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  •  You're Right (0+ / 0-)

    I do believe he would be impeached since all of the really extremely dirty stuff that has gone on has been swept under the carpet. Once it finally reaches the light of day, and the public's radar, he'll be gone since even the GOP won't be able to defend him. The problem we have now is that the public does NOT know what's happened since the press won't cover it. You have to be someone like myself and I'm sure most of the people here who read liberal blogs, and the newspapers nation wide, and alternative news sources, and heaven forbid read BOOKS, and who get mailings from people like Conyers with their findings to even know what has happened.

    The main stream news would be forced to cover impeachment hearings by the House, and then the truth would finally come out, and pressure on the Senate in all parties would be too great to be ignored. When all that's gone on during the Bush presidency finally makes the light of day the public is going to be asking what the hell happened. I have the answer to that, and it's the press being allowed to be controlled by corporations that wanted to keep the public in the dark, and owned by six or so people who do not have the public's interest at heart. Fairness Doctrine. Needs to be priority ONE for the Democrats if they get back in power. The lies in the press need to stop, and C-SPAN and blogs need to not be a better reliable news service than the so called "news" in this country.

    If they get overwhelmed to the point where they can't cheat all of the elections, and there is a blood-letting in November, things are going to change, and for the better. We've got to get past that voter fraud first and I hope there are people are acting on that. I just voted in our primary here in MO today, and before I voted on the touch screen machine, I made sure we had a paper ballot back up, which there was, and ended up educating the older election workers at the polling place about voter fraud, and how it's happened when there was no paper back up, which they weren't aware of, and how I'd refuse to let it happen in our state and with my vote. I told them if we didn't have paper behind the touch screens, I'd be voting on paper, or absentee from now on. I had one of the old guys say they needed more like me who was working the polls here. These people are active enough to want to participate, and had no idea Ohio and Florida were stolen, and that they cheated the machines with no paper trail. They know now, and know that Kennedy wrote an article about it in Rolling Stone. I hope they weren't all to old to figure out how to go find it and read it, or have someone do it for them.

    Anyway, let's take it back one state at a time and one vote at a time with fighting fraud, and voting absentee where it's needed if the system can't be trusted, and get this SOB impeached, and it will happen if we don't allow another election to be stolen from the party. I think the public will be there if they're allowed to know just what this man has done to us.

    •  Exactly my point . . . (0+ / 0-)

      When the Watergate hearings began, most in the country who thought about it were doubtful of Congress' ability to convict Nixon.  Even with a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress, Nixon certainly had the votes to block conviction.  It was only when the esistence of the tapes came out, and when John Dean testified that the bottom fell out for Nixon.  The uproar made even most of his staunchest supporters bail on him.  

      That will happen again.

      Bush's abuses have been far greater than Nixon, and to have ANY of those abuses put right in front of the whole country - all of us at the same time - will wake up a LOT of people who simply don't know yet.  Americans for the most part have been denied clear and free access to the facts.  So many are getting their news filtered.  In the Watergate hearings, the whole country was watching it as it happened.  Spin at the station breaks can only do so much to undo what the people will have just seen happen.  And there weren't that many breaks in the Watergate hearings, so in the Bush hearings people are going to have quite a while to digest the events before the spinners get a shot at distorting things.

      When the hearings begin, it can only move in one direction: toward impeachement and conviction.  The criminality of the administration has been hidden behind the smokescreen/stone wall of the committtee chairmen.  Once that layer of obfuscation and denial has been removed, it will be Katie-bar-the-door.  Once the evidence starts coming out, there will be so many possible charges that the house will have to have spearate teams of prosecutors for each charge.  It may be a good time to be a layer in D.C.

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