Joho the Blog
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January 05, 2006
A scenario: In August of 2006, an enterprising journalist (lord bless her!) unearths the fact that the Bush administration has continued to torture people after Bush signed the anti-torture bill. Remember that when Bush reluctantly signed it into law, he signalled that a president can waive it when he deems necessary. The evidence of continuing torture so outrages enough Republicans that an investigation begins. More cases emerge, some particularly reckless. It becomes clear that Bush didn't change his policy one iota. Furious at Bush's contempt for the Legislature's authority, the House draws up the Articles of Impeachment. Also, doing so helps deflect attention from the never-ending Abramoff corruption (and murder?) scandal. In the Senate, McCain leads the posse. VP Cheney resigns before he is made president. The McCain-Biden ticket easily wins the '08 presidential election. Ok, so maybe I should postpone all this by a year so I can make it more plausible by including major gains by the Dems in the House. But my daydream can't wait that long. [Tags: impeachment georgeBush politics] Posted
by D. Weinberger at January 5, 2006 11:43 PM
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I like it except for it requiring more tortured people, and McCain and Biden being Pres. and VP. Other than that, sounds good! ;)
Posted by: OLinda | January 6, 2006 09:45 AM
David,
I had a similar dream yesterday. It was a hot summer. Terri Hatcher just emerged naked from the swimming pool. I reached for the whip cream ....
Exciting stuff.
Posted by: Paul Philp | January 6, 2006 10:09 AM
We don't need to wait for grounds to impeach Bush; the revelations of the NSA wiretapping scheme, which the Bush Administration has admitted were violating FISA, is enough. (Nixon's Articles of Impeachment include unconstitutional and unlawful wiretaps as one of the high crimes and misdemeanors justifying his impeachment.)
Maybe, after further investigation into this program, all the Democrats and one or two Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee will be sufficiently outraged to vote for impeachment. I'm not holding my breath, though.
(And as long as the Republicans are tossed out on their butts by 2008, I'm not too picky about how they get there.)
Posted by: Seth Gordon | January 6, 2006 12:34 PM
unfortunately we do need to wait, as impeachment proceedings don't have a chance to occur until the dems get control of the house or bush infuriates more of his party. and quite honestly, i can't see house republicans standing up to tarnish their own party name unless bush is caught torturing someone himself (man, he's been torturing a lot of us for 5 years now ;)
Posted by: sean coon | January 6, 2006 01:11 PM
The next Preesident will either be Hillary Clinton or Rudy Guiliani (sp?). Other than that, kind of interesting. :-)
Posted by: Dennis M. Yates | January 6, 2006 02:58 PM
My prediction is that Bush will resign on August 9th. Cheney will already have stepped down because of some other scandal and been replaced by someone who played too much football without his helmet on.
The new president will run for re-election in 2008 only to be defeated by a peanut farmer.
Posted by: Aldon Hynes | January 6, 2006 04:43 PM
ahh you librels, stop focusing on the past and focus on the future. Bush won't be impeached about the NSA stuff and you would be stupid to pursue it. Rove would like nothing better than to use the defense that bush was harming Americans. Think about, they'll leak or release details on a few terrorism op's that were stopped (both in blue states) and people will nod their heads.
Oh and by the way even the Carter admin didn't buy into FISA... all admin's since have just been going along, but the Bush admin doesn't think it needs to.
Posted by: john | January 9, 2006 10:20 PM
Who ever ride the white horse at 2008, American
civilazation is doomed by demons;so,it will be a
long time to bring back our image, and democracy.
Posted by: A.M.NUR | January 15, 2006 03:01 AM
Aldon Hynes is forgetting the fact that what Bush did (domestic spying with out due process) is Treason. It's against the law. (hence ILLEGAL) The President is not above the law. the Government is a body of Laws. Not a body of self-righteous-men. n Presidents cannot be above the law, The NSA scandal IS a mandatory, and impeachable offence. Its no different than strangling a baby in National TV.
Republican leniecy is a one way street. Its Okay aslong as it serves there self interests. But if it was of a lesser issue against an opposing party, they would demand Impeachment right away. Jeeze.
Posted by: Not Aldon | January 22, 2006 02:56 PM
SILLY LIBS, STILL CODLLING TERRORISM WORLDWIDE!
THE exact SAME REASON TRAITOR KERRY LOST!
BRAINDEAD LIBBIES!
Posted by: neal | January 25, 2006 05:48 PM
We are One Nation Under God and We are with JerUSAlem he has us standing by their enemy He is showing no christian princibles he is in with the anti christ God Help him before its too late
for his soul
Posted by: Vera George | July 30, 2006 03:00 PM