Will the Bush administration be brought down by scandal?

[The Night Owl]

Will the Bush administration be brought down by scandal?

[Hobarticus]

1. Sorry folks...media's bought and paid for

Any chance of seeing Bush shamed and disgraced would be against their contract.

[paineinthearse]

9. Bull crap

I agree that the major corporate media outlets are on a short leash, but I don't buy this defeatist view.

We are the new media and must keep a positive outlook. We must build relationships with the reporters and editorial boards of small and medium sized outlets. We must establish relationships with Congressional staffers and keep information channels open. We must provide information to "our" media like Bradblog, Raw Story, Truthout; in return we must share what is presented here and at those blogs to our networks. We must build our grassroot networks and elect progressive candidates.

I will not buy into the nay-sayers, I will fight as long as I have strength.

[Gay Green]

19. We must build relationships with... small and medium sized outlets.

When the small-town media influence their readership and viewership, Shrub will wonder where all his support went. And the so-called "liberal media" will wonder why the small-town media went anti-Bush all of a sudden!

(Of course, FauxNews, Excrement In Broadcasting and their ilk will never desert the Commander Cuckoo-bananas-in-thief.);-)

[paineinthearse]

25. Gay Green

Welcome to DU

:hi:

[Imagevision]

30. If Corporate media would do their job?-- ez money, Bush goes down.

War crimes, he lied to the people to go to war...how simple does it have to get-be??!

[flakey_foont]

2. One can only hope

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. The most we can expect is a minor scapegoat.

Bush, Cheney, Rove, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rice...every single one of them will walk away in 2009 without a scratch.

They'll have lucrative book deals, ass-loads of money on the lecture circuit, and lots and lots of Halliburton blood money to keep them warm at night.

I've said this before:

I give my solemn WORD that if I'm wrong, I'll publicly eat my words on DU.

Until then, I'm sticking with the "not a scratch" theory.



:grr:

[dchill]

26. Jeez....

Jeez, Jeez. I hope that you are wrong in a HUGE, SUPER-SIZED way. I really don't know - in a reality-based country, they would all at least be indicted, but Amurika today is so Hannitized, Rushed, Iraq-ed and Bushwhacked that your crystal ball could be right.

My crystal ball is rose-tinted, however. Without it I think I'd go crazy.

OK, crazier.

[yurbud]

4. if not brought down, we're in for decades of democracy-lite

[rzemanfl]

5. The only thing that will bring them down is the thing that cannot be

said on DU.

[nikraye]

6. They've been getting away with child rape and murder for years...

So what difference does a little fib and thousands of US soldiers and Iraqis dead due the "fixed intellegence" make?

Child sex ring tied to Republicans, White House, Congress: http://www.craigslist.org/sby/pol/77135656.html

Republican Child Sex Ring Documentary: Conspiracy of Silence:
http://www.craigslist.org/sby/pol/77144419.html


Conspiracy of Silence (Documentary paid for by Discovery Channel, censored by Congress):

Windows Media Player: http://www.indybay.org/uploads/conspiracyofsilence2.wmv
Real Player: http://images.indymedia.org/imc/uk/conspiracyofsilence56k.rm

[sam sarrha]

7. they will give him the proverbial 'Grape Kool-Aid', worth more as a Martyr

you cant say anything bad about a martyr.. that is why they gave Reagan a lobotomy.. to shut him up in the Iran Contra scandal and to shield the poor old Alzheimer's guy.. didn't know what he was doing.. will that was because Bu$h1 and the crime family minions were actually doing it while he was sleeping off the Halcyon they slipped him every time he went to the White house.. he only spent 40% of his peresidency at the white house

[sam sarrha]

8. looks like they will contenue to get away with it...

:banghead:

[Booster]

10. If there truly is a God in heaven, they will be.

[corbett]

11. Ain't Sayin' It'll Be Easy

Cracks are beginning to emerge. If Representative Conyers can obtain 10,000,000 petition signatures, we'll be on to something. The fact that thousands if not tens of thousands of veterans will protest the war and the lies is significant, too.

Details:

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050601/the_key_to_impeachment.php

[demwing]

12. Hope is never lost

ever.

[Trish1168]

13. We should never lose hope!

Its what they want. Lets not give them what they want. The grass roots movement is bigger than than anyone could possibly imagine. It will grow and grow until its impossible for the MSM to ignore. Already, news papers are overrun by letters. Yes, they ignore most of it, but they know the people are mad and are getting madder. Even many of the religious are switching sides, away from the hate-mongering.

Please....lets not give them what they want. With no hope, there's no motivation and effort. We need hope. Just look:

*In what....3 days, Conyers reaches his goal (its unprecendented).
*Now we have liberal radio taking off in the ratings!
*You have activism every day on every front.

Just think....deep throat did what he did because Nixon pissed him off by appointing a crooked loyalist. How many people has "W" done this to? How many times can he go after the intelligence community or go after the press, before they decide they've had enough of this guy? Even the Washington post (owner of Newsweek) shot across their bow (by publishing a story on the DSM an calling it a bomb with a long fuse).

Its gotta happen.

[Dr Fate]

14. The media nor any top Dems will discuss it- so "no."

It COULD bring him down, but the media is bought out and the DEMs are frightened little girls.

[hippiegranny]

15. always vote hope

the fat lady hasn't sung yet.

[baldguy]

16. Not without a fight

How many military units are loyal enough to this regime to defend it? How many will realize their first loyalty is to the country and not to the usurper in the White House?

When the revolution comes, who will be our Boris Yeltsin?

[chaska]

17. I wonder if they aren't operating on the theory that...

if you commit a thousand scaldalous acts none of them will come into sharp enough focus to develop sufficient to topple the presidunce.

[bemildred]

18. Nah, it's going to take street riots, a popular insurrection. nt

[tinfoilinfor2005]

20. Yes

Hope springs eternal...

[Joey Liberal]

21. The republiNazi's own the media, churches, and the Congress

Our only hope is to vote the Nazi bastards out of office.

[brentspeak]

22. Sorry to say, but no

These crooks have been mired in the most egregious scandals one can think of: dealings with Enron, the outing of undercover CIA agents, the smearing of war heros, the loss of over $9billion, the launch of a war based on what later turned out to be a complete lie. And even more than that.

Bush could prance around the White House lawn naked with a bong in his hand and still retain office, his power is so secure.

[Patchuli]

29. Owwww!!! My eyes, my eyes!!

Gimme a break, I'm a visual person!!! EEEEWWWWWWUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!

[Ksec]

23. I think he will be brought down

Unless he does something really crazy , I mean Reeeeeallly terrible crimes like start a war by lying or ordering torture, he will skate.

Oh wait.

He did do that.

And nothing.

Can I change my answer?

[FearofFutility]

24. Nothing ever sticks

I've felt hopeful so many times, but the stories/scandals bounce right off of them. :mad:

[dchill]

27. Yeah, but the press called Gotti...

the Teflon Don, and look how it went for him.

We have to keep trying.

[Ksec]

28. aint that da troof

Hes just not being held responsible

I think its more a case of media ignoring the charges and not making * answer for them. You would have to accuse him before the bouncing off would occur. He just doesnt face the music.

[FearofFutility]

44. Yep...Untouchable

The amount of evidence that has been uncovered regarding this corrupt administration is overwhelming, yet the only place you can read about it is on the net or sources from other countries. And you know we're all conspiracy theorist nut cases who hate America. :eyes: We can agitate, yell fire, scream from the rooftops, but it falls on deaf ears (except of course those of the choir). I'm convinced that the only thing that will force the media to take notice is a massive march on Washington.

[Pryderi]

31. No. Not unless there's a "Deep Throat" willing to step up.

[MellowOne]

32. APPARENTLY NOT!

Let's see, I believe there's been about twenty or so scandals since his second term, and he's still rolling merrily along with the same smirk of a smile on his face.

[PurityOfEssence]

33. They will not be brought down

They will be totally disgraced and will be wrenched from the wheel of power after their last term is up, but they will serve out this and however many more terms it takes for reality to catch up.

History will revile this bunch, but they're gonna get to strut and fret their full alotted time on the stage. Dammit.

[gibbyman]

34. History

I just hope History See the man for what he really is......... A Snake

[PurityOfEssence]

43. I think we can count on that

Of course, history is written by the winners, and these thugs are going for total, absolute control. Even if they succeed, they can't for ever. It may just be our lifetimes that are darkened by totalitarianism, it may be those of our kids too, but their policies DON'T WORK and they can't hide reality forever.

George W. Bush will be hated and ridiculed by all, and denied by the right wing. May he live to be a hundred and twenty.

[magellan]

35. I'm shocked to see so many defeatists here!

Not that I blame any of you, not a bit. But this poll caught me in a moment of faith. Not in God, not in the Dems in Congress, nor in any exterior investigation, but in

the American people!!

They're waking up, I feel it. The harder the Republican hot air blows, the less control they have.

It's down to us, the good people of this country, who put being American before anything else and have always fought for justice when push comes to shove. We outnumber freeps and fristians and fascist Bushbots any ol' day of the week. Always have, always will.

And it won't be scandal. It'll be straight out impeachment of the entire Bush**/neocon cabal, with a one-way ticket for all to JAIL.

It's coming. It'll happen. BELIEVE IT.

[truthisfreedom]

36. who cares? they destroyed the thugs. the conservatives will be tainted

by bushco for many many years to come.

[Califooyah Operative]

37. even if they were'nt , It doesn't mean lose hope. nt

[CWebster]

38. NOT if Clinton era Democrats still cling to the reins

of party control.

The Clintons' personal political ambitions come at a cost to us all.

Who will tell them their run is over?

[Disturbed]

39. Double teflon and not ..

a dent yet but we have a few years to go, eh.

"06 Elections with paper trail ballot machines might help.

[Donna Zen]

41. Plan B

It is in full swing.

Money--power

Arundhati Roy has said that what we need to understand that the press is the government. Those with power and money decided long ago that they needed to buy it, and that is just what they did.

[Donna Zen]

42. To lose hope is despair; don't go there.

But there is a difference between hope and optimism.

Thus while I am not optimistic, I hold on to hope.

John Dean writes in "Worse Than Watergate" that there are three ingredients necessary to produce a scandal: the crime, the cover-up, and outrage by the press. The first two have surfaced repeatedly; the third would appear to have become extinct.

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[mod mom]

40. Coingate/Lucas County OH BOE problems is my bet. nt

[itcfish1]

45. Teflon Chimp

Everything slides off of him thanks to the "liberal" media.

[Stand and Fight]

46. Nope.

Nothing sticks to these guys because the media is not reporting on their crimes and the Democrats aren't raising hell 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

[bunny planet]

47. NGU