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Wayne Besen
PO Box 25491
Brooklyn, NY 11202
Lately, some Democrats have discussed impeaching Bush. ImpeachPAC's Web site, for example, lists 14 congressional candidates offering commitments to dump the president.
I am sympathetic to this cause and believe that there is a legitimate case to remove the president. However, impeachment is a terrible idea that will lead to increasing partisan bitterness, distract voters from real issues and destabilize the nation.
In America, we have quaint little things called elections. When a candidate wins, we thrive or suffer under his or her leadership. If Americans don't like the choice they made, they can make changes in subsequent elections. Bush is a village idiot - but he is our village idiot - no matter how ruinous or distasteful it may be.
Some of my Democratic friends are now saying, "But look what the Republicans did to Bill Clinton over the Monica incident!"
The perfidious behavior of Republicans just bolsters my point. The GOP impeachment leaders attempted a coup and were guilty, in my opinion, of borderline treason. They spent millions of private and public dollars to investigate Clinton, went on countless fishing expeditions and finally came up with a sex scandal (which they pretended was all about lying).
The Republicans behind the coup did not care about America. They were loyal only to the shadowy conservative movement, at the price of freedom and democracy. If they would have succeeded in removing Clinton, more than half of the nation would have viewed it as an illegitimate transfer of power. All we have to do is look at the history of other nations to see what happens when legitimate leaders are forced from office by a cabal of power-hungry thugs wearing bad suits.
If we want our children to live in a stable, peaceful land where voters decide who leads them, then both Democrats and Republicans will stop frivolously wielding impeachment as a partisan weapon. I look forward to the end of the Bush-era as much as anyone. Sadly, if this nation cares about its political health, it will be in 2008.
9 Comments:
Bush is doing a great job of screwing up the republican hopes for the midterm elections, why get rid of him, besides, who would take over? Cheney? He calls the shots anyway. The Dems will get congress back in 07, be patient. Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at
3/06/2006 1:25 PM
And the reason to vote for democrats in 2006 is...?
(Beside not being George W. Bush, who's not able to run for president again, what do they have to offer hope and inspire people? What is their coherent message?)
posted by Anonymous, at
3/06/2006 2:18 PM
The Dems may not have a coherent message yet, but the reason to vote for them is.....they dont have a runaway culture of corruption, they're not a bunch of homophobic, theocratic plutocrats, they care more for the working class and the environment, and Veterans needs, they dont want to trash the Constitution and replace it with a nitwit monarch wannabe, they're not warmongers who lied us into an illegal war responsible for the death and maiming of THOUSANDS of people, both soldiers and civilians and they dont run the country based on what they THINK God is telling them to do. There's a reason ALL (except for 1) of the returning Vets from Iraq who are running for office are running as Democrats! Bitchard Queer
posted by Anonymous, at
3/06/2006 3:18 PM
Currently, the House and Senate are under the control of traitor-lovin' scum - that's all the reason anybody needs to vote for Democrats.
posted by Anonymous, at
3/06/2006 4:34 PM
Say it ain't so, Wayne. One has to look just a little further back into history to make a better impeachment comparison than the Clinton sex scandal. The Bush Administration's misleading, clandestine policies when it comes to torture, going to war and wiretapping are just as serious, if not more than that of Richard Nixon. To ignore these facts invites future Presidents to continue to abuse the power of their office.
posted by Anonymous, at
3/06/2006 8:38 PM
I'm not hearing all that Wayne. I say first Impeach, then we tar and feather!
posted by Rob7534, at
3/07/2006 1:52 AM
Part of the problem today is the one that we ourselves have helped create, part of the problem is the megadollars that the oil industry has to shape domestic policy with. Bush is the man that these circumstances have helped place in office, and he can't leave soon enough, according to more and more people(if you believe in polls, and stuff, 'statistics'), personally I'd like to see an end to Exxon running our country, if even through a proxy. 'Tar and Feathers', indeed...Bush is a former oilman, there's your tar, the feathers are the national birds'...maybe it's the PUBLIC that's been tarred, and feathered, so to speak...
posted by Anonymous, at
3/20/2006 9:26 PM
