Plead the First

The Talent Show points to a recent Newsweek article detailing some of the trouble the GOP has been having. According to a Newsweek poll, 51% of Americans think that Bush should be impeached:

Other parts of a potential Democratic agenda receive less support, especially calls to impeach Bush: 47 percent of Democrats say that should be a “top priority,� but only 28 percent of all Americans say it should be, 23 percent say it should be a lower priority and nearly half, 44 percent, say it should not be done. (Five percent of Republicans say it should be a top priority and 15 percent of Republicans say it should be a lower priority; 78 percent oppose impeachment.) Rolling back some of the Bush tax cuts would be contentious too: 38 percent of Americans say the Dems should make that a top priority; 28 percent say it should be a lower priority; and 28 percent say it shouldn’t be done at all.

Pretty amazing. Coming in a close second for amazingness is the fact that Newsweek just glosses over this fact, as you can see from the quote above. As Greg says at The Talent Show:

Now wait a second…doesn’t 28% plus 23% equal 51%? I’d think that a poll showing the majority of Americans favor impeaching the President would be pretty newsworthy, especially considering that this far exceeds the numbers of a President that actually was impeached. If the majorities favoring impeachment and repealing Bush’s tax cuts is how Newsweek defines “less support”, then the GOP is in a lot more trouble that I thought.

Your Liberal media at work.

Of course, another point that seems odd to me is that impeachment could be a “low priority”. Obviously, those people believe that Bush deserves impeachment, or else it wouldn’t be a priority at all. However, if that was your opinion, and you believed the President was guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors,” shouldn’t it be a pretty high priority to try to remove him from office?

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