Is the House Finally Considering Impeachment of Bush?
By Deb Cupples on July 18, 2008 at 4:26 PM in Bush/Cheney, Constitution, George Bush, impeachment
Two days ago, the House voted to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s “latest impeachment effort” (H.R. 1345) to the House Judiciary Committee (CQ). Merely impeaching President Bush would not remove him from office: removal would require a conviction by two-thirds of the Senate members present. (Constitution, Article I, sections 2 & 3)
Given the Senate’s current make up, it seems unlikely that the Senate actually would convict President Bush, but the House has the numbers to impeach him.
Even without a conviction, mere impeachment would be worthwhile if only to send messages 1) to future presidents with power-abuse problems, and 2) to future school children who will learn about our nation’s character and values by studying American history.
That and impeachment would let the world’s other (largely horrified) nations know that America is not as fundamentally horrifying as the Bush Administration has made us seem.
Today, House Judiciary Committee chairman John Conyers announced that the committee will hold a hearing on July 25 about the "the Imperial Presidency of George W. Bush and possible legal responses. " That seems like a solid move forward on impeachment. Conyers states:
"Over the last seven plus years, there have been numerous credible allegations of serious misconduct by officials in the Bush Administration….
"Since the beginning of the 110th Congress, the Committee has conducted extensive oversight into allegations of misconduct by the administration, including:
"(1) improper politicization of the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorneys offices, including potential misuse of authority with regard to election and voting
controversies;"(2) misuse of executive branch authority and the adoption and implementation of the so-called unitary executive theory, including in the areas of presidential signing statements and regulatory authority;
"(3) misuse of investigatory and detention authority with regard to U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, including questions regarding the legality of the administration’s surveillance, detention, interrogation, and rendition programs;
"(4) manipulation of intelligence and misuse of war powers, including possible misrepresentations to Congress related thereto;
"(5) improper retaliation against administration critics, including disclosing information concerning CIA operative Valerie Plame, and obstruction of justice related thereto; and
"(6) misuse of authority in denying Congress and the American people the ability to oversee and scrutinize conduct within the administration, including through the use of various asserted privileges and immunities."
The Constitution gives the House the right to impeach a president for, among other things, "high crimes and misdemeanors" (Article II, Section 4). The case law is neither abundant nor definite about what sorts of Presidential behavior qualifies as "high crimes and misdemeanors," likely because only two presidents have been impeached (Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton).
If a president can be impeached (though not convicted) for committing perjury about an extra-marital affair, than I suspect that the House could credibly argue for the impeachment of President Bush based on any of the six types of misconduct that Rep. Conyers listed.
Time’ll tell on this one. [I wasn’t able to link to Conyers’ statement, because it isn’t yet up at the Judiciary Committee
website, which I got it via email. Cross posted at Buck Naked Politics.
If they can impeach Clinton for lying about getting a blow job then they sure as hell can impeach Bush! He should have been thrown out long time ago.
He should never have been in the White House as President.
Where was Pelosi and Company in 2003?
They rubber stamped this whole mess, that’s where!
Oh please, Let’s not be distracted. There is plenty of time for that. Nobama has no intere$t in this ~ status quo is momentus.
How is that for Latin, HoBo DunnHam?
Walk on water, first and then show me Impeachment someday. A distraction, its just a minute diversion and time will play this one out.
White House as Is is Honkey-Scory for the self-nominated demostatic-hypocratic candidate for dicktator of the whole wide world.
Where is Ed Rendell, Michael Nutter, President Clinton, Senator Clinton, Josh Shapiro, Jesse Jackson, Kathy and Norman Bates when you need them? James and Mary Carville, come out, come out wherever you are!
General Election First. Cheyney & Cohorts, next. Leave poor little Geoge alone. He’s a personal fella if only you got to know him. He has a higher Father.
Now that he was in the EH, let’s take a look at his next job:
RESUME
GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington , DC 20520
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement:
I was arrested in Kennebunkport , Maine , in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver’s license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving record has been “lost” and is not available.
Military:
I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL. I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use. By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam ..
College:
I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a cheerleader.
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE :
I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
I began my career in the oil business in Midland , Texas in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn’t find any oil in Texas . The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
With the help of my father and our friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas .
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union . During my tenure,Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America .
I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.
With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida , and my father’s appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President of the United States , after losing by over 500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market. In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues.
I’m proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My “poorest millionaire,” Condoleezza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.
I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.
I am the all- time U.S and world record -holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.
My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history, Enron.
My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.
I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history. I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
I appointed more convicted criminals to my administration than any President in U.S. history
I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States Government.
I’ve broken more international treaties than any President in U.S. history.
I am the first President in U.S history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.
I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. “prisoners of war” detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US election).
I set the record for fewest numbers of press conferences of any President since the advent of television.
I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year period. After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
I garnered the most sympathy ever for the U.S. after the World Trade Center attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.
I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. Citizens and the world community.
I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty troops and their families in wartime.
In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and then blamed the lies on our British friends.
I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
I am supporting development of a nuclear “Tactical Bunker Buster,” a WMD.
I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden to justice.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father’s library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President, attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. I specified that my sealed documents will not be available for 50 years.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW!
“Susan S.”
Sorry, should read….in the WH (not EH)
Riiight, just like Ronnie Reagan and George Sr. during Iran-Contra. Even Ollie North is on Fox now. The CIA controls the flow of drugs throughout the globe, which in turn pays for operations like the supposed Sunni-Shite insurgency or Al-Qaeda. Keeping US forces in a region of the globe we are economically one hundred percent dependent. George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Colin Powell, Condoleeza Rice will all go on to lead healthy and very prosperous lives. Newt Gingrich was having an affair while impeaching Bill Clinton. It wasn’t the blowjob that got Clinton impeached it was lying about it. Reagan gave a record number of “I don’t recall…”, and W.? He doesn’t recognize the authority of the court or congress. He is King, afterall, granted his power by God, so he doesn’t even testify.
Anyone interested in knowing more about Pelosi, I wrote an article for my newspaper in San Francisco right before she became Speaker in 2006. Suprisingly little is written about her, and its a shame, because to know her is to know how far down the sewer the Democratic Party has gone. Here’s a direct link (PDF). For an article about the manipulation of this year’s presidential election, click on my screen name.
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Oct_25/NancyPelosi.pdf
New York Times and National Review Agree: Obama is a Wimp.
http://patriotroom.com/?p=567
Here’s a little gem.
Heh.
haha, love it!
I got this from one of my friends in Germany today that I asked to please send me his speech.
Iran: Death to non-Muslims
I guess Obama wont be able to visit after all.
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Persecution/Default.aspx?id=179068
Ouch!
This should have been done long ago but the spineless democratic leadership only brings it up now to score political points. Instead of voting down the FISA act they decide to hold impeachment hearings this summer. Pathetic
I agree.
After Obama has been practically selected as the nominee, how can anyone see this as anything other than a ploy to consolidate Democratic votes?
They could have held impeachment hearings anytime over the last couple of years and they choose less than four months before the GE?!
I’m not fooled. These people think we are sheep, plain and simple. They’re going to find out these sheep are powerful!
It is strange..I wonder what those trollops are up to with this..Distraction.
Hillary Clinton for President
Teamug trollops I love it. I haven’t heard that since my Irish mother died 17 years ago. That is a good description of today’s democratic party.
TROLLOPS
my nana was Irish
They’ve had two years to do this. To do the “right thing”. Investigate. This is nothing but a ploy to bring McCain down by association with Bush. Not for the right reasons, if it were for the right reasons they wouldn’t wait till 4 months before the GE to say we want to now do the right thing.
This is being done for the wrong reasons. To push Obama. I’m willing to bet if Hillary were the nominee it wouldn’t be being done. They’ve done everything within their power to push Obama down our throats.
I don’t know what to think about this. They’ve ignored people for years, now 4 months before the election they want to do something…I’m not buying it. I’m sorry. It’s a ploy.
The DEM leadership wouldn’t have the nerve to make a move on any issue, they have had control for 2 years and Bush stills runs the agenda there. Have you ever seen anyone more inept than Nancy Pelosi? and then yesterday she calls Bush out for incompetence, that’s the perfect case of the pot calling the kettle black. Why does she think she has leadership skills?
Well if they are going to impeach Bush they might as well go ahead and get obama’s impeachment ready whilr they are busy. If you want to talk about the abuse of power and lies.
Oh, I forgot he has not been elected yet. Well go ahead and get it ready just in case.
LOL
ha ha..you made me drop my chicken leg on my knee!!
This should have been done a long time ago, but I can see the dems using this, what with Bush’s low approval rating, to see how many of the GOP congress will agree or not, thus possibly using it against re-election. Must have been pushed through by Rahm Emmanuel.
What about the low approval rating of the congress. Should we impeach the entire group. That really sounds like a great idea to me. Will anyone join me in voting them out in Nov.
If con is the opposite of pro. Does that mean that congress is the opposite of progress ???
I believe so!!!!!
I am with you (on both counts)!
We will remember in November; no votes for any Democratic candidate on the Democratic line if they don’t get their collective heads out of Obama’s butt.
Just say no to down line Dems!
Bingo, then they’ll try and tie McCain to Bush to bring him down. Pure political theatre. They are now officially as bad as republicans. If they would have done this earlier how many Iraqis and Americans would still be alive. God, I’m sick to my stomach.
Could it be due to the 9% approval rate of Congress?? Isn’t it just a little to late?
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
This is a tough one, I think the impeachment of Bill was the down fall of the Republicans. However, I think it’s a bad time for our country to go through something like this. Bush is on his way out and we have energy problems and economic problems going on not to mention Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran to deal with. Our Congress seems to have attention deficit disorder and can only deal with one problem at a time. So, for me I would like them to do something about our economy instead of beating a dead horse.
No, they’re doing it to bring down McCain. Otherwise they would have done it earlier. They saved it just for election time.
So now Nancy will have to be called Nancy Impeachment is off the table until I need it to save my political backside Pelosi.
LOL!
http://nativeamericansagainstobama.wordpress.com/
It may backfire on them Strawberry. That may just be what the Republicans need to get them riled enough to come out in November.
Oh don’t worry, barky alone is enough to get Republicans riled up. My Repub family is freakin’!
I’m glad to hear that Strawberry. We are all Democrats in my family. I have 6 siblings and 3 of my sisters plan on voting for Obama. We are all in our 50’s and can no longer talk politics because we fight; Isn’t that ridiculous?
yep, it’s insane. My Mother called me some rather nasty names when I wouldn’t vote for Bush! I couldn’t believe it! I stayed away from the subject because I knew how she was about it but she wanted to pick a fight.
good! what is your family saying about Obama?
My sisters have stupid reasons for voting for Obama. They hate Republicans and say they just want a Democrat in office, I get furious with them and we end up hanging up on each other.
Um, I did say my family is republican, right? I’m the lone liberal democrat, well both my husband and I are the lone democrats on both sides…what do our famlies think of Barky? Think Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh with a little David Duke thrown in for good measure…yup, and people wonder why hubby and I get blind stinking drunk starting around Halloween and ending a little after New Years. (sigh).
LOL, I can imagine what they are saying about Obama. I doubt if you could repeat in in public,LOL.
8 of my brothers and sisters are Democrats. Their spouses are Democrats. My parents are Democrats. All my neices and nephews Democrats. There are 32 of them are Democrats. I have one sister that is a Republican. Her husband is Independent. My husband and son are Republican. His wife, my daughter and her husband are/were Democrats. One thing I know for a fact though is not one of them will be voting for Obama. They’re either staying home of voting for McCain and without any help from me. They’ve never voted for a Republican before. They’re all in Ohio. Except for my Republican sister she is in Indiana. Thought I was a traitor for voting for Reagan. Other than my daughter/her husband/my daughter in law those I’ve showed articles and videos to get my point across. I’ve gotten all of them to move to McCain’s side which makes my son happy. My daughter in law is so angry she switched to being a Republican. My Daughter hasn’t switched parties, and my son in law has switched to Independent. I’m not sure which. My husband is holding his nose and voting for McCain.
Don’t worry - this is way too little, way too late.
I view it like breaking into a guy’s house to rob him blind, them offering him a cut of the profits when he walks in with his .12 gauge pointed at your head.
No one will be buying this garbage a year and a half after these morons took control of the House. Besides, who wants Cheney or (God forbid!) Pelosi in charge if it actually works?
Anything that brings down McCain is fine by me. The fate of the union depends on it.
Impeachment should never have been put off until it was politically expedient. There is simply no time to impeach him now. He will be just finishing his term by the time they go through all the motions.
The dead horse kicked the economy in the teeth.
Doesn’t matter who’s fault it is, something has to be done about it before it gets worse.
There’s no reason our Congress can’t do both.
and while Bush is in office threatening vetoes all over the place, our Congress can’t do much of anything anyway.
ummm
PUMA!
NOBAMA
this is pure political theater for obamas benefit,they block a vote on offshore drilling that will help us but they can take the time at the end of the jerks presidancy just for show and to think ive supported thease idiots with my hard earned dollars,if they were going to do this it should of happened in january 2007.
Cnn said Pelosi ratings are 9%
Bush ratings are 28%
Cnn commented on how Low Pelosi’s are to Bush,
Is it Puma or Is it the Drilling?
Clinton-08
It’s because pelosi is worse than you can ever imagine bush being. The woman is a __________!
You can fill in the blanks.
Drill here! Drill now! Drill anywhere!!
Just Drill!!!
I think that they only reason that they are even considering it is to boost their approval ratings before the elections. Its phony and obvious. At this point, Bush would never be impeached until his term was over or so close over that it would have no real effect, but to make dems look good.
I think that at this point they will do almost anything to take the focus off their own crooked nomination process!!!!!They will do anything to make voters forget that in a fascist move they disenfranchised Fl. and MI. in order to select their presidential nominee.
I guess that they think it will help Obama!!
Exactly.
Here is the message I hear from this move.
“If you vote in a Democratic President this year, you can expect a vote on the impeachment of Bush to ensue.”
They forget that the goose-stepping they did all over the primaries are not going to be forgotten, or forgiven!
That’s true - it could backfire by energizing the Rep Party.
And you’re right - we won’t forget or forgive or fall in line. If we can see through what they did in the primaries don’t they think we can see what they are trying to do with impeachment at this time? They are dumber than dirt.
I’m just waiting for the MSM spin on this one.
I bet it’ll be a doozy.
We have bigger fish to fry. I agree that doing it now is only to benefit Obama.
They should have impeached Bush when it would have helped the country. Impeachment at this time would be disastrous for our country because it would give a boost to Obama.
I’ve supported the Democratic Party all my life but they disgust me now. I always thought the Republican Party was bad but the Democrats are doing everything they can to destroy this country.
right on…it should have been done along time ago…i am so sick of their shit…worse than the republicans..i never would have believed it….been watching what this worst administration has been doing for 8 years……saw it happening again with this election……it is just sickening what they do…NOTHING!
For the reasons I mentioned in the post, I think that impeaching Bush (even if he doesn’t get convicted) would be a positive step for our nation.
I don’t care whether or not Obama benefits, because there are bigger issues at stake. If our Congress doesn’t rebuke Bush, future Congresses might have difficulty reigning in future presidents.
Also, there IS a chance that Obama will be the next president. If so, would you rather he take office thinking that there are no consequences for presidents who break the law?
I understand and respect your position on this but I don’t agree with it.
Congress, led by Democrats, had no interest in impeaching Bush (remember what Pelosi said?) when it would have prevented more illegal activities by the Bush admin. Now they have flipped. This makes it a very transparent sham. Especially since they know there is no chance of Bush being convicted. All it would do is tarnish Bush’s legacy further - if that is possible.
I don’t believe there would be a problem impeaching future Presidents, if necessary. In fact, what the Democrats have done may enlighten future Congresses so they will take action, including impeachment, in time.
I have been calling for Bush to be impeached for years. I am all for impeaching him - he and his cohorts are criminals. If the Democrats think they can make up for their ignorance and spinelessness now, let them wait until the day after the election. It wouldn’t be any more or less symbolic then than it would be now. And it would have more impact because it wouldn’t look like a political ploy.
The timing is strategic. I think they tried this in the past, and didn’t get very far. Kucinich tried again in June and the Dems put a freeze on it, kicking it into limbo until they needed it. If bo wasn’t looking bad at the moment, it would be in limbo until totally forgotten.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/11/kucinich.impeach.vote/
I wish they would leave President Bush alone already. He will be put down as the worst president in history, isn’t that enough punishment? Where was Pelosi when Bill and Monica were having their thing? I love Bill Clinton, but, you can’t try to impeach both of these men when they were voted twice by the masses and forgiven by the masses. Each one of them will have to carry a cross for their sins. Leave the both of them alone, already. I guess Pelosi and her minions have nothing else to do with their past time in the”Do nothing Congress” that she runs.
Is Obama a Communist? His plan for a Civilian National Security Force brings back memories of how Mao deployed his red book.
http://obamawtf.blogspot.com/2008/07/is-obama-communist-his-plan-for.html
Its good to see people here are seeing through the subterfuge the Democratic Party is attempting. Most here were for the impeachment of Bush but why now. This is going to blow up on their sorry asses and energize the Republicans. The congressional Democrats have nothing to be proud of leading this session of congress. We need a third party in this country.
Amen!
Third party is just what we need and now!
I want some third party too. To hell with this chocalate party
WTF?
Distractions, Distractions for Bozo the selectee…
When you want your news commentary to be fun…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngu7eqS0Ox8
CNN just said, Nancy Pelosi has a Rating of 9%
Bush has a Rating Of 28%
Cafferty says her ratings are lower than Bushes.
Wonder if Puma has something to do with that?
Hemmm, could it be that Pelosi found out about the OLIVE branch extended to Cindy within the last couple of days? Yes, PUMA has gone regional! PUMA is willing to support all candidates that are for ONE PERSON ONE VOTE and are especially fond of women that don’t fall in line!
Go, Cindy GO!
http://www.cindyforcongress.org/
…………………………
Lift the Veil. Hillary Clinton Beijing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0…h? v=0xwSc_BMQHs
She has brought up the plight of women’s struggle for human rights, even if her own rights in her own country were abridged by not counting the votes.
Hillary you are America…NEVER GIVE UP!
Lift the Veil. Hillary Clinton Beijing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xwSc_BMQHs
Hope the link works!
No, I’m pretty sure it’s all Nancy. People can see right through her phony smile. She’s the worst Speaker we have ever had.
And she had such stiff competition!
The first order of business is to impeach Nancy Pelosi because she is a crook and a freak.
The next order of business is to bring charges agianst Dean, Pelosi, Obama for violations of the civil rights of the voters.
Bush is done and gone.
Our country already is looking foolish with this Obama for President now going abroad with his messianic followers.
Someone needs to deal with Obama’s abuse and impeach him before he gets to the convention.
There are special forces protectors of the presidency out there and they are not doing their jobs.
They need to get on the court and finalize the impeachment of Obama from the nomination.
Obama is out of control and is about to compromise our country in a serious manner.
Let’s go special ops…….get to it.
Uhh, you can’t impeach someone that hasn’t been elected yet…
Nancy Pelosi,ratings 9%
Bushes Ratings 28%
Cnn says Pelosi’s ratings less than Bush..lol
Wonder if Puma responsible?
Go Clinton for President
Lets see:
Sounds like you people are mad at Bush because there have been NO terrorist attacks in the USA since 9/11.
If you’re looking for Bush supporters, you’ve come to the wrong place. Please don’t even get the people here started about all the reason Bush should have been impeached in January 2007. Your elephant will choke.
I don’t know if MP98 is a bot trying to start something or a Republican. But for all of you Republicans out there…Please don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.
The Obama people wish for Terrorist attacks to get Bush
The Obama people wish for defeat in Iraq to get Bush
The Obama people wish for American Humiliation and retreat in Iraq to get Bush.
The Obama people wish for a Great Depression to get Bush
The Obama people wish their own destruction to get Bush.
This has nothing to do with it, if you look through the threads we have said good things about Bush as well. We also have a long list of things we’re not pleased about. I’m sorry if that offends you. We don’t go out and heckle him for it.
You can’t tell us that Bush hasn’t made mistakes. That would make you as blind as the Obamabots. The popular vote for McCain within the Republican party was an in your face, so not all Republicans are happy with him either or the Ultra Conservatives.
So, if your a Republican you shouldn’t pick fights with us. Many are voting for McCain because he’s reached across the table, and because he “isn’t” Bush. What most of us are saying is this is a ploy to associate McCain with Bush. It is being done for the wrong reasons. They should have done this when it was first brought up if they wanted to do it for the “right” reasons. They’ve had two years as the majority yet waited till four months before the GE.
In 2006 the voters have given the Democratic party a chance. Look at what they have done - 14% approval and shady primary tactics. This year was supposed to be a walk in the park for the party, Obama should have double digit lead. My hunch, the voters will retaliate. How do you recover from all this, you don’t, you start a new party.
New carrot…same stick.
This is more evidence why people hate congress — they are more worried about playing political stunts than getting anything accomplished. Never mind a weak economy or $4 for gas.