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by Linda Milazzo
NOBODY marched to impeach Bill Clinton. Angry citizens DIDN’T fill the streets, carry signs and beg a non-responsive Congress to do its Constitutional duty and remove Bill Clinton from his job. Panels WEREN’T held across the nation, moderated by Constitutional scholars who loved their country so much that they traversed its full span to inform packed audiences of the high crimes Bill Clinton had done.
Steve,
I think that maybe you just hit the nail on the head.
Could it possibly be that the people did not want Bill Clinton impeached and that the people do want George Bush impeached?
“morons”, “idiots”…
So… is this your best effort at “winning friends and influencing strangers”?
Okay… so I’ll look past your rude, self-righteous arrogance to say this, in an attempt at establishing dialogue with someone who apparently is having trouble breaking away from the caustic, hateful teet of Ann Coulter:
The point of this brilliant essay: “NOBODY MARCHED TO IMPEACH BILL CLINTON!” is that Clinton was impeached by the “politics for profit” power elite in the Republican Party. Clinton very well should and could have been impeached, but not for getting lipstick on his cigar in the Oral Orifice.
Spending $20,000,000.00 on trying to catch President Clinton in a tryst – spearheaded by chief hypocrite Newt Gingrich (who recently had a “come to the dime store Jesus” moment on the Dr. Dobson radio program in confessing that he was having a sexual affair himself at the time) and others was a purely political witch hunt against a very popular President (over 70% approval rating in the middle of the impeachment proceedings).
Bush is loathed, with a 28% approval rating and 46% of Americans wanting to see him impeached, including 18% of Republicans. Cheney is hated even more, with 54% wanting him impeached. Today’s push for impeachment is not power elite-driven, it is of, for and from “We the People”.
This impeachment push is directly from ordinary citizens who recognize that we have lost our nation to corporate interests and international power brokers – this round by bloodless coup to the oil barons. It is a cancer that has been growing for decades, but has become acute and the ‘growth’ must be removed by the surgery of impeachment.
Do protests in and of themselves change things? Not directly, but they are part and parcel of patriotic citizens expressing their disgust and outrage. Representatives especially – knowing they are on a 2-year leash – see them, hear about them and know that if they don’t pay attention, they may be out on their asses in the next election cycle.
Things ARE happening. Impeachment is being put back on “the table” by the American people If Pelosi, Reid, Dean and the rest of the Democratic Party Political game-players in DC don’t recognize it in time, they themselves might experience the nation’s rage the next time they themselves are looking to get votes.
Americans are telling all our public servants and civil officers to lead, follow, or get the hell out of office.
OK, so if there WAS a protest calling for Clinton’s impeachment, then it would’ve been OK?
Morons. It’s idiots like you so focused on protests that nothing ever really happens. Does the line of thinking, something like, “ok ok, if we do ANOTHER protest and just get another X number of people to show up, then things will REALLY change”, REALLY make sense to you? Do you really think things will be different thanks to paper mache puppets and protest signs?
I’ve observed over the course of my thirty-nine years a reason for that fact.
It seems that people who are “against” democrats tend to speak & act more often, while people who are “against” republicans seem to enjoy gathering & yelling more often.
I hate cliches. Everyone, stop perpetuating them so I don’t have to notice!