Biden: Impeachment "...sucks the oxygen out of the air." Beats Sucking Substance Out of Constitution

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Sen. Joe Biden: Impeachment "...sucks all the oxygen out of the air." BFD: Beats Sucking the Substance Out of the Constitution!

Submitted by Chip on Mon, 2007-08-20 00:40. Impeachment

Joe Biden acknowledges that his candidacy is a long shot. He says he just wants a chance to say what he thinks.
By Sam Stein

If the depth of one’s experiences were the sole criteria for choosing presidential candidates, Sen. Joseph Biden would almost certainly be the Democratic nominee. The Delaware Democrat has spent 35 years in Congress—a tenure that began with the end of the Vietnam War. But experience isn’t everything, and Biden’s campaign for the White House is lagging badly in the polls. He’s not giving up though. Last week while promoting a new book, “Promises to Keep,” Biden talked to NEWSWEEK’s Sam Stein.

Excerpt:

NEWSWEEK: You once called Slobodan Milosevic a war criminal to his face. You also told Dick Cheney that, were he not a constitutional officer, the president should fire him. So when it comes to the mistakes made in Iraq, why should impeachment of President Bush be off the table?

Sen. Joe Biden: It shouldn’t be. But impeachment like everything else is a matter of priorities and responsibility. In order to move on impeachment now, we would be put in a position at a very, very delicate time in our nation’s history, of having necessarily to take our eye off the ball on a host of other things that will have longer-lasting impact on the security of this country. As a practical matter, it sucks all the oxygen out of the air. We would effectively be paralyzed for the next six months or longer....The alternative, and it’s taken me time to think through, I think we should be acquiring and accumulating all the data that is appropriate for possibly bringing criminal charges against members of this administration at a later date.

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[Botany]

1. They just do not get it.

This about the rule of law and holding these bastards to acoount for
their crimes .... I could give wit one about a "down the road" we will
get 'em talk or let us work on 2008 and wn there .... the data and facts
are in bush & company stole 2 elections, lied us into a war, have blown
the war on terror, illegally spied on us, and have stole billions.

Going after these shits would put the oxygen back into the room ...
letting them walk is the wrong thing to do.

[wtmusic]

4. Exactly -- like anyone will care "down the road"

All these guilty bastards will settle into comfy retirements after they have destroyed thousands, millions of lives. :grr:

[bbgrunt]

2. how the hell are they accomplishing anything when

* can just veto whatever they attempt? This is total b.s. I like Biden but he has disappointed too many times.

[The Vinyl Ripper]

3. I think all the oxygen has been sucked

Out of Biden's brain.