On the Road for Impeachment (or If Folks are Cheering, This Must be Texas) (YES!)

[babylonsister]

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/24462

On the Road for Impeachment (or If Folks are Cheering, This Must be Texas)
Submitted by dlindorff on Mon, 2007-07-09 16:10. Impeachment

By Dave Lindorff

Austin--I just spent the weekend in this state capital, talkin’ impeachment at a meeting organized by the Texas Green Party, World Can’t Wait and Austin Impeach (www.austinimpeach.org), and was flying back home via Atlanta. As I was boarding my flight, the pilot, an Air Force veteran like many commercial pilots, looked at the bold “Impeach Bush and Cheney” emblazoned across my chest, smiled and said, “I like your shirt.” Some 20 minutes later when the flight attendant came through serving drinks and I asked for a bottle of red wine, she handed me a bottle and then waved away my proffered five dollars. “With that shirt, you don’t have to pay,” she said to me. The Texas and Georgia passengers sitting around me laughed appreciatively.

The mood in America is shifting rapidly, and President Bush has gone from hero to goat.

On this trip to the state where George Bush launched his disastrous political career, I purposely decided to wear my impeachment shirt while traveling, as a way of gauging popular sentiment. I’ll confess that, having experienced some ugliness back in the ’60s, when wearing long hair and a beard into the wrong bar or neighborhood could be dangerous, I was a little anxious at first.

I needn’t have worried.

Instead of holding me up at the security gate in Newark, TSA inspectors there complimented me on my prominent call to oust their boss. I got more favorable comments from people waiting at the gate for the flight to San Antonio, including from several guys whose well-muscled physiques and buzz-cut hair suggested they were military.

Not one person even scowled, much less took issue with the sentiment expressed on the shirt.

It got more amazing when I landed in San Antonio, where two men in military fatigues separately flashed discreet thumbs-up signs as they passed me in the terminal.

more...

[blogslut]

1. Here's a kick

With pointy shoes :)

[lonestarnot]

2. That's what I mean 'bout those American People!

[loudsue]

3. You mean I MAY be able to reclaim by Texas heritage?

:loveya: THAT would be nice. I'm an 8th generation Texan, who left BECAUSE of the rightwing takeover of my native soil, and the bastardization of that state by Georgie and his family.

:kick:

[redqueen]

4. Spend any time in north Texas?

Or rural areas.

Encouraging post... thanks for sharing. :thumbsup:

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. I'm a native Texan, and I've always thought that the Bushes were not

true Texans at all. It's not just the family history, the feel is all wrong. They are not really rooted anywhere; they are a family of heartless, greedy monsters. This is so different from the feel of genuine Texans, or for that matter, genuine people from anywhere, that they seem like aliens from some cheap B movie, inhabiting and animating human bodies.

[monmouth]

6. You are a wonderful story teller and you just made my day. Many thanks...

[trashcanistanista]

7. I'm also in a rural area, so

here you go ....:dem:

[EVDebs]

8. Re Iraq, most evangelicals would agree with Luke 9 : 5 and tell Bush

The country should have our troops shake the dust from the boots in Iraq and depart STRATEGICALLY. If the Islamic world can't create the democracy their people deserve WE surely can't impose it upon them. This isn't DEFEAT it is FACING FACTS. In fact that would be the best thing to stop the destruction of our Army (see Time April 16, 2007 cover story).

Evangelicals know the score and this misadventure in Iraq is now clear to them now.

[livvy]

9. Lindorff is great to read.

I just finished "The Case for Impeachment" and anyone that reads it, and does not see the need for impeachment, has been sipping at the Kool-Aid fountain for way too long. I kept having to remind myself that it was published in '06, before the AG scandal, the Libby commutation, etc.

[Subdivisions]

10. HA! Love it! And what shirt am I wearing right now?

[Prophet 451]

11. The momentum is shifting...

...although at this rate, it seems Pelosi will be the very last person to recognise it.

[Senator]

12. K&R