Respected NPR commentator invokes IMPEACHMENT.

[ClassWarrior]

On today's All Thing's Considered, Daniel Schorr likened Bush/Cheney**'s firing of the federal prosecutors to "The Saturday Night Massacre," one of the main events in the IMPEACHMENT charges drafted against Rape-Publican Patron Saint Dick Nixon. That's big.

NGU.

[evlbstrd]

1. If that's what it finally takes,

let's get the ball rolling.

[ClassWarrior]

2. I can't recall the exact quote, but he ended with...

...something along the lines of, "And so continues the decline of the Bush Administration."

NGU.

[Sal Minella]

5. "The unmaking of the Bush administration marches on."

[ClassWarrior]

8. That was it! Thanks.

NGU.

[omega minimo]

3. "Rape-Publican"?

What sort of "framing" is that? :shrug:

[ClassWarrior]

18. Ask Sam Seder...

That's how he pronounces the name of the Party of Nixon.

But that's what they do, isn't it? Rape the public? Kind of appropriate, dontcha think?

NGU.

[omega minimo]

23. Ah, The Angry Young Man

"But that's what they do, isn't it? Rape the public? Kind of appropriate, dontcha think?"

No, the flippant use of the word "rape" is misguided.

[ClassWarrior]

24. Thank you for your concern.

NGU.

[Joe Chi Minh]

28. There's no offence too vile to describe what Nixon and his puppet masters were

responsible for. And I don't doubt that rape would have been one of their less savoury sanctions against rebellious peons in South America. Scool of the americas and all that... Remember?

[Sal Minella]

4. click on red "Listen" to hear it.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7718577

The years are not mellowing Dan Schorr noticeably. Thank goodness.

[KansDem]

27. DAMN!!! I didn't fully understand the half of it!

Or even a third/quarter...

These US attorneys can be fired and replaced by Attorney General (Gonzales) for life-time appointments that do not require Senate approval due to a little-known provision of Patriot Act? So Bush can put whomever he wants on the Federal bench without oversight?

And one such US attorney in Arkansas was fired to make way for a Karl Rove protégé?

And I thought firing them to stall investigations into Repub malfeasance was bad enough!!!

Jeee-sus Kyyyyyrist!!!

[longship]

6. Reliving that night,

Saturday, October 20, 1973. The typically slow weekend news cycle was punctuated by a special news report which broke into regular Saturday evening programming.

The following is from that evening as the news of the massacre was first reported.

JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC News: Good evening. The country tonight is in the midst of what may be the most serious Constitutional crisis in its history. The President has fired the special Watergate prosecutor, Archibald Cox. Because of the President's action, the attorney general has resigned. Elliott Richardson has quit, saying he cannot carry out Mr. Nixon's instructions. Richardson's deputy, William Ruckelshaus, has been fired.

Ruckelshaus refused, in a moment of Constitutional drama, to obey a presidential order to fire the special Watergate prosecutor. And half an hour after the special Watergate prosecutor had been fired, agents of the FBI, acting at the direction of the White House, sealed off the offices of the special prosecutor, the offices of the attorney general and the offices of the deputy attorney general.

All of this adds up to a totally unprecedented situation, a grave and profound crisis in which the President has set himself against his own attorney general and the Department of Justice.

Nothing like this has ever happened before.

More than 50,000 telegrams poured in on Capitol Hill today, so many, Western Union was swamped. Most of them demanded impeaching Mr. Nixon.

Chancellor's tag line that night was a bone chilling, "In my career as a correspondent, I never thought I'd be reporting these things."

To punctuate the gravity of the situation, Congressman Margaret Heckler (R-MA), a Republican from a conservative district, reported that calls were 100 to one in favor of impeachment. Conservatives across the nation were calling their congress critters stating that the President had gone to far and that they wanted Congress to take immediate and strong action. The result was inevitable. By the following Tuesday, a mere three days later, 21 resolutions of impeachment had been introduced in Congress.

I leave it as an exercise for anybody to figure out for themselves whether the 1973 Congress took their obligations to the Constitution somewhat more seriously than our 2007 Congress. Extra credit will be given to anybody who makes the connection to journalists taking their obligations as the fourth estate of the government more seriously in 1973.

[yodermon]

14. Congressional Dems, Take Note!

a mere three days later, 21 resolutions of impeachment had been introduced in Congress.

See? It doesn't take long.

[longship]

16. Not long???

Well, I'm not too sure about that. Articles of Impeachment were finally approved by the House Judiciary Committee in early August of the next year. That was nine months after the Saturday Night Massacre and a whole 27 months after the break-in at the Watergate.

History speaks volumes on the undeniable fact that no matter how much we want ChimpCo impeached, there is little chance for it to happen before the 2008 election makes the matter moot.

Still, it *could* happen more quickly. But it doesn't look like that's the way this is going to go.

[Joe Chi Minh]

29. Don't worry about it. If it happens, it happens.

[ClassWarrior]

30. Yup. And I intend to do all I can to help it along.

NGU.

[Le Taz Hot]

20. What's not mentioned here is who finally ended up

doing the firing -- Robert Bork, which was a HUGE reason he didn't get the SC spot. Well, that, and he believed the Constitution was, er, mailable. Hmmmm....

[pat_k]

7. Cheers! "the last of Edward R. Murrow's legendary CBS team" weighs in!! (nt)

[Bozita]

13. the last of the truth-tellers

I love Daniel Schorr.

[ClassWarrior]

25. I don't think I knew that...

Cool!

NGU.

[gratefultobelib]

9. Daniel Schorr is very proud to have been on Nixon's "hit list."

[zulchzulu]

10. MP3 of Daniel Schorr talking about impeachable offenses

http://www.awolcowboy.com/mp3/schorr030507.mp3

Let's see if the MSM picks this up...

[truedelphi]

11. Can't pick it up till discussion of Anna Nichol's burial is finished

You are forgetting the tremendous amount of energy our brave media are putting forth to bring us the TOP NEWS STORY OF THE DAY

[Pryderi]

12. K&R!

[Major Hogwash]

15. Daniel Schorr is a good reporter.

But, they pushed him to the side to keep him from reporting on the events that are truly important.

[ClassWarrior]

32. .

[Ninja Jordan]

17. Wow

[ShortnFiery]

19. Good! Now let's get our Democratic Reps in The House to follow through? n/t

[ClassWarrior]

22. Definitely. When you call 'em today, let 'em know about this commentary.

NGU.

[PhilipShore]

21. Impeach the Madman

[Bobbie Jo]

26. Great...let's pick an offense and get on with it already! n/t

[Dr Fate]

31. The only people opposed to impeachment are Republicans and frightened, timid, out-of-touch DEMS

Pretty much everyone cant stand Bush or this war- and they all know he is liar.

I seriously doubt a majority of voters would side with Bush if DEMS had the guts to go forward.

[porkrind]

33. NPR, AKA "Polite Republican Radio"

If the timid water-carriers at NPR dare to speak out against the rethugs, you know they're toast.

[ClassWarrior]

34. Wouldn't that be News for Polite Rape-Publicans?

B-)

NGU.

[Major Hogwash]

35. Even more reasons tonight to impeach than there were on Monday.

Since Scooter has been convicted.