DAVE LINDORFF: Poll: Impeach the Bastards

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http://www.counterpunch.org/lindorff07072007.html

July 7 / 8, 2007
Independents Don't Reside in the "Middle"
Poll: Impeach the Bastards

By DAVE LINDORFF

The latest poll by American Research Group, showing that 54 percent of Americans favor impeaching Vice President Dick Cheney, and that 46 percent favor impeaching President Bush, is encouraging news for impeachment advocates. Despite a corporate media blackout on impeachment that means almost nobody in the country knows that there is already a Cheney impeachment bill in the House with 14 co-sponsors (HR 333), over half the country nonetheless wants Cheney to get the boot.

And despite House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's insistence that "impeachment is off the table," almost half the people in the country say they want the president impeached.

But other information in this scientific poll, which was conducted by random telephone calls to 1100 Americans during July 2-3, should have Democrats like Pelosi and other party leaders rethinking their obstructive position on impeachment.

The Democratic leadership has been opposed to impeachment based on the absurd that while it is clearly popular among Democrats, an impeachment effort in Congress could "turn off" independent voters.

In fact the opposite appears to be true.

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[motocicleta]

1. "Americans will always do the right thing,

once they have exhausted all other options" - Churchill said something to that effect. I do believe we are getting there.

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