Tuesday, June 27th 2006
Your tax dollars at work
Good to see the Berkeley City Council utilizing its resources wisely to fix local problems like Telegraph:
The famously liberal city of Berkeley is expected to become the first in the nation to put forth a ballot measure calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
The City Council will decide tonight whether to put the measure on the Nov. 7 ballot, at a cost of about $10,000. The measure, if approved, would create a task force to monitor the president and vice president, who backers of the initiative say should be impeached because of the Iraq war, federal wiretapping and other issues.
I think it’s a good idea. There are no easily accessible sources to assist in monitoring the government. The newspapers can’t even fill their pages, there is so little news. Individuals writing about current events on the Internet? Yeah right. Only a brave city like Berkeley can amass the resources necessary to cover the news. It’s just that simple.
UPDATE: IndyBay reports that the Council voted to include the measure on the Fall ballot… Another city issue of high-importance was decided tonight: celebrating Cindy Sheehan Day in Berkeley…
First, that a small city like Berkeley wants to monitor the POTUS is pretty absurd, especially given the effectiveness of task-forces, or lack thereof. A wonderful waste of money as well. Furthermore…brave city? Tearing someone else down is the easiest thing in the world. Something brave would be leading by example. Let me know if you see some of that.
Comment by funsize — 6/27/2006 @ 7:19 pm
Logistically impossible first of all. And more significantly - can you imagine the opposite? If Bush-Cheney monitored the actions of the Berkeley city council? That would fill up your news pages for ya. Especially in the “Paper of Record” these days…..
Comment by Tommy Owens — 6/27/2006 @ 11:21 pm
“Attorney General Gonzales created a task force to monitor the Mayor of Berkeley whenever he is within 15 feet of a newspaper holding device.”
Comment by Beetle — 6/28/2006 @ 12:01 am
Just ignore the resolution. Don’t give attention to the idiots in the Berkeley City Council.
Comment by ktp — 6/28/2006 @ 4:02 am
Let’s also not forget that Berkeley has been trying to get something like this on the ballot since the day Bush got elected. Bush has done a lot of things I don’t like, but I like to keep up with things like this. I think the idea, is that other towns will follow suit and perhaps, Bush may get impeached, but it all hinges on the democrats getting a majority in Congress this fall, which a lot of the Left seems convinced will happen. Otherwise, let’s say in theory, it works — Bush gets impeached, Cheney gets impeached, but Congress is still majority Republican. Guess who is President? Hastert. Thinking real far into the future there, aren’t we?
Comment by LostinEurope — 7/2/2006 @ 2:58 am
[…] Honestly, I don’t even want to talk about this. It’s a waste of time, a waste of money, and nothing less than absolute ridiculousness. I say this as someone who definitely did not vote for Bush in 2004. I’ll defer to the previous commentary offered by Beetle and the Cal Patriot Blog. « Cal Sports Update […]
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