Friday, July 13, 2007

Barbara Boxer Says the "D" Word


"This is as close as we've ever come to a dictatorship. When you have a situation where Congress is stepped on, that means the American people are stepped on.

So I don't think you can take anything off the table. Because in fact the Constitution doesn't permit us to take these things off the table."

Barbara Boxer was speaking on the subject of impeachment on Wednesday's Ed Schultz Show.

Here's Boxer's Statement on the Iraq No Progress Report:

“The war in Iraq is the most important issue facing our country and the President has his head in the sand.

“The Iraqis have not met a single of the 18 benchmarks we laid out, and yet this President has the audacity to ask for more patience while our troops are getting killed every day policing a civil war.

“This President doesn’t listen to Congress and he doesn’t listen to the American people. The only way this war is going to end is if Congress finds the courage and will to do the right thing and mandate a change in our policy in Iraq. That is going to take 60 votes on the Levin-Reed amendment. I trust the American people will be watching closely.”
(emphasis added)