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Me#1You#10
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 Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 5:07 pm Post subject: The "I" word |
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Note to self...2006 New Year's Resolution...Taranto...everyday...
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James Taranto
December 23, 2005
Newsweek's Howard Fineman predicts there will be a lot of talk of impeaching President Bush in 2006. His evidence:
For months now, I have been getting e-mails demanding that my various employers (Newsweek, NBC News and MSNBC.com) include in their poll questionnaires the issue of whether Bush should be impeached. They used to demand this on the strength of the WMD issue, on the theory that the president had "lied us into war." Now the Bush foes will base their case on his having signed off on the NSA's warrantless wiretaps. . . . The "I word" is out there, and, I predict, you are going to hear more of it next year--much more. But in a WashingtonPost.com chat, Richard Morin, the Post's polling editor, provides some context (ellipses in original):
Naperville, Ill.: Why haven't you polled on public support for the impeachment of George W. Bush?
Richard Morin: This question makes me mad . . .
Seattle, Wash.: How come ABC News/Post poll has not yet polled on impeachment?
Richard Morin: Getting madder . . .
Haymarket, Va.: With all the recent scandals and illegal/unconstitutional actions of the President, why hasn't ABC News/Washington Post polled whether the President should be impeached?
Richard Morin: Madder still . . .
Dublin, Ireland: In a statement on Sunday, John Dean, former White House counsel during Watergate, stated that President Bush is "the first President to admit to an impeachable offense." Will The Washington Post be polling about impeachment of the President in the near future, now that this topic has taken on national significance?
Richard Morin: An impeachment demand from Ireland? Oh my gawd. Now I'm furious.
Let me explain.
For the past eight months or so, the major media pollsters have been the target of a campaign organized by a Democratic Web site demanding that we ask a question about impeaching Bush in our polls.
The Web site lists the e-mail addresses of every media pollster, reporters as well as others. The Post's ombudsman is even on their hit list.
The Web site helpfully provides draft language that can be cut-and-pasted into a blanket e-mail.
The net result is that every few months, when this Web site fires up the faithful with another call for e-mails, my mailbox is filled with dozens and dozens of messages that all read exactly the same (often from the same people, again and again). Most recently, a psychology professor from Arizona State University sent me the copy-and-paste e-mail, not a word or comma was changed. I only hope his scholarship is more original.
We first laughed about it. Now, four waves into this campaign,we are annoyed. Really, really annoyed.
Some free advice: You do your cause no service by organizing or participating in such a campaign. It is viewed by me and others with the same scorn reserved for junk mail. Perhaps a bit more.
That said. we [sic] do not ask about impeachment because it is not a serious option or a topic of considered discussion--witness the fact that no member of congressional Democratic leadership or any of the serious Democratic presidential candidates in '08 are calling for Bush's impeachment. When it is or they are, we will ask about it in our polls.
Enough, already. Fineman apparently isn't savvy enough to recognize Angry Left spam when he sees it. Meanwhile, Editor & Publisher, the newspaper trade magazine, carries a story under the headline " 'Impeachment' Talk, Pro and Con, Appears in Media at Last." At last! Nope, no liberal bias here.
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Schadow
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Location: Huntsville, Alabama
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I find it most interesting that with all the high dudgeon, renting of garments, etc., on the part of Democrats over the revelation of warrantless eavesdropping, that none of them have called for an end to the practice.
It's been ten days since the NYT, in spite of 'reservations', saw fit to out this program and start the ball rolling for the subsequent outrage to follow. The "I" word is being bandied about generously along with dire predictions that our democratic republic has been dealt a mortal blow.
Yet, in all I've read and heard not one cry for discontinuing the program has come forward. Admittedly, I don't read the leftblogs and something may be issuing there but the usual mouthpieces are silent. It's almost as if they're saying "Well, it's a good program but we hate Bush for initiating it and he should be impeached. He's ruined the country but maybe we need the results." One would think that a process which constitutes a "high crime or misdemeanor" should be stopped. But no one advocates it.
Go figure.
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I B Squidly
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Stumbled across my local rep' John Shadegg. I asked him to give my regards to Mr. Sensenbrenner (sic) and keep up the good fight.
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