Raise your hand if you want Monica Goodling to be VP in 30 years

[proud2BlibKansan]

If we don't impeach the president and vice president, these underlings like Monica will just rise through the power structure until they are old enough to be cabinet members and vice presidents.

If we had impeached Nixon, Cheney would not be our VP today. Rumsfeld would be only a memory.

So one more reason to IMPEACH is to rid our country of the rats, not only on deck, but the ones waiting in the wings as well. Like Monica.

[BuyingThyme]

1. I don't think that's right.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Why not?

[BuyingThyme]

3. I don't see why Rumsfeld and Cheney wouldn't be just as powerful.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Because they may have been brought up on criminal charges

along with Nixon. They would have gone down with the ship, had it been allowed to sink.

[originalpckelly]

5. Huh? Did Ford pardon everyone or just Nixon?

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. Just Nixon

[BuyingThyme]

6. People were brought up on criminal charges.

And the ship did sink.

Rumsfeld and Cheney were apparently on a different ship -- the one the Gerald Ford was sailing.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. They also worked in the WH under Nixon

[Rosemary2205]

7. In 30 years Cheney will be taking the eternal dirt nap.

And probably Rummy too.

[BuyingThyme]

8. Thirty years from 1974.

[Rosemary2205]

9. Ahhh. sorry. nt

[BuyingThyme]

10. No thang.

[TahitiNut]

11. It's part of the problem of having a "political class" ... "they" go easy on "one of their own."

The problem isn't so much one of "inside the beltway" as it is of a society of division and exclusion - "exclusive" clubs and gated "communities" and economic stratification and zero-sum thinking that has steadily increased the distance between the "haves" (the political 'base') and the "have-nots" (unrepresented) for the last 30 years.