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Why Aren't We Pursuing a Recall Election?


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January 20, 2007 - 2:02pm

The president’s ratings have fallen through the floor, hovering somewhere around a 30% approval these days. We, as a people, strongly dislike where he’s taken the nation, and greatly fear the fact that he is completely and intentionally oblivious to what the American people want him to do. He feels that he’s American’s God-given-and-directed leader and that he can do no wrong. We feel he’s a lunatic jackass hell-bent on destroying American’s hard-earned goodwill in the world.

Why aren’t we, the people, looking at kicking his ass out?

With enough support from the public (it would need a lot) we could get the Democrat-controlled congress to put forward a vote to initiate a recall election for the presidential office. We have that power. We’re not just sitting idly by in this carriage and waiting for the ride to be over; we can end this now with the power of our own governmental system.

Look, George W. Bush is as bad as presidents come. He’s as bad as tyrants come as well. He called Saddam Hussain an evil man, yet he’s sitting there and doing the exact same things he claims Saddam did.

  • He’s imprisoning the people of his country without charges.
  • He’s torturing confessions out of those people.
  • He’s historically refused access to a court for said people until they’re “done” with him — which is to say, until there’s some kind of information or confession.
  • He’s spyed on the people of his country without warrants and without oversight.
  • He’s given the police more power than the nation has ever seen as reasonable, even against the wishes of half the country.
  • The beast of law enforcement that he’s created is in a McCarthy-like frenzy calling anyone and everyone a terrorist for the sake of using elevated enforcement privileges against said person. Did your car break down and cause a traffic jam? You’re a terrorist because you’re interfering with the public transit system.
  • He’s led the United States into war with essentially two nations, and threatened two others, all without the public’s support.
  • After waging such war, he then gave all government contracts to people he, personally, knew. It was very clear that the act of waging war against another nation was done to be a profitable venture for his “buddies” — which included, at one point, the vice president himself.
  • He has supported and passed law after law restricting or removing civil rights and liberties that Americans have held dear, some since the inception of the Union.
  • When the judicial system decided against his whims, he replaced the prosecutors with more gullible ones.

George W. Bush is as bad for the United States and the world as Saddam Hussain was.

Why is he still our president?

Contact your senator.

Contact your representatives.

Let them know that you want a recall; let them know you want the chance to vote him out of office.

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January 20, 2007 - 3:01pm
doce said

Unfortunately, there’s no provision to recall a President that I can find. It looks like it’s Impeachment or Expiration of Term for Bush.

I, personally, feel that Bush should be impeached and possibly imprisoned for his actions, but the Iraq War has little to do with it. His systematic destruction of American liberty, an ideal that should be immortal and immutable, is far more dangerous and disastrous than any loss of life in a foreign land.

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January 27, 2007 - 3:13pm
smaggi said

Sadly, I have to agree (for once!) with doce. As a recent article in Slate.com stated, there is no provision in the Constitution for impeachment over incompetence, only criminal wrongdoing. This president definitely has a long list to go on for the domestic parts such as wiretapping, opening mail, making lists of people who aren’t allowed to fly, torture, etc.

Nothing can come of Iraq and I don’t think Congress really wants to press on that since they abdicated their responsibility in 2001 and 2002. The excuse of some Senators saying, “Oh he lied to us, he said he needed this authority to go to the UN” won’t hold in the primaries or those who can remember events before 2000, unlike the Media.

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