"Ike would like elections" by H. Brandt Ayers, Anniston Star in Alabama

[jody]

Ike would like elections

Susan Eisenhower, the president's granddaughter, is a slender, pretty author and foreign affairs expert with a wink of mischief playing around her eyes. Ask her where all the Eisenhower Republicans are and she says, “There aren't any.”

One thing is certain, Democrats had better not copy the GOP right wing: arrogantly asserting the right to govern alone, telling the other party it can contribute only by shutting up and sitting down.

And if the word “impeachment” is heard on the lips of any Democrat in Congress, the leadership should get out the duct tape. Republicans tried that, and paid a political price for it.

Ike fumed, “If the right wing wants a fight, they're going to get it. If they want to leave the Republican Party and form a third party, that's their business, but before I end up, either this Republican Party will reflect progressivism or I won't be with them anymore.

[cyclezealot]

1. I agree Democrats should not overuse the word impeachment.

But, not as a Democrat; but as A US Citizen. I want to know about Iraqi intelligence manipulation, war profiteering, who authorized torture, extent of domestic spying, etc. It is not a partisan thing ,but Congress' function. It's called checks and balance, which have been ignored the last six years.
I will not use the word impeachment lightly, ( even if in my front yard, there is an impeach bush sign. ) That is my right. Congress can't use such terms so lightly. And, a recent poll on Yahoo News, a huge majority of Americans , when polled, said if Bush manipulated war intelligence , like 70% said, he should be impeached. Let the chips fall where they may.
Meanwhile back to DC, how do we get the truth we deserve, yet not be too partisan. The truth will set you free and reveal to the Nation how corrupt Bush is, which they must know in order to be informed US Citizens.
How do we chart these troubled waters.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. An interesting piece, a humane author even if I don't see things his way...but

one particular piece of delusionality comes floating up:

"With the House in Democratic hands, the Republican Party's worst nightmare has become a waking reality. Democrats control investigating committees, which finally will demand accountability for the GOP war, debt and influence peddling.

"When the hidden truth fills the airwaves and front pages for months, only the independence and integrity of the GOP presidential contender, Senator John McCain, can prevent a Democratic sweep of historic proportions, reducing the GOP to the status of an opposition party."

The McCain myth persists.

[Joe Chi Minh]

3. How sad to hear such foolishness from the mouth of a scion of

the Eisenhower family.

Minds with a tricky worldly intelligence, completely bereft of the least scintilla of wisdom are two a penny. Witness the unutterably stupid neocons, to take just one topical example. An Intelligence Quotient may very easily denote a perfectly parallel Imbecility Quotient. But where is the wisdom so noticeable in what we know of Eisenhower? Or for that matter, his son?

I believe it was Ike's son I saw on a cable TV documentary on De Gaulle. He wrily, and with great amusement, commented on how de Gaulle had finessed the Allies, most notably, Roosevelt, who couldn't stand him. Roosevelt was baffled how, without any power-base whatsoever, De Gaulle presume to treat with him and Churchill on no less than equal terms!

Not only is the notion of McCain as a viable politician in any capacity now deeply distasteful and patently incredible, but it fills the reader with the same kind of feeling of barely-suppressed nausea towards Ms Eisenhower's thought processes and feelings.

However, even that can't match the depth of folly of her sorry attempt to compare the impeachment of * and any number of other senior neocons with the Republicans' desperately but very deservedly unsuccessful impeachment of Clinton. It is so obviously comparing chalk with cheese.

Despite all the cacophany of the Republican's MSM noise-machine, indeed the machinations of the whole panoply of State, intent on bringing Clinton down, I don't believe his popularity flagged one whit. In fact, I believe the public took great delight in shooting down in flames the venal and perjurious talking-heads, who had doubtless framed the vox-pop poll questions to portray Clinton as a President emphatically reviled by the American public. As it turned out - in their dreams!

Now, however, the people are crying out for that crew to be held to account for their immense gallimaufrey of corruption and malfeasance. Serious, serious crimes. She really must think the American people very stupid.

Having checked the article, I see that it is one H Brandt Ayers,whose foolish opinion piece this is. And I'm greatly relieved.