fails, it goes in the history books and that's what counts...

The republican party keep doing all these crimes becaue they feel tehre is no consequence so impeachment is a must even without enough votes.

[MonkeyFunk]

34. are the history books

full of the tale of Cynthia McKinney's impeachment articles against Bush?

[porphyrian]

35. Me: "Blitzer's and the corporate media's opinion is VERY VERY VERY irrelevant." - n/t

[mnhtnbb]

36. hey, Wolfie, keep it up. Maybe you too can have 9% approval ratings like Cheney