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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:50 AM
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I don't want Bush impeached
I want him to be just another stain on the GOP's "blue dress". Keep him around and beat the GOP incumbents over the head with everything they let Bush get away with over the last 5 years. Then move onto other things, such as the culture of corruption that is the thread holding the blue dress together. The K-Street Project needs to be front and center this year. Randy "Duke" Cunningham needs to be front and center this year. Jack Abramoff needs to be- well, you get the idea.

There are so many reasons to oust the current regime and the right-wing government that supports them. Corruption, fiscal irresponsibility, a war based on lies, the potential that we could become embroiled in yet another war, Katrina and Wilma, vote fraud, Roe v. Wade.

The Republican Party is a part of extremists and radicals. I think that people are beginning to realize that "staying the course" will take America into a downward spiral. We need to change the course if we are to correct the mistakes the Republican Party has made for the last 12 years.

Look at it this way. Staying the course is what made the Titanic famous.

The question is, do we really want to go down with the ship?




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Danascot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:58 AM
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1. Culture of Intellectual Corruption
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 08:58 AM by Danascot
This has probably already been brought to DUs attention, but it bears repeating for those who didn't see it. Richard Cohen in WaPo:

http://www.topplebush.com/oped2604.shtml
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bowens43 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:03 AM
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2. I want m impeached , convicted and removed from office.
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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:10 AM
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3. I want him around through the elections
I want every Republican running to be tainted by the Bush administration, Abramoff, DeLay, the huge debt and the Iraq war. I want them all to feel the pain on election day.

Once we have regained the majority in Congress, then we can start investigating the huge number of incumbent Republicans who are part and parcel of the corruption in Washington. Leaving Bush in the White House while this goes on will only make him look that much worse.

Then, and only then, do I want to go after Bush. And Cheney. And the whole administration.

Leave Bush alone. He has no support. Not even among his own party. He is effectively finished. If you remove him then you are looking at President Cheney, who would be far worse than Bush.




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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:14 AM
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4. he is very much more valuable as a martyr, than a stain on a dress


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auburngrad82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 09:23 AM
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5. I'm assuming you mean to the Republicans
If we impeach him, he will become a rallying cry for the right-wingers to try to regain control. I'm all for weakening the GOP as much as possible before removing Bush.

He is effectively useless as a campaign tool for GOP incumbents and candidates because no one wants to be associated with him. But if we push for impeachment, then the GOP candidates have a tool with which to rally the wingnuts- "the evil power of the Democrats who impeached our great leader".

He will go down in history as probably the worst President in our country's history. That won't change. But keeping him in office while we use the power of Congressional investigations to remove the corrupt members of the GOP will keep him from becoming a martyr.



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