IMPEACHMENT Talking Points from the right wing. "wasting their breath"

[L. Coyote]

A classic case of rationalization with a twist of Dem precedent.
How does this concocted tail taste to you?

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"Talking Point" by Ed Gold
The impeachers are really just wasting their breath

http://www.thevillager.com/villager_200/talkingpoint.html

"As for Bush, he did mislead us into war and he has played fast and loose with civil liberties with his extensive wiretapping, his secret prisons and his contempt for the Geneva Conventions. But presidents in wartime historically have taken liberties that violate decent behavior or circumvent the Constitution.

Lyndon Johnson’s behavior in getting us into a full-blown war in Vietnam is a case in point....."

While Johnson became something of a pariah, there was no campaign to impeach him. ....
Even Franklin Roosevelt, one of our great presidents, shamefully ignored the Constitution during wartime and got away with it.

....... more post-mortem rationalizations and talking points .....

[kenny blankenship]

1. Yes, but according to Bush, either the war is over or the war will never be over

Bush declared victory already. On other occasions, though, he and his administration speak of a Global War that will never end. Depending on their convenience, what's best for them at the moment they're speaking, the United States is either enjoying peace, or it's besieged by war. I don't claim to be smart enough to sort out the Administration's War-Is-Peace Paradox. But I do know that if the United States is in this war which Bush has declared but Congress has not declared, and those Bush apologists and their No Impeachment talking points carry the day, then the Constitution's impeachment clause becomes a dead letter. If this perpetual state of war exists then there can never be Congressional criticism of the President that rises to impeachment hearings ever again.
And that is, I'm sure, absolutely not what the authors of the Constitution intended. I'm sure they didn't think they were wasting their breath when they described the impeachment process.