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Are Republicans Getting a Clue?

by Open-Publishing - Friday 10 March 2006
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With the trouncing of the pretend president, George W. (for waste) Bush on the ports deal, Congressional Republicans should take note that their poll numbers are looking better. For all Republican representatives in the House and a third of those in the Senate, this is an election year and the message may need to be drummed into their thick, heretofore unyielding skulls: Distancing yourself from the President will help you get re-elected.

If Republicans are really concerned about re-election this year, they should consider this strategy carefully. Opposition to the president and the neocon-led administration on practically any issue can only aid in their own re-election efforts. Voting to impeach the President, VP, Secretary of State, Secretary of War (er, Defense) and the Attorney General (Yes, the constitution allows for impeachment of all high administration officials, and beyond the doubt, they are high on something!) would make their own re-election a virtual shoo-in.

House and Senate Republicans are playing party politics at a dangerous level. They seek to distance themselves from the administration without holding it accountable for lying to the Congress and the American public on Iraq, their shameful performance on Hurricane Katrina, unauthorized wiretaps and a host of other impeachable offenses.

The Republicans need to know that they are fooling nobody by only occasionally standing up to the president and his administration. Republicans need to be informed by their constituencies that supporting the administration in any effort is unacceptable.

They need to know that the American public demands accountability and oversight and that if the Republicans aren’t going to supply it, then they will be summarily excused in November and the Democrats in Congress can lead the charge to end the tyranny of George Bush, Dick Cheney, et. al.

People have called the Democrats spineless in their positions concerning administration demands, but the truth is that many of them have tried to awaken a sleeping public to the dangers emanating from Pennsylvania Avenue only to be met by an intractable, loyal and dunderheaded Republican majority.

If the Republicans are paying any attention and have the best interests of the American Republic at heart, they will do the right thing and move to impeach. By doing so, the public can once again place their trust in them and some of them may actually win re-election.

It’s all about self interest and the most self-interested people on the planet ply their trade in the halls of the United States Congress.

Rick Gagliano is the publisher of Downtown Magazine. On the web at http://www.dtmagazine.com

Forum posts

  • An article recently published here stated that 25 Democratic US Reps have signed on to RECOMMEND a probe that COULD recommend impeachment of George Bush. Absolutely astounding—a whole 25 Democrats. Rep John Lewis even went so far as to say that if a House member prepared a bill to impeach Bush, he would sign it. Is Lewis not aware that HE IS A MEMBER and could prepare a bill? I think anybody who calls the Democrats spineless has hit the nail squarely on the head.

  • This article is totally off base .There is no truth or understanding of the issues .In other words ---pure BS!

    • So how is it that you’ve made the "truth or understanding" any better? Hit and run is a ’crime" whether on the road or on the "information highway".

  • I am happy to see that america is waking up! I think that it is only a matter of time before these idiots are thrown out of office. If republicans Do not wake up soon they might find a party with no people backing them. At which point they will be no better off than the independant vote. I do know that the coming generations of political activists have had there veiw of the republican party soiled. If the republican party does not start boltsering support we could find the majority of the nation of democratic belief in the next 10 years! People really do need a clue and more people should start using the word IMPEACH!!!

    • Waking up will not be enough. The regime is entrenched and will brutalize the people to keep its power. Think of all that good CIA training going to waste in foreign countries. In 1919 it was the White Plan, in 1950s-70s, it was COINTELPRO. The story isn’t over until Americans themselves are hooked up to electrodes, and believe me, they will be. What goes around comes back to hit you in the head. The way I see it, it’s poetic justice.

  • As far as I’m concerned, the all port facilities in the U.S. and other infrastructure should have been nationalized decades ago. Then we wouldn’t have these problems would we?