Impeach Bush and Cheney; Support Wexler and Kucinich;
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Let Nancy Eat Impeachment!
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R-68 agrees with the proposition, POTESTAS IN POPULO, "all power comes from the people." What stands between the people and power are the party machines. The parties were devised as a means to represent the people. Today they represent nobody, not even party members, but only party bureaucracy. The people have been left without appropriate institutions for their representation. We intend to create those institutes!
Join us in the streets of Denver as we resist a two-party system that allows imperialism and racism to continue unrestrained.
Pelosi says, "Let Them Eat Peach" while sitting on impeachment.
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Pelosi and Impeachment Poster
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The Most Valuable Progressives (The Nation)
Let down by a dangerous Republican White House, a compromising Democratic Congress and a distracting and dysfunctional mainstream media, progressives persevered in 2007, laying the groundwork for what we can only hope will be the different and better politics of 2008. The list of heroes and champions is endless, but here are some of the MVPs -- Most Valuable Progressives -- from the activist, political, media and cultural spheres of the last full year before the last full year of the Bush-Cheney interregnum:
Most Valuable Teaching Moment: When fundamentalist Republicans made a stink about the fact that newly-elected Minnesota Congressman KEITH ELLISON, the first Muslim elected to the House, would not be swearing his oath on their version of the scriptures, Ellison trumped them with history. He placed his hand on an edition of the Koran that had been donated to the Library of Congress by a student of Islam and all the world's great religions: Thomas Jefferson.
Most Valuable Activist Group: At a time when Congress and the White House seem to have agreed that there will always be more than enough money for defense spending, the terrific Caucus4Priorities campaign of IOWANS FOR SENSIBLE PRIORITIES has kept alive the concept of a peace dividend. The group -- a grassroots project of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities, the national group founded in 1998 by BEN COHEN of Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, has used creative tactics and old-fashioned people power to make an issue of wasteful Pentagon spending.
In doing so, they've succeeded where the media has failed in forcing presidential candidates to discuss budgeting in deeper and smarter terms. "We aim to redirect 15% of the Pentagon's discretionary budget away from obsolete Cold War weapons towards education, healthcare, job training, alternative energy development, world hunger, deficit reduction," the organizers explain. "This 15% cut, or $60 billion dollars, on obsolete weapons systems and the further proliferation of nuclear weapons does not include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and in no way impacts homeland security or our defense. We have the money; let's spend it on sensible priorities!"
Most Valuable Think Tank: LIBERTY TREE: Foundation for the Democratic Revolution is staffed by young, smart thinkers with roots in green and student politics who push the limits of the debate about how to repair elections, reform education and renew the spirit of 1776. Fellows such as BEN MANSKI and KAITLIN SOPOCI-BELKNAP go beyond narrow interpretations of both the Constitution and what is possible in a republic to explore what real democracy would look like at the international, national, state, regional and local levels. Read their great journal and visit them at: www.libertytreefdr.org
Most Valuable Crusade: When no one else seemed to be getting serious about challenging the Bush-Cheney administration's taste for torture, THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT movement developed an orange campaign – appropriating the color of the jump suits worn by detainees – to highlight popular opposition to violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. As the torture issue came front and center, DEBRA SWEET and other World Can't Wait activists – most of them veterans of the pre-war Not In Our Name movement -- were already there with a smart, uncompromising challenge to untenable practices and an untenable status quo.
Most Valuable Internet Site: When people ask about how and where to follow what is happening with the movements to end the war in Iraq, to prevent a war with Iran and to hold to account those who launched one mad war and now seek to initiate another, the answer is always http://www.afterdowningstreet.org site. Constantly updated by the indefatigable DAVID SWANSON, the site is fresh -- there were even six posts on Christmas Day -- and it features local actions (via YouTube) as well as national interventions. Because it is so thorough and so engaged with local and regional protests and events, the AfterDowningStreet site provides the best illustration of the extent to which mainstream media has neglected the most vital movements of the moment.
Most Valuable Congressman: ROBERT WEXLER, D-Florida, was appropriately savage in his Judiciary Committee questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Wexler almost single-handedly restored the separation of powers. Then, after Ohio Congressman DENNIS KUCINICH forced House consideration of his proposal to impeach Vice President Cheney, the Florida congressman grabbed the issue and organized a push by key members of the Judiciary Committee to open hearings on the veep's high crimes and misdemeanors. If he keeps this up in 2008, Wexler could yet force the House to be what the founders intended: a check and balance on executive lawlessness.
"In this time, at this moment, Congress must stand for truth," Wexler said in a speech on the House floor Monday night. "A growing chorus of Americans is calling for accountability. The response from Congress thus far has been silence ...Digg / upcoming - http://digg.com/
Published on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 by Politico.
Wexler Calls for Cheney’s Impeachment
by John Bresnahan
WASHINGTON - Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) is urging the House Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment hearings against Vice President Dick Cheney, despite opposition from House Democratic leaders.
“In this time, at this moment, Congress must stand for truth,” Wexler said in a speech on the House floor Monday night. “A growing chorus of Americans is calling for accountability. The response from Congress thus far has been silence and denial.”
Wexler’s speech was met by applause from spectators in the House gallery, resulting in a warning to them to be quiet.
Wexler, who first gained national attention for defending former President Bill Clinton during his impeachment in 1998, said Cheney has to be ousted in order to restore the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches, which in his view, has been eroded by an ever-expanding claim of authority under Cheney and President Bush.
“There’s a litany of issues that need to be heard,” Wexler said in an interview earlier in the day. “This administration has abused the power of executive privilege. This administration has completely avoided testifying before Congress on any one of a host of six, seven, eight issues.”
“Whether we are talking about the manipulation of intelligence on Iraq,” he went on, “whether we are talking about the outing of a covert CIA agent, whether we’re talking about the illegal use of torture, whether we’re talking about the potentially unlawful firing of U.S. prosecutors - on all of these issues, the administration has thus far successfully used the power of executive privilege.”
But impeachment hearings would be different, Wexler said, since the White House could not raise a privilege claim in order to avoid answering questions from lawmakers.
“In an impeachment hearing, the administration does not have the power of executive privilege,” Wexler said, noting that the secret tapes that helped bring down President Richard Nixon did not surface until the House Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings.
At the Republican National Committee, press secretary Alex Conant dismissed Wexler’s impeachment call as a “publicity stunt.”
“Wexler is a partisan bomb-thrower hoping to earn points with the far Left,” Conant said. “His absurd calls for impeachment hearings are little more than a vain attempt to make himself relevant.”
The House voted on Nov. 6 on a resolution by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) to bring articles of impeachment against Cheney for pushing for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, repeatedly suggesting that there ties between al Qaeda and the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and advocating military action to overthrow Iran.
When Republicans, in a bid to embarrass House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, voted for the measure, the House was thrown into a brief deadlock. The measure was eventually approved and sent to the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) has declined to take action, despite pressure from Wexler and liberal activists outside Congress.
Wexler has created a website (wexlerwantshearings.com) and plans to enter into the Congressional Record the names of Americans who support impeachment hearings on Cheney.
“I was overwhelmed with the response,” Wexler said of his website. “188,000 people from all 50 states have signed a petition demanding that Congress have hearings regarding the impeachment of the vice president. I am going to present those petitions, those online petitions, to the Congress.” Wexler said he would enter into the Congressional Record the maximum number of names each day over the next few months until every person’s name is recorded.
Impeaching Cheney, or forcing him to step down, remains a cherished goal for many liberal activists, despite the fact that the Bush administration has only a year left in office. Former Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.), the Democratic presidential nominee defeated by Nixon in 1972, recently issued a public call for the impeachment of both Bush and Cheney.
“Bush and Cheney are guilty of numerous impeachable offenses,” McGovern wrote in a recent op-ed in The Washington Post. “They have repeatedly violated the Constitution. They have transgressed national and international law. They have lied to the American public time after time. They conduct and barbaric policies have reduced our beloved country to a historic low in the eyes of the people of the world. These are truly ‘high crimes and misdemeanors,” to use the constitutional standard.”
Wexler argues that the length of time left for the Bush administration in office should have no bearing on any decision to go through with impeachment hearings on Cheney.
“The truth does not have a time line. Even if it was only for history’s sake,” Wexler said. “As a result of the abuses of power of this administration, we have now today an imbalance of power between the Congress and the president. The executive [branch] has usurped too much of the legislative branch’s power. And one of the powers of the legislature to check a run amok executive is the power of impeachment. That power, in my mind, needs to be exercised, whether it’s the first year of an administration or the last year.”
(RESUME ARTICLE)
Most Valuable Senator: Vermont Independent BERNIE SANDERS boldly battled the Bush administration on the international stage by traveling to Costa Rica before that country's fall referendum vote on whether to accept the Central American Free Trade Agreement. As the Bush administration was making all sorts of threats in order to scare Costa Ricans into capitulating to a neo-liberal agenda that serves Wall Street rather than workers in the U.S. or Latin America, Sanders arrived with the news that the U.S. government includes more than just a White House, and that the Constitution permits not just the president but the Congress to have a say regarding trade policies. Sanders put the White House on notice that its lies and bully tactics would no longer go unchallenged; hopefully, others in the House and Senate will join him in reasserting the strong legislative stance that is essential to transparent and democratic policy making with regard to a troubled economy.
Most Valuable Commissioner: MICHAEL COPPS may have been on the losing end of the FCC's December vote on whether to knock down barriers to media monopoly in cities across the country. But the dissident commissioner's brilliant detailing of the threats posed to minority ownership, cultural diversity, local news gathering and journalism laid the groundwork for legislative and legal challenges that will upset the 3-2 decision that saw Copps and Commissioner JONATHAN ADELSTEIN stand up to Rupert Murdoch and the Bush White House.
Said Copps in his blistering dissent: "Today's decision would make George Orwell proud. We claim to be giving the news industry a shot in the arm--but the real effect is to reduce total newsgathering. We shed crocodile tears for the financial plight of newspapers--yet the truth is that newspaper profits are about double the S&P 500 average. We pat ourselves on the back for holding six field hearings across the United States--yet today's decision turns a deaf ear to the thousands of Americans who waited in long lines for an open mike to testify before us. We say we have closed loopholes--yet we have introduced new ones. We say we are guided by public comment--yet the majority's decision is overwhelmingly opposed by the public as demonstrated in our record and in public opinion surveys. We claim the mantle of scientific research--even as the experts say we've asked the wrong questions, used the wrong data, and reached the wrong conclusions."
Most Valuable National Radio: RACHEL MADDOW has survived the changes at Air America and thrived. Why? Because she's smart enough to be serious when called for and hilarious when necessary. She's also got a spot-on sense of what it means to be a progressive in an era when the Democratic party often fails to uphold progressive values. She's anti-Bush, and even more scathingly anti-Cheney, but she does not skimp when it comes to holding Democrats to account. Added bonus: Maddow's got a taste for cultural stories that makes her early evening show far broader in scope than most talk radio.
Most Valuable Local Radio: ARNIE ARNESEN is the New Hampshire radio host all the candidates want to talk to: sort of. Everyone knows Arnesen is smart and fair -- she's a lefty with a libertarian streak who once was the Democratic nominee for governor but who minces no words about the two parties. She's got equally smart and fair listeners. The "trouble" is that Arnesen pulls no punches. She expects her guests to scrap the soundbites and answer questions in full sentences with full ideas. It makes for great radio; indeed, listening to politicos struggle to keep up with her is part of what makes covering the New Hampshire primaries fun. When is some radio network going to be smart enough to take Arnie national?
Most Valuable Television: MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann is essential viewing that provides a nightly dose of reality to a nation still kept in the dark by most media. But broadcast television remains the vast wasteland that does the most to deaden our discourse, and that is why Bill Moyers Journal remained the essential antidote to what ails the body politic. Interviews with Jeremy Scahill, Martin Espada, Scott Ritter, Barbara Ehrenreich , Lori Wallach And Jon Stewart – along with Olbermann and Stephen Colbert, a savior of cable – were among the highlights of 2007. He also devoted an hour to an impeachment discussion featuring Reagan administration lawyer Bruce Fein and this reporter, a commitment that other broadcast or cable program have yet to make.
Most Valuable Political Book: NAOMI WOLF's THE END OF AMERICA: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Chelsea Green). When Wolf started writing about the drift of the United States toward fascism, she was dismissed by some as another casual commentator blowing off some anti-Bush steam. But her detailing of the parallels between steps taken by the current administration and moves made by the 20th century's most notorious dictators to transform democracies into authoritarian states is convincing as it is chilling. And Wolf is not just complaining; she's the "face" of the American Freedom Campaign's important drive to identify and confront assaults on basic liberties and the system of checks and balances.
Most Valuable Political Album: "KALA" by M.I.A. The Sri Lankan singer -- daughter of a prominent Tamil militant -- speaks truth when she declares: "I put people on the map that never seen a map." This is way beyond world beat. Maya Arulpragasam stirs up a global gumbo of ragga, ganna, soca, dancehall, electro, punk, Bollywood and hip-hop, mixes in heaping helpings of attitude and insight and serves it raw. If there is such a thing as refugee rock, this is it – like the best of Rachid Taha and Tinariwen, only edgier and with a scorching case of "Bird Flu."
Most Valuable Political Song: "GOD BLESS AMERICA" by JAMES McMURTRY. Written on the cusp of 2006/2007 and circulated on the internet (http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com/) over the past year, no song caught the zeitgeist better than this one – except perhaps McMurtry's previous take on oil wars and the fundamentalisms of Bible-thumping Christians and Weekly Standard-thumping neo-cons. Every McMurtry song has a million-dollar stanzy; in this one it's: "You keep talking that shit like I never heard/ Hush, little President, don't say a word/ When the rapture comes and the angels sing/ God's gonna buy you a diamond ring…" Watch for McMurtry's upcoming album with "God Bless America." It'll be a great send-off for the little President who couldn't.
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January 17, 2008
Pelosi: The Very Model of a Modern House Speaker
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/01/pelosi_the_very_model_of_a_mod.html
Marc Sheppard
For all her fanfare as the first female Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi hasn't exactly taken the country by storm. Since taking the gavel:
She failed to get her $35 billion increase to the children's health insurance program (CHIP) off the floor.
She failed to get her $13.5 billion oil company tax break rollbacks into the energy bill.
While she has managed to get Iraq troop withdrawal deadlines through the House in several forms, neither the Senate nor the President have signed on to a single one.
She tossed her "pay as you go" pledge right out the window when the House froze Alternate Minimum Tax expansion for one year with no way to pay the $50 billion deficit expansion it would create.
In fact, after promising to lead "the most honest" and "most ethical" Congress ever, Madam Speaker has presided over a House that snuck well over 11,000 earmarks into its bills. And the worst transgressor, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA.), personally responsible for $163 million in pork last year, was Pelosi's first choice for Majority Leader. Not that Steny Hoyer (D-MD), who edged out Colonel Pork for the top slot, fared much better. He managed to stink up the joint with no less than $89 million dollars in earmarks, himself.
No, 2007 was not a great year for the glass-ceiling-breaking San Francisco liberal. And with current RCP poll average approval ratings for Congress at about 24%, 2008 doesn't appear to be shaping up much better.
But all has not been a dismal failure under Nancy's nimble leadership. Politico reported great news on Tuesday -- Pelosi has actually achieved some success in her "'Greening the Capitol' plan to make the House campus more environmentally friendly and socially progressive."
Yes, it appears that while Hillary Clinton struggles to win her place in history as our first female president, our first high-heeled House Speaker is proving her worth by eco-remodeling congressional cafeterias and revamping their menus in favor of healthier foods.
That's right -- one strives to replace our market-based healthcare system with a government-controlled bureaucracy while the other replaces meat-loaf with mahi-mahi.
Okay, so maybe this thoroughly modern progressive woman is falling behind in her House work -- particularly keeping the floor clean (of earmarks), balancing the checkbook (PayGo) and taking care of the kids (CHIP).
But you've got to admit - she's certainly doing a great job in the kitchen.
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anonymous Speaker Pelosi, President Bush could have achieved his goal of “regime change” in Iraq quickly and without the violence of war. Saddam Hussein offered, weeks before his country was invaded, to leave Iraq and go into exile.
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Impeach now, Nancy!
By James (James)
Madam Speaker, if you know this, and if you continue refusing impeachment, then you are a criminal accomplice in violating the trust of the American people-and in violating both US and international law.
By David Swanson
Hangin' in the Office with Nancy P.
By davidswanson
I had been to Nancy Pelosi's office in the Cannon House Office Building before. In fact, I'd been there several times and usually had a pleasant stay, often very quick and efficient, other times prolonged by everyone's enjoyment of the ...Democrats.com - The Aggressive... - http://www.democrats.com
I had been to Nancy Pelosi's office in the Cannon House Office Building before. In fact, I'd been there several times and usually had a pleasant stay, often very quick and efficient, other times prolonged by everyone's enjoyment of the songs my friends in pink were singing, and as often as not resulting in new friendships with fine officers of the Capitol Police who accompanied us out. This time was going to be different.
Just a few of us went by there on Wednesday. No cameras. No songs. And no signs, since we'd already left those at the door with our Capitol Police friends, who continue to get the wrong impression about us. We walked in and said "Good afternoon," which they apparently mistook for the voice of the Filipino Monkey saying "We are come to slaughter your children."
Fearing our murderous threats, the police chose not to accompany us down the hall to Pelosi's crib. And, in fact, we were on a very devious mission. We were accompanying a 60-year-old retired college professor who had decided to walk 500 miles from his home to this office in order to ask for 5 minutes of Pelosi's time. John Nirenberg's story of the march he has now completed is at http://www.marchinmyname.org
Congress must hold immediate hearings on Rep. Kucinich's Articles ...
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Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment. I didn't do it alone: I was armed with nearly 200000 signatures of support from you and so many others.
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Nancy Pelosi Prioritizes
By HCdL (spree)
The menu transformation is part of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “Greening the Capitol” plan to make the House campus more environmentally friendly and socially progressive. But there can be a downside to delicious. Not everyone is happy with ...
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With radical Muslim extremists, rising fuel prices, a possible artificial recession looming on the horizon due to too much governmental regulation of the economy, the controversy of national health care initiatives, the global war on terror, and other such critical situations looming in the world, it's GOOD to know that Speaker Pelosi has her priorities straight on what's important.
It COULD be said that she's heading up the Capital Food Police. Speaker Pelosi has determined that the menu offered by the Capital deli's, snack bars, and such needed to be "greened up" for the sake of the environment.
Outstanding job, Nancy, keep up the good work. It's your continued focus on such pressing issues as this that make us so VERY proud of you and, indeed, our House of Representatives as a whole.
Pelosi Won't Help Foley Investigators
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Nancy Pelosi, You Must Impeach! If you continue refusing, then you are a criminal accomplice in violating the trust of the American people—and in violating both US and international law. ...
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Speaker Pelosi Won't Help Foley Investigators
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... Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for help in their investigation of sexually explicit messages sent to current and former teenage congressional pages. ...See all stories on this topic
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By DownWithTyranny (DownWithTyranny)
So, Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to grant access and, failing that, to explain why she won't grant it. On Tuesday, Rep. Pelosi announced that she has ...DownWithTyranny! - http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/
Impeach now, Nancy!
By James(James)
Madam Speaker, if you know this, and if you continue refusing impeachment, then you are a criminal accomplice in violating the trust of the American people-and in violating both US and international law. ...
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Impeach Cheney Now
By Casey
You’ll feel better after signing the petition. Cheney, impeachment, petition.
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Nancy Pelosi, You Must Impeach!
CounterPunch - Petrolia,CA,USA
... Madam Speaker, you must learn its details and embrace it, and then you must seek with dispatch and justice to impeach George Bush and Richard Cheney. ...See all stories on this topic
Wexler's Impeach Cheney Petition tops 200000
Santa Barbara and the Impeachment Movement
By info@anationdeceived.org (Craig S. Barnes)
Dinah Mason is the organizer for the Santa Barbara Bush/Cheney Impeachment Meetup group and a tireless activist for the impeachment movement. She has been politically active since her “student days” at Herron School of Art in ...Impeachment Podcast - http://www.anationdeceived.org
Impeachment Debate Has Clear Winner
Deleted Whitehouse E-Mails; Another Bush Criminal; Another Reason ...
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The Thought Police "Protect" the Constitution
When I asked ”Why,” I was told that they don’t allow anyone in the building wearing a protest slogan on their clothing. My poncho read “Save the Constitution” and continued with “Impeach Bush/Cheney. Tell Speaker Pelosi (202) 225-0100. ...AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach... - http://www.afterdowningstreet.org
The Op-Ed the New York Times Didn't Run
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The mass media, including the New York Times, persist in refusing to call for impeachment. Yet the evidence could not be clearer: if what Bush and Cheney . See all stories on this topic
Impeach Cheney move has support in region
The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield,MA,USA
Yesterday, Progressive Democrats of America, a driving force behind the campaign to pressure Congress to hold impeachment hearings on the vice president, ...See all stories on this topic
Deleted Whitehouse E-Mails; Another Reason to Impeach
Impeachment is a tool. Dems who reject impeachment focus on the "hammer" aspect --on voting to impeach in the house and convict in the senate. It was the "claw" aspect of impeachment that pried out the evidence led to Nixon's. Digg / upcoming - http://digg.com/
The Thought Police “Protect” the Constitution
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The man behind me, Larry, was wearing a light jacket over a green t-shirt that said “Impeach Bush.” He made Larry move out of line as well.
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 17, 2008
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My first thought is IMPEACH-IMPEACH-IMPEACH and then PROSECUTE -- PROSECUTE -- PROSECUTE!!! "More disturbingly, there was no substantive criticism from the ...See all stories on this topic
War Crimes: The Case for Impeachment of the President
In contrast to parliamentary systems, the Unites States Constitution provides but one method of ousting a sitting president – namely impeachment. This two-step procedure, impeachment in the House and conviction in the Senate. AfterDowningStreet.org - Impeach... - http://www.afterdowningstreet.org
Wexler's Impeach Cheney Petition tops 200000
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... for Impeachment hearings to commence against Vice President Dick Cheney has boosted the Wexler Petition past 190000 and suddenly up to over 202000. ...See all stories on this topic
Kucinich opens new campaign office: in Massachusetts
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"You haven't heard the last of legal action on our behalf here with respect to NBC," Kucinich told interviewer Amy Goodman, accusing the television network ...See all stories on this topic
Lieberman hits Florida trail for McCain
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Robert Wexler and Tim Mahoney are helping insurance agent Kevin Rader's bid for the state House seat of term-limited Rep. Richard Machek, D-Delray Beach. ...See all stories on this topic
Saber rattling replaced by nuclear nudging
Congressman Henry Wexler, along with a growing number of his colleagues has been increasing pressure on Chairman John Conyers of the House Judiciary committee to open hearings on the impeachable charges that have been introduced by ...Norwegianity - http://www.norwegianity.com/
Re: Congressman Wexler Wants Impeachment
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Text of letters to House members and Chairman Colleagues
Congressman Wexler urges support for Cheney Impeachment Hearings
(LETTER TO HOUSE MEMBERS)
January 16, 2008
Dear Judiciary Colleague:
Over the recess, I began collecting signatures online from citizens across the country in support of beginning impeachment hearings pertaining to Vice President Cheney. I was shocked by the overwhelming response. In just a few weeks, I have received almost 200,000 signatures. What I have learned is that Congress is way behind the American people on this issue. According to a November 13 poll by the American Research Group, nearly three-quarters of Americans believe that the Vice President has abused his power in office, and almost half believe he should be removed from office immediately. Now I am asking you to join me in supporting hearings by signing the attached letter to Chairman Conyers.
As I said in my op-ed with Representatives Luis Gutierrez and Tammy Baldwin in the Philadelphia Enquirer (attached), the issues at hand are too serious to ignore, including credible allegations of abuse of power that if proven may well constitute high crimes and misdemeanors as provided in our constitution. You do not have to believe that the case has already been made to support hearings. One of the important functions of hearings would be to put all the evidence on the table and let the facts determine where to go from there.
Chairman Conyers has been a leader in holding this Administration to account for its consistent pattern of ignoring the balance of powers set out by our Founding Fathers and baselessly asserting that it is above the law. I hope that you will sign the attached letter to Chairman Conyers asking that now he join us in support of impeachment hearings as well.
Sincerely,
Robert Wexler
(LETTER TO CHAIRMAN CONYERS)
January 16, 2008
John Conyers, Jr., Chairman
House Judiciary Committee
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Dear Chairman Conyers:
You have been a tireless champion of providing oversight to an Administration that has run roughshod over our constitution, that operates with s no limits on executive branch authority and one that has repeatedly flouted the investigations and oversight the 110th Congress has tried to provide over the past year. We have the greatest respect for the work you have done and believe that impeachment hearings pertaining to Vice President Cheney are the best way to move that work forward.
Impeachment hearings will allow for the exact kind of oversight that you and the Democratic leadership have provided regarding the actions of the Administration but without the opportunity for the Bush Administration to ignore lawful requests for information, refuse subpoenas and effectively limit its own oversight.
Impeachment hearings can provide the opportunity to cut through the executive privilege defenses and force this Administration to answer a Congress it has clearly chosen to ignore. We know you would agree that as Members of Congress, we cannot allow legitimate oversight to be thwarted or such a dangerous precedent to stand.
The charges against the Vice President relate to the core actions of this Administration, its unlawful behavior and its abuse of power. We are concerned with alleged crimes that are central to his duties of Vice-President, including credible allegations of abuse of power that if proven may well constitute high crimes and misdemeanors under our constitution. As you know, the charges against Vice President Cheney include providing Congress and the American people false intelligence leading up to the Iraq war, the revelation of the identity of a covert agent for political retaliation, and the illegal wiretapping of American citizens.
We trust that you will hold a sober investigation and let the facts determine the outcome as you have as Chairman this past year. We sincerely believe that impeachment hearings are the appropriate and necessary next step given what we have seen of this Administration. Chairman Conyers, we are respectfully asking you join us and concerned citizens around the country in supporting impeachment hearings.
Sincerely,
Robert Wexler
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An Open Letter To The Class Of "59" From Ed. Dickau. An Open Letter To The Class Of “59” From Ed. Dickau. THIS IS A Crock and an Insult to Our Class Site ...
Why Should We Answer The Call To The Duty To Impeach George W ...
By Ed, Dickau(Ed, Dickau)
http://courtofimpeachmentandwarcrimes.blogspot.com/2007/12/impeach-bush-and-cheney-calling-all.html. Work With Wexler… http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com. Wed. Jan 16, 2008, National Call-In Day for Impeachment (action alert) ...
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Impeach+Bush+Cheny+ The Drive To Dump Van Hollen! - Congressman ...
Impeach+Bush+Cheney+Dump Van Hollen! Impeach+Bush+Cheney, What Happens To People Who ... Ed. Dickau 1204. S. Washington St. Suite 423W Alexandria, Va - 22314 ...
Impeach+Bush+Cheney+ (Action Calls) See Post end for: “Kucinich In ...
By Ed, Dickau(Ed, Dickau)
... Sam Farr, Robert Brady, Tammy Baldwin, Donald Payne, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Ed Towns, Diane Watson, Danny Davis, Raul Grijalva, Gwen Moore. Please thank them and encourage them to whip their colleagues. .
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IMPEACHING BUSH AND CHENEY, KUCINICH AND NBC IN A DANDY OF A FIGHT
By Ed, Dickau(Ed, Dickau)
Kucinich hard to silence, NBC learns Las Vegas Sun, NV - 5 hours ago Judge Charles Thompson said he would file an injunction to stop the 6 pm debate if it does not include Kucinich. NBC said it will appeal today, Court Of Impeachment And War Crimes - http://courtofimpeachmentandwarcrimes.blogspot.com/
“What Time Is It in America?
My friend Ed Dickau from Arlington Virginia was there. He went home and wrote this essay: “What Time Is It in America? I am not ashamed to say that I am sitting here typing with tears in my eyes, and that I am wondering what my entire ...
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Report: 121 veterans linked to killings
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The End of the Road for George W. Bush
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080113_the_end_of_the_road_for_george_w_bush/
Posted on Jan 13, 2008
By Chris Hedges
The Gilbert and Sullivan charade of statesmanship played out by George W. Bush and his enabler,Condoleezza Rice, as they wander the Middle East is a fitting end to seven years of misrule. Despots stripped of power are transformed from monsters into buffoons. And this is the metamorphosis that is eating away at the Bush presidency.
Bush stood in Jerusalem, uncomfortable and palpably bored. He mouthed platitudes about a peace settlement that mocked the humanitarian crisis he aided and abetted in Gaza, the rapacious land grab by Israel in the West Bank and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The diminished George Bush, increasingly irrelevant at home and abroad, is fading into insignificance. A year from now one half expects to see him stand up at the next president's inauguration and screech "I'm melting! I'm melting!" as he sinks into a puddle of slime.
He will return, I expect, to his ranch, where he will be able to spend the rest of his life doing the only task for which he has shown any aptitude--cutting down brush with a chain saw.
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