All I ask is for the moment forget the votes and think about the future of our Country.

[madokie]

I am at my witts end as an American as to what to do next. I lay awake at night worrying about what we are doing to the Iraqi people as well as to their country, the same as for us and our country. No matter what the outcome we must make an attempt to impeach these bastards or we will never be allowed to live in peace again, and never is a long, looooong time too. The evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors are numerous, I wouldn't even know where to start in listing all of them. Why can't we at least come together and do what is right for our country's future not just the Dem's in '08 as seems to be the plan now, plus I worry there won't even be an election in '08 if we don't stop them now with impeachment proceedings. I ask all of you to to send correspondence to your congress critter and let them know you support impeachment.
please

[madokie]

1. .....

I suppose I must be alone around here on this
Peace

[bryant69]

2. I don't think you are alone on this

It could be though that the fever to discuss and debate abortion has sort of burned through DU for a bit.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Solly Mack]

3. You're not alone

[madokie]

5. Thanks Solly

Two things weigh heavily on me and thats what we did to the Vietnamese in my war and what we are doing to the Iraqi in bush* war as they are one and the same, Wrong. The divide between having been there and only reading about it, is, I guess what it is, I just don't know anymore

[Solly Mack]

9. I worry people are all too willing to settle for short term gain

that doesn't really bring the needed change that will help prevent another Bush-league executive from happening again. Far too much faith that a win equates to change..a simple election won't solve America's problems. Impeachment won't either to be fair - but impeachment would go a long way toward restoring the checks and balances a government of free people needs to remain a government of free people.

Bush didn't just happen - years of government abuses and corruption - of allowing the guilty to go free in the name of unity and national healing gave us Bush. Of just accepting without question that "this" is how has to be because "this" is how it's always been - that "this" - politics - is a game to be played and if you are bothered by the deaths, the lying and the corruption that stem from the game then you are just naive to how the game is played...because the fact is, if politics is a game, then it is a game that kills and that doesn't speak well of the players or those who cheer the game...but I don't see politics as a game.

I don't see how politics is approached as a game either. I see it as the difference between life and death...the difference between freedom and oppression. How we go about our politics matters....and it is not a game. Government is a serious business...and where freedom is a stake, there is no room for compromise with the oppressor or with those who would enable the oppressor. There is no room for games where lives are at stake.

There are people unwilling to see America as she really is - instead they see her how they want her to be or how they believe her to be...and this denial helped to usher Bush into office. Such denials gets in the way of true change.


I have dreams about what America is doing to the people of Iraq (and in America) - nightmares really. And there are times when the pain in my chest is so great that I cannot breathe. I want to scream at people - "You can't just ignore this!" "You can't just pretend this away!" "You can't just lie this away!"

But I know they can and will do it...and that is my greatest source of agony.

[libnnc]

4. you're not alone

but around here the election trumps the constitution

sad

[madokie]

7. and if we don't protect the constitution we won't have elections

first things should come first I think

no one can tell me that gwb has any intention other than to set up a dictatorship for himself

[libnnc]

13. no but see...putting aside immediate partisan success

to try to preserve what's left of the blueprint for our Republic is being childish and selfish.

We don't want to be childish and selfish.

We shouldn't throw tantrums unless they have to do with a democratic presidential nominee...then it's okay to act childish and selfish...call each other names

We want to win big in '08...assuming there is an election and it's fair.

[bobthedrummer]

6. We are not alone.

[madokie]

8. sometimes I wonder

[bdamomma]

10. those congress critters will be going home soon, make

appointments to see them, they need to hear from us, that what we say matters, and come right out and say are you for your party or for this country and the people. Remember they are our servants not the other way around.

[Individualist]

11. K&R!

[mondo joe]

12. We are not unanimous in what is right for our country's future.

The mistake is in thinking that those who disagree with you on what to do do not share your interest in doing what's best.

[Virginia Dare]

14. Agreed...n/t

[Golden Raisin]

15. That would require that we have

Congresspeople who were statesmen (and women) who put the Nation and Constitution above Party. With a pitifully small handful of exceptions, what we predominantly have are slick, professional pols who are in it for ego, power and K Street money.