Impeachment Proceedings in Order?

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46019

The president has been completely absent on the subject of immigration and border control. Perhaps it is time to get his attention.

The Downing Street Memo

Ever actually read this? It will stun you. Clinton got impeached over perjury. Nixon resigned before being impeached over a break in. Wouldn't impeachment proceedings be in order here?

http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memos.html

Pat Robertson

The Reverend Robertson has continued to be an embarrassment to those of us who call ourselves Christians. He should be fired from that ridiculous show of his and put out to pasture.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/23/politics/23cnd-robertson.html?ei=5065&en=9c28c403240188b3&ex=1125460800&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

Good luck Michael Graham!

I worked with Michael during my brief stint as a talk show host on 630 WMAL. He's a good guy whose mouth can sometimes get the best of him, but overall he is a decent human being. I wish him all the best in La La Land.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/joelmowbray/printjm20050823.shtml

My Private Idaho

I normally don't agree with Maureen Dowd, but I have to admit I like this piece in today's NYT.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/opinion/24dowd.html

Best line:

What twisted logic: with no W.M.D., no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already? Talk about a vicious circle: the killing keeps justifying itself.

Here, here.

http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2005/08/what_might_have.html

Bush Won in 2000 Any Way You Cut It.

This is why it's so tough for me to believe anything from Krugman or the New York Times. I'm no longer a supporter of this president, but can we please let this old argument just die?

http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-8_21_05_RB.html

Will the audacity and lies never end?!?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/02/08_gassing.html

Apparently, Hussein, no angel, may not have "gassed his own people" as we have heard time and time and time again. And since the major reason for going to war, WMD, has proven to be a lie, the administration has propped up this little ditty. And we now see that it, like the WMD, is a lie.

There are brutal dictators all over the globe. Why Iraq? Oil? Empire? Some neo-con fantasy about recreating the Middle East? How many young men and women have to die for a lie?

There's got to be a different way....right? I mean, Democrat, Republican, Conservative, Liberal, there's got to be more to it than this.

A word about me. I began my political thought life as a liberal Democrat. I grew up in an African American home of liberal Democrats and, so, took up the torch upon my 18th birthday and voted for the very first time in the 1988 presidential election. I voted Dukakis/Bentsen, of course because that's what good liberals did. Then, in 1992, I thought I'd found a ticket I could really get behind. Clinton/Gore seemed like everything I'd dreamed about in a President and Vice President. Young, energetic, full of great new ideas. Then the scandals broke. What bothered me at least as much as the President's indiscretions was the lack of outrage from my fellow liberals. Nobody seemed to care, except that he had been set up, all because of a BJ. By 2000 I was disillusioned enough to leave the Democrat party and vote Republican...but not for George W. Bush. After 9/11, I rallied around my President in a time of national tragedy. I was even an apologist during the run up to the war in Iraq. But all that has changed. I think that this is an immoral and unjust war, started for the worst of reasons... money, oil, and empire.

But more than that, I'm against labels like "Republican" or "liberal." My views no longer plant me firmly in one camp or another. I'm an evangelical Christian, but my faith doesn't begin or end with abortion or gay rights. I'm pro-life, but I don't think that abortion should be criminalized. Abortions should be reduced and adoption should be easier and less expensive. I'm also against the death penalty BECAUSE I'm pro-life. I think that marriage should be defined as one man and one woman, but committed gay couples should be afforded the same legal rights and protections as my wife and I. I think that we should enforce the gun control laws we have on the books and not create new ones.

So, my purpose in starting this blog was to have a place where like minded people could share views, share news, and chat. Idealogues are welcome, but please be open to different ideas and debating those ideas. No personal attacks!

As a first start, here's a book I'm reading that has changed my views on many things. I would recommend it to anyone interested in investigating the real intersection between faith and politics.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060558288/qid=1124671173/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-1921410-2967960?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

Until next time, keep the faith.

-Tony

Tony Penny