Sunday, April 20, 2008
Impeachment: Lowering the bar
If you live in Princeton and have left-wing bumper stickers on your car, I'm the guy who takes pictures of them.
I spotted this one in the Target in Nassau Park yesterday afternoon. Given its increasing interest in criminalizing the acts and omissions of executives, I suppose it was only a matter of time before the left decided that "blowing the job" was a "high crime":
Still, I am not sure that now is the perfect time for lefties to lower the standard for impeachment to "blowing the job." I'd wait to see how the vote in November turns out.
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11 Comments:
By 
Gary Rosen, at
Sun Apr 20, 03:29:00 PM:
TH, I think there's a little bit more going on with the wording of that bumper sticker. I believe it has something to do with the last impeachment of a President.
By 
, at
Sun Apr 20, 03:42:00 PM:
When I first saw this car and sticker a few weeks ago, my first reaction was that itbelonged to someone who was unhappy about mistakes made in the conduct of the Iraq campaign, and I said to myself, "Now that's not something you see in Princeton every day." But given the context and time to reflect, I have to say, "noooo, probably not."
By TigerHawk, at
Sun Apr 20, 04:14:00 PM:
Gary, you are of course correct. It just shows how the assumptions of left and right vary in this country. It never crossed my mind that Clinton was impeached for a blow job. I could have sworn it was perjury.
By Escort81, at
Sun Apr 20, 04:24:00 PM:
I agree with Gary Rosen's take.
It's a rather silly play on words that ends up not having much oomph.
How about:
"Impeach Bush for the blood stains on the red, white and blue flag"
(a take off on the blue dress, with allusions to those U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq)
or
"Impeach Bush. WMDs in Iraq? Close but no cigar."
(again with the Monica reference) (OK, that's a stretch)
I'll never make it in the advertising world, my heart is not in the subject matter. As my marketing prof used to say in B-School, "you have to get into the gestalt of the thing."
We may be within a few days of the end of the Clinton dynasty, so it is worth reflecting that it could have ended 10 years ago if enough Dems in the House and Senate leadership had walked into the White House and said, basically, "look, we don't know if what you said under oath was technically perjury, but the act of firing up an assistant around the oval office is itself bad (especially when it's the fat chick from the mail room), and would get you dismissed from the job of CEO from any Fortune 500 company, and we don't want to carry your water for you and put the country through all the icky stuff, and besides we think Al Gore is an OK guy and can carry on your agenda quite nicely as POTUS. And we've already picked one of us to step in as VP and the other side is cool with that choice." Some of Clinton's senior aides at the time have since said they though such a talk was a distinct possibility.
It's remarkable how steadfast the base of the Democratic Party was for the Clintons 10 years ago, and how eager many of the same people are to get rid of them now. Are the attacks against the Clintons by the Democratic base in 2008 more or less vicious than the attacks against the Clintons by the VRWC in the 1990s?
By Christopher Chambers, at
Sun Apr 20, 07:45:00 PM:
Silly sticker, right sentiment. But then again, Clinton getting blown wasn't really what his impeachment as all about was it? It was an attempted coup (unlike the successful one in 2000 thanks to the Supremes...hell even rightwing tool Judge Posner admits that now).
But if I were to compare contrivances of state and policy with lying about boning a fat girl, yeah--your frat boy prez should have been delivered with articles long ago, and would have been, had he not been cocooned by a dittohead army. Our democracy, our nation of unity and beacon for the world. What a place.
My favorite stick was actually seen in Baltimore of all places, next to an old Bush/Cheney piece. Gotten when Rev Wright and Obama were, in the words of Bill Maher (whose dead-on assessment of the non issue of "bitter" working class whites you are still too chicken to share) dick-slapping Mt. Rushmore in the small minds of you people:
"If I'd know it was going to come to this, I'd have picked my own cotton."
Yeah...
By Escort81, at
Sun Apr 20, 09:35:00 PM:
Christopher - would you have had a problem with Gore assuming office (POTUS) in 1998? How would that have equated to "an attempted coup?" Isn't one of the main constitutional reasons for having a VP so that he or she can hang around in case the POTUS can no longer serve, and that the existing agenda can still be moved forward? Don't you believe Gore would have won convincingly (so much so the Supremes would not have entered the picture) running as an incumbent POTUS in 2000? Don't you think that what Clinton did was "resignable," even if it wasn't impeachable and convictable? What would happen to you at your job if you received hummers from someone less than half your age in your employ(though I imagine in your case, as a former TI officer, that you would be serviced by higher quality talent than Monica)?
By , at
Sun Apr 20, 10:53:00 PM:
My new favorite bumper sticker, which I saw yesterday on Palmer Square of all places, is "Is it too early to say Impeach Hillary?"
By Gary Rosen, at
Mon Apr 21, 03:46:00 AM:
Chrissy, isn't your favorite bumper sticker "Burn Jews, not oil"?
By Gordon Smith, at
Mon Apr 21, 09:24:00 AM:
How about for the torture, then?
By Dawnfire82, at
Mon Apr 21, 01:02:00 PM:
By , at
Mon Apr 21, 02:01:00 PM:
Both Israel and Hamas agree that we ought to impeach Jimmy Carter.
