Tell Congress To Support The Kucinich IMPERATIVE For Impeachment
Minutes ago the U.S. Senate AGAIN failed to exercise meaningful oversight for the national suicide which is our policy in Iraq. It is by now abundantly clear that the Republican caucus is determined to go down with the Bush presidency, and take our military and our country with them while they do nothing. Instead, a bipartisan cattle stampede of senators approved two "we don't hate the troops" resolutions, nothing but vain puffery, swearing to take "no action" about this or that. We don't in the slightest care about what action Congress is NOT going to take, we want to know is what they ARE going to do to reverse the insanity of current policy.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/impeachment_now3.php
On the occasion of the guilty verdicts against Scooter Libby, Howard Dean was quoted as saying we would have a new president "soon enough." If he is talking about the 2008 election that is NOT soon enough, not even close. Day by day, ever more outrageous scandals and abuses of power spew forth from the White House, as we now learn that they have been so corrupted beyond redemption by their power grabs, that they even used the U.S. attorneys themselves for nakedly partisan witch hunts, to try to influence our elections, and fired all who would not bend under their political dictate.
And what was Bush's response when called on this monumental affront not just to the checks in our government, but also to the independency of our very justice system? "What was mishandled was the explanation of the cases to the Congress," he said. In Bush's mind there are no policy mistakes, let alone policy crimes. In his world there are only SPIN mistakes, when we the people aren't quite stupid enough to buy their criminal hypocrisies. We hear admissions that "mistakes were made," as if mistakes somehow made themselves. But even where there is verbal responsibility taken, there is NEVER actual accountability. The sacrificial fall guys will reluctantly resign, but NEVER is there a price paid by the core perpetrators for their conduct.
The Bush presidency is one of false appearances, phony and disingenuous words of compassion and democracy, while the true underlying agenda is the embezzlement of our national treasury, and even those of other sovereign countries, on behalf of their biggest campaign contributors, who then remorselessly relocate to evade taxes on their ill-gotten profits. The Bush presidency is to create wars out of whole cloth, to demonize not only their critics but entire innocent populations, first Iraq, then Lebanon, now Iran. It is a mission to exacerbate terrorism to the maximum extent possible, while ignoring its actual roots causes and laying off pursuing its ringleaders, at the mortal peril of our true national security. And it is not going to STOP in any respect until the day that Bush is lawfully removed from office.
It was not enough that president Bush should pack our courts with radical ideologue judges, one of whom just this week presumed to overturn two centuries of 2nd amendment case law, to let the NRA rewrite our very Constitution. No, even the choice of cases to bring to court they must warp so that only Democrats could ever be prosecuted for any crime, despite the fact that most of the wrongdoing they were actually finding was by Republicans. How their talking head cronies howled after the Libby verdicts that it was just a political prosecution. Their new rule of law is that it's against the law to prosecute Republicans, no matter what the crime, and that any attempt to do so is by definition a political vendetta. And if the Libby trial exposed anything, it was that Cheney was the king culprit.
And hanging over everything is the preemptively declared threat of a presidential veto of any attempt, no matter how timid, to confront these high crimes. And that is why we have concluded that Dennis Kucinich is speaking the essential truth. We have long known that Bush was planning an illegal war of aggression against Iran. Shame on the leadership of the House for the sudden demise, without even a vote, of the provision in the war supplemental appropriations bill to preclude an attack on Iran without express congressional consent. Let there be a vote so we can know which members of Congress think it's OK for the president to launch horrific and disastrous new wars without even a peep from them.
What Kucinich so clearly understands in his call for impeachment is that all these things are mere symptoms of the foundational problem, the cowardice of members of Congress as they run away from actually restraining the abuse of executive power. What are non-binding resolutions except avoidance of actually challenging the policy issue? What are bills that write into themselves exceptions if the president takes "responsibility" for them? Is the role of Congress to be relegated to courteously writing the president's signing statements for him?
ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/impeachment_now3.php
Bush loves to lecture the American people on the lessons of 9/11. There was only one lesson to be learned from 9/11 . . . that we had the WRONG president.
And in five years since there are still too many who have not learned that critical lesson, which failure is the reason New Orleans was left to sink by a guitar strumming photo-op president, which failure is the reason even the administration drafted Patriot Act has been abused to conduct massive illegal surveillance of innocent American citizens. That failure is the reason torture of those even suspected of being our enemies has become official U.S. policy, in utter defiance of all norms of international law and civilized decency.
That failure is the reason our entire intelligence operation against weapons of mass destruction, the life long specialty of Valerie Plame, was sabotaged and jeopardized to try to gain cheap political advantage. Or was it to keep concealed even more heinous acts of treason. That failure is the reason our military is still pursuing a fool's mission in Iraq, chasing an enemy who is not there in any significant numbers. We face nothing but two more years of such disasters and outrages every minute that George Bush, Dick Cheney and their pod people remain in any office of authority.
So what if Gonzales bites the dust. He is just one more water-carrier. He would already have been long gone had not Bush PERSONALLY intervened to quash investigation into the abuse of administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, when that first came to partial light. We have a president and vice president for whom obstruction of justice is just another burglar tool in their black bag, as they rob the balance of powers in our Constitution. Let the subpoenas now issuing in the U.S. attorney scandal lead to door of the oval office, where the trail surely does directly lead.
ACTION PAGE: http://www.peaceteam.net/impeachment_now3.php
And let us renew again and again our call for Congress to impeach ALL those who have harmed we the people so grievously, and to prosecute those impeachments at the most mercifully swift speed.
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The Only Way to Stop This Administration
I never thought I would say this, I guess I was dreaming; thinking that this president would listen to the people. The only way we are going to stop this administration is to start impeachment proceedings.
It isn't as though we don't have the goods on this band of thugs.
What all Americans must do is start pressuring the leadership on the hill that doesn't represent their districts. When we attack a Democrat who is trying to stop this war and bring our troops home where do we get? Americans who support this ideaology get mad, but they must understand that we need the votes. We need to pressure those who will not vote to stop this war.
We need a list of all members of Congress who refuse to let go of Bush's coat tails and go after them, put the pressure on.
If I had a dime for everytime I had to explain to someone why the Democrats have not been able to stop Bush I would be rich. The voters must understand that we do not have the votes in the House or Senate. Just because the Democrats are in control does not mean that we can change policy, we must have 60 votes in the Senate to pass a bill. We need to target the men and women who time and time again fail us and put pressure on them to vote with the policy that will bring our troops home now.
There is much frustration on both sides of the isle as far as these Senators and Congressmen who refuse to do what the people want. I think we made ourselves very clear in the mid-terms, obviously that was not enough for this moronic administration and their following on the Hill.
I agree it is time to start beating the drum for impeachment. It would be the first step in showing the world that the people of the United States are not in step with this administration and we are willing to get them out and put in place leadership that will do the right thing. It may be the only way to really protect the American people. Bush doesn't care about protecting our homeland. We are hated around the world because of him. Let the world know that we do not agree with this madman and we want him out of office.
It is time to declare victory in Iraq and bring our men and women home. Too much blood is being spilled everyday for anyone in Washington who is in Congress to continue to believe that this administration's policies are working. They are not working, Condi Rice can't make a deal, she only wants to wave and have her picture taken, Bush's pride will not allow him to admit he is dead wrong and Cheney is so evil and greedy that he will always put money over the well being of our troops and the American People.
We experience scandal after scandal yet nothing is done. To heck with "Hearings"...take action and start the impeachment proceedings, start beating the drum, get it on the record and tell all Americans to start putting the pressure on these Congressmen and Senators who refuse to get off the Bush's tail.
I never thought I would agree with Donald Trump but in his interview on CNN he is so right. Does anyone really believe that George W. Bush reads a book a week, NO!, another lie, this man cannot even speak let alone read a book a week. LIES! There were no WMD's, we have killed Saddam, so declare victory and get out. Whether we are there or not this fighting isn't going to end. We will just have better homeland security bringing these women and men home to protect America.
This administration has lied about everything. They have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on their hands. It IS TIME TO IMPEACH!
This president and vice president lied to this country and the world. Premeditated lies....to start a war. Tip of the ice berg of charges that can be filed against these two incompetent SOB's.
With the drums of Impeachment beating maybe they will get the message. But something has to be done now, not later.
Republicans knew impeachment of Clinton in the Senate would fail
Professor Partridge makes a very good argument for Impeaching Bush Cheney:
To read all of his article go here - http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1855.shtml
Impeachment: Winning by losing
By Ernest Partridge
Online Journal Guest Writer
Mar 16, 2007, 01:09
Why not impeach Bush and Cheney and remove them from office?
Among those who devoutly wish that these two be separated from their offices, the most prominent reason for resisting impeachment is that even if a bill of impeachment were voted in the House of Representatives, conviction and removal from office by the Senate will almost certainly fail. So why begin an endeavor that is doomed at the start? So argue such worthy observers as Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Randi Rhodes and John Dean. Until recently, I concurred with this opinion.
These skeptics would have a point if Senate conviction and removal from office were the sole objective and consequence of impeachment, as the Republican regulars and their compliant enablers in the corporate media would have us believe. Once again, by assuming that removal from office is the be-all and end-all of impeachment, the Democrats and many of their progressive supporters and commentators have carelessly consented to play the GOP game by the GOP rules. They have, as George Lakoff might put it, thoughtlessly adopted their opponents’ “framing” of the impeachment issue. They have, to put it bluntly, been suckered again, as they have all too many times in the past. When will they ever learn?
These Democrats et al. seem to pay little attention to the potential benefits of an unsuccessful impeachment. These benefits include the uncovering and publicizing of the Bushevik crimes and the consequent educating of the public. This would, in turn, lead to the discrediting of the corporate media and the devastation of the Republican Party, resulting in a Democratic landslide in the next election. In short, a loss in the Senate trial might be far outweighed by the benefits of the investigations leading up to a House bill of impeachment and the subsequent debate in the Senate trial. A “win” via a loss.
The Republican stalkers of Bill Clinton were well aware that the process of impeachment might well be more significant than the outcome of conviction and removal. After all, the Clinton impeachment was launched with a full expectation that the effort would fail in the Senate. But even so, the House Republicans anticipated that there would be sufficient mischief to be gained by proceeding with a bill of impeachment that they went ahead anyway. What they did not anticipate was that the public at large would be more put off by the GOP’s partisan shenanigans than by “Slick Willie’s” unrestrained libido.
The Democrats must stop fretting about a likely failure in the Senate and put their eyes on the prize of the results of a congressional investigation, of testimony under oath, and of the unavoidable publicity that would result therefrom. And who knows, once the high crimes and misdemeanors are exposed to the sunlight of open and public congressional hearings and debate, the “impossible” Senate conviction just might turn out to be quite possible. After all, all that is required is the defection of 17 GOP senators. And bear in mind that 22 Republican Senators are up for re-election in 2008. They might find themselves very hard-pressed in their re-election campaigns to justify a vote for acquittal.
I think it's great
I think it is great to see someone out there, for Kucinich. I keep poking my head out, just to see where he is -- and I think it's GRAND that he's out there, in the thick and thin of it. My girlfriend is supporting Obama -- but, she knows that I support Kucinich wholeheartedely.