Bitter Grapes

House waves off impeachment measure against Bush - Yahoo! News:

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long ago declared the prospects for
impeachment proceedings 'off the table.'

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who ran for president earlier this year, insists that his resolution deserves more consideration. He spent more than four hours Monday night reading his 35 articles of impeachment into the record, including charges that Bush manufactured a false case for going to war against Iraq."

Okay - if this isn't a case of sour grapes.

First - bitter fruit - I have to agree with Pelosi. The impeachment of Clinton was totally different ... he had broken the law - blatantly broke the law - while in office and to the congress themselves.

Bush had been a victim of bad intelligence - it would be kind of like being found in possession of stolen property. There is nothing to really say that you knew for sure that it was stolen ... but it looks enough that way to cause an issue.

Bush had intelligence (good or bad) that he took to Congress and asked for permission to go to war. Members of Congress saw the exact same intelligence and made the same conclusion. They took the intelligence to the UN (which sat on their ass for 18 months giving Hussein plenty of time to get what shit he had out of there in my opinion) .... the government even had them double check their intelligence before moving -- they didn't know that the different sources used the same primary source to get their information.

Now I'm sure that is just one of the things that Kucinch is belly aching about .... I'm sure part of it is about the Terrorist Act that allows the government tap into phones and then get a warrant if something is found -- and if I remember correctly, congress passed that .... it isn't something that the President did on his own.

lets see what else ....

vehicle armor: he is blaming Bush because congress inserted language into the bill that they knew Bush would veto ... or that they knew would kill the bill. If i remember correctly, he did ask for the funds to arm the soldiers ... to upgrade the shielding ... etc. and congress said NO. Spending issues -- that's a congressional thing.

illegal detainment: well .... now I do believe that that's an issue for the Supreme Court. Didn't they already take this issue up and decided that it was outside their realm?

condoning torture: what? when did Bush ever say 'torture the crap out of them'? I don't think they will ever find a piece of paper from Bush saying it was okay to torture ... in fact when it came out about the mistreatment of the prisoners he was one of the first one's to say that they were looking into the matter and that if they were guilty they would be dealt with heavily.
The closest that anyone has gotten is when he was asked out-right about water-boarding .... and he very rightly said that he would not confirm or deny that it was being used because he didn't want to let the enemy know what might or might not happen to them if captured. Fear of the unknown is sometimes the best weapon.

Hurricane Katrina: Look i feel sorry for these people ... but lets face it - the government, FEMA, weather bureau, and the state's governor all told these people to get out while they had time. had they heeded the death toll would have been minimal. It was the N.O. mayor (who somehow got voted back in - oh yeah he just blamed Bush) who told people that they didn't need to go anywhere.
The one thing that I found totally shocking during all the pictures of the devastation in N.O was the school buses...the mayor could have very easily commandeered everyone of those buses to get people out of town ... he could have easily have sent those buses door t0 door to forcibly remove people but he didn't. And then there was issues as to who actually had jurisdiction in the area .... after all the damage wasn't so much caused by the Hurricane as it was by the dam giving way. And the people didn't help matters much when they started looting and shooting -- you don't send people into an unsecured area! If FEMA had done that and someone was shot then they would be getting in trouble for that too.
So I want to know why if all the news copters could get in & out that they didn't help people to safety?? Hmmm?? maybe because it was a better story if they didn't and just blame the government???
How many times did we see the reporters in the boats going to safety -- or in the copters taking shots down on people stranded on roof tops? They were there before the Feds -- they could have helped too.

Global Warming: there is not global warming. there is however climate change -- and its not going to go the way people think it is. History tells us that...before the 'little ice age' (I know you've heard of it by now) there was a period of warming that actually allowed people to grow wine grapes in regions where they had never been able to before (or since) ... so hey look we had our warm up, now we are about to get a pretty major cool down.
I don't think you can blame Bush for global warming --- has anyone given this guy a competency test lately? Kucinich, not Bush.