Are any Democrats who won't impeach Bush & Cheney calling for Spitzer to resign?

[yurbud]

It seems ironic that the embarrassing but basically victimless crime of seeing a high-priced call girl gets you chased out of office, but epic corruption, incompetence, destruction of democracy, and a war of aggression to enrich cronies that has killed over a million people doesn't.

[nradisic]

1. IOKIYAR

Thank the MSM....how much press did David Vitter get for his "whore" episode? I cannot understand how anyone would not notice the double standards....I do not condone what Spitzer dis, but this event should make everyone reevaluate the media situation in this country. Once Dems take a greater majority in the House and Senate the firts order of business should be reregulate the media.

[yurbud]

6. rather than regulate, break up, and tax to support public broadcasting. Then build a firewall

around PBS & NPR so they aren't subject to political or corporate pressure.

[Orwellian_Ghost]

2. K&R n/t

[jojo54]

3. Exactly.

And there's still 313 more days of this administration to get through.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall during that meeting between * and Pelosi. Maybe then I'd know what dirt he's got on her that he won't reveal, as long as impeachment is off the table.

[The Stranger]

4. Ode to the Nancy Disaster

(Part the Third)

Oh, our Nancy Disaster,
Did you read the news today?
Oh, our Nancy Disaster,
Why would they impeach Spitz for just a lay?

Oh, our Nancy Disaster,
How many U.S. servicemen and women did you kill today?
Sitting in your Congress office,
Taking away the people's only Constitutional way?

[yurbud]

16. one of my threads got removed for saying hillary & mccain got troops & Iraqis killed

Its the first post about candidates as doctors:
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/

[The Stranger]

19. Oops. I didn't know that was a violation of the rules. Too late to delete.

Is it okay if it was just poetry? Poetry doesn't really mean anything anyway.

There. How's that?

What about that old chant, "Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" Or is that different.

[yurbud]

20. I didn't say you had to delete it. I just thought it was a creepy bit of censorship

probably because it stepped on too many Hillary toes.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Apparently, impeachment can only be used in cases of sexual conduct.

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[sinkingfeeling]

14. Then why hasn't everybody in the Bush administration been impeached for lying?

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[madokie]

10. Welcome to DU

thats the way I see it too. There is a lot more to come out on this story and something tells me that someone is very nervous because spitzer didn't take the bait, he came forward with an apology instead. This isn't the was it was planned. I just hope he isn't suicided before it all comes out.

[yurbud]

17. I think that's almost always the case even with Nixon

[VP505]

8. I am more concerned about Spitzer's

hypocrisy than his diddling with a prostitute, as a Prosecutor he went after prostitution big time while participating himself. Having said that, if any of the Dem's who refuse to impeach Bu$h start commenting in depth on Spitzer perhaps they ought to be called on their lopsided priorities.

[nashville_brook]

11. best comment yet!

[DavidDvorkin]

12. Excellent question!

[Eric J in MN]

13. Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is the only Democrat...

...I've seen call for Spitzer to resign.
http://www.observer.com/2008/gillibrand-calls-spitzer-resign

She isn't a co-sponsor of Dennis Kucinich's bill to impeach Cheney:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HE00333:@@@P

H.RES.333
Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. (introduced 4/24/2007) Cosponsors (26)
Related Bills: H.RES.799
Latest Major Action: 5/4/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. COSPONSORS(26), ALPHABETICAL : (Sort: by date)


Rep Baldwin, Tammy - 8/1/2007
Rep Boswell, Leonard L. - 2/14/2008
Rep Brady, Robert A. - 7/24/2007
Rep Clarke, Yvette D. - 6/6/2007
Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy - 5/1/2007
Rep Cohen, Steve - 8/4/2007
Rep Davis, Danny K. - 11/5/2007
Rep Ellison, Keith - 6/28/2007
Rep Farr, Sam - 7/12/2007
Rep Filner, Bob - 7/12/2007
Rep Grijalva, Raul M. - 12/5/2007
Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila - 8/4/2007
Rep Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. - 6/28/2007
Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. - 9/7/2007
Rep Lee, Barbara - 6/7/2007
Rep McDermott, Jim - 7/10/2007
Rep Moore, Gwen - 12/19/2007
Rep Moran, James P. - 7/10/2007
Rep Payne, Donald M. - 8/1/2007
Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. - 5/1/2007
Rep Stark, Fortney Pete - 3/5/2008
Rep Towns, Edolphus - 9/27/2007
Rep Waters, Maxine - 6/12/2007
Rep Watson, Diane E. - 10/16/2007
Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. - 6/7/2007
Rep Wynn, Albert Russell - 5/10/2007

[yurbud]

15. we should send her some letters thanking her for her new-found interest

In elected officials breaking the law and ask if this means she will be signing on to the cheney impeachment bill.

[yurbud]

18. and of course republicans have no sense of irony or shame: THEY called for Spitzer to be impeached

http://capitalnews9.com/content/politics/112125/republicans-to-push-for-spitzer-impeachment-if-he-doesn-t-resign/Default.aspx

[Senator]

21. K&R&ImpeachOrLoseInNovember