Decision ‘08

Impeach Bush? Sure, Why Not…

I don’t know if you’ve seen the Dana Milbank story in the Washington Post today, but it’s a pretty hilarious look at a recent impeachment forum (hat tip to Betsy Newmark):

The new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds congressional Democrats in the best position they’ve held in 14 years, besting President Bush and Republican lawmakers on Iraq, the economy, health care, immigration, ethics and more.

All of which can mean only one thing: It is time for the Democrats to eat their own.

Right on cue, liberal activists including Cindy Sheehan and Ramsey Clark gathered yesterday at the Busboys & Poets restaurant and bookshop at 14th and V streets NW for what they billed as a forum on “The Impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.” But the participants, while charging the administration with “crimes against humanity,” a “war of aggression” and even “the supreme international crime,” inevitably turned their wrath on congressional Democrats, whom they regarded as a bunch of wimps.

“Does the Democratic Party want to continue to exist or does it want to ignore what 85 percent of its supporters want?” demanded David Swanson, a labor union official who runs “Impeach PAC” and other efforts to remove Bush from office. Singling out Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid (Nev.) for derision, Swanson said that Democrats who do the right thing “are exceptions.”

Sheehan, just back from Caracas, where she praised Venezuela’s anti-American president, Hugo Chavez, and called Bush a “terrorist,” said she expects Democrats will “seriously screw up” the midterm elections in November. Besides, “we can’t wait” for the election, said Sheehan, who is mulling a primary challenge to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).

“Cindy for the Senate!” called out moderator Kevin Zeese, a Ralph Nader acolyte. “It’s important for us to stop thinking as Democrats and Republicans and break out of this two-party straitjacket,” argued Zeese, a third-party candidate for Senate in Maryland.

After the participants made their urgent calls for impeachment proceedings, John Bruhns, identifying himself as an antiwar Iraq veteran, rose for a clarification. If Democrats don’t first “gain control of one of the houses” of Congress, he wondered, “how else can we impeach this monster?”

Swanson had a ready brushoff for Democrats who won’t pursue impeachment because they’re in the minority: “Just go home if you’re going to talk that way.” Offering the lessons of 1994, he said: “The way the Republicans got the majority was not by being scared. . . . It was by going out and speaking on behalf of their base and letting themselves be called radicals.”

Bruhns, wearing a crew cut and business suit, disagreed. Somebody in the audience called for him to “shut up.”

“They didn’t answer my question,” Bruhns protested after the exchange ended. “How do you get impeachment if you don’t win elections? I’m being practical.”

Beautiful…a man wonders how all this grandiose scheming can come to fruition without winning elections, and the reply?…”Shut up”…

The reality-based community, indeed…

4 Responses to “Impeach Bush? Sure, Why Not…”

1 Fred Fry Says:
January 31st, 2006 at 11:42 pm
“Sheehan, just back from Caracas, where she praised Venezuela’s anti-American president, Hugo Chavez, and called Bush a “terrorist,” said she expects Democrats will “seriously screw up” the midterm elections in November.”

Its a sad day for the dems when even Cindy can see the train wreck that they are heading into in November.
2 Politechnical Says:
February 1st, 2006 at 10:06 am
Zeese People, Zey…

Zey Zay Zee Most Amazing Zings:
Get a load of this hippie pot-smoking watermelon, Kevin Zeese:

Free education for all, through college. No military spending unless Congress declares war. Zeese speaks at the “Impeach Bush” forum, sittin…
3 The Sheep's Crib Says:
February 1st, 2006 at 7:47 pm
CLINTON LEGACY: What’s behind the rush to impeac

Seriously, what’s driving the Left’s obsession to impeach Bush?

In The CRIB’s opinion it’s three-fold …
4 Freedom Fight Says:
February 25th, 2006 at 9:52 am
Fair Trade Agreement

Let’s trade Bush and Cheyne for Bin Laden and Al Zarqawi!

Two greed driven terrorists for two ideologically driven terrorists.

Peace!