It seems recently that the eminating from Pelosi, Reid, and other Dems among the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy has settled a bit on the empty concepts of "fear of divisiveness" and "need for bipartisanship." Further, it now looks like this control mantra has "gone operational" with Hillary's recent embrace of Colin Powell (?!?) and Kucinich's comments on Ron Paul. As is typical with DC "conventional wisdom," they've gotten the wrong end of the stick and seem hell bent on bashing themselves (and u...

No, I'm really trying to understand this. I get that DC-Denizens like Doddering Dodd have been terrorized into yelping that all the "oxygen in the room" must be rationed out for discussions of Hillary's cleavage or what Obama's six-year-old has to say. Otherwise their bemoaning the Euphemedia's "obsession with the horserace" wouldn't qualify as "business as usual" hypocrisy. But seriously, whatever "badness" you imagine lurks beyond a House vote to impeach bushcheney -- to simply voice objecti...

This is a promotion to its own thread of my response to the which points out that impeachment is be labelled (ghetto-ized) by the Euphemedia as a "left wing issue." The poster correctly characterized this as a "false meme." And in response I listed a few other false memes that the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy is promoting to defend their Impeachophobia Groupthink. Some DUers seem to have fallen under one or more of these rhetorical spells. A Sampling of Impeachophobia False Memes: 1. "Oh no, we...

(Note: And BTW, it's exactly what the Euphemedia is training people to think/fear. So it is not my intent to single out this poster. In fact, this post is a cut and paste -- including this note.) It's not just apples and oranges, the circumstances are diametrically opposite. Clinton was a popular, twice-elected president -- impeached for less-than-trivial reasons -- by a party in danger of being seen as extremists (since having been proven). Bushcheney is an unpopular, never-elected, never-le...

Yes, it was discovered that war crimes had been committed as part of the masturbatory, military adventure in Iraq Nicaragua. They secretly tortured detainees mined the harbor. Yes, the DC Dems remained silently complicit until a Republican, Barry Goldwater John Warner, finally said enough. But Impeachment?!? For war crimes?!? No, no. We'll just "cut the funding" and that will do the trick. Yep, that's the ticket. And so they did. And Iran/contra is what we got. And instead of impeaching fo...

Only Impeachment... ...can even begin to set America back on the path of truth and light. We all know it's true. And even that must be followed by "harder things" -- like consensus about the reality of the 2 Stolen Elections, full prosecution of any and all war criminals and crimes, reversal of every act and appointment of the never-elected, never-legitimate regime possible, making public amends and reparations for non-reversible acts. Anything less is simply shuffling along in dishonesty and...

NOTE: It is not my intent to single out personally. This OP is simply illustrative of pervasive attitudes many display. One of the underlying problem of this post is a simple false presumption. There is no "prince charming" coming -- no cargo plane on the way. The reality is that we ARE "the system" the poster is relying on to "hang these bastards" somehow. Our public servants will only (possibly) provide what we demand of them. There is no substitute for our failure to make our demands as lou...

Fascism -- authoritarianism -- monarchism -- theocracy -- it's all the same thing. A belief that some minority has the right to rule the majority. It matters little if it's the true believers, a master race, a family dynasty, the chosen people, a ruling class, or the current DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy. It's all anti-democratic, thus Anti-American*. John Dean is tragically wrong when he says this menace is "close." This nation now lives under an appointed ruler (not an elected leader) who rul...

...with bomb threats of "mushroom clouds...in 45 minutes." Impeachment may also seem like a "single issue." But you can impeach over war crimes, impeach over Iraq deaths, impeach over illegal spying, impeach over stolen elections, impeach over the environment, over stealing the treasury, over and over and over... Remember, your reason to impeach need not be "the" reason that's on the formal articles. Without impeachment, the DC Dems can offer nothing. Even with a brand new non-veto-proof majo...

I've suggested this before but I feel compelled to keep posting it because I really believe that the netroots as a political force could make this happen if only we could get the ball rolling. With the recent antics of Poltroon Pelosi and the Euphemedia obsessed with their distracting Presidential horserace handicapping for '08, now may be the time for this idea. We can give the Euphemedia exactly what their addicted to: A Presidential Candidate. Right Now. And we can give ourselves, and the...

We simply don't have the right to "Get Over" Stolen Elections (1 or 2). We can redeem this nation only by coming to terms with the full reality. The reality that 2 elections were stolen, that the election thieves defrauded and terrorized the American People into complicity with a criminal war of aggression, that the regime never had legitimate claim to the power they've been wielding, and thus have no place of honor in our history. Simply admitting the truth to ourselves is not enough. We nee...

Nixon Redux? Online Journal - Nov. 4, 2000 (Link) On Oct. 19 Baltimore Sun columnist Michael Olesker made an astute observation about the final presidential debate. He made a comparison between George Bush and Richard Nixon as candidates. He begins: "The most pathetic moment in the third presidential debate arrived when George W. Bush became the echo of Richard Nixon 32 years ago. Nixon had a plan for bloody Vietnam, only he refused to tell anybody. Bush has a plan for the bloody Middle Eas...

Apparently, he thinks it's "bad policy" to impeach a criminally-conspiring president because a criminally-complicit congress has not engaged in oversight YET(?!?) Perhaps he's waiting for M. Godot's white paper on the matter. Furthermore, with his stratego-electoro-politico acumen, he has divined that impeaching bush for his abysmal record (of crimes and misdemeanors, high and low) is "bad politics because it will take attention off the president’s abysmal record and put it on the hot-button ...

It's just defeatism. Pure and simple. Nobody cares what "scholars" think. Nor should they. This is just the "legalistic" form of knee-jerk defeatism. There will also be "backlash" defeatism to deal with, and "civility" defeatism, and "later is always better - ducks in a row - strategic" defeatism, and "never gonna happen - gosh, we're so helpless" futilism, and on and on... We're liberals. It's an ingrained behavior. We need to stop being obsesseed with our abusers (like Specter*). It's a me...

I've been asked to create a (votable) thread for this. It is my reaction to the Harper's Magazine Impeachment event from Thursday night. I found the discussion there brought a specific problem into sharp relief: We all know what needs to happen, but we seem at a loss for "how to make in so." (Image) The . ===== From : We had a rousing and informative evening last night in New York at the impeachment forum hosted by Harpers Magazine. ... There was a lot of discussion about how impeach...