03/23 - Dems: Bush Abuses Power

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http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=481690§ion=news

Excerpt:

Tue 23 March, 2004 20:14

By Jackie Frank and Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats have accused the White House of election-year "abuses of power" in trying to discredit former top U.S. counter-terrorism official Richard Clarke, who has accused President George W. Bush of ignoring threats from al Qaeda before the September 11 attacks.

Democrats took to the Senate floor to lambast the Bush White House, which had fiercely condemned Clarke on Monday.

"We are seeing abuses of power that cannot be tolerated. The president needs to put a stop to it right now. We need to get to the truth and the president needs to help us do that," Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota said.

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[Bluzmann57]

1. It's nice to see that they are showing some stones

I say keep it up Daschle and co. It's true so go after them.

[FuriousMNDem]

2. One word comes to mind: IMPEACHMENT.

Who can we contact tio impeach Bush?

I'm thinking Rangel or Conyers.

[struggle4progress]

4. Think congress would impeach for warmongering?

[xchrom]

3. didn't byrd try to tell you all that?

now you believe him?

[Voltaire99]

6. Exactly. Byrd's party left him high and dry

His speeches--some of the best in a century--were scarcely attended! And few were those who came to his defense when he was villified. For his courage in taking on the popular war-time president, Byrd became a pariah.

It's rather hard not to conclude from Byrd's treatment that the Democrats didn't want to listen. It was easier just to vote for Bush's war and hope it flopped, or later claim lamely to have been misled.

[Chicago Democrat]

9. God Bless Senator Byrd! He was right all along!

[MasonJar]

5. I always believed Byrd; he's my hero. n/t

[Chicago Democrat]

7. I love Senator Byrd, he is my hero too. Him and Teddy. -eom

[Sugarbleus]

8. Yep, it has been TOTAL character assassination....

All trying to tear down the Clarke's character but no substance on what they believe is wrong with the man's statement/book. Blah.

CHEAP SHOT.