Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] [MLUG][Politics] State of the Union

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 1/31/06, Vern Green <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > On 1/31/06, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > > administration* come out and say they think that what Bush did here
> > > was legal.  What we do know is that there will be court cases here,
> > > and that, on the face of it, I think the administration faces an
> > > uphill battle here.
> > Well, it may very well turn out that what he did was illegal. it might
> > very well lead to an impeachment if that is the case.
>
> Not a chance of that unless:
>
> 1) The GOP loses Congress and
> 2) Bush's own popularity stays way down.
>
> The two events are not independent, of course.  But even if Democrats 
> did spectacularly well in the midterms (and that's hardly a sure thing), 
> Bush would have to be wildly unpopular to be impeached.  I don't see 
> anybody in a hurry to re-live the Clinton impeachment fiasco.


Do people see it as a fiasco?  Many people seem to believe it was 
justifiable.  It hobbled Clinton as a Gore supporter and probably cost 
Gore the Presidency in 2000, so I wouldn't say that it had no beneficial 
(for the impeachers) effects.

In other words, if they want to impeach Bush, I'm all for it!

Mike

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