Give it to me straight, I can handle it

[TallahasseeGrannie]

I didn't watch the press conference this AM and assumed from reading here it was more of the same. However, in reading some of the RW blogs (nasty habit I can't break) I'm amazed to find them salivating over his "strength" and "renewal."

Here I was thinking that after "Spygate" we could actually get him impeached for f*ing with the 4th Amendment. What gives? Group think? Pre-holiday delusions?

They are really excited over there.

[shoelace414]

1. the 2nd admendment is the only one that matters.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. they are brainless

and clinging to the hope that the rest of the country bought this pathetic performance as one of his better efforts. Frankly, when you get repukes like Bob Barr saying that the spying is wrong, I think your impression that impeachment might be near is closer to what might happen.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

4. I'm really sitting up and taking notice now

what is the mechanism for impeachment?

[stevedeshazer]

14. This is how it works, in short

The House must vote to impeach (accuse) the President.

Upon impeachment, a trial ensues in the Senate. The trial is presided over by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

The Senators then vote for acquittal or removal from office.

When Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were impeached, they were acquitted by the Senate and allowed to complete their terms in office.

[BOSSHOG]

3. They know their base

it has to be fed. Not with anything close to intellectual curiosity but just with raw meat. Liberals - bad. Telling the truth -"shameful." Me - President. Constitution - expendable (that one's tricky because expendable is four syllables.) republicans have it easy because it only takes code words to excite the base. Obviously with all the latest speechs and "press conferences" feeding time was deemed necessary. bush's base does not give one flying dog fuck about their fourth amendment rights, and those in the white house know it.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

7. I'm feeling comforted

My gut feeling says he's going down. He seems to be happily screwing every last vestige of support he has.

[Strong Atheist]

5. No impeachment

till after the 2006 elections ...

[LSK]

6. freepers love loosing their freedom

Thats all it is.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

8. I know that is a joke

but it might actually be true. I think there ARE some folks who would be more comfortable without those pesky Rights.

[Straight Shooter]

11. They don't realize that losing rights is akin to the domino effect.

One falls, then another, then another, and before you know it they're all being destroyed faster than you can stop it.

It's easier to give up than to hold on. Rove and bush and the administration know this; they count on it.

[BOSSHOG]

9. They have no appreciation of freedom

They do not know what it means to do without constitutional liberties. They do not know what it means to be tortured. They are ignorant lemmings easily led by the republican hate machine which knows which buttons to push. The same machine that is frustrated because there exists patriotic Americans like you and me Teammate.

[LA lady]

10. MSM

I still can't believe Pelosi knew about this and did nothing. WTF?

The press is gonna let this blow over, something needs to be done.

[butterfly77]

12. As he was talking I notice this one repug female reporter...

she was happy as hell because he was talking to the reporters like he is king of the world and he has all of the answers. He even had the nerve to remark to April, who is usually on scotty's case, about how she was breaking the follow up rule and tried to get her off her point,but she was really the only one who didn't act afraid. She asked about him not liking black people and something about him spying on people. Bush kept giving no answers, and shewing them away. He just kept spewing about the economy and other things about 911, he really showed his ass and his arrogance today. I was screaming a the tv.

[Arkansas Granny]

13. Bush's fan club thinks every time he opens his mouth he has

said something important. They don't listen to the words, just the fact that "dear leader" is speaking is all they need to know for their adoration of him to overwhelm them and their thought processes. These are the same people you would expect to see getting involved with a cult.

As far as reading the RW blogs, I'm not sure it's a nasty habit as much as it is keeping an eye on them and what they are thinking (one of those "know thine enemy" things).

[TallahasseeGrannie]

16. Reading the RW blogs

is kind of like picking at a scab. You just can't help it, even when it bleeds.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. I started visiting the RW sites to try to get a little insight into how

they could justify the atrocities that Bush has committed. I just couldn't understand how any intelligent being could accept the blatant lies that fall out of his mouth on a regular basis. I eventually came to realize that the key word was "intelligent".

[TallahasseeGrannie]

I agree about the Free Republic site

not a lot of extra gray matter over there. But a couple, like Powerline, Protein Wisdom and Malkin are written by very intelligent people and THAT scares the beejezus out of me.

Right now they think that Bush has really drawn a line in the sand and they are all atwitter.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

18. I agree about the Free Republic site

not a lot of extra gray matter over there. But a couple, like Powerline, Protein Wisdom and Malkin are written by very intelligent people and THAT scares the beejezus out of me.

Right now they think that Bush has really drawn a line in the sand and they are all atwitter.

[madeline_con]

15. Daisy chain mentality...

they're stroking one another's ..... egos.

[mwb970]

19. We need to defend our country. NOW.

What Bush has done to America is much worse than what happened on 9/11. This affects everyone in the entire country. It's about whether America can survive a criminal regime or not.

225 years of freedom and democracy wiped away by one man after one attack? Sheesh. It must have been more fragile than I thought.