On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:03:44 -0700, James Davis wrote
(in article <1183863824.981215.113850@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com>):
> On Jul 7, 9:34 pm, George Graves wrote:
>> What we need in this
>> country is a recall procedure where the people can vote "no confidence" to a
>> sitting administration like they do in Great Britain.
>
> Right now about 30% of Americans are very happy with President Bush,
> who was elected by a 51% majority. While I personally believe he's a
> moron, there is no rule that says it's undemocratic for a president to
> only please 30% of the population. There could be some time in the
> future where angering 70% of the population is the right thing to do.
> If you had to please the majority of people, then we wouldn't even
> elect presidents. We would just vote on issues and the majority vote
> would decide what to do.
I understand that and its sorta my point.
>
> It would be unfair to the 30% of Americans who like Bush to impeach
> him unless he has done something illegal.
As I said. I think he's a lousy president who has done ABSOLUTELY nothing in
his second term except to defend his flawed policy in Iraq. Not one piece of
legislation has he introduced! But until he actually breaks the law, he is,
AFAIK, unimpeachable.
> He won the vote, so he is
> the president. Besides, he doesn't have any power to do anything that
> 70% of Congress disagrees with. If his actions are so bad, they can
> be democratically overridden by others.
Also true.
> You can't just do away with the rules of democracy because they are
> giving you the results you want.
Again, that's pretty much my point.
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