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February 03, 2006

Steve Cobble: Dems Should Run On Impeachment

Let's hope they take him up on this suggestion:

The initial response when we bring up the idea, though, is: how are we ever going to impeach Bush when the Republicans control everything in Washington? Precisely. That's exactly the point.

By campaigning on impeachment, candidates would be able to give millions of frustrated voters a positive reason to go to the polls. If candidates discover what we have discovered at hearings and town halls, and what our so-far-barely-reported polling has revealed, accountability/impeachment could be a big turnout issue.

Hey, it worked for Republicans in 1998. Oh, wait that's right, it didn't.

In fact, there are a few Democratic hopefuls who have come out in favor of impeachment. However, they fall into one of two categories: Democrats running in rock solid Republican districts, or Democrats running against current Democratic incumbents.

I can understand Cobble's desire to see his pet issue moved to the front and center of the party. But it certainly seems that the Democrats wasted 2004 in an effort to run as the "We hate Bush" party; I don't think it's going to work out any better in 2006.

Posted by pat at February 3, 2006 03:31 PM

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Not that I wouldn't love to see am impeachment hearing over something important this time. But there are two things wrong with using it as a campaign issue.
1) it probably wouldn't work. And we desperately need to get the current Republican leadership out of power.
2) If it did work it would get entirely the wrong kind of people into congress. Anybody that would run solely or even mostly on impeaching Bush is an opportunist. And we have entirely too many of those in congress right now.

Posted by: IaintBacchus at February 6, 2006 05:56 PM

Funny, isn't it? Among the "pundits" listed for this site is "Kerry Haters." Bush haters, by the implicit definition in the above post, are those who think he's broken the law. Well, that's hardly all. They are those who think the war in Iraq has been botched to the point of making us less safe; who think the deficits are going to ruin us; who find a limit on how often Bush can make promises while never intending to keep them (rebuild the Gulf Coast; fund education; increase research for alternative energy (while laying off those who carry it out).But is it really hate? I don't know the guy well enough to hate him. I truly hate what he's doing to the future of this country, to our competitiveness, to our ability to respond to future demands. Those things are way worse than the impeachable offense of breaking the law. That's just a law or two. What he's done is, in every way you can name (financial, militarily, medically, morally, international respectfully, scientically, theocratically, etc, etc), set us on a path away from what we stand for and from that which has made us survive all this time, and toward potentially irreversible ruin. Hate? No. Despair, more like it. I'm even willing to say it's not all his fault. But having had years of control of the entire mechanism of government, he's failed totally to do anything to help. "I'm not the kind to pass problems off to future generations," he says. Yeah. Well, maybe he's right. If his policies continue unabated, there won't BE future generations.

Posted by: Dr. Sid at February 7, 2006 12:07 PM

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