From George McGovern comes an op-ed in the Washington Post. McGovern thinks that Bush is far worse that Nixon, and that it's time for impeachment. I agree, but realistically, I know that it won't happen. McGovern lays out his arguments showing that the grounds for impeachment are far more numerous in the case of Bush-Cheney than for Richard Nixon. The op-ed gives a mini-history of the the Bush-Cheney maladministration's misuse of the powers of the offices of the presidency and vice-presidency.
Amongst all of McGovern's good words, these reached out and grabbed me and made me very sad:
Of course, there seems to be little bipartisan support for impeachment. The political scene is marked by narrow and sometimes superficial partisanship, especially among Republicans, and a lack of courage and statesmanship on the part of too many Democratic politicians. So the chances of a bipartisan impeachment and conviction are not promising.
The Congress won't do its job.
I'm proud to say that, a long time ago, when McGovern ran for president against Nixon and carried only one state, Massachusetts, I voted for him.
I voted for him too, Mimi, and damned proud to have done so!
ReplyDeletePaul, your post got me to thinking about McGovern's words. They really should be impeached, but it won't happen.
ReplyDeleteDo we elect worse representatives these days? Are we all worse citizens than in the seventies? As I said at your place, there were statesmen and stateswomen in those days, and those who were not cut from the same cloth, at least listened to them.
The good folks at News Corpse have something that pertains to this post as well as the one about the grave of a community.
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As a kid in Alabama, McGovern was my first political idol. Hell. I think he won 20% of the vote in 1972, and I still love him.
ReplyDeleteMike, thanks for the link. I wonder if the pins come with the dolls.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't find the grave of a community part.
John D, there were a few of us. It was about the war for me. And I never liked Nixon.
The "grave of a community" is in your blog, the second post down from this one.
ReplyDeleteI just checked. The pins do come with the dolls.
ReplyDeleteMy first Presidential vote was for George McGovern, war hero & antiwar candidate, the U S mail having failed to deliver an absentee ballot in 1968 to wherever I was at the time: "maneuvers", I did not cast a ballot till I was a veteran.
ReplyDeleteIt still bugs me, though: Humphrey, Nixon, or George Wallace, Robert Kennedy being shot and all: cheerful note, blessed night, peaceful end.
OK, Mike. I gotcha.
ReplyDeleteJohnieb, yes he was a war hero, and they made him out to be a weenie. I can't get over how they manage that. People are so fecking stupid sometimes.
Me too, and it was my first election, 1972! I was 20 years old and they had just lowered the voting age.
ReplyDeleteJane, and here we are all together again. Amazing!
ReplyDeleteMike, LOL. I couldn't find my own blog post.
You can add me to the list as well. I think that I still have a McGovern bumper sticker around somewhere!!..
ReplyDeleteIt truly is amazing that of the small percentage who supported McGovern, all of us here were in that number, whether we could vote or not.
ReplyDeleteI cast my first presidential vote for Goldwater. I was told that voting for Goldwater would result in riots in our cities, increasing taxes and war in Vietnam. They were right. I doubt that Goldwater would think much of today's Repuglicans. I certainly don't which is why I'm no longer one of them.
ReplyDeleteI suspect that people like me in the Democrat party is what is causing problems with backbone. I'm not really a Democrat but Independents can't vote in primaries here. I need a party that is fiscally conservative and socially liberal. Like Bill Clinton. 8>)
Piskie, I remember the ads about Goldwater. I also remember LBJ going on to do just those things. I did not agree with Goldwater, but I think he was more honorable than many politicians today in both parties. He would be shocked and scandalized by his own party, especially by the heavy influence of the fundamentalist Christians.
ReplyDeleteI voted for McGovern, too.
ReplyDeleteHi Sharecropper, how ya doing? Another McGovernite in the mix.
ReplyDeleteI'm an old McGovernite, too, and am so glad he is still around telling the truth and reminding us of what we ought to be doing. He was not silenced by defeat, nor did he give up on our country. An example to us all.
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