Lamar Smith Flip Flops on Impeachment

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Friday July 25, 2008 · 5:28 PM PDT

2008/07/25 · 17:28

You've probably heard the quote of the day from Lamar Smith (disclaimer: I have chopped up this crap in no particular order):

Nothing is going to come out of this hearing with regard to the impeachment of the president... I know it, the media knows it, even the speaker knows it... The Democratic leadership has said time and again they have intention of bringing any impeachment resolution for the president or the vice president to the House floor. Why? Because they know it wouldn't pass... These relentless efforts of some individuals to malign the outgoing administration only demeans and harms the institution of Congress... This hearing will not cause us to impeach the president; it will only serve to impeach our own credibility... It seems that we are hosting an anger management class...

He was singing a different tune in 1998. Why? Because Bill Clinton lied about getting a blowjob. But don't take my word for it, read below:

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Monday March 31, 2008 · 4:52 PM PDT

2008/03/31 · 16:52

According to John McCain:

Public campaign financing is good as long as you're not running for office.

Occupying a foreign country for one hundred years is acceptable foreign policy, and 2b) it does not matter if said country was invaded under false pretenses, or that the pretenses for staying continue to change yearly.

If an elderly woman must choose between her medication, food, and paying her mortgage, not only is that the price we pay to remain "safe" from terrorism, but it's not the government's responsibility.

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Saturday March 01, 2008 · 8:57 AM PST

2008/03/01 · 08:57

This is one of those cases where people in glass houses shouldn't throw the first stone.

The British defense ministry quickly announced Prince Harry would be withdrawn from Afghanistan now that his deployment had been publicized, putting him and his fellow soldiers at risk.

Matt Drudge, who loves to depict liberals as threatening national security in their criticism of the war, really did threaten national security just to get in an exclusive report on Prince Harry's deployment. And in one feel swoop, he did not just threaten the integrity of our operation in Afghanistan, he threatened the security of a member of the royal family and divulged sensitive information about the current operations of one of our few remaining allies in the fight against Al Qaeda.

Contrary to popular conservative belief, I have never seen anyone on the left being this careless with respect to our troops.

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Tuesday February 19, 2008 · 7:25 PM PST

2008/02/19 · 19:25

I really do hope Obama has it--and by "it" I mean the ability to get us out of this mess we're in--because he is going to be the Democratic nominee and I suspect the next President.

Last time I looked around, we had an economy reeling from unscrupulous financial conduct; a misguided and immoral war in Iraq; millions of veterans without shelter, millions of children without health care, and ~~millions~~ billions of taxpayer dollars flowing into the wrong places.

None of that is going to change between now and January 20, 2009.

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Monday February 18, 2008 · 6:04 PM PST

2008/02/18 · 18:04

I guess I take a lot of things for granted.

My father is a Vietnam veteran. He is lucky he is not one of the many veterans who will go to sleep under a bridge tonight; he is lucky he doesn't have to receive sub-standard care at Walter Reed; and he is lucky he cannot be called back to Iraq to die for ~~WMD~~ ~~national security~~ ~~oil~~ democracy.

Right now, I ask you do to one thing: sign this VoteVets.org petition demanding hearings on why the Pentagon awarded a manufacturing contract to a company which was at the time under indictment for shoddy work.

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Tuesday February 12, 2008 · 4:58 PM PST

2008/02/12 · 16:58

On Super Tuesday, I wrote a diary declaring that I was still voting for Edwards. A heated discussion ensued on what was my first recommended diary.

Today, I feel the same, and here's why:

Neither Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-New York) nor Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois) voted on the bill, though Obama did vote earlier in the day to support removing telecom immunity.

Hillary is too busy to care or really wants the telecoms to have immunity (money talks)? Not my candidate. And Obama is too afraid to actually vote on the bill itself lest it come back to bite him in the ass? Then he's too afraid to be President. No wonder John Edwards feels the way he does and has yet to endorse either.

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Friday February 08, 2008 · 6:53 PM PST

2008/02/08 · 18:53

Today my sister informed me that the tumor removed from my mother's breast was indeed malignant, but it looks like the malignancy was contained. Anyone who has survived cancer knows small miracles make all the difference in survival.

Like Elizabeth Edwards, she is one of the lucky ones. She has health insurance; she received proper care and treatment; she may still survive for many years, albeit in fear. We are not--yet--thousands of dollars in the hole and unable to pay up. Millions of other Americans are not so lucky. And this is no small part of why the approval ratings for the President and Congress have hit fresh lows. Yet there is hope...

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Tuesday February 05, 2008 · 5:38 PM PST

2008/02/05 · 17:38

Say whatever the hell you want. This is still a democracy after all (I hope so at least).

You may say I'm wasting my vote, or helping the dreaded Clinton win, or you may troll rate me, or whatever the hell you are going to say or do to try to convince me otherwise... but I'm still going to vote for him. I have pondered over it long and hard, I have really tried listening to the arguments of the Obama and Clinton camps, I have viewed the viral "Yes We Can" video and was almost ready to vote for Obama...

Yet the only way I feel like I won't be wasting my vote is to vote for the only individual that isn't the "lesser of two evils" to me, the only individual whom I want to see in the White House. So on March 4th, I will not waste my vote, I will exercise my free will and cast a vote for John Edwards.

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Saturday January 26, 2008 · 5:25 PM PST

2008/01/26 · 17:25

Dr. Harrison is right. Many on this site including myself have said some potentially sophomoric things in defense of political candidates.

So why do I still enjoy to come here? Is it so I can be sophomoric? No. I came and still come here because several years ago this was the only place people were speaking the truth about George Bush's excuse for a presidency and the Iraq war. And I know that despite my differences with the Clinton camp or the Obama camp, we share a common disdain for the way Bush has disgraced the Presidency and our nation.

When John Edwards lost Nevada, I honestly felt like leaving Daily Kos for many of the same reasons. Yet I quickly realized that this is one of the few places where people actively attempt to rectify the ills caused by years of partisan politics culminating in the Bush/Cheney restoration of "honesty to the White House".

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Thursday January 24, 2008 · 4:47 PM PST

2008/01/24 · 16:47

I'm just curious what everyone around here is planning on doing with their ~~government handouts~~ tax rebates. Daily Kos is ostensibly "middle class" (whatever that means), so I'd be willing to bet this place is a pretty good representation of what many Americans are going to do with their rebates--and more importantly, how the rebates are going to do their "magic" in the economy.

Personally, I am going to pay off a credit card. Will that benefit the economy? Well it will give some bank somewhere more liquidity, so I guess it depends on what they do with it. If possible, I'd also like to put a little in (currently nonexistent) savings.

Assuming the rebate package doesn't go down in a legislative ball of partisanship, of course...

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Thursday January 17, 2008 · 5:23 PM PST

2008/01/17 · 17:23

Writing a story about leading Democratic candidates and (more of) their words on the economy? No need to include John Edwards, someone who has been talking about economic stimulus for the past several months, because Reuters is leading the way in expunging John Edwards from the national narrative.

Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama ramped up their calls on Thursday for emergency action to stimulate the struggling U.S. economy

You see, journalistically, this would have been a good time to add, "John Edwards, meanwhile, pointed out the possibility of a recession as many as two months ago and has been calling for decisive action just as long."

Instead, Reuters did not mention Edwards' name once in this article.

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Thursday December 27, 2007 · 4:09 PM PST

2007/12/27 · 16:09

From an NPR interview with second cousin and close friend of Benazir Bhutto, Mark Siegel:

On October 26th [after the first assassination attempt against her], she sent me an e-mail, instructing me to release it if she was killed, at her death, making it clear that she held the intelligence agencies of Pakistan responsible, and then she also said that she was being intimidated by Musharraf's people, that she's not getting any protection, and that she holds him personally responsible for what happened to her.

"Why not just have a happy life somewhere?"

She made it clear to me... her political committment to democracy in Pakistan was the most important segment, part of her life, that everything came second... She told me that God had a plan for her... and she said she was in God's hands.

Today, extremists--possibly assisted by the Pakistani government--assassinated a leading voice for democracy in Pakistan. At the very least, Musharraf turned a blind eye:

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