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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (207991)	11/8/2006 10:38:41 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Yeah; the reality is that time won't permit. But I really enjoy putting out "President Pelosi". Bound to scare the bejeebers out of them :>)

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (207991)	11/8/2006 10:44:30 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't think they should waste their time trying to impeach Bush now - his damage has been done. I DO think they should expose the corruption, waste and war profiteering going on in Iraq as our soldiers die, to horrify Americans and force Bush to get us out of there. There's SO much the Republican congress has turned a blind eye to the last six years, it's really too much to expose in two years. So, the Dems should concentrate on investigations that will influence the future. One should certainly be the administration's misuse of intelligence and conning and misleading us into a war in Iraq. The report has been done, but has been sat on by Senator Roberts. Expect to see that very soon. Handled correctly, the end result could be even the Republicans that want to be President having to condemn and totally disown Bush to have the slightest hope of a chance in '08

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (207991)	11/8/2006 1:54:40 PM
From: Lou Weed	Respond to of 281500

<<Republicans in the Clinton years spent more than $35 million investigating the administration. The total amount of taxpayer funds spent, when independent counsels are taken into account, was more than $150 million. Included in that number was $2.2 million to investigate former HUD secretary Henry Cisneros for lying about improper payments he made to a mistress. In contrast, today's Congress spent barely half a million dollars investigating the outright fraud and government bungling that followed Hurricane Katrina, the largest natural disaster in American history. "Oversight is one of the most important functions of Congress -- perhaps more important than legislating," says Rep. Henry Waxman. "And the Republicans have completely failed at it. I think they decided that they were going to be good Republicans first and good legislators second." As the ranking minority member of the Government Reform Committee, Waxman has earned a reputation as the chief Democratic muckraker, obsessively cranking out reports on official misconduct and incompetence. Among them is a lengthy document detailing all of the wrongdoing by the Bush administration that should have been investigated -- and would have been, in any other era. The litany of fishy behavior left uninvestigated in the Bush years includes the manipulation of intelligence on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, the mistreatment of Iraqi detainees, the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA status, the award of Halliburton contracts, the White House response to Katrina, secret NSA wiretaps, Dick Cheney's energy task force, the withholding of Medicare cost estimates, the administration's politicization of science, contract abuses at Homeland Security and lobbyist influence at the EPA.>> rollingstone.com Thank you America for restoring faith once again in democracy. Now its time for justice..... MON