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(Some Guy) Asinine Reasons to impeach Bush: Iraq? Check. Signing statements? Check. Illegal wiretapping? Check. Salmonella tomato outbreak? Check... wait, what?   (businessandmedia.org) divider line 47
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BravadoGT [TotalFark] 2008-06-20 10:44:40 PM  
"I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table..."

www.thewashingtonnote.com

 
ShawnDoc [TotalFark] 2008-06-20 10:51:05 PM  
You can also blame the cut backs in the FDA for the contaminated beef recalls, the tainted spinach, and the pet food poisoning.

/Knows an FDA food inspector
//She's been pressured by her bosses to not report so many problems at the meat processing plant she works at

 
shanrick [TotalFark] 2008-06-20 10:57:07 PM  
fark impeachment. (new window)

 
Goodfella 2008-06-21 12:28:24 AM  
ShawnDoc: You can also blame the cut backs in the FDA for the contaminated beef recalls, the tainted spinach, and the pet food poisoning.

/Knows an FDA food inspector
//She's been pressured by her bosses to not report so many problems at the meat processing plant she works at




It's pretty disgusting. With these scumbags in charge, American's food has become more dangerous and polluted now than it was 50 years ago. A big step backwards for the US.

 
Metaluna Mutant 2008-06-21 12:36:25 AM  
farm3.static.flickr.com

 
Goopotato 2008-06-21 12:36:55 AM  
ShawnDoc: You can also blame the cut backs in the FDA for the contaminated beef recalls, the tainted spinach, and the pet food poisoning.

/Knows an FDA food inspector
//She's been pressured by her bosses to not report so many problems at the meat processing plant she works at


Tell her to fark it, whistle-blow like mad for the good of the nation!

 
JQPublic [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 12:38:25 AM  
Signing statements?

*facepalm*

 
Godscrack [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 12:39:34 AM  
shanrick: fark impeachment.

Kill a man, they call you a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror.

 
One F Jef 2008-06-21 12:42:55 AM  
shanrick: fark impeachment. (new window)

I'm as far left as they come, but that is farking stupid. Something makes me think that guy is intentionally trying to make us look bad. Ugh.

 
ryebread [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 12:45:18 AM  
ShawnDoc: You can also blame the cut backs in the FDA for the contaminated beef recalls, the tainted spinach, and the pet food poisoning.

/Knows an FDA food inspector
//She's been pressured by her bosses to not report so many problems at the meat processing plant she works at


If she can gather any evidence, please, I beg you, send her to Wikileaks. (new window)

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 12:50:36 AM  
Sure why not; it's not like there is any good true reason to try and impeach him. (Hence the Democrats slobbering over themselves at the idea but only Kucinich has brought anything up, all of which was quickly ignored).

The Dem's sure aren't pansy's when it comes to wanting to Nationalize the Oil Industry, Socialize Healthcare or keep gas prices high. What makes you think they wouldn't impeach Bush if there was even the slightest bit of truth to those allegations?

/Though keep at it, I always laugh when people wish to see a "perp-walk" from someone they never will.

 
moothemagiccow 2008-06-21 12:56:10 AM  
CanisNoir: The Dem's sure aren't pansy's when it comes to wanting to Nationalize the Oil Industry, Socialize Healthcare or keep gas prices high. What makes you think they wouldn't impeach Bush if there was even the slightest bit of truth to those allegations?

Are these bad guys™ responsible for loud commercials and speeding tickets as well?

 
Goopotato 2008-06-21 12:58:10 AM  
Godscrack: shanrick: fark impeachment.

Kill a man, they call you a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror.


Kill em all, you're a gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwd!!!

 
CanisNoir [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 01:06:22 AM  
moothemagiccow: CanisNoir: The Dem's sure aren't pansy's when it comes to wanting to Nationalize the Oil Industry, Socialize Healthcare or keep gas prices high. What makes you think they wouldn't impeach Bush if there was even the slightest bit of truth to those allegations?

Are these bad guys™ responsible for loud commercials and speeding tickets as well?


Not sure who to blame for loud comercials, but I understand why they do it. (Course I'm usually flipping channels come comercial time or skipping through them so it's not a problem for me.)

Speeding Tickets, well that's an easy one. I blame A) Me for speeding (hey if I'm doing it and get nailed, I fess up) and B) Competition between State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies attempting to snag the ever elusive buck.

And who claimed those people were *bad*, don't think I did. I'm not a fan of Socialized Healthcare nor Nationalized Industries, and personally I'd really like to start domestic drilling but I wouldn't consider them Satan's Handmaidens. (Well Pelosi could probably pass on looks, but that's just being "snarky")

/Bad? Geesh, get with the times, the term is "wrong-headed" now

 
farbles 2008-06-21 01:14:01 AM  
I wonder if Bush is beginning to recover popularity now due to the "Scarface Effect" where once a villain has gotten so over the top the audience begins to root for them.

There is no question whatsoever that Bush has both directly (through lying to start the Iraq war) and indirectly (firing competent government officials and replacing them with cronies and corporate stooges) been responsible for the deaths of thousands of people and the illness and suffering of thousands more. Yet even now the Fark forums are full of people defending him. Impeaching this monster is ridiculed. Prosecuting him is dismissed.

Yes, Bush should be prosecuted. If Vincent Bugliosi can put together an entire book of evidence setting out the case, gee, do you suppose there might be something to it? Of course not, Bugliosi is just another in a long line of attention whores, right?

The American food supply is less safe due to fewer inspectors, fewer inspections, and an official climate discouraging taking action against corporations unless the problem becomes too big to ignore. These policies come straight from the top and like shiat roll downhill over us all. Go on, defend Bush some more, tell us some more how government should be downsized and the market can regulate itself. We can all see how well this is working.

/Yay, Bush, you're setting such a high bar for presidential abuse of power that you've made Nixon look like a good guy and it'll take the frakking Anti-Christ getting elected to the Oval Office to beat your record.

 
The guy at the end of the thread 2008-06-21 01:48:57 AM  
farbles: I wonder if Bush is beginning to recover popularity now due to the "Scarface Effect" where once a villain has gotten so over the top the audience begins to root for them.

Personally, i think Mr. Bush is a pretty cool guy. eh expands his legislative powers while erroding civil libertys and doesn't afraid of anything.

 
Godscrack [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 01:50:27 AM  
Goopotato: Kill em all, you're a gawwwwwwwwwwwwwwd!!!

I have that cd.

 
zez 2008-06-21 02:05:30 AM  

 
Mosey 2008-06-21 02:25:06 AM  
farbles: If Vincent Bugliosi can put together an entire book of evidence setting out the case, gee, do you suppose there might be something to it?

I am pretty sure there were a couple books on how the Clintons killed Vince Foster too. Are you saying there is something to it?

Just because some wing-nut pre-truther writes a circumstantial book and can convince his zealot friends it is true doesn't mean it is true.

 
farbles 2008-06-21 02:30:14 AM  
Mosey:
I am pretty sure there were a couple books on how the Clintons killed Vince Foster too. Are you saying there is something to it?


I say consider the source. Bugliosi isn't some nutbar out of a privately-funded "institute".

Just because some wing-nut pre-truther writes a circumstantial book and can convince his zealot friends it is true doesn't mean it is true.

What does this sentence even mean? Pre-truther is code for what exactly?

 
h to the 'ojo 2008-06-21 02:35:16 AM  
linked server is dead, Ajax ate up all the disk space.


Is this salmonella story about migrant workers pooping in the field again?

 
DeathByGeekSquad 2008-06-21 02:52:43 AM  
Hey guys, let's keep impeachment in the minds of all of the voters for the upcoming elections! Of course we're not maneuvering at all by doing this now instead of earlier, especially when nothing effective will come of it! Please, lap it up, you love us for it.

 
AbsolutTBomb 2008-06-21 02:54:06 AM  
Oh great.. now Karma's pissed.

 
Mosey 2008-06-21 02:55:42 AM  
farbles: I say consider the source. Bugliosi isn't some nutbar out of a privately-funded "institute".

Neither (there are two from a quick search on Amazon) of the authors on Foster books are hole-in-the-wall nutbars either. Both are successful, one is a journalist (who debunked the black concentration camp story years ago, as it happens).

Or are you saying, when you agree with the premise you give the author credibility but if you don't then he gets none?

What does this sentence even mean? Pre-truther is code for what exactly?

pre-truther: zealot conspiracy theorist before they had a catchy name. i.e. Just because a book is written doesn't mean dick. It means there is a good deal of circumstantial evidence that a decent writer can tie together and make a pretty compelling argument in a vacuum.

Pretty much any book by, well, any political pundit in any party, or any book by Ron Graham should tell you that.

 
wildcardjack 2008-06-21 03:25:41 AM  
www.mwscomp.com

"Better than staying at home, isn't this, sir? Eh? I mean, at home, if you kill someone, they arrest you. Here, they give you a gun and show you what to do, sir."

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 04:12:36 AM  
Godscrack: shanrick: fark impeachment.

Kill a man, they call you a murderer. Kill a million and you're a conqueror.


Worked for Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun and Shaka Zulu.

 
3_Butt_Cheeks 2008-06-21 04:32:00 AM  
Lou Dobbs. Talk about "angry old man" and "pancakes". I stepped in some dog crap yesterday, and felt that my local officals did not adequately do their jobs in enforcing the "clean up after your pet" statute. I filed papers to impeach Bush the very next hour.

 
MrEricSir 2008-06-21 05:02:52 AM  
Bush needs to be sent to Gitmo for a taste of his own medicine.

Oh, fair trials? Sorry Mr. Bush, you got rid of those.

 
The guy at the end of the thread 2008-06-21 05:11:07 AM  
nationalepic.com

 
AxiomJackson 2008-06-21 05:44:12 AM  
You know, I got a sun burn the other day, can we include that?

 
captain_napalm 2008-06-21 09:05:11 AM  
wow, you guys found yet ANOTHER straw to grasp at! awesome!

 
Marla Singer's Laundry [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 09:38:14 AM  
captain_napalm: wow, you guys found yet ANOTHER straw to grasp at! awesome!

You found a preposition to plunk at the end of a sentence! Awesome!

Enjoy your black Democratic president, motherf---er.

 
oryx 2008-06-21 10:32:31 AM  
It's official. Lou Dobbs has lost his mind. He's driven himself mad ranting about illegal immigration all these years.

 
Rodeodoc 2008-06-21 10:35:49 AM  
Don't forget the price of gas. That's W's fault too. And global warming. Need to kick his ass for that. And the levee along the Mississippi - that's his evil doing. And that fact that you hate your job and are living in your mom's basement. Better head to Washington and hold up an anti-Bush sign about that. Everything is Bushes fault. Because in ObamaHillary land, there is no personal responsibility for anything. It's all the government's fault.

Mosey: pre-truther: zealot conspiracy theorist before they had a catchy name. i.e. Just because a book is written doesn't mean dick. It means there is a good deal of circumstantial evidence that a decent writer can tie together and make a pretty compelling argument in a vacuum.

Sort of like ex-press aide McCellan's book. He makes a big media splash by saying this is the tell all book that will reveal Bush to be an evil despot, but when he gets in front of a Senate hearing, it's all, "Yeah, I don't think Bush knew" "I don't know if they really said anything" "I don't know - but I was suspicious". But he's had his 15 minutes of fame. That's what's important.

 
captain_napalm 2008-06-21 10:56:38 AM  
Marla Singer's Laundry: Enjoy your black Democratic president, motherf---er.

ooooh, is jesse jackson running?

/'cause obama ain't black
//nor will he be president

 
captain_napalm 2008-06-21 10:59:10 AM  
Rodeodoc: Don't forget the price of gas. That's W's fault too.

I READ ON TEH INTARWEBZ THAT HE SETS IT EVERY MONRING!!!!21ontwotwelve

 
Manfred J. Hattan 2008-06-21 11:00:29 AM  
oryx: It's official. Lou Dobbs has lost his mind. He's driven himself mad ranting about illegal immigration all these years.

How much you wanna bet this tomato impeachment thing ends up with Dobbs thinking the contaminated tomatoes really came from Mexico or were picked by migrant workers.

 
unto_others 2008-06-21 11:03:10 AM  
Just pick a farking reason and get on with it! I don't care if we impeach him for his chimpy smile, or his golf scores, or the way he combs his hair. JUST DO IT already!

 
Moray 2008-06-21 12:14:59 PM  
NAFTA = CLINTON

NAFTA = Crap in your food chain

thanks Bill

 
chuggernaught 2008-06-21 12:37:52 PM  
Mosey
So he says a book was written showing how Bush is guilty. And you jump straight to "Well books were written about the Clintons..." also known as the "b..b..but CLINTON!" cliche. But more importantly by not defending Bush and attacking Clinton you have essentially stated that Bush is guilty and you will instead have to shift the argument because your position has become indefensible.

 
varmitydog 2008-06-21 01:13:40 PM  
The politicizing of the federal civil service, all across the board, has made every citizen of the USA a little bit worse off. The only time that this massive attack on competence comes out is in cases (such as this one, or the mining safety bureaucrats) where there is a direct link to the officials and incompetence.
But there have ALWAYS been problems with the civil service, and the insiders looking to pull a fast one to improve their profit margin.

This is one of the great paradoxes of the Cheney/Bush administration. They have made things so bad in the civil services, across the board, by appointing bureaucratic pols instead of the competent, that the performance of the civil service has become markedly worse, this from an entity whose competence was already the butt of many a joke.

If the rule of law comes back to the USA after Cheney/Bush, and the whistleblowers can finally come forward without fear of retribution, the ensuing stench may just be enough that federal civil service will finally, at long last, receive some long needed
quality assurance. The old saying is that "everyone is good for something, even if only for setting a bad example". The neocon government has been so very bad that cleaning up after it will be the only thing worth remembering them for.

 
Mugato [TotalFark] 2008-06-21 01:32:47 PM  
I'm tired of these snarky comments implying that everyone blames Bush for everything. No, he's not responsible for everything (he's only the President) but he's a shiatty President. Just admit it.

 
xkillyourfacex 2008-06-21 02:02:28 PM  
How is it that Congress passes laws allowing and encouraging Bush to do what he's done, then they turn around and tell him he's wrong? You guys are blaming the wrong people for this shiat, and you're letting them all get away with it. You're letting their zeal to fark with Bush blind you to their involvement in each and every scandal, which is exactly what they want. They dangle a shiny "impeach bush" in front of you, and you completely forget to hold them accountable. It's the most obvious political maneuver I've ever seen; so howcome everyone else is so easily misled?

 
The guy at the end of the thread 2008-06-21 02:20:09 PM  
Mugato: I'm tired of these snarky comments implying that everyone blames Bush for everything. No, he's not responsible for everything (he's only the President) but he's a shiatty President. Just admit it.

See, unlike previous presidents, who served merely as figure-heads for established policy, Bush is different in the fact that most everything that's farked about America was written out by either his pen, or the pen of his hand selected cabal.

He was the one who dubbed himself The Great Decider, and with great power comes accountability.

 
The guy at the end of the thread 2008-06-21 02:23:43 PM  
xkillyourfacex: How is it that Congress passes laws allowing and encouraging Bush to do what he's done, then they turn around and tell him he's wrong? You guys are blaming the wrong people for this shiat, and you're letting them all get away with it. You're letting their zeal to fark with Bush blind you to their involvement in each and every scandal, which is exactly what they want. They dangle a shiny "impeach bush" in front of you, and you completely forget to hold them accountable. It's the most obvious political maneuver I've ever seen; so howcome everyone else is so easily misled?

Congress, The Senate, Courts, etc. have like 800 people involved. With the president, the spotlight is focused directly on one individual.

I know this reply counters my previous post, listed above, but it is alot easier to focus vitirol at a single individual, instead of deluding yourself into thinking you can purge a collective body of beurocrats.

 
Manfred J. Hattan 2008-06-21 02:49:04 PM  
Mugato: I'm tired of these snarky comments implying that everyone blames Bush for everything. No, he's not responsible for everything (he's only the President) but he's a shiatty President. Just admit it.

Don't talk to those commenters, talk to Lou Dobbs. He probably won't answer your email though, and even if he did you wouldn't enjoy it because he's a big giant douchebag. Hmm. In that case, try talking to Shawndoc and Goodfella, who just made shiat up in this very thread. They lied -- just made it up, easy as you please and didn't even expect to get called out on it. So when folks start accusing idiots of blaming Bush for Martian warming, you can look at idiots like Shawndoc and Goodfella, who do exactly that.

 
The First 2008-06-21 06:55:21 PM  
Apparently Republicans wanted to impeach Clinton over a BJ, yet Bush can't be impeached not even over Iraq, illegal wiretapping, raping the Constitution. If the salmonella outbreak gets this monster impeached, i'm all for it.

 
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