Feingold Backpedals
Good Lord. How long have we been hearing the liberal Left demanding the impeachment of Bush and/or Cheney? One could easily assume that Democrat pols keep hammering the issue to distract from their lack of actual substance. But apparently there’s no substance to their demands for impeachment, either, and they’re finally starting to catch on.
Check out Robert Meyer’s explanation for why Senator Feingold’s now talking “censure” instead of impeachment.
Sen. Feingold says it is necessary to have this censure for the sake of the historical record. The problem for the Democrats is that they talk a good game, but exhibit no inclination to follow through in unison. By censuring Bush, rather than impeaching him, they get the public thinking that they could have gotten the president for worse, but refrained from putting the country through such turmoil.
But I suspect the real reason we see little desire to impeach Bush is because the evidence could prove Bush is not a liar after all. Far better to leave people with an impression that never has to be proved.
Wasn’t it Abraham Lincoln who advised it’s better to keep silent and thought a fool than open one’s mouth and remove all doubts? Pity the Dems didn’t take his advice. Then again, why would they? He was a Republican, too.
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It was Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) who postulated that ‘it is better to remain silent and be though a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt’
But I was personally shocked that Democrats might actually be posturing for the sake of political expediency. Who knew…who knew
Was it Twain? I could’ve sworn I read somewhere that Lincoln said it.
In the words of a former white house intern,”perhaps I opened my mouth too soon”
Apparently it’s up for grabs.
BTW- the suggestion that Proverbs 17:28 is a possible source of this quote was a discussion I got into many years ago in Bible college (alas I was kicked out of a school that teaches forgiveness)
http://ask.yahoo.com/20010115.html
A page titled Mark Twain and the Mutating Quote attributed at least four variations of the same phrase to the eminently quotable Twain, explaining that it was a case of “split personality” that accounted for the variations, rather than a rash of misquotes.
Other pages suggested a number of other authors for the saying, including: Abraham Lincoln, George Eliot, Groucho Marx, Albert Einstein, and a mysterious figure named Silvan Engel.
In the words of a former white house intern,”perhaps I opened my mouth too soon”
You really gotta warn a girl before being that damn funny. Do you have ANY idea how painful it is to snort spicy V-8 up the back of one’s nose?
Spicy v-8? I tried that it wasnt just a little hot it was dayum hot the pain of it in the nose would be too much lol
That it was!