David Letterman with Scott McClellan - Dave rants on Bush/Cheney

[Lisa0825]

"My feeling about Cheney and also Bush, but especially Cheney is that he just couldn't care less about Americans. And the same is true with George Bush. And all they really want to do is somehow kiss up to the oil people so they can get some great annuity when they're out of office. (applause) There you go Dick! Nice job! (pretends to count money) There's a couple of billion for your troubles! (more applause) I mean he pretty much put Halliburton into business, and the outsourcing of military resources to private mercenary groups and so forth. I mean is there any humanity in either of these guys?"

Lame ass Scott replies: "I still have personal affection for the President...." blah blah blah... :puke:

edited for punctuation.

[patrick t. cakes]

1. Impeach!

The time is now!!

[Lisa0825]

2. I don't know...

I'd love it to happen, but if it will put winning the Presidency at risk, I'll let it go. I'd rather win the presidency and have the new administration conduct investigations.

[patrick t. cakes]

3. i hear ya....

i dont want to hurt obamas chances but
how could impeachment hearings do anything but help at this point.
hearings and investigations would sink the republicans.

lettermans getting applause from talking points that we've been
screaming for years. the country's ready.

[ClassWarrior]

9. How can standing up against crimes against our nation...

"...put winning the Presidency at risk?"

:crazy:

NGU.

[onenote]

10. because the economy, the war, gas prices, health care are what will win this election

Voters are looking forward. It will not help our chances -- both for the WH and for sizable pick ups in the HOuse and Senate -- to change the debate away from the issues that the voters care about. The reaction will be that we have no solutions to the current problems so we want to talk about something else.

[ClassWarrior]

12. That may be the reaction, but it's not the reality. We have the facts on our side, and yet...

...the RW have us so cowed that we don't think even THAT is good enough.

:puke:

NGU.

[onenote]

13. the reaction will be the reality.

And the reaction will be why the fuck are you talking about something that we, the voters, aren't that interested in. The majority of the public, particularly the swing voters that we need to win elections, won't see anything in it for them if Congress goes through an divisive impeachment process that doesn't really impact their daily lives. Gas will still be $4+ dollars a gallon, sons, daughters, husbands and wives will still be in peril, health care will still be an issue, whether or not a debate on whether chimpy should be impeached is held or not, whether or not that debate leads to a vote to impeach and whether or not the Senate finds 67 votes to convict.

All it will do is give the repubs a chance to argue that the Democrats don't have solutions to the problems facing the country -- to the problems impacting the daily lives of most citizens -- and want to talk about something else instead.

LIke a lot of people I think that the some of the actions of this administration rise to the level of impeachable offenses. But like a lot of people, I think that, at this point, I think we're better off looking forward and electing as many Democrats as possible than distracting from that effort to evict chimpy from office a few days earlier than is going to be the case in any event.

[ClassWarrior]

14. We can always go back to our values after we set them aside to win...

...an election, right?

:puke:

As I said, cowed.

NGU.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

4. Letterman's quite pissed (aren't we all) about what...

...has become of our nation. We're an empire on the verge of ruin, thanks to this administration.

[ORDem]

5. Yes, we're on the verge, and there really is no stopping it, although getting the Dems in

will soften the blow, ... a little. The dollar is slowly, but surely, free-falling due to the squandering of our treasure by this administration (which, remember, came in with a budget surplus). We are in hock from now to eternity folks. It's going to be a helluva hangover.

:dem:

[PoliticalAmazon]

11. I think spiraling gas prices are an attempt to destabilize our country....

There are many benefits for Bush/Cheney/neocons to destabilize our country. IMO, the most scary of which is that they can then launch a coup by permanently seizing control of our country. They already have the paramilitary power (Blackwater) to do it.

This opinion is the same gut feeling I had the morning 9/11 occurred, when I realized that Bush/CIA must have at least been passive participants in the attacks. At the very least, they stood silently while plans were being made and carried out.

[kevinmc]

6. I just saw that out here on the West Coast ....... all I can say is WOW ... n/t

[Lisa0825]

7. Scott look stunned!

He just sat there and looked at Dave, without moving until Dave finally asked him what he thought.

[CreekDog]

8. Dave is a ...

Liberal. :applause:

[NatBurner]

15. link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TudvUGEDnkA

[NatBurner]

16. truncated:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_JiDYkmu6s