Impeachment vote stymied by Dems!
Remember this?
NEW MEXICO CAN IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY
Senate Joint Resolution 5 (resolving to petition the U.S. House to impeach Bush and Cheney) was introduced on Jan. 23, 2007, by eight Senators. It has made it through a number of Senate committees and is headed to the full Senate floor.
It was approved by the Senate Rules Committee on February 16th. No Republicans attended the committee hearing. Every Democrat attended and voted Yes.
Sounds like a slam dunk, doesn’t it?
The unseen dead hand of national Democratic meddling seems to have killed a promising example of grassroots democratic activism in New Mexico that could have been a model for reviving the Democratic Party nationwide and in that key swing state.
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Brown says that prior to the vote killing the resolution, five of the nine Democratic senators who voted with Republicans had been seen conversing privately, suggesting a coordinated strategy to kill the measure.
Brown and impeachment movement activists in the state insist that days before the debacle in the Senate, they had clear support for passage among senate Democrats.
Brown says he does not have evidence of any pressure on senate Democrats, but speculation is focused on Gov. Bill Richardson, an announced candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, and on Sen. Jeff Bingaman.
The Democratic National Committee has targeted New Mexico as a key battleground state for 2008, and given the national party leadership’s clear desire to avoid an impeachment battle in the House, it seems increasingly evident from the strange behavior of turncoat senate Democrats in the state, that pressure was brought to prevent the passage of a joint resolution that would have put the issue front and center in the US House of Representatives.
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….Democratic state Senator John Grubesic, a backer of the Ortiz resolution, said after the vote killing the measure, “The action taken by the Senate was not the action taken by a body that protects the freedoms of a sovereign people. The action was a carefully orchestrated option designed to protect the integrity of an institution and perpetuate the well-oiled workings of government.”
He added, “Our actions today showed where our priorities are, we forgot that the Constitution was not designed to serve government, but to protect the people. There should have been a debate, argument, uproar. Instead, we quietly gutted the sovereign power of the people with polite political procedure. When future generations look back on our time, the shock will not be because of the violent, impolite nature of the fight that preceded the destruction of Constitutional government, but by the meekness with which we watched it die.”
So, where do you think the pressure came from? Was it Richardson, the DNC, or perhaps Pelosi?
As per usual, politicians are thinking about…..well, politics. If the Democrats were at all interested in doing what was right instead of what’s politically expedient, they would do everything in their power to make the Bushites gone. They’ve done enough damage, thank you very much. Time to pull the plug!
The sad thing is……….I think their their view of political expediency is all wrong.
I don’t think it would come back to bite them. I don’t thing the country would look at as pay back for BC’s BJ. I think, instead, it would show Dems in a good light…a strong light….a principled light.
Americans like strong leadership. In fact they will take it over “right” leadership, as was proven in 2004. So, if you want be the party of the future, Dems, you have to show that you are not afraid to stand up to the bullies. Try it. America will love you for it.
Waiter, please bring my Dem Leadership a clue.
Finally, I just have to add that I agree with poputonian….
Memo to Bill Richardson: I don’t know whether you did, but if you had a hand in killing the people’s resolution, you can kiss my ass. Turncoat!
