Impeachment? Who said anything about impeachment?

[shereads]

Calm down, blue team. Impeachment hearings would be vindictive, unproductive and pointlessly divisive at a time when the new Democratic majority in both houses of Congress should be leading a bipartisan effort to heal the nation.




No, really. I mean it.

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BWAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha... My side hurts.

Run, monkey boy! Cut and run, you narrow-brained, beak-lipped, knuckle-dragging mama's boy. We'll see who your friends are now, Lancelot Link. You too, Dick Cheney. Unswivel Linda Blair's head, put down that cross and stop spitting soup on Father Karras. The jig's up.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Run, monkey boy! Cut and run, you narrow-brained, beak-lipped, knuckle-dragging mama's boy. We'll see who your friends are now, Lancelot Link. You too, Dick Cheney. Unswivel Linda Blair's head, put down that cross and stop spitting soup on Father Karras. The jig's up.

You crack me up!

 

[cloudy]

Run, monkey boy! Cut and run, you narrow-brained, beak-lipped, knuckle-dragging mama's boy. We'll see who your friends are now, Lancelot Link. You too, Dick Cheney. Unswivel Linda Blair's head, put down that cross and stop spitting soup on Father Karras. The jig's up.

revenge is sweet, isn't it?

 

[neonlyte]

BWAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha... My side hurts.

Run, monkey boy! Cut and run, you narrow-brained, beak-lipped, knuckle-dragging mama's boy. We'll see who your friends are now, Lancelot Link. You too, Dick Cheney. Unswivel Linda Blair's head, put down that cross and stop spitting soup on Father Karras. The jig's up.

Just too precious - this is a keeper

 

[shereads]

revenge is sweet, isn't it?

Probably not. It won't dig us out of the mess he's made. It won't stop a civil war in Iraq or save any lives or bring any back or make anyone whole again, or un-spend that borrowed $300 billion or keep the board of directors at Halliburton awake at night wondering if they should give some of it back.

That would be sweet.

This is nothing more than spiking the ball and dancing in the end zone, to taunt the losing team. It's unsportsmanlike and childish. I like it a lot.

 

[TxRad]

I figured by now they would yelling for someone to get a rope......

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Impeachment in not really an option for two reasons -

The House would have to vote to bring an indictment of impeachment. That would be hard, even with a Democratic majority. Then the indictment would go to the Senate to be tried. With the small majority the Democrats would have an even harder time. The process would take most of two years. By that time Bush is aready leaving office.

The second reason is Dick Chaney. Need I say more?

 

[shereads]

The second reason is Dick Chaney. Need I say more?

We're impeaching him too. Don't be frightened by that "We are Legion" nonsense or that nasty business with the voice of Father Karras' mother crying out from hell. Cheap tricks.

By which I mean, "Of course impeachment isn't an option. Like I said."


Urban Dictionary defines "cheney"

 

[wazhazhe]

BWAA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahaha... My side hurts.

Run, monkey boy! Cut and run, you narrow-brained, beak-lipped, knuckle-dragging mama's boy. We'll see who your friends are now, Lancelot Link. You too, Dick Cheney. Unswivel Linda Blair's head, put down that cross and stop spitting soup on Father Karras. The jig's up.

Thanks to you my keyboard is all wet. Thank goodness I wasn't drinking a soda.

[serious]
Democrats need to realize that their slim majority in Congress is not a mandate to correct perceived Republican wrongs.
[/serious]

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

We're impeaching him too. Don't be frightened by that "We are Legion" nonsense or that nasty business with the voice of Father Karras' mother crying out from hell. Cheap tricks.

By which I mean, "Of course impeachment isn't an option. Like I said."

There's another problem with that. If you were to impeach the President and/or the Vice President, the constitution says "the Vice President shall preside over the impeachment proceedings in the house". That means the vice president would be the judge at his own impeachment? And would he be impartial at the impeachment of the President?

If it got through the House and were handed to the Senate, it would be presided over "by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court". That would be Roberts

Bush has built himself a pretty good firewall against impeachment.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Looking at conservatives during the Clinton years and liberals under Bush, Reason magazine contributor Megan McArdle has posited Jane’s Law: “The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.”

Here was an example she gave of the kind of discourse this results in:

"It's almost as if you have two options:
1. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I shall oppose it.
2. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I believe he has sex with goats."

It will take a few days or months probably for both sides to find their new positions on the field.

 

[TxRad]

Looking at conservatives during the Clinton years and liberals under Bush, Reason magazine contributor Megan McArdle has posited Jane’s Law: “The devotees of the party in power are smug and arrogant. The devotees of the party out of power are insane.”

Here was an example she gave of the kind of discourse this results in:

"It's almost as if you have two options:
1. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I shall oppose it.
2. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I believe he has sex with goats."

It will take a few days or months probably for both sides to find their new positions on the field.

Is that the hay field or the corn field and what happened to the good old days when it was sheep instead of goats.....

 

[shereads]

[serious]
Democrats need to realize that their slim majority in Congress is not a mandate to correct perceived Republican wrongs.
[/serious]

Correct them?! We we'd have to count them first. Starting with an accurate body count.

There won't be time for that, what with the wars and stuff, and being the world's largest debtor nation, and payments to Ahmad Chalabi's retirement fund, etc. No, I agee that impeachment would be a wasted effort. There should probably be a token impeachment committee, just in case. But no formal impeachment hearings or, god forbid, criminal indictments. Definitely not.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Is that the hay field or the corn field and what happened to the good old days when it was sheep instead of goats.....

I kind of see "the field" as the alternate donut-shaped universe that Homer Simpson found himself in one time. "There's so much I don't know about astrophysics," he moaned. "I wish I read that book by that wheelchair guy." (Stephen Hawking)

Goats rather than sheep is indicative of the decline in civility.

 

[shereads]

"It's almost as if you have two options:
1. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I shall oppose it.
2. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I believe he has sex with goats."

Foley is yesterday's news, Rox. We have bigger fish to fry.

Meanwhile, your Jane's Law reminds of an e-mail I got today from a friend, quoting a line she heard on some television show:

"Your side hates our side because you think we think you're stupid. Our side hates your side because you're stupid."

Bush is stupid. Cheney is just easy to hate. Which doesn't change my stand on impeachment. I'm against it. They should resign. Then they should be prosecuted for several thousand counts of negligent manslaughter. When they're convicted, Cheney should serve his time in one of those 'black prisons' he champions.

 

[poppy1963]

I figured by now they would yelling for someone to get a rope......

"They"? This election makes me particulary more happy because this country became more of a "WE" this time around!

 

[Liar]

"It's almost as if you have two options:
1. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I shall oppose it.
2. I disagree with my opponent's position on taxation, and therefore I believe he has sex with goats."

Oh hell, I'm versatile. I can do both.

 

[shereads]

Bush has built himself a pretty good firewall against impeachment.

He also built a pretty good case for disregarding the constitution when it gets in the way. As for Cheney, he'll cooperate or get the ol' water board treatment. Which isn't torture; just harsh interrogation. Eerie, isn't it, how what goes around comes around?

<Cue chorus: "It's the circle of life...">

This is all rhetorical of course, since I'm against the whole idea.

 

[3113]

"Your side hates our side because you think we think you're stupid. Our side hates your side because you're stupid."

Quoted from Aaron Sorkins new show, "Studio 60." Sorkin is one of those authors whose voice and perspective is always visible in characters, dialogue and plot--which is problematic as it means that the strings are always visible--and IMHO a good story should have very invisible strings. It also means that viewers will tend to be the choir one is preaching to.

For all that I still like the show, though it's no West Wing.

The irony is that a poll showed that viewers of the show are those that earn about $100, 000 per year (Yeah, I wish!). Which means it will probably last only one season at best.

 

[angela146]

There's another problem with that. If you were to impeach the President and/or the Vice President, the constitution says "the Vice President shall preside over the impeachment proceedings in the house". That means the vice president would be the judge at his own impeachment? And would he be impartial at the impeachment of the President?

If it got through the House and were handed to the Senate, it would be presided over "by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court". That would be Roberts

Bush has built himself a pretty good firewall against impeachment.

Actually, the Chief Justice would preside over both impeachment trials if they were to occur (and I agree that the will not).

However, the CJ has very little authority in the matter. Any ruling he makes during an impeachment trial can be overridden by a majority vote in the senate.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

Actually, the Chief Justice would preside over both impeachment trials if they were to occur (and I agree that the will not).

However, the CJ has very little authority in the matter. Any ruling he makes during an impeachment trial can be overridden by a majority vote in the senate.

Actually, the procedure has been amended such that in the case where the VP is up for impeachment, it would be presided over by the "Chairman Pro Tem".

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Foley is yesterday's news, Rox. We have bigger fish to fry.

Meanwhile, your Jane's Law reminds of an e-mail I got today from a friend, quoting a line she heard on some television show:

"Your side hates our side because you think we think you're stupid. Our side hates your side because you're stupid."

That's close, but the one side hates the other because they're evil, and the other side hates the one because they're stupid.

And they all fuck goats in a pinch, but they make their living fucking taxpayers.

 

[shereads]

And they all fuck goats in a pinch, but they make their living fucking taxpayers.

The tax thing is so 1990's. The modern way to subsidize defense contractors without upsetting your 'base,' as Dubya would say, is by borrowing a few hundred billion as often as necessary.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

The tax thing is so 1990's. The modern way to subsidize defense contractors without upsetting your 'base,' as Dubya would say, is by borrowing a few hundred billion as often as necessary.

Yeah. Then you give a fat tax cut to the rich and shift the burden of paying off the debt to the middle class's Great Grand Children

 

[Subo97]

Cheney's chitlins

Would it be appropriate to yell, "Kowabunga dude!" when they waterboard Cheney or is that too Left Coast?

And what did Rumsfeld really want to say as he was hung out to dry as the sacrificial lamb? Not that I felt sorry for the bastard as he was bent over and taking it from dubya. It reminded me of that scene in deliverance: "Squeeeeeeal piggie."

alas, shereads, we Floridians saw a lot of Republicans win, but we did get to see Katherine Harris hosed, abandoned and oblivious and Charlie Crist run screaming away from Dubya in Pensacola. :I do not know the man" I swear I heard a cock crow.