{"id":1459,"date":"2006-10-18T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/10\/brilliant-strategy.html"},"modified":"2006-10-18T13:05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T13:05:00","slug":"brilliant-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/10\/brilliant-strategy.html","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Rush referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeuser.com\/index.asp?c=1&amp;AID=133774\">this guy&#8217;s post<\/a> today and I was thinking that it&#8217;s not a good strategy, look at what we got when we tried this the last time, Clinton.  And this is ridiculous :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">If<\/span> congressional Democrats start acting like kooks for all the American people to see, they&#8217;ll suffer in 2008 when the stakes are much higher. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives\/033307.php\">Instapundit<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;font-weight: bold\">If<\/span>???  More like when. Uhm, what do we do while they are kooky for two years?  Nothing because we can&#8217;t get rid of them, they will be in power and all we&#8217;ll be able to do is watch our TV while they broadcast the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\/Politics\/archive\/200610\/POL20061018b.html\">impeachment proceedings<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Former U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, a New York Democrat and a Bush impeachment advocate, issued a news release on Tuesday, saying that President Bush, by signing the military tribunals bill, &#8220;has created a &#8220;culture of impunity&#8221; for himself and others who allowed the &#8220;torture and abuse of detainees,&#8221; such as that at Iraq&#8217;s Abu Ghraib prison.<br \/>\nHoltzman complained that the new law sanctions the abuse of foreign detainees in defiance of the Geneva Conventions and suspends habeas corpus in defiance of the U.S. Constitution.<br \/>\nDemocratic control of Congress &#8220;would make impeachment a serious reality,&#8221; Holtzman blogged Tuesday on the Huffington Post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the Democrats get in power, this will happen and if you think that just because this woman is a former Congress woman and has no power that it won&#8217;t happen, then you aren&#8217;t aware of how pervasive this desire is on the left.  They will do this or face the wrath of their base.  Their base expects them to use their majority to impeach Bush and they will.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tag_list\">Tags: <span class=\"tags\"><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Rush\" rel=\"tag\">Rush<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/midterm+elections\" rel=\"tag\">midterm elections<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to Rush referring to this guy&#8217;s post today and I was thinking that it&#8217;s not a good strategy, look at what we got when we tried this the last time, Clinton. 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