Posted on 03/18/2006 2:12:15 PM PST by raccoonradio
In Vermont, vote to impeach president spurs backlash
NEWFANE, Vt. -- The protest unfolded in a white meeting house on one of the prettiest town commons in Vermont. The debate at the Town Meeting was by all accounts unfailingly polite. And when the secret ballots were counted, residents of this tiny resort town had voted 121 to 29 to impeach President Bush.
The roomful of rural neighbors expected a reaction. But none of them thought their small act of dissent would provoke national outrage.
Angry calls and e-mails flooded Newfane, population 1,680, the next day. One critic sent a mock thank-you note, signed ''Usama Bin Ladin," that applauded the town for its help in ''bringing down" America. Some regular guests of the picturesque, 175-year-old Four Columns Inn notified its owners that they would never visit again.
"Shame on you," one caller said on the town clerk's voicemail. ''A little Socialist town like yourself is a disgrace to America."
Three years into the war in Iraq, with the president's approval rating at an all-time low of 34 percent last month, protests against the Bush administration are mostly small and scattered, even in the most liberal outposts.
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>>To DeWalt, a ponytailed musician, woodworker, and teacher who displays a running tally of Iraq war deaths outside his home
Insert Jay Bennish pic _here_
well, now we know where to send the 'unhappy' muslims! they should like it there!
As if Vermont really needs to give us any more reasons not to like them.
1. Misled the nation about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction;
2. Misled the nation about ties between Iraq and Al Quaeda;
3. Used these falsehoods to lead our nation into war unsupported by international law;
4. Not told the truth about American policy with respect to the use of torture; and
5. Has directed the government to engage in domestic spying, in direct contravention of U.S. law.
Therefore, the voters of the town of Newfane ask that our representative to the U.S. House of Representatives file articles of impeachment to remove him from office.
DUmmerston... LOL!
As if Vermont really needs to give us any more reasons not to like them.
They've got their share of quality nuts, too.
Their resolution is based on nothing but a tissue of lies.
It's about time these people get internet connections.
Wow so 150 people out of the 1,267 eligble voted in this sham? The president should just resign now.
Do they even know what impeachment means? It means to accuse and indict.
Yep.
ah, I knew someone would notice that. Town named after
"William Dummer of Massachusetts, who was one of three sons of Jeremiah Dummer, a wealthy and politically prominent 17th Century Boston silversmith, artist and magistrate". There's
a boarding school in Mass. named after him, the Gov.
Dummer Academy.
These moonbats are dumb and "Dummer".
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