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Bush: Back to Crawford

Posted: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 9:05 AM by Mark Murray
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President Bush continues his year-end vacation today, NBC’s John Yang reports, flying by helicopter from Camp David in Maryland to Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington for his Air Force One flight to Texas, where he'll ring in the new year at his Prairie Chapel Ranch in the gently rolling hills outside Crawford.

Meanwhile, McClatchy profiles Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler, who is trying to impeach Cheney. Wexler has even begun a Web-based petition campaign.

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Congratulations to Rep. Wexler.  It was the Republicans who pontificated that lying was grounds for impeachment.  Cheney lied us into war and is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents.  Let us agree with our Republican friends that liars should be out of office. I truly believe the only way we will get to the bottom of the Cheney/Bush administration's activities is to impeach both.  They work for us, and we have a right to know what caused them to make the incompetent decisions that they made.
Go figure the dunce is on vacation-----this idiot has never been fully there (puppet on a string).  Remember what he looked like when told of the twin towers being hit------duhhhhhhhhhhh
Mitt Romney Flip Flopping again

A photograph of GOP presidential contender Mitt Romney at a 1994 Planned Parenthood fund-raiser has surfaced, once again raising questions about the former Bay State’s governor’s abortion flip-flopping.

The picture, a copy of which was obtained by the Herald, shows Romney and his wife Ann at a house party fund-raiser in Scituate with Nicki Nichols Gamble, who was the president of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts at the time. Romney has already downplayed ties to Planned Parenthood after revelations that Ann Romney donated $150 to the group.

Gamble said the pic was snapped at an event at GOP activist Eleanor Bleakie’s house and that she “clearly” remembered speaking with Romney at the event. At the time, Romney was running as a pro-choice Republican against U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.).

“My recollection is that we talked about his senate candidacy and the fact that he was supporting Roe v. Wade and a choice agenda at the time,” Gamble told the Herald. “It was a Planned Parenthood event. We were there to discuss our programs and our advocacy.”

The event was held the same day Ann Romney wrote a check to the pro-choice group. Romney has previously said he had “no recollection” of his wife writing the check to Planned Parenthood.

Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom called the flap “a dog bites man story.”

“Governor Romney used to have a different position on abortion,” Fehrnstrom said. “He is now firmly pro-life and has made it clear that as President he will advocate for a culture that welcomes life and protects the sanctity of life. This is the same path that Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush followed.”

Because of his abortion shift, Romney has been branded a flip-flopper by his GOP primary opponents, as well Democrats. Romney has stated he became pro-life in 2004 during the stem cell debate in Massachusetts.

Beyond attending the event, Romney filled out a 2002 questionnaire for the Planned Parenthood Advocacy Fund in which he said he supported Roe v. Wade, sex education in schools and increased access to emergency contraception.

“With Mitt Romney, this has been more than a flip-flop. This has been an extreme makeover,” said Planned Parenthood spokesman Angus McQuilken. “What voters need to know about Mitt Romney is this: where he stands on any issue is always a moving target.”

Romney reacts to photo:
+ Romney dismisses photo suggesting he attended Planned Parenthood event
dwedge@bostonherald.com
 They should tie him to a horse, smack them both on the butt and yell giddy up!
I knew people in Iowa are not too bright. But, do they have to continue showing the world this fact everyday on these blogs?
Thee cheers for Wexler! Impeach bush too. We must not let these criminals off the hook.  Reel the stinking fish in and send them up the river. Criminals belong in jail, the repukes are soft on crime when it comes to their own.  I do understand they have so many liars and thieves it will take a while to nail them all so lets get cracking.  The nuts are still loose!
"BUSH: BACK TO CRAWFORD"

Stay there, crawdaddy. Pack up to move to that thar 100,000 acre spread in Paraguay your daddy done bought. They've been accepting your kind since 1946.

"Meanwhile, McClatchy profiles Democratic Rep. Robert Wexler, who is trying to impeach Cheney. Wexler has even begun a Web-based petition campaign."

What's the URL?
They should tie him to a horse, smack them both on the butt and yell giddy up! <<

Are you available, you know, for the horse part?
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/
Sign early and often.
Done, but I think you should only sign a petition once.
Oh, geeze, is this Wexler nut job still around? You wonder what people are thinking to relect losers like him and Kucinich.

I just sent Wexler an e-mail. Told him to quit screwing around and acting nutty, and to get to work.

Sign early and often.
Gary, Schear, Bozeman Montana (Sent Wednesday, December 26, 2007 1:40 PM)

Thanks Gary, done!
Go Rep. Wexler!  It is really too late to have much of an impact on policy now.  It might show some moron in the future that someone who isn't running for president that someone cares.  We need a way that will show the people of the country are tired of a policy.  We must also make sure that this can't be abused in the future.
Wexler is doing a public service. Just take the list he generates, and then you have a comprehensive list of who the crazies in this country are.
The Nation Magazine endores Dennis Kucinich as their candidate for President of the United States of America.

Still waiting on the Judiciary Committee to put the articles of impeachment to a vote on the congressional floor....

then dick is gonna start a real big fire, to finish destroying all the incriminating evidence against him he didn't get rid of in last weeks white house office fire.
It really bothers some of you slobbering droolers when someone wants to stand up to Constitutoinal crime in goverment? After you feasted like starving jackels on Clinton's blood for having sex outside his marriage? Do you see the glimmer, the shadow, the HINT of hideously disgusting hipocricy? Or are you simply too far gone?

"Wexler is doing a public service. Just take the list he generates, and then you have a comprehensive list of who the crazies in this country are."

Zieg Heil.
It really bothers some of you slobbering droolers when someone wants to stand up to Constitutoinal crime in goverment? After you feasted like starving jackels on Clinton's blood for having sex outside his marriage? Do you see the glimmer, the shadow, the HINT of hideously disgusting hipocricy? Or are you simply too far gone?

"Wexler is doing a public service. Just take the list he generates, and then you have a comprehensive list of who the crazies in this country are."

Zieg Heil.
Well, Cheney needs to be impeached, but why not Bush too? Anyhow, I'm sure the list of reasons for impeachment are limitless at this point. However, I it's sad that despite all the crimes of this administration, politicians on both sides have done nearly nothing to address this. It's sad. I almost feel Congress is just as complicit in these actions as the Executive Offices, being as their failure to do anything is just as bad.

@FreedomOfInformationAct - I'm shocked more news services haven't really followed on the EEOB fires, considering that David Addington's offices were there too, and he's Cheney's right hand man, the one also to legally justify torture, and that's just too coincidental that their offices caught fire after the House Intelligence Committee said they were going to investigate the destruction of the tortue tapes. Now their emails are missing. There's almost no evidence left except what people won't say... ugh, I'm trying not to think of this anymore, it's just too painfull.


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