CNN :
A new poll suggests that George W. Bush is the most unpopular president in modern American history.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president.
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Could someone please help me out with my question: With all that we the people know about what this administration has done, why won't our democratic congress pursue impeachment of him and Cheney? This is not a rhetorical question. If there is someone here that is familiar with constitutional law and such could help me out, please feel free to explain to me. Thanks.
Simply the Dems don't have 67 votes in the Senate, which is needed for conviction, otherwise Bush and Chaney will go on just as Clinton did.
They also do not have any actual charges to press.
Even if that was so, why can't they just "attempt" to impeach as I signal to US citizens and the world that we the people feel have felt violated by this administration for the past 8 years? I don't want this idiot to just go down in history as a bad president. I want it written in the history books that at least our congress "tried" to get him out. It's unsettling that the history books will reflect that he was just a bad president. He is WORSE than that...
I think that is a Dem excuse. If they went forward, you would find out how few Dems support an impeachment. Think DiFi would support it.......or Pelosi...or that idiot Congressman from Simi who was quoted in today's LA. Times as not wanting to drive a Prius because it wasn't made in America.
My best guess is that some of them are complicit in the crimes they would be charged with.
You betcha., And we know what crime we're all talking about.
"impeachment is off the table" - pelosi
I don't understand how you can believe there are grounds to impeach anyone. On what charge? Real charges, not the fact that you feel bitterness.
But moreover, what is the point of your questioning? Why is the election of a successor not sufficient relief? One would think this would be the happy era for Bush's critics ... his term is soon to close.
He should be in prison for the rest of his life.
Presidential and Vice Presidential authorization of torture in direct violation of Geneva Convention articles. How's that for starters, muze?
THERE ARE NONE SO BLIND
AS THOSE WHO WILL NOT SEE.
THE EVIDENCE CAN MOUNT TO THE SKY,
BUT
THEY WILL NOT SEE.
SOUNDS LIKE RELIGION TO ME.
Here are articles of impeachment authored by Dennis Kucinich (H.R. 333) against Dick Cheney, for starters:
http://kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/int3.pdf
It's too late and politically risky to start impeachment proceedings against Bush, Cheney, et. al. Besides, the Dems don't even have enough democrats that would vote for impeachment. Legally, there's nothing keeping the House from starting an impeachment inquiry.
Sadly, WE THE PEOPLE have a short attention span and future generations should know just how bad this administration has been. He deserves much more than just being a "bad president". It's sickening that it is written in the history books that Clinton was impeached for getting a blowjob and lying about, but Bush will be known as just a "bad president".
I've been gone for awhile so I'll start from here.
Retroactive PUNISHMENT is unconstitutional,
but if we can grant immunity retroactively, we
can also sign international accords similarly.
International laws regarding war crimes are
already in place, therefor we are not making
any new laws covering past deeds, get it???
Retroactive PROSECUTION is unconstitutional. You can't go back and make something a crime that was committed in the past.
That is why, even if we were to join the World Court, Bush and Co. could not be prosecuted there.
Bush's crimes would have had to be prosecutable under World Court rules when the crimes were committed.
That's their argument but as neocons constantly prove,
the law is interpreted by those in charge. We have to
get past this idea that we are required to be prim and
proper while they commit treason and mass murder.
This is a mortal struggle, not an abstract discussion.
What BushCo clearly did was a crime at the time they were committed.
The trials at Nuremberg were not concerned if and when Japan and/or
Germany had signed anything. The winners of WW2 were both judge
and jury and convicted for the same thing that BushCo now calls legal.
Hmmm you mean people don't like a liar, mass murderer, war criminal and traitor that has crippled the economy?
The truly amazing thing is that despite the serious damage this malevolent idiot has done to this country and the world, 28% of the public still supports him. The question needs to be asked. What in the world is wrong with them?
I have to say GW is funny, but I haven't spoke to one person who wants him as president or doesn't regret voting for him except his base. Bush quote: " He he he he, Hello all you have & have mores. (grin) Some people call you the elite, I call ya' my base. He heheheh".
I call ya' my base.
that should have been a clue
It's hard for Republicans to come to terms with the fact that they have been consistently lied to and brainwashed by the GOP and their lackeys in the media. They're in denial. Admitting that they had bad judgement is not something they want to face.
A siginificant minority of that 28% believe it or not are the neo-cons who voted for Bush because of his support of Israel and now they are the same ones clammering for bombing Iran, their wet dream. Many of those neo-con traitors come form New York: They don't give a shit about America, only Israel.
I think Bush's unpopularity is exaggerated. First, 30% of America is a lot of people. Even more than the number of people who watch Fox News, especially lately. Second, some of the 70% may not like the job he is doing but still like Bush as a person. Sort of the opposite of Bill Clinton in his final (fatigued) days. Third, it's not really good news to Bush's opponents if conservatives don't like him because he isn't mean enough to Mexicans or he's giving in too much to the "liberal media" on his Iraq policy-- they'd like him better if he were even lousier.
We're still a 50/50 country.
I thought I was the only one. Nice to see some objectivity and reasonableness among these posts!
Sorry, but you're both delusional.
Not to mention part of the problem.
I think all the negativity thrown at him has the exact opposite effect of the intent, and he has to know what's being written about him, yet he remains unruffled, while everyone else is popping out the veins in their foreheads . So whose blood pressure is going the highest?
Just one of the benefits of being a sociopath.
The poll was not measuring Bush's popularity as a person; it was measuring his popularity as a President. Half of the people who voted for him in 2000, said they did so because he was someone they could drink a beer with, and now that seems to be all that he was good for. In 2004, they voted for him because Rove had convinced them that the biggest threat to America was gays! Meanwhile, as President, he has given us an unwarranted war (based on lies) with no end in sight, a failing economy that has obliterated the middle class, a nation more polarized than in recent memory, and of course tax breaks for the wealthy, who are probably the 30% of Americans who still support him! Between Bush and the Republican congress that upheld his idiocy, the Republican Party has lost all credibility with the majority of Americans, including many Republicans! All of this is nothing BUT good news for the Democrats!
Perhaps you didn't read the story. It asks people if they thought Bush was doing a good job...it doesn't say a thing about his personhood. 70% of the people think that he is doing a lousy job. This is not an exaggeration. If conservatives don't like Bush because he is not mean enough to Mexicans, they will probably stay home on election day as none of the candidates are as whacked out on that subject as the current president's posse.. Sure hope so.
They don't like the job he's doing now, but just show one ABC News special on "progress" in Iraq, or if he magically nabbed bin Laden tomorrow, then *zoom* his ratings would be up again. Half the country is inclined to like him-- half of the half who vote.
damn it! now i'm gonna have nightmares after seeing those beady eyes so close up!
Historians have already got their books ready to mark down the worst president in United States history. This is unprecedented.
Also: FunnyThingAboutThatDCLady...
yeah... funny. Somehow... connected with DC... I can't help but to wonder if it WAS suicide. Maybe she was Vince Fostered?
i would like to know how much time she was looking at?
it couldnt be enough to hang herself
Where are her logs?
Yeah. She was looking at, what, 50 years? Cripes on a cracker! Jeff Skilling of Enron only got 25 years for helping to loot billions out of people's retirement funds.
This country has some f**ked up priorities, thanks, in no small part, to BOOOsh's craven reign.
Yes, but Skilling's f...kees were not as prominant as the DC lady's.
The worst president in history? Obviously not. I would think Chester Arthur, Woodrow Wilson, Hoover, and Carter are the frontrunners for that position. Don't be suprised if twenty years down the road Bush is seen as a pioneer. I'm just saying...
Pioneer....you mean because he explored the oil fields of Iraq?
"I'm just saying.."
You're just an embarrassment. It will be interesting to see how you're going to spin this unabashed Bush support-in-the-face-of-reality to your grandchildren. I wish you the best of luck...
The only pioneer George Bush will ever be known for is putting his cronies in and ripping this country off and tearing it apart.
Dumbya was a failure in private life as he ran his oil business Arbusto into the ground. Even an investment by the bin Laden family couldn't save him. That's right, the bin Laden family. Dumbya was also involved with some insider information problems with Harkin Oil, but daddy Poppy bailed him out, much like he did for brother Neil in the savings and loan fiasco. Dumbya couldn't even handle a cushy job with the Texas Air National Guard without succumbing to coke and booze and going AWOL. How did Scalia and Thomas figure that Dumbya would be a good President? They are the two major reasons why we have the dolt as Commander in Chief. Scalia had TWO sons on the Bu$h legal team, while Thomas' wife was on the Bu$h transition team. Do you think their votes should have counted in the vote to GIVE Dumbya the Presidency? Most legal scholars think not. But they helped coronate Dumbya. The incompetent idiot that has given us the worst 7 plus years this country has ever gone through. LIES & CORRUPTION. DEATH & DESTRUCTION. TORTURE & ILLEGAL WIRETAPPING SESSIONS. RECESSION & DEPRESSION. And we should have known. History has told us that it would happen.
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2008/04/30/p25159
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/10/05/dynasty_of_death_part_1
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/cgi-bin/blogs/voices.php/2006/10/10/dynasty_of_death_part_2
Shouldn't they have recused themselves? Is there a way for Congress to make this an issue? If this is true, there are no checks and balances in government.
I did NOT know about the Scalia son on Bush's team connection. How disgustingly crooked our system is... our highest court... our supreme court.
And we have to put up with these 2 judges till they die? They'll continue to destroy our country.... till they die.
When I look into Bush's eyes
I see dead people
Lots of them
True.
One should point out that half the people being polled presumably voted against Bush and hence were never supporters to begin with. What the poll shows is that Bush's rating has dropped markedly among moderates and conservatives.
Personally, I put no stock in the poll either way. What goes up can come down and vice versa. The real question of significance will be how Bush is viewed after the outcome of events can be known many, many years hence, Post-Iraq.
I'm not making any predictions, by the way. Just trying to introduce some moderation into the hate fest.
It doesn't take years know the outcome of events when it comes to Bush and the complicit Republican Party. FEMA was destroyed and we all saw it with Katrina. America changed from protecting the innocent to torturing and we all saw it at Abu Gahrab. Oil went from $20 a barrel to $120 a barrel and we all saw it. Bush lied about Iraq and we all saw it. and on and on and on. Environmental protection? Consumer protection? His unpopularity is only because more people are seeing the truth. Sometimes "moderation" is just a lie when the truth is staring you in the face.
Why shouldn’t we hate the fucker? Do you realize what he’s done to this country? He will be remembered like Hitler. There will never ever be a democratic Iraq. The moment Bush and his cronies decided to invade Iraq, was the moment our country went from respect and wealth to disregard and poverty.
I HATE BUSH MORE THAN ANYTHING!
There seems to be an obsession with Hitler here at Huff. He seems to be one of the few historical figures that some people are (vaguely) familiar with. Maybe you should widen your reading of history just a tad.
When you realize that only slightly more than half the eligible people actually do vote, and only about half of the population is eligible to vote, only a quarter of the population actually vote for or against him. So Bush's 30% approval is in keeping with the votes he received.
Screw moderation. We're pissed.
Yes, that much is obvious.
Many many years hence, his rating will have dropped further. Cleveland, Andrew Johnson, and Nixon are ecstatic.....well, that is if you believe in all that.
The amazing thing is that 29 percent of Americans approve. Who are they? How could they respect this man?
weak egos that won't let them admit they made a mistake.
That the mark of a republican: fragile ego.
And "tap" shoes in the closet.
The same people who watch NASCAR, 'Pro-Wrestling", that the only way to salvation is through Jebbus and who believe that science is a liberal conspiracy to impregnate their daughters with that disease Brittny's has, slutanny.
While there are a certain number of people who support Bush that might match your description, there are any number of neo-cons who support him simply because his mission is their mission.
If you see a flag pin, they are most likely one of them. Usually a older white male that got out of serving in Vietnam.
and are presently serving in the U.S. government.
and wearing flag pins.
I personally know three of that description. I have SHUNNED them, and made it abundantly obvious WHY I am doing so.
It all started when they had the GALL to bitch about $2.00 gas...
You asked who still supports this drunken, illiterate, lying war criminal - well its the people the are making billions of dollars off the Bush/Cheney policies - they are Halliburton, KBR, Exxon, Shell, BP
they are the insurance companies, the drug companies, the CEO's who just happen to cash in their millions of stock options before their company crashes, they are are telecoms who illegally spied on us for god knows what in return, they are the huge corporate moguls who own the tv and radio stations that spew hatred and evil (like Limbaugh & O'Reilly) and sell Bush's propaganda, they are the credit card companies who are killing us with fees & high interest rates. They are, my friend, the people who are running America and making the rich richer and sending the middle class into poverty
They're called Republicans. Soulless, senseless and/or stupid.
The headline is referring to his unpopularity in this country. Imagine what his, and our country's, unpopularity in the rest of the world is.
I suspect that if Al Qaeda wanted to put up a recruitment poster, it would be a smiling picture of Dubya, with Cheney learing from behind him.
But why is the reverse not also true? Why is bin Laden not a recruitment asset here? Maybe the fact that bin Laden cannot recruit as well over here as Bush can recruit over there is part of the reason that "our country is unpopular in the rest of the world." Maybe what we lack is respect -- of the sort given to those who stand up for what they believe.
Because Bin Laden was never anything more than an imaginary "boogeyman" invented by BOOOsh, Inc. as a useful propaganda tool, fool.
SAY WHAAAAAAA?
When you're all giving your generous stimulus check to the oil companies in higher gasoline prices, think about it. Calling them stimulus checks was pretty clever when all they are is money borrowed from Saudi Arabia given to Exxon, etc. with the American public as the middleman. Money laundering with us all in on it. Genius. Bush is not the dummy we all think. His oil buddies have made off with all the booty that used to be a prosperous America. Those lowlife will be living the high life thanks in no small part to the Decider. He'll be laughing all day in retirement on his ranch in Paraguay wearing his El Jefe hat. He's not popular? He doesn't need to be stinkin' popular.
Sad but true oafishcad but I;ll bet hardly anyone here posting knows where that money came from and when we spend it where it will go.
I'm giving all mine to Obama.
This news is not surprising but should not preclude impeachment. This rotten human being can still wreak havoc in these 81/2 months left.. Keep his pea brain busy defending himself, so he cannot hurt this country even more. Remember the four "I's", Impeachment, Indictment, Incarceration, Injection (as in lethal.)
Picked by the Bubba's of this country. THey must be very proud.
Carol
And many of those same Bubbas chose Hillary over Obama in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Being the child of a blue collar worker, I will never understand why so many people blindly vote contrary to their own best interests.
Bubbas live in the south, try again
BECAUSE THEY VOTE EMOTIONALLY (FEAR)
INSTEAD OF INTELLECTUALLY (USING THEIR BRAIN).
Mrs. Barbara Bush
Must be so proud.....!?
Only if you have a beautiful mind or something
She shoulda kept the afterbirth and thrown out the baby.
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First Posted: 05- 1-08 03:02 PM | Updated: 05- 9-08 05:12 AM