Monday, April 23, 2007

Step away from the railing, Kleinheider

Amazingly, Adam Kleinheider of Volunteer Voters (Volunteer Voters: Think About The Future} states that he thinks the President and Vice President committed impeachable offenses, even though impeachment isn't pragmatic at this stage in their final term:
"Listen, I believe that the activities of the Bush Administration took in getting us into this war were likely impeachable offenses for Bush or Cheney or both, but let's look at our watches, friends."
Come on ACK; disagreeing with you on policy--or even making a stupid policy decision, doesn't constitute an impeachable offense.

11 comments:

William said...

Amazingly? There are only several books, PACs, city and town governments, and congressmen that have called for impeachment. Why is this amazing to you? The only reason Bush will not be impeached is not because he doesn't deserve it, it's because the Democrats see it as a losing political move.

ned said...

Several books, PACS, blue councils, congressmen? Try dozens.

But they don't claim to be Conservative.

But impeaching people who believed Hussein was pursuing WMDs (or even who believed Joe Wilson was a pompous, partisan, spousal junket-jockey) will take a LONG time, and include many Dems and Libs.

William said...

As I said, libs are too smart to impeach the president. BTW... Next time you demagogue 'libs' or call yourself conservative, remember the published definitions found in Roget's Thesaurus:

Liberal: ...generous, abundant, lavish, broadminded, tolerant, enlightened, charitable

Antonym:

Conservative: ...stingy, miserly, reactionary, regressive, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, narrow-minded

ned said...

Ouch, William.

Anonymous said...

While we are throwing synonymns around I decided to "pick and choose" a few out of the thesaurus myself.

Conservative:
cautious, constant, controlled, conventional, holding to, not extreme, sober, stable, steady

Liberal:
detached, disinterested, dispassionate, high-minded, indulgent, inexact, loose, permissive, radical

That should take away some of the sting Ned.

You might want to actually post ALL the synonyms and antonymns next time as they are not all bad or good for either word.

Anonymous said...

Even the negative definitions of 'conservative' are far worse than the those for 'liberal.'

I'd much rather be detached, disinterested, dispassionate, high-minded, indulgent, inexact, loose, permissive, radical

than

regressive, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, and narrow-minded...

!!

ned said...

And, of course, silly me for not caring what a Thesaurus implies about appeasement or abortion or wealth "redistribution" or rule of law or . . .

Anonymous said...

I don't recall this happening during the Clinton years:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Impeachment_rallies_scheduled_accross_US_for_0423.html

ned said...

Pam, so what?

Besides, the GOP isn't the activist party . . . we don't have a professional protestor class, or a moveon.org nucleus, or a complicit dominant media . . .

Not that it has any bearing on whether a particular course of action is right or not, but did it ever occur to you that--as evidenced by the measured stands taken on the issue by Hillary et al, things might be different than they are portrayed inside the Liberal echo chamber?

Anonymous said...

Ned,

I have no idea what any of that last comment meant, but you sure do have a way with words.

:)

ned said...

Sorry, that was directed at Pam and her reference to all the manufactured hubbub in favor of impeaching Bush . . . I contend Pam & Co. (including William!) grossly misinterpreted the 2006 election results.