Letters to the Editor
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Arvin
[Read the article: Mike Allen, consummate Beltway "journalist"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Your heart is obviously in the right place but I'm really not sure who you're talking about when you say "liberal intellectual". Do you mean liberal pundits, journalists and academics like E.J. Dionne, Paul Krugman and Sy Hersh? Because I honestly don't know what their positions on impeachment are. Are you referring to others, and if so, care to provide examples? Or are you referring to some of us here who are in favor of impeachment and would love to see it happen, but don't believe that there's a point in calling for it NOW, when it has a near-zero chance of succeeding? And if so, what do you believe is the point of initiating impeachment right now? Do you think that it could succeed? If so, please explain how? Or are you unconcerned with such trivial matters as what CAN be done vs. what we all want to be done?
You might want to be careful about who you imply is cowardly, unprincipled and a fairweather Dem or liberal. Taking such cheap shots only sows discord in our ranks, not to mention is utterly unsupported by the facts. Just because someone doesn't support YOUR chosen strategy doesn't make them any less committed or genuine a Lib or Dem than you believe yourself to be.
I want to fly to the moon and to hell with anybody who tells me that I can't and shouldn't try.
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Jeff W
[Read the article: Mike Allen, consummate Beltway "journalist"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Like I said in my earlier post, I do believe that it's a long shot, for reasons that both of us cited. Yet, if, as I expect it to, massive evidence of impeachable offenses does emerge, and, as I also expect (as do you and others), the public gets absolutely fed up with Bush & Repubs who support him and his policies in a way that makes last fall seem tame, then it will (or at least should) be a win-win for us. If they cave in to political reality and vote to impeach, we win. And if they stick with their guy and we can't impeach, we win also, possibly even more than if we were able to impeach, because this will all but guarantee unbelievable GOP losses in '08.
I'm guessing that under certain plausible circumstances, enough Repubs would come to their political senses and vote to impeach. They might be crazy and unprincipled but they're not THAT stupid (although I almost hope that they are). And if they are, oh boy, we could well approach a filibuster-proof majority in the senate, or at least get one that is effectively filibuster-proof (because a weak and unpopular minority party is not going to be able to hold a 42-44 member caucus together). And we will NEED that to get good judges on the courts. Which, I think, kind of makes me HOPE that they vote against impeachment, because moving the courts left again is probably more important than impeaching these creeps.
Anyone wants to condemn me for being too practical on this, go right ahead.
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L.W.M.
[Read the article: Mike Allen, consummate Beltway "journalist"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I disagree...with your lack of paragraph breaks. Aside from the radical right and our resident trolls it is quite possibly the greatest threat to our democracy as we know it.
Heed my advice or suffer the consequences (i.e. I won't be able to read your comments).
;-)
Btw, I agree that our country's masses of easily deceived and/or bribed lemmings are one of the biggest threats to our democracy. Between today's corrupt and dishonest MSM and Repubs' known eagerness to and effectiveness at buying votes with phony tax cuts and made-up moral threats, these people are too easily swayed by the latest bunch of liars and con men.
Not sure what to do about it. The present shock to the system has helped a bit, but all too many people that I know (mostly white, middle to upper middle class, educated, reasonably successful, "liberal") just don't seem to get it or be THAT upset. No doubt because the outrages of the past 6 years (or, really, 26 years) haven't yet affected them adversely. Thus the "bribe" part--ironically, all too many people who claim to be "liberals" actually support Repub policies such as tax cuts, deregulation and deficit spending, because they've benefited THEM.
As for the not so well-off masses, well, they are either swayed by phony "cultural" issues and the big bad Osama-loving libruls, or bought off with the promise of future riches (thus the support of people who will never benefit from it of the repeal of the estate tax).
Again, not sure what to do about it. Maybe we need yet more shocks. Not that we're unlikely to get them, given the way the right has run the country for years.
Mind those paragraph breaks, though.