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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 01:37 PM Original message |
Poll question: If Democrats fail to hold Bush & Cheney accountable, how long until right rises from the dead? |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
1. Other: They WIll Be Around Unscathed for Years to Come |
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Richard Steele (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:39 AM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Exactly. The Dems have ALREADY failed to hold them accountable... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 04:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
14. They've not been held accountable |
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Dukkha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. and Americans are too stupid to care |
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HCE SuiGeneris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. Unfortunately, the right is not dead. They still have a chokehold on the nation. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
3. BushInc was completely cornered by Jan 1993 on BCCI, IranContra, and Iraqgate. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 01:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. exactly my point. Clinton didn't even get cut slack personally for giving Papa Bush a pass |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 01:13 AM Response to Reply #8 |
10. apparently Hillary has learned NOTHING from this. Cause she wants to do it again with Jr. n/t |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 10:35 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Well, yurbud, you have to realize that Whitewater was another dog and pony show |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. do you have a link on that? |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 06:17 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Page 338 of the book WHITEOUT |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:42 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. what did happen, nothing? |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:56 AM Response to Reply #17 |
20. No Justice Dept. furthering the case after the report SPECIFIED that matters |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
4. If they do not hold bush and cheney accountable it is because THEY DO NOT want to be accountable |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 09:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
36. Or because alot of it tracks BACK twenty years earlier and THEY are part of the |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. Two or three seconds? |
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Wizard777 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 01:12 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I was thinking ten seconds. But your figures may be more accurate. n/t |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
6. I'd say six months ..... tops |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-02-08 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
7. If history is any guide, four to eight years. |
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blm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-03-08 07:39 PM Response to Reply #7 |
16. Exactly - let off the hook throughout the 90s by Bill Clinton and we got Bush2 |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:08 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. stronger, nastier, and willing to burn the bridges of democracy behind them |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
18. Do you forsee us ever definitively defeating the right? |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:54 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. History has a lot of back and forth. but DLC type compromise doesn't end the tug of war. look at |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 11:59 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I don't favor a DLC Approach either, but absent any major change |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:10 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Do you mean public backlash or backlash by the financial elite? |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:22 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Is there a difference? n/t |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:34 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. sometimes manufactured outrage doesn't catch on |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 12:35 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Yes - I totally agree. |
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yurbud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:07 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. people have been convinced they're a lottery ticket away from becoming one |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Which takes me back to the point i made earlier |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
29. The month after the inauguration of a Democratic president. |
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jus_the_facts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:28 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. then I'll ask you what I always get asked when posting about how rigged things are.... |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 02:34 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. Because it's not YOUR party or your country. |
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jus_the_facts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 02:45 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. I agree with you....completely.... |
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JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Oh, I see... |
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Evoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-04-08 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
30. "Rise from the dead" assumes they're dead. No way. It's the left that is dead. |
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pat_k (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-05-08 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
37. Refuse to impeach and they remain the "undead" |
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