Reply #98: You think he's smirking now? [View All]

[JPettus]

How do you think Georgie will smirk if you impeach and can't get the votes to remove? He will know he won.

How will he smirk if you impeach and the Dems lose votes and seats in Congress the way the Republicans did when they impeached Clinton?

You can impeach and put him under oath. He will play the victim and the Republican-owned corporate media will make him out as a martyr while Georgie and Dickie stall for time. Then, even if you catch him in lies (and not the lame "I don't remember" statements Gonzo is giving) and then show the proof of his lies, the Republicans still won't support removal of George. The Republicans showed that Clinton DID, indeed, lie under oath about Lewinsky and the Dems didn't vote to remove him because they saw impeachment for what it was: politics. Given that, the majority of the Republicans also won't vote to remove. History teaches that if they actually remove the President, the entire party gets swept even more out of seats in the next election. Republicans voting to remove Bush at this time is political suicide for themselves and their party and they know it.

I've said it before and I will say it again: the votes aren't there, and the votes wouldn't be there if we caught Georgie shooting Ted Kennedy on the floor of the senate, with an illegal assault rifle while raping a ten year old boy. If it were captured on video and shown 24x7 on every news channel but Faux Noise, it wouldn't change the votes. If you could prove that Georgie knew when and where 9/11 was going to happen and let it happen, you couldn't get impeachment from most of those clowns.

The vast majority of Republicans have no ethics, only party loyalty. Even now, with their representatives balanced on losing more seats for supporting Bush on Iraq, you still see that we can't get a veto proof majority on our bills. After the Tuesday night massacre in November, they still stand with Bush on Iraq. If we can't get a veto proof majority, where are the votes to impeach going to come from? And that's with the results being considered a mandate on Iraq by everyone but Georgie. However, the Tuesday night massacre was NOT a mandate on removing the President in time of war. That's not what the majority of people voted on when they cast their votes against the Republicans and gave control to the Democrats.

The current strategy of investigation after investigation and publicizing the Bush Admin's crimes hurts them more and it's harder for the media to cover up, also its' more frustrating for the GOP because THEY CAN'T STOP IT. Remember how Starr tortured and embarrassed Clinton in the press? It caused even a popular President to cost votes to the Democrats in 2000. You can't block it with a vote. They can't twist it into making George and his cronies martyrs. Pushing the bills back out there gets more and more polls showing that the majority of voters support a timeline and Bush and the Republicans look more self-serving and anti-American each time, except on hate radio. Each time, Bush looks worse than the time before. And it shows the American people that the Democratic Congress is doing everything it can short of regime change to stop the war.

Now, when polls show that 75-80% of the American people support impeachment, you can likely get that. Right now, its barely 50% and that won't fly to remove Bush with Republicans guarding their own.

The moderate Republicans also took George to task on Iraq, concerned that they will lose more seats in 2008 (and they will) and want action very soon. Yes, they will keep changing the time line. Publicize that change. Put it on billboards. Put it in all the media. Let everybody in America see what a criminal he is. Let the backlash of righteous indignation sweep them completely out of office but a handful of conservative districts that would elect Hitler if he had the big (R) next to his name.

This isn't showy, but it IS winning, and the Republicans know that this strategy in the long run will pay more dividends in terms of removing Republicans from office. Georgie and Dickie remain, but you remove everyone from around them, Gonzo, Harriet, Libby, Rove. Leave Georgie and Dickie as the face of the Republican Party.

Then, see what happens in November, despite the best swiftboat attempts and voter repression the Repugs can manage.