Impeachment? How about a straightjacket

[toddaa]

The guy is porkie pig loonie toons. I kept waiting for a guy in a white shirt to come in and give him another shot of lithium to keep him on script. Our nation's highest seat is occupied by a raving lunatic.

This is fucking insane. It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. We all know what's going to happen, but we can't stop it. Impeachment hearings aren't going to stop the bombs being dropped on Iran and Syria. Everything has been set in motion and we are now, officially, spectators.

Excuse me, I'm going to go vomit now.

[mzmolly]

1. Someone one described him as a compulsive gambler who keeps

doubling down.

Indeed, he need a straight jacket. Thanks for the chuckle in spite of it all.

[AndyTiedye]

2. All Well and Good if It Were HIS OWN Money/Future Being Gambled Away

[mzmolly]

3. Exactly.

He's gambling with everyone else's money.

[cassiepriam]

4. And lives................ nt

[mzmolly]

5. Right.

:(

[vickitulsa]

6. So glad to see that someone else sees it precisely as I do.

From the madman's speech tonight, we can all consider ourselves warned: He WILL be ordering attacks on Iran and Syria.

As you said, toddaa, "Impeachment hearings aren't going to stop the bombs being dropped on Iran and Syria. Everything has been set in motion and we are now, officially, spectators."

No one should be suggesting, after tonight, that "we don't have enough troops" to attack Iran, or whatever other excuse some even here at DU have been offering for their denial and disbelief that * will broaden his war in Iraq very soon now.

Our worst nightmare is coming true, folks. The lunatic in the White House confirmed it all for us tonight.

Brace yourselves for the law of unintended consequences to make itself very painfully known to Americans once again.


Makes me wanna puke too. Bigtime. :puke: :puke:

[pat_k]

7. Impeachment could happen so fast the pund-idiots won't know what hit them. . .

You are not alone. Every day, more Americans are struck by the sickening horror of what our nation has become.

But where there is life, there is hope -- and in the present crisis, there are powerful reasons to hope. More than half the nation already wants impeachment to be a priority in the 110th Congress (http://january6th.org/oct2006-newsweek-poll-impeach.html">Newsweek poll).

The notion that "Impeachment hearings aren't going to stop. . ." is a self-defeating prophesy. To predict the future with such assurance requires a belief in our own omniscience -- a belief that members of the reality-based community must reject.

The reality is that Bush and Cheney could be out by President's Day. Sure, impeachment may never happen, but the nation's outrage is a powder keg. It just needs a spark, and that spark is the word Impeachment. When the Congressional leadership "Says the word" events could move incredibly fast.

Impeachment hearings don't need to take more than a day. We know all we need to know to impeach. Their policy of torture is public record. The Supreme Court's Hamdam ruling was a declaration that three years of war crimes had already been committed. (And that was out of a court even more stacked than the treasonous Bush v. Gore court.) Bush and Cheney are an intolerable threat to our constitutional democracy. Deeper investigation to root out co-conspirators and to prosecute crimes can follow impeachment, but the first priority is to defend the Constitution by removing the threat.

As soon as the Congressional leadership takes up the fight for impeachment, Republicans will be VERY motivated to pressure Bush and Cheney to take the resignation "exit strategy."

From http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/12

. . .
Republicans may not be willing to defend the indefensible for long. When Bush nullified McCain's anti-torture amendment (which passed with over 90 votes) he slapped them in the face. They would be hard pressed to defend Bush for abusing signing statements nullify the overwhelming will of the people in order to keep torture "on the table." Warner, Graham, McCain, and Collins (may have been others I'm not recalling) came out against the "War Criminals Protection Act." The "compromise" they got was not much of one, it just shifted the responsibility for actually approving torture to Bush (as opposed to approving it themselves and becoming War Criminals). Specter dismissed the WH defense of the criminal surveillance program as absurd. There are some other "rational" Republicans (Snowe, Hagel, and Lugar).

Repubs will certainly try the "Un-Patriotic to attack the President in War time" bit (the only "attack" on impeachment we have heard out of them) but that doesn't go far if Repubs aren't willing to defend against the indefensible charges (which they aren't even doing now).

Bush and Cheney are an albatross that many Republicans would be happy to get rid of. . .

[porphyrian]

8. I love hearing that every time someone says it.

Impeachment is coming, if the bastards don't quit first.

[Senator]

9. We Can Multitask

And the Senators are certainly above allowing any "necessary medical device" to color their judgement of the impeachment charges.

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