Today’s “So, What” Department
The Vermont state senate passed a non-binding demand that the President be impeached for completely unspecified reasons. They did so by waiting until they could sneak it in , though. Big, old set there. You're so sure of your cause that you have to sneak it in when the adults aren't around. Yep, you sent a big message. About your IQ.
"I think it's going to have a tremendous political effect, a tremendous political effect on public discourse about what to do about this president," said James Leas, a vocal advocate of withdrawing troops from Iraq and impeaching Bush and Cheney.
Vermont lawmakers earlier voted to demand an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq in another non-binding resolution.
Democratic House Speaker Gaye Symington has kept a similar resolution from reaching the floor in her chamber. She argued that an impeachment resolution would be partisan and divisive and that it would distract Washington from efforts to get the United States out of Iraq, which she says is more important.
In the Senate, Republican Lt. Gov. Brian Dubie had opposed the resolution, but he was absent Friday. That left Democratic Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin in charge, and he immediately took up the measure.
Go right ahead, try to force an impeachment. Then you get president Cheney. He is, I believe, an even bigger bogeyman than Bush. It would also be useful to have a real, actual reason for calling for an impeachment. But then, why bother when you can grab headlines from a pandering press. We here in the Crabitat have just passed a binding resolution mandating that Vermont pay tribute to us.
Our resolution will have the same tremendous effect - tremendous political effect - as the nonsensical, meaningless gesture the huge majority of 16 state senators in a not-exactly major state just passed - by sneaking it in when the grown-ups were out of town. (Please note that the leader of the Vermont house has a lot more sense than her counterpart in the senate. Good for her.)
(Cadillac Tight also noted the way the Vermont senators had to sneak the resolution in when actual grown-ups had to be out of town.)
By James, Friday, 20 April , 2007 @ 11:16 pm
AW, go ahead and have the impeachment hearings in the House. One of two things will happen. Either Bush and Cheney will be completely cleared and look like heros; OR, Bush and Cheney will be shown to be the bumbling corruot lawbreaking losers lots of people claim they are.
It’s probably the only way Bush is gonna clear his name, and his administration’s incompetent charge.