If Impeachment Is Off The Table Could It Be Because *Co Told The Dems......

[global1]

that if they try to impeach him he will (fill in the blank).

Possibles:

1. escalate the war
2. attack Iran
3. institute martial law
???????

What could he have told them that caused the Dems to take impeachment off the table?

[Gato Moteado]

1. if the dems capitulated to idle threats like that.....

....then they are too weak and should be replaced.

first of all, bush doesn't tell anyone anything. he's a puppet. he does what he's told by the people that put him in office.

[AndyTiedye]

6. It Is No Idle Threat

Bush** has put everything into place to rule by decree. All he needs is an "incident".

[Gato Moteado]

10. bush can't tie his own shoe......

....to say that bush has put everything in place to rule by decree makes us look like fools. he's a puppet of big industry. he's a dope. he knows nothing about government....he's just a mouthpiece. if the dems had guts they'd impeach him. they have no guts because many are beholden to some of the same corporations.

[AndyTiedye]

11. But Cheney…

[Gato Moteado]

14. cheney's a puppet too.....

....the people that run the gov't are big corporate interests.

[frogcycle]

13. you are correct that he is a bumbling fool

but the post is correct that the cabal has put everything in place

[Gato Moteado]

15. if the cabal has put everything in place......

...and bushco is as successful as they are diabolical, then what hope do you possibly have? what hope could an election possibly offer? you guys give bushco too much credit. they're just drones.

yes, you're correct in that there is a cabal. but it ain't bushco. people like bush, cheney, rice, etc, are not nearly as bright as you give them credit for being. they just read the scripts and sign the papers. the people writing the scripts and drawing up the papers are who you should fear because they own both parties. sure, there are good dems out there, but those aren't the ones that you'll see get elected.

first of all, if there's an impending police state coming, and there probably is, then something needs to be done. but lobbing insults at bushco on an internet forum won't solve the problem. you've got to follow the money and find the real fascists....you have to look deeper than the fascist bootlickers in office. and you have to work around the system to bring them down.

think halliburton, exxon, monsanto, the military industrial complex....etc.

[EVDebs]

2. Precisely why pre-emptive Impeachment is a NECESSITY now !

[jmp]

3. He didn't make any threats.

Dems just remember how pissed Americans got at Republicans for the Clinton impeachment.

[onenote]

4. I doubt he told them anything

Its "off the table" at the moment because, at the moment, there isn't enough support for it among Democrats in Congress, particularly blue dog Democrats who won't support it unless/until there is some indication of bi-partisan support.

Tin-foil antidote: common sense

[Cameron27]

5. Common sense,

too bad we can't inject it. I agree with your assessment.

[LordJFT]

7. Do you honestly believe he told the dems that or are you just trying to fire people up?

[MGKrebs]

8. What makes you think that because it was off the table in October

that it is still off the table today? Must all the current investigations/subpoenas/testimony all exist within a formal "impeachment" inquiry to have any validity for you? Why would you insist on something like that? Does it not make sense to carry out these investigations and build a case until it gets to the point where calling for an impeachment hearing might actually result in something other than embarrassment to the House leadership and Dems in general? Are we so Manichean that we can only recognize "impeachment" or "not impeachment"?

[gasperc]

9. it was a political pivot

to avoid wary independents who had been voting Republican for years to switch back to the Democrats. Independents were shown to be leary of voting democratic if it simply meant a witch hunt to get Bush.

I wouldn't have chosed the words impeachment is off the table, maybe something more like it is not the agenda of the democratic party to start impeachment procedings once elected or something along those lines. Although I think we could have won without addressing the shrill impeachment tactics of the GOP, the issue had to be addressed lest it rally conservatives voters to the polls or give independents pause.

[MasonJar]

12. It is likely that the principles' families have been targeted.