Posted on 04/08/2006 7:05:50 PM PDT by blam
Effort to impeach Bush backfires on Newfane (pop 1,680)
By Philip Sherwell in Vermont
(Filed: 09/04/2006)
After approving funds for pavement repairs and discussing new property tax assessments, the burghers of the New England community of Newfane (population 1,680) turned their attention to weightier political matters.
Among the usual community affairs on the agenda at the annual town meeting was a motion of impeachment. And the target was not locally elected officials, but George W Bush, the President of the United States.
Impeacher: Dan DeWalt with his tally of war dead
As befits the traditionally liberal state of Vermont, the motion passed comfortably. Without any apparent concern that issues of such constitutional importance might be beyond their purview, five other nearby towns have backed similar motions in what has accordingly been dubbed America's "impeachment belt".
Such political gestures are not new to this corner of New England, much of it a "nuclear free zone", where locals look down scornfully on America's conservative heartlands. But in the current heated political climate in America, Vermont's cry for impeachment is gaining national attention.
But, ironically, it is Mr Bush's aides whose spirits have been lifted by what Vermonters see as their plucky stand. By contrast, most Democrats - torn between their desperation to appear tough on national security and a desire to lambast the President - seem to wish Vermont would pipe down.
Senior Republicans believe that they have found an unlikely and unwitting ally in Newfane's Dan DeWalt, 49, a pony-tailed musician and antiques restorer. A fierce Bush critic who maintains a running death tally from Iraq on a board by the driveway to his house, he drafted the first impeachment motion.
In Washington, Russell Feingold, a Left-wing Democrat senator considering a 2008 White House run, has launched a doomed effort to have Mr Bush censured by Congress. Mr Feingold's party colleagues have been notable by their silence on the issue, but not the Republicans.
Karl Rove, the President's chief strategist, has drafted Mr DeWalt and Mr Feingold for the Republican cause as he seeks to portray the Democrats as weak on national security - an issue that could be central in November's mid-term congressional elections that will be the starting gun for the 2008 White House race.
Mr Rove oversaw the launch of a new party television advertisement last week that sought to turn the impeachment issue to Republican advantage. At the start, a hooded man dodges through a bombed building, followed by the sounds of gunshots and a heart beating fast and scared, before a voice intones: "Terrorists declared war on our country. Today, the terrorists still fight this war."
Then the advert turns to Democrat claims that Mr Bush broke the law by approving wire taps of terror suspects in America without seeking court warrants.
"Censure? Impeachment? Is this the Democrats' plan?" the voiceover asks. Although Mr Bush's current poll ratings are poor, Mr Rove knows that nothing motivates the party faithful more than Democrat attacks on his hard line on security.
But in the impeachment belt, there are other priorities. At Putney, another town that backed the vote, the Gender Diversity Group is to meet to discuss 'alternatives to the binary gender system' and a drum band is lined up to play for 'anti-nuke groups'.
A young store assistant in a tie-dyed T-shirt was delighted by the attention on the impeachment vote. "Hey, you've got to start somewhere," he declared.
Mr Rove is glad they have.
Boycott the state!!!
This dirtbag was on Hannity and Colmes a week or so ago. He ended up calling both Hannity & Colmes losers. What a dope.
We already do! The NEWYAWKA'S took over VT. they (liberal dickeads) are doing the same in ME and NH by taking over "town meeting". MA is a lost cause and we can only hope that CT falls into the sea!
It really sucks living here!
I'm so glad that The Grants separated from us back in 17whatever.
Not sure how long something has to be in place before it's a "tradition" but, to me anyway, Vermont's tradition of liberality is a very recent one.
Boycott?
They're a gift that keeps on giving!
I would not have needed to see this guys picture. But in my mind it would be a skinny long haired guy with a mean looking face and some homemade sign just like the one this jerk has made up.
This type will never go away. Just like a cockroach they just never die out.
Isn't Vermont where they like to rape little girls?
From South Park... "Hippies. They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad."
:-)
Typical Liberal. Using the deaths of Patriots to push his Anti-American agenda. If any of these dead soldiers were to have crossed his path, he would have spit on them.
Not that anyone would actually bother, but some news agency should have him prove his statistics. Prove 103,000 "INNOCENT" Iraqis have died. It's likely that his definition of "innocent" includes terrorists...but, of course, to a liberal terrorists are beloved "freedom fighters"...no matter how many throats they slit or women and children they blow up.
Yup, that's one place. It's also the place where the Dimlycrats don't even bother to run a candidate because Bernie Sanders (the dope grower from Stannard) is so damm good, why bother?
I don't quite see what happened to this town that was bad thought.
That town must of had LSD dropped into their water supply back in the sixties.. maybe by the goof in the picture.
The picture above is a bit dated, and should be corrected. It appears to me to read "2350 US Dead". Assuming the number is accurate, that would mean his tally was created sometime on the morning of September 11, 2001. Probably sometime between the first tower falling and the second, although if you want to pin the time down better, perhaps sometime during the fall of the second tower. Of course, if he started his tally counter back to prior ROP operations, that picture must be from the early 90's if not earlier. [to better pinpoint the date of 2350 dead, see www.thereligionofpeace.com]
...these are the EXACT SAME PEOPLE who want to give aliens and convicts the right to vote.
Should they be listened to on ANYTHING?
Almost as good as watching monkeys: Self-important left-weenies pretending that they matter.
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