Don't Demean Almost Half the Country

[Caro]

From The Hill’s Pundits Blog:

Don’t Demean Almost Half the Country on Impeachment

Brent Budowsky

This is my reply to A.B. Stoddard:

You write that all the Congress has done is have Iraq votes and investigate, which, BTW, happens to be the Republican talking point…

(T)he reason for investigations is that the Democrats, like an overwhelming majority of Americans, believe the Republican Congress abdicated its responsibility for oversight.

If Republicans want to run as the party of perjury, pardons, privilege and abuse of power, that is certainly their right…

Secondly, the reason more legislation has not been passed is … Republican filibuster and obstruction…

When you suggest that the proposed reason for impeachment is that Bush did not prepare for Iraq, you are again insulting and again demeaning the nearly 45 percent of Americans who have clearly, repeatedly and very publicly asserted far more grave and serious grounds than that.

You can certainly disagree with them, but give them the respect and intellectual honesty of accurately portraying what they are saying.

To misstate what they are suggesting, and then ridicule and demean the opinion of close to half of America is exactly what brings politics and journalism into widespread disrepute…

Americans want change, and that change is being blockaded by obstructionist, do-nothing Republican senators abusing the filibuster to thwart the will of the majority of the House, the majority of the Senate and the vast majority of the country.

The day of reckoning is coming.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and to Bill Alexander, then-chief deputy whip of the House. He is a contributing editor to Fighting Dems News Service. He can be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and reached at [e-mail].

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Carolyn Kay
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