Dave Lindorff: A Widening Chasm Between Congressional Democrats & Voters On Impeachment

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May 21, 2007 at 14:41:45

A Widening Chasm Between Congressional Democrats and Voters on Impeachment
by Dave Lindorff

http://www.opednews.com

The divide between Democratic leaders contemplating their re-election prospects in 2008 and rank-and-file Democrats is becoming a chasm--one so wide that Congressional Democrats may soon find it hard to straddle it.

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To date, 14 state Democratic Parties have now called for impeachment. But that's only part of the story. Vermont's state senate has overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for impeachment. Similar resolutions are being considered in the legislatures of 17 states. Over 80 cities, towns and counties have passed impeachment resolutions, as have at least that many town and county Democratic Party organizations, even in conservative areas such as Berkes and Chester County in Pennsylvania.

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Recent news developments are only making impeachment more popular with the public at large. The worsening Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and the President’s intransigence and obsession with continuing the slaughter of innocents and the sacrifice of Americans, has driven his popularity down to 28 percent, and the vice president’s to below 9 percent. The prosecutors firing scandal is taking down the attorney general, while exposing the outlines of one aspect of a six-year-long White House-orchestrated campaign to undermine the democratic election process using control of the justice system. And it is now becoming clear that the president's illegal National Security Agency spying program has been so outrageous an assault on Americans’ civil liberties that even then Attorney General John Ashcroft, himself a walking threat to the Bill of Rights, refused to sign on, despite his being pressed to do so from a hospital bed.

At this point, the Congressional leadership, including Pelosi and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), really need to start worrying that they may start looking ridiculous. Indeed, the Detroit City Council a few days ago passed a resolution calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings, and one of those voting for the resolution was Conyers’ own wife, herself a Detroit alderwoman!

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1. Just keepin' their powder dry

Unfortunately, the only powder they seem to have is the kind that was used in wigs in the 18th century :banghead:

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2. It seems they have taken the "Dems don't support the troops" bait

After 5 years of exposure to the total bullshit put out by the * administration, after the elections of 2006 where the voters sent a clear message, after the decline in polls of support for the dumbass war, they either still don't get it or they are the biggest group of invertebrates on earth outside of a college biology lab. Somebody needs to go to fucking jail for this outrage and right now I'm not totally sure that the congressional Democrats shouldn't be part of that group.

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3. Al Gore's new book will make the chasm even bigger.

Already #5 on Amazon. Read the NYT review:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=103&topic_id=282801&mesg_id=282801