The Perfect Storm: Why President Bush Is Likely to Be Impeached By Nov '07

[kpete]

From:The Suburban Ecstasies
http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/
Friday, March 17, 2006
The Perfect Storm: Why President Bush Is Likely to Be Impeached By November of 2007




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The political winds of the moment can only be assessed with this "perfect storm" in mind. Progressive Democrats are tasked with a) preparing for impeachment proceedings (as by gathering the evidence to be presented therein), and b) keeping the base reminded that impeachment is the likely outcome of victory in November. Moderate Democrats are tasked with a) ensuring the conditions are ripe for a Republican Waterloo in November, and b) disguising from the public their desire to impeach Bush. Moderate Republicans are tasked with deciding when and where and how to jump ship, in order to preserve their own political fortunes while leaving Bush to the dustbin of history. Radical Republicans (though they don't know it) are tasked with taking so many potshots at the President they successfully immobilize him leading up the The Tipping Point, with the consequence that he will have done nothing for them--or Moderate GOPers--by mid-summer, leading both moderate and radical Republicans to stay home on election day. Meanwhile, the women of America, generally speaking, are tasked with waking the fuck up to the realization that Bush and his cronies will ultimately criminalize womanhood if left in power much longer (cf. the South Dakota Inquisition), and voting, therefore, en masse for the Democrats in November, thereby assuring their takeover of Washington.

Put more eloquently, most Democrats will be focused on keeping the Ship of State precisely where it is for about eight more months--that is, balanced precariously on the lip of a whirlpool--while most Republicans will be attentive to exactly when and where and how to lower the lifeboats from the said ship. And Bush, the nation's nominal Captain, will do what all great and honorable captains have done throughout history, when their ship has finally begun to sink. He will do what he has always done in times of trouble, which is return to the drink--though this time it will be the fundamentalist backwaters which spawned him, and not a tumbler of cheap booze.

http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2006/03/perfect-storm-why-president-bush-is.html

[brooklynite]

1. Ask yourself the following question...

Assuming we get control of the House and Senate, there will be a massive amount of repair work to do on Iraq, foreign policy in general, health care, the economy, the environment, civil rights, etc. Do you really want the Democratic Leadership using up its time on a time-consuming, politically controversial impeachment movement instead, knowing that, at best, you'll win and be faced with President Cheney?

[bpilgrim]

2. the only way to make progress now...

is to REMOVE the impediments... not just chimpy.

fyi

peace

[electropop]

3. I think he's out by August 2006.

He's too big a liability for the Repugs in Congress. They're going to dump him.

And yes, the Democratic Leadership, should he still be in after November, should make his removal (and simultaneously the Dick) the top priority. It's not a waste of time to remove them. Trying to make any repairs without removing them is a waste of time. Besides, our national security situation is becoming more dangerous each day. It's too dangerous to keep these madmen in charge. If they stay in another year, we will see mushroom clouds over America; they'll make sure of it.

[sable302]

7. no way

They won't even censure him. He's all they got.

[SammyWinstonJack]

4. Impeachment them both, then. I just want them out ASAP!

[jsamuel]

8. Ye of little faith...

by then Cheney will be indicted by Fitz...

[datadiva]

5. If and when we retake both houses

the VP's political capital would be zilch anyway. But I agree, get em both out of office.

[madinmaryland]

6. If it happens, it will be during the third or fourth quarter 2007.

It also assumes the Dems take over both branches of congress. After 2007, the Dems probably won't be able to get enough repubs to join in the impeachment to make it happen.