A poll taken March 15, 2006 by American Research Group found that among all adults, 46% favor Senator Russ Feingold's (D-WI) plan to censure President George W. Bush, while just 44% are opposed. Approval of the plan grows slightly when the sample is narrowed to voters, up to 48% in favor of the Senate censuring the sitting president.
Even more shocking is that just 57% of Republicans are opposed to the move, with 14% still undecided and 29% actually in favor. Fully 70% of Democrats want to see Bush censured.
More surprising still: The poll found fully 43% of voters in favor of actually impeaching the President, with just 50% of voters opposed. While only 18% of Republicans surveyed wanted to see Bush impeached, 61% of Democrats and 47% of Independents reported they wanted to see the House move ahead with the Conyers (D-MI) resolution.
Oh I think that 2006 is going to be a good year for liberals. A very good year!
I'm going to try to catch several of your posts at once...I notice you blog often. I would to, if it was always dark outside!
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to focus on the silly lack of understanding of the seperation of church and state rampant now in the lower 48.
I, for the life of me, cannot figure out why a child can't go to public, taxpayer funded school, and not have a simple secular education. That's six hours a day, and you have nights and weekends to indoctrinate your little ones any way you please. The only place I feel that religious study should come into play is social studies/philosphy classes. And there is a simple reason for that. No child should, in America, be made to feel weird because of the religion their parents are in. I speak from experience...my folks were and are Christian, but their fashion of Christianity didn't go down well in the Southern Babtist community I grew up in. I shudder to think of how a Jewish child might have fared at Lawson Elementary in the 70s.
My younger sister is still harboring anger, expecially at my father, for our upbringing in an 'ultra-christian' home, and the baggage you had to take with you going to school. I was the oldest kid, and pretty much took it in stride. Not surprisingly, the kid sis scholarshipped her college ed, while her older 'rebel' sis went to work and did school later. I'm in my forties now, and not finding it surprising that us party-animal late bloomers might not have as much boodle to show, but we've not got near as much of the resentments of the crowd that went to college and then ended up finding out the real world sucked.
My little sister actually accused my parents of making me a lesbian, and an alcholic...which is a bone of contention I still owe her a chewing over. She sent them a letter ten years ago (20 pages, typed), that got a lot of things off her chest, and made it hard for me to talk to her. Just still do not feel it was her place to use such information. As if the my parents didn't know both facts themselves, anyway. I just prefered not to rub their noses in it.
I do like the way my mother describes me these days...she says "Mel is 'that other way'". She's not comfy with having a dyke for her oldest, but she is a realist....with a sense of humor. In Arkansas. Believe it or not, you are not in the reddest state...and all America is pure red once you get outside of the city limits!
So I guess that might cover my feelings about seperation of church and state. I've been Old Testemented to death, but what's wrong with the Jesuspeople? If they really are interested in following the example of Christ, why are they not concerned with the folks Jesus hung out with? The sick, whores, homeless? Fella ran around with a dozen guys, a couple of which actually had a job -- as fishermen. You know anybody more earthy than a part-time fisherman?
My firm opinion is that had George Bush, ever ever in his life, actually WORKED FOR A LIVING, he would not feel as if he were king. We would be better off with the old Mafia instead of this crowd...those old fucks didn't mind letting a person work fo a living.
Myself, I'm still clinging to the one thing I do believe in. The Constitution of the United States of America. One of the finest documents, with it's Bill of Rights, ever hammered out. And I, unlike my so-called President, will fight tooth and nail to support and defend it.
I know the pendulum has to swing back sooner or later...glad to see someone up in the frozen land keeping up the hope!
my best wishes to you.
*mel
Meldonna (above) deserves the St P Day Prize, don't you think, such eloquence can only be irish? Everything, all too true. I followed you from Enigma's. BTW, to add to your southern ultra-christian childhood, try growing up mormon in sin-city Las Vegas. I shucked all that at 14 when I came across one of those old Time-Life books called "evolution of man".
ReplyDeleteAnd Alaska (sigh) ... I have an uncle who's lived in fairbanks for 40-yrs. Talks about leaving every year, but he's still there, winters & all. My dad made a living playing pool up there after the navy & still talks about the mosquitos. Someday I hope to make that drive beyond Vancouver all the way up & see what it's all about. Keep up the good work, Gryphon! D.K.