Democratic Underground - FWIW, Even Your Thread Title Claim Is Simply False

I see you've already been contradicted on many levels, and with many cogent arguments, but I'd just like to add that your intitial premise is not factually correct.

The Euphemedia did a "heckuva job" promoting the propaganda meme that the election was "All About Iraq ... squawk ... All About Iraq." But this simply was not the case. That is, according to Curtis Gans, Director of the Center for the Study of the American Electorate:

Bender: Curtis, I'm holding the study in my hand right now, and clearly one of the things that all the exit polls showed was that Iraq played a part and your own work bears that out -- that Iraq helped propel some degree of an increase in turnout in this last election.

Gans: I think that it is not simply Iraq, although Iraq started Bush's downhill. But it is a gestalt around George Bush. it's being a pariah to other countries; it's people dying in what they increasing find is a vain fight; it's massive budgetary imbalances; it's a lack of compassionate conservatism; it's insecurity in jobs; it's the feeling that people have not been leveled with.

And according to the pre-election Newsweek poll:

They damn well were "elected to impeach." It's only inside the beltway, among the DC/Euphemedia Analstocracy that everything was "All About Iraq." Because that's what was easiest for them to deal with. It still is. They are loathe to face the reality that an occupant of the White House is a war criminal and dangerously incompetent. Worse, that they might have to actually DO SOMETHING about it.

The American People are not so limited. They don't need to "find out" any more -- or to "air laundry." Nor do they care much about "deadlines" and "fund cutting games". They want decisive action and they've wanted it for quite some time now. As 58% told Newsweek in January, "they wish the Bush presidency were simply over."

And they're not stupid. They understand that removal may be unlikely. They watched the Clinton farce. They just want their objection to this Anti-American-Values regime to be recorded for history. For someone to at least make their case. It's why people like Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore become so popular.

The DC Dems have failed to respond. And the newer polls clearly display the result. Without impeachment, not much will change and the '08 elections will be close enough for them to steal it again. That's what failure to impeach will bring -- and not surprisingly -- as the only message it sends is one of weakness and complicity.

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