Compare and Contrast
by ChrisJanuary 15th, 2006 3:21 am
By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge’s approval, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.
The poll was conducted by Zogby International, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12.
The poll found that 52% agreed with the statement:
“If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should consider holding him accountable through impeachment.”
43% disagreed, and 6% said they didn’t know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 2.9% margin of error.
From the same article:
In August and September of 1998, 16 major polls asked about impeaching President Clinton (http://democrats.com/clinton-impeachment-polls). Only 36% supported hearings to consider impeachment, and only 26% supported actual impeachment and removal. Even so, the impeachment debate dominated the news for months, and the Republican Congress impeached Clinton despite overwhelming public opposition.
So when I wake up at an unreasonably early hour tomorrow morning to watch my Sunday morning political chat shows, what are the chances that I’ll hear even a single word about the fact that a slim majority of the American people favor Bush’s impeachment over the NSA scandal? If you answered “not a chance in hell” I’ll gladly give you a jelly bean in the flavor and brand of my choosing. Just to make things fair, I’ll eat a jelly bean myself if I’m wrong about this. No small punishment, mind you, as I don’t care for sweets and I really hate jelly beans. Ah, Punditry. The last refuge of the naive, the moronic, the evil and the highly paid, though stangely respected whore.
(Via some guy you never heard of)
