Why has no one done anything about the Bush administration if everyone (around me at least) seem to hate them?

Question

All I hear in the (liberal) news and around me is that the Bush administration is doing awful. Then why hasn't anything happened? Didn't the Dems gaining power suppose to do something? Clinton lied... but truthfully speaking... no one died. Are we a country of uncaring citizens or are we sheep? Someone, please explain!

Answer 1

Supacloud says: The Only Thing We Have To Fear Is The Bush Administration.

Answer 2

I would like to see Bush impeached, and apparently I'm not alone.

The problem is that to kick him and Cheney out of office requires a 2/3 vote in the Senate. That means that at least 15 Republican senators have to vote against him. And that's just not going to happen. That would be handing over the White House to the Democrats, political suicide.

With Nixon there was a deal made. His vice president was thrown out first (actually he resigned under prosecution), then Nixon was allowed to hand-pick a successor. -Then- they came out with the articles of impeachment against Nixon and Nixon resigned. If Dick Cheney suddenly announces his retirement 'for health reasons' you'll know a deal is in the world.

Meanwhile the Democrats can -impeach- Bush but they can't remove him from office. Under those circumstances, impeaching him would be seen as just a partisan circus. As happened with Clinton. Clinton's popularity ratings rose to the highest in his presidency during the impeachment because people saw it as no more than a political vendetta. The Democrats won't do that, they just don't work that way.

Every day Bush stays in office hurts the Republicans a little more. Between now and the 2008 election there might be enough Republican senators worried about their own seats to want to make a deal to get Bush out of office and replace him with some moderate-looking GOP placekeeper.

Answer 3

The rules are elected presidents serve 4 year terms. They can only be removed by impeachment. Impeachment requires a crime to be charged. Until this happens, Bush is in office until his term ends and NOTHING can change that short of altering the constitution, or seeking more radical means such as a coup d'etat. If you don't like it change it when you go to the voting booth (I sure will be). You should respect the rule of law and our system, it's not the best but it does work and sometimes it suffers on account of our own actions.

Blame the Democrats for doing nothing with their newfound power, they are liable for their own actions and have a lower approval rating than the White House.

People did die under Clinton. Remember Mogadishu (19 soldiers killed, approximately 1,000 Somalis killed)? What about Kosovo? What about the USS Cole? The embassy bombings?

Answer 4

Sadly the political calculation, in the raw numbers, doesn't seem add up to the much deserved impeachment AND removal of the Dumbya Coup. But the solution is to have an HONEST '08 election with the hoped for result being the Democratic taking of the White House and MORE Democratic Congressional seats. If the election was held today IT WOULD BE CROOKED!!!

Answer 5

Sheep perhaps, but rational ones.

The problem is your action has so little effect, that no one does anything, even though, if we all acted together, we could do something. I am sure that even congressmen and senators feel that powerless in the face of the massive force of lobbyists and corporate power (why should end the war if the republicans will launch a multi-million dollar TV campaign accusing me of not supporting the troops?).

The strength of great leaders is precisely how to motivate people to act even in the face of this conundrum I mentioned above.

Sweatpea: the Supreme Court ruled the President violated the constitution in setting up the first Guantanamo trials and abrogating the Geneva conventions (which are part of US law).

Answer 6

The strategy is, and I shouldn't be telling you party secrets, but, let Bush/Cheney stay in office. Expose more corruption and let them continue to screw up. People get madder and madder at them and this hurts the GOP in the elections next year. Guilt by association worked for them in equating Gore to Clinton so now the chickens have come home to roost and they are getting a tast of their own medicine. It looks like we may just see a Democratic landslide at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. The obstructionism of the Republicans in the Senate and the vetos of good stuff by Bush contribute as much as the flubs of Bush and Cheney do. If we end their folly before the elections the country is liable to forget about them and so we allow it to continue.

Answer 7

Because the Democrats are giant wussies with no backbone and only care about politics and getting re-elected. Many of their attacks on Bush are politically motivated (while still true in many cases). They don't want to attack him where it counts - his complete disregard for the Constitution and the rule of law - because they are no defenders of the Constitution and want the same ability to ignore it when they are in power.

Answer 8

Well. once upon a time, there was 52% of the country that liked Bushy...at least more than that Herman Munster dufuss from Massachusetts

Answer 9

Well, first off you hit it on the head when you said liberal media. You keep telling people bad things about the government over and over again, they start to tend to believe it.

However, what are you going to do? Bush was elected and will serve out his term. We vote again in 2008.

Maybe you need to find a better group of people to hang out with.

Answer 10

Nothing is done because the democrates are just as corrupt as Bush is. The media and opposition, our leaders are the one's who are suspose to lead the way but for some reason or another they don't.