Erinberry at Jesus Was Not a Republican has an excellent agenda for the Democrats. I hope like hell they adopt it. The only item I'd add is subpoenaing Bush and Cheney and impeaching them.
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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People, people, calm down, calm down. Shhhhhhhhhh! There there, now. Take a breath.
Impeachment is a nonstarter and completely counterproductive. Yes, Bush and Cheney are war criminals. Leave it for an international tribunal after they've left office, okay? They cannot be impeached. Well, technically, they can be impeached. But (reality intervenes) they cannot be convicted. The votes aren't there in the senate.
In any case, the public demonstrated yesterday a strong desire to move to the center, not to the left. The center is going to be a vast improvement over where we've been, yes? So chill out. Let's solidify the center and get some practical legislation through Congress that actually improves people's lives and rolls back the egregious usurpations of the past six years. Once people gain some confidence in the ability of Democrats to govern with compassion and without corruption, once conservatives come to understand that we do not intend to boil and eat their children, then it will be time to start moving a more aggressively progressive agenda.
For now, though, let's dial down the rhetoric, okay?
I don't think the Dems will move immediately toward impeachment, but congressional hearings on how Bush got us into the Iraq war and on other Buscho malfeasance will be called relatively quickly.
The Dems will seek cooperation from Bush on legislation. If, as I suspect, they don't get it—if Bush walls himself up in the White House—then the Dems will begin to call for impeachment.
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