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[Editor: ignore=off]There may be enough votes in the House of Representatives, but the are not enough votes in the Senate to convict. In which case, the media would herald it to be a vote of confidence.
Posted by Don Quixote at February 18, 2007 10:21 AMA president who is standing at 33 percent approval and is subsequently impeached is never going to be declared the winner of any vote of confidence, regardless of what the Senate might decide to do in the disposition of his case. Duckman may be right that the Democrats literally cannot impeach him at the moment; on the other hand, it is likely that the President is not done with committing impeachable offenses.
Posted by Copeland at February 18, 2007 11:24 AMFuck the media!
It's time to punch that bully in the nose and send him crying. It's exactly because the cocktail weenies inside the beltway hall of mirrors are bamboozled by the media that they cower, roll over and pee on their bellies when Bill Krystol snarls.
Democracy demands that people of courage stand up to possibe "criticism" and push back. Back Russ Feingold and tell David Broder to "go FUCK himself". Hey! that DID feel good! They have nothing!
Posted by DeminNewJ at February 18, 2007 12:21 PMOne of the ironic stories to my mind about the sinking of the Bismarck was that the anti-sircraft gun directors on the Bismark could not cope with an attack by the obsolete Fairey Swordfish biplanes because they were too slow. A slightly more modern aircraft might have failed in the attack because they might have been shot down.
Posted by blowback at February 18, 2007 01:27 PMYou know what they always said about the British army? It never won any battle except the last one, and it won the last one by being too dumb to realize that it was sure to lose. Not a bad attitude for politics either.
Posted by sagesource at February 18, 2007 01:48 PMThese munitions look like stuff we would be supplying to Iraqis. You know, big U.S. of A. on it to show our support for our little brown brothers. White man's burden, and all that.
The Bismark analogies are interesting. Massive ship of war...directionless...still dangerous...slowly immolating under it's own military might...
Posted by phidipides at February 18, 2007 02:19 PMAfter the Bismark sank, hundreds of Germans were left in the water. The Royal Navy picked up a few but soon deliberately departed the scene leaving all of the hundreds of remaining survivors to drown. It was something about there being only 3 survivors from HMS Hood which Bismark had sunk a few days earlier. No quarter given means no quarter given. Leave fascists to drown.
Posted by anon at February 18, 2007 02:30 PManon is incorrect. 110 sailors from the Bismark were picked up before the British forces left in response to a U-boat warning. German U-boats were in fact in the area, and picked up five survivors themselves. [source]
Posted by sagesource at February 18, 2007 05:32 PMParadox, this morning I'm almost jealous of you because you may "I could get out the door for Mexican breakfast in downtown Santa Cruz."
It's wonderful where I am now, but many years ago I lived up one of the canyons north of you on the way to Half Moon Bay (on Irish Ridge at the head of Lobitos and Tunitas Creeks) and the image of Santa Cruz on a sunny morning AND a Mexican breakfast gave me a hit of nostalgia for what was also a wonderful and beautiful place.
Posted by theExile at February 19, 2007 05:58 AM