A Voice From The Right Calls For Impeachment
The lovely La Shawn Barber thinks the case can be made for impeaching Bush…yes, she’s from the right, and no, I bet you can’t guess on what grounds…at least without reading on…
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A Voice From The Right Calls For ImpeachmentThe lovely La Shawn Barber thinks the case can be made for impeaching Bush…yes, she’s from the right, and no, I bet you can’t guess on what grounds…at least without reading on… 8 comments to A Voice From The Right Calls For ImpeachmentLeave a Reply |
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I read that yesterday. She’s a nutcase.
Bush Should Be Impeached For Lack Of Action On Immigration
When someone doesn’t do their job — unless they’re a teacher or government employee — they’re fired. Even in some cases if you’re a government employee you get fired for being a total screw up. When you’re as incompetent as…
Ryan, I like La Shawn, but I can’t even come close to agreeing with her on this one – first of all, what President (of late, anyway?) HAS enforced the immigration laws? And where is the Congress in all this?
Nevertheless, I present it as another voice…
You know, I’m really left puzzled as to why so many people seem to be getting agitated about illegal immigration now, either pro or con. Bush has been pursuing the same policies for several years, so none of this is new, making the folks on the right like Polipundit and LaShawn look more than a bit ridiculous when they start talking about impeachment, since they were all for re-electing him in 2004. I guess BDS cuts both ways.
I mean, if you want to raise a stink about immigration, swell. But as you said, Mark, we haven’t had any presidents who have treated this stuff seriously. My guess is the main reason for the current over-the-top rhetoric is to scare the 2008 candidates into taking more hardcore pledges.
Actually Dennis, I (and a lot of other people I know) have been complaining about illegal immigration since at least 2000, when I for one wondered aloud just how well AlGore (and no, that’s not a typo) did with the illegal immigrant vote in Florida.
And Ryan, I thought name calling was what the Looney Left did when they couldn’t come up with a reasoned argument against a position. (Yeah Mark, I know; it’s your blog, your rules, but that kind of thing really annoys me.)
I don’t agree at all with her premise, but it would be prudent if the GOP gets ahead of this story soon, or else risk reacting to it until passions overflow on both sides. Bush presented a decent plan a few weeks ago, but Congress seems intent on playing a waiting game until this year’s elections. Bad strategy.
fatman, you’re definitely right that some people have been complaining about this for quite a while, and that’s fine with me. I guess what puzzles me is the recent ramping of rhetoric, so that some noted bloggers who have been firmly for Bush are now suddenly tossing around words like “impeachment” and “traitor,” as if they just discovered his immigration policy. I don’t like such extremist rehtoric no matter what, but it seems really crazy when it’s applied only now to a guy who hasn’t much changed his position on the matter since he took office.
Impeachment is a political decision as a Constitutional matter. The House members may vote for it or against it, on any grounds or indeed, none whatsoever and are answerable only to the electorate. That’s good enough for me. Let the impeachers of whatever variety bring their charges. They will be considered commensurate with their weight. As a Bushie diehard, I am confident that such charges are without merit. But with or without merit, the charges are believed by a substantial (let’s say 20%) of the electorate. I say the same thing here I would say in any barroom with a slobbering anti-Bushie who declares a sweeping state of “corruption”…..
“Corruption?”
“Yes.”
“Meaning they have committed crimes and profitted thereby.”
“YES!”
“What crime?”
“What crime? WHAT CRIME?”
“What crime and what is the evidence of that crime?”
And the answer to THAT, my friends, is always and everywhere a chorus of crickets. Get it in writing, Lefties, and let’s have a look. The “foundation” of illegality in the Patriot Act, FISA and the other bugbears of our antagonists is gossamer thin and almost completely against the tide of precedent. I’m pretty sure such things will ever prove thus but I could be wrong. Spell it out. In legalese. And we shall see.