Reason To Vote

Cross-Posted at Texas Hold 'Em Blogger.

Hat tip to Captain Ed at Captain’s Quarters.

Byron York at National Review Online gives Republican voters a good reason to show up at the polls no matter what the dissatisfaction is with President Bush and Congressional Republicans.

John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat who would become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee should the Democrats take control of the House of Representatives, has a report entitled The Constitution In Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War, and Illegal Domestic Surveillance.

What this is is a roadmap to impeachment of President Bush, according to York. The I-word isn’t used anywhere except in the footnotes, but take a look at the sources used in compiling this report:

… citations of authorities ranging from the left-wing conspiracy website rawstory.com to the left-wing antiwar sites democracyrising.us and afterdowningstreet.org to the left-wing British newspaper the Guardian to the left-wing magazines The Nation and Mother Jones to the left-wing blogosphere favorite Murray Waas to the New York Times columnists Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, Bob Herbert, and Frank Rich to former Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal to the New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh. (Sources for “The Constitution in Crisis” even include one story co-written by the disgraced Internet writer Jason Leopold.) Relying on such material, Conyers has created what might be called the definitive left-wing blogger’s history of the Bush administration.

Some of the Left’s desire to impeach Bush is get-even-with-’em emotions pent up from the impeachment of Bill Clinton, admittedly.

And much of it stems from Algore losing the 2000 election and the contested Florida recounts.
But much of it is the manifestation of Bush Derangement Syndrome, a desire to undo two elections and do what they were unable to do: defeat George W. Bush at the ballot box.