Wall Street Journal examines impeachment effort

[kpete]

Wall Street Journal examines impeachment effort
RAW STORY
Published: March 6, 2006


The Wall Street Journal, considered among the more conservative standard-bearers of the mainstream American print media, examines the effort to impeach President George W. Bush in Monday editions, RAW STORY has learned.

The article examines the grassroots effort and notes that party leaders are distancing themselves from the movement, looking to the 1998 House races in which Republicans used the prospect of impeaching President Clinton and failed to make congressional gains. Excerpts follow.

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If Democratic candidate Tony Trupiano wins a Michigan House seat this fall, he pledges that one of his first acts will be to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush.


That has earned Mr. Trupiano the endorsement of ImpeachPAC, a group of Democratic activists seeking to remove Mr. Bush from office. ImpeachPAC's Web site lists 14 candidates offering similar commitments, which are reminiscent of the Republican drive to oust former President Bill Clinton after the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But Mr. Trupiano's pledge hasn't much impressed Democratic Party leaders, who are keeping their distance from impeachment talk. They remember how the effort boomeranged on Republicans in the 1998 midterm elections, when Mr. Clinton's adversaries expected to gain House seats but lost ground instead.

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[Benhurst]

1. The Democratic "leadership" reminds me of Mark Twain's story

of the cat which sat on a hot stove. It never sat on a hot stove again; but it never sat again on a cold one either.

The public was never behind Bill Clinton's impeachment.

Now over fifty percent say they would favor impeachment of Bush if he lied about his reasons for going into Iraq. He did. Thousands have died.

And the Democratic "leadership" remains as spineless as ever.

[jaxx]

6. When will it stop being IF Bush lied?

It has been shown over and over that he lied, his cronies lied, and they lied to anybody who would listen.

Dammit, If I had the money I'd take out a full page ad in the biggest paper in the country saying

YES,

BUSH LIED

IMPEACH HIM

[zbdent]

2. "failed to make congressional gains" - DAMN, WHAT SPIN

Repukes LOST GROUND!

[Village Idiot]

3. It's strange. What does the ONE have to do with the OTHER?

Because voters were smart enough (for frickin; ONCE) to see through a pretty much BASELESS campaign to smear and later impeach the Clenis, why does it follow that they are NOT smart enough to judge that the impeachment case against the BFEE is pretty SOLID - or at least well worth taking a look into?

I suppose USAsians just do not like to impeach their presidents - never mind that the asschimp has never been elected to office, anyway...

[zbdent]

4. Actually, since November 1994 through November 2002

Repukes were on a downward slide.

Repukes peaked in 1994, giving them their heyday of 95-96.

By 2000, the House was almost dead even, and you had a 50-50 split in the Senate (remember the Repukes whining about how they might have to "share" with the Dems?)

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Answer: Nothing

The connection is syllogistic. The situations are completely different, but because the Repubs screwed the pooch by concocting an impeachment, and that the american people saw right through it, the dem "leaders" are making a spurious and unsupportable connection between impeachment and failure to gain seats.

The only thing to compare is the integrity of the charges. In one case, there was no "there, there". Now there is. Comparison over. The "leaders" are wrong.
The Professor

[Village Idiot]

7. I often wonder what would happen if...

Democratic congressional candidates who are exceptionally strong / secure in their districts were to take up the impeachment call? Perhaps some of the newer "young lions" could hit the mark occaisonally?