NYT: Censure/impeachment threat allies conservatives and liberal Dems

[DeepModem Mom]

Call for Censure Is Rallying Cry to Bush's Base
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: March 16, 2006


WASHINGTON, March 15 — Republicans, worried that their conservative base lacks motivation to turn out for the fall elections, have found a new rallying cry in the dreams of liberals about censuring or impeaching President Bush....

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"Impeachment, coming your way if there are changes in who controls the House eight months from now," Paul Weyrich, a veteran conservative organizer, declared last month in an e-mail newsletter.

The threat of impeachment, Mr. Weyrich suggested, was one of the only factors that could inspire the Republican Party's demoralized base to go to the polls. With "impeachment on the horizon," he wrote, "maybe, just maybe, conservatives would not stay at home after all."...

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Brian Jones, a Republican spokesman, said the e-mail messages generated a higher response than anything the party had sent in several months, including bulletins about the Supreme Court confirmations....

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In playing up the impeachment threat, conservatives have forged an alliance of sorts with the most liberal wing of the Democratic Party, where the idea has bounced around since the invasion of Iraq failed to find the banned weapons that the administration had described before the war....


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/politics/16impeach.html?hp&ex=1142571600&en=c0fe339030f1f4ad&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[wtmusic]

1. sure, for those Republicans who still want W

at 33% there are quite a few who don't

[ShockediSay]

2. better to make the 06 elections a referendum on the performance of *

do we keep going in the same direction

or is it time for a change in direction

SIEZE THE FRAMING OF THE ISSUE, STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Rofl

Me think republicans bankrupt of ideas.
Tying big bad bush stone to republicans party
Me think they just de nut themselves with this move.

Demoralise base rofl sick with bush
Now republican party say come defend what you sick off

Rofl republican sucide party.

[EFerrari]

4. No kidding. They worked forty years to bankroll Junior

and we all know how good he is with money. :evilgrin:

[Oversea Visitor]

5. He cant even run company

without driving them to bankruptcy.
And you are now witness his supreme skill at how he run a country :rofl:
Bush the one man army that destroy the USA

[jsamuel]

6. "Call for Censure Is Rallying Cry to Bush's Base" - Haha! They WISH!

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