{"id":830,"date":"2005-10-12T08:32:30","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T06:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2005-10-12T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T08:02:42","slug":"americans-favor-bushs-impeachment-if-he-lied-about-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/americans-favor-bushs-impeachment-if-he-lied-about-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans Favor Bush&#8217;s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which we know he did.<br \/>\nThanks for the link, AmericaBlog. Impeach Bush!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/?q=node\/3528\">Poll: Americans Favor Bush&#8217;s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq | AfterDowningStreet.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s most interesting to me is that a similar poll on Clinton turned up only 36% support for impeachment, but the right and the mostly-right-controlled media went ahead and booted him anyway. Whereas here, it&#8217;s barely touched the press at all. Granted, one might argue that this poll was contingent on his Iraq lie (proven over and over and over again; even Cheny was caught in a bold-faced lie, by &#8220;the fake news that delivers the truth,&#8221; Daily Show, with <i>actual footage<\/i> &#8212; see extremely funny but no less serious clip of Bush\/Cheney lies <a href=\"http:\/\/onegoodmove.org\/1gm\/1gmarchive\/001399.html#001399\">here<\/a>), but hey, what about Katrina, foreign policy, fiscal policy? The question could have been phrased any of these ways, and would probably have gotten the same response.<\/p>\n<p>Bush&#8217;s approval ratings are lower than Nixon&#8217;s or Hoover&#8217;s, and certainly lower than Clinton&#8217;s (nobody died for <i>his<\/i> indiscretions &#8212; he made love not war&#8230; I&#8217;ve got plenty of these, guys, and I&#8217;m here all week). Why is it just politics as usual in DC?<\/p>\n<p>A little of the looney left action going on in this, but interesting points nonetheless: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefourreasons.org\/\">Impeach Bush: The Four Reasons for Responsible Citizenship<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;which we know he did. Thanks for the link, AmericaBlog. Impeach Bush! Poll: Americans Favor Bush&#8217;s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq | AfterDowningStreet.org What&#8217;s most interesting to me is that a similar poll on Clinton turned up only 36% support for impeachment, but the right and the mostly-right-controlled media went ahead and booted him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,8,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","category-re-blog-tidbits","category-stimulus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-do","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":984,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/20\/bush-impeachment-finally-a-real-possibility\/","url_meta":{"origin":830,"position":0},"title":"Bush impeachment finally a real possibility?","author":"nathaniel","date":"20 December 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm hoping y'all have been watching the latest US news (I don't blog it as much as I used to), where Bush's surveillance program on American citizens has not only been revealed, but he claims, outright, that he was \"within his rights\" as king, erm, president (not true). 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For those of you don't know (as I have a lot of readership in South Africa and Amsterdam), Democrats closed congress yesterday, seeing an opportunity (after the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":51,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/04\/27\/can-americans-do-irony\/","url_meta":{"origin":830,"position":5},"title":"can americans do irony?","author":"nathaniel","date":"27 April 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"As CNN begins to look more and more like Fox news (whose CEO is none other than Bush's cousin), I'm beginning to think there has to be some irony in all of this. I mean, they can't actually expect the American people to buy into this crap, right? 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