Dodd tells crowd in Rochester impeaching Cheney won’t help
ROCHESTER ‚Äî Appearing before at least 60 voters at the Governor’s Inn on Sunday, presidential candidate Chris Dodd said he “understands the appetite” of people wanting to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, but he doesn’t think the long process would help the country…. “There are too many other issues out there the American public were hoping Democrats would decide to address and focus on. That’s the choice you make. Others may make a different focus. My choice would be to focus on other agenda items,” he said…. Dodd was responding to a multipart question about whether Cheney has the responsibility to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution, whether he was doing it and, if not, what’s the next step.
And people wonder why Democrats are so often viewed as spineless weenies…. Jeebus, with friends like Chris Dodds, who needs enemas…er, enemies? Or DUMB@$$E$, for that matter?
After more than six years of trashing the Constitution, the truth, and the civil rights of Americans, Dodd doesn’t think impeaching Dick Cheney will help this country? Oh, great…so the message to be sent is that if you commit a “small” crime you can expect to do hard time, but spend six years subverting the Constitution, the will of the American people, AND killing more than 3,500 young Americans (and counting) in a war purchased with lies and propaganda…AND YOU’RE A FREAKIN’ HERO???
You’ll have to pardon my anger here, but if Republicans can impeach a President for getting a blowjob from a zaftig intern in the Oval Office, shouldn’t Dick Cheney (AND Our Glorious and Benevolent Leader © ) be impeached for their crimes? After all, which do YOU think is the more egregious offense: getting blown by an intern, or lying and propagandizing your way into a senseless, immoral war that continues to claim the lives of American soldiers?
Cheney’s “not been upholding [the Constitution] it as well as he could,” the candidate said.
Cheney made headlines recently after revelations he claimed that he, as president of the Senate, and his office are exempt from a requirement requiring executive branch offices to disclose information on classified or declassified material.
“Obviously he’s part of it,” Dodd said, seated beside Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter, a city resident, and in front of five American flags.
Of course, with DUMB@$$ weenies like Dodd in power, why would Cheney have to worry about anything? He knows that Senate Democrats don’t have the balls to do what needs to be done, so Cheney (and The Worst President EVER © ) can go about dismantling and abusing the Constitution with impunity. Republicans aren’t about to put a stop to the shenanigans, and if Democrats don’t step up to the plate…well, buh-bye, democracy, eh?
If Sen. Dodd wants to lead this country, isn’t it about time he showed some leadership and demanded that the Senate hold Cheney and King George the Worst © accountable for their lies, their propaganda…and the young Americans whose deaths they bear responsibility for? Then there’s the torture, the US Attorney scandal…I could go on, ad infinitum, ad nauseum, but I imagine you get the point.
Memo to Sen. Dodd: if you want to lead, then LEAD, FOLLOW, or GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY. Being a spineless weenie DUMB@$$ is no way to convince a majority of Americans that you’re Presidential timbre. Giving Dick Cheney a free pass will do NOTHING to further your cause…and advocating for giving him a free pass only cements the popular conviction that Democrats lack the stomach to do the right thing.
Chris's father, Senator(& Representative) Thomas Dodd, is undoubtedly spinning in his grave. Tom Dodd was a prosecutor at the Nuremburg Trials, served Connecticut in Washington for many years and was a honest, honorable man. I have a feeling he'd be taking Chris to the woodshed right about now.
Between Dodd & Lieberman I'm glad I don't live in that state anymore.
There's at least one republican congressman that would agree with you, and he's running for president!
Lieberman AND DODD?? Oh, you poor thing....
Paul is right, about several things actually. It's a damned shame he didn't start making more of a fuss about the illegalities of the Bush administration until he decided to run for president. Ron Paul will never be president, but he could have gone to the history books as the Republican congressman who introduced the resolution of impeachment.