BS: A Declaration of Impeachment

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 08:32 PM

The 'I' word

Talk of impeachment seems to have faded a bit from the campaign trail, by a common consensus of the leading candidates to dismiss the idea.

But it may be coming back. MoveOn.org, which has emerged as perhaps the most powerful player in the primary, used the "I" word in an e-mail to members this afternoon, suggesting that Congress subpoena Dick Cheney and, if he won't answer congressional questions, impeach him.

    Congress can start by demanding answers from the Bush administration about the Iraq war and their illegal spying program, and not backing down until they get them. Cheney won't testify? Subpoena him. He won't come? Hold him in contempt of Congress and send over the police. And if that doesn't work, impeach the guy.

(Impeaching Cheney avoids the problem with impeaching Bush, which is President Cheney.)

Several of the Democratic candidates, of course, are members of Congress. And John Edwards has been known to express his views on what Congress should do. So expect them all to get asked about impeachment again soon.

...

(From politico.com)

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: katlaughing
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:21 PM

In case anyone missed it in the LIbby thread:

Sorry if this has already been posted, but I think everyone should listen to Keith Olbermann on Countdown, tonight, on MSNBC...you may watch and listen HERE. You can read some of the text HERE, but not the whole thing. WOW is all I can say!

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Bill D
Date: 03 Jul 07 - 10:23 PM

*grin*..Olberman really laid it out, didn't he!

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 05 Jul 07 - 03:25 PM

Anti-Bush 'Impeachment Center' opens in Los Angeles
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 07/05/2007 11:35:21 AM PDT


LOS ANGELES—A storefront "impeachment headquarters" emblazoned with American flags opened July 4 with a mission to remove President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Activists who gathered to open the Los Angeles Impeachment Center accuse the Bush administration of condoning torture, spying on Americans and misleading citizens about the war in Iraq. They also were angry at the president's decision to commute the 2 1/2-year prison sentence of former Cheney aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was convicted of lying and obstructing justice.

"Isn't it ironic that Paris Hilton will spend more days in jail than Libby?" said Byron De Lear, a Green Party activist.

"I'm just hoping all of this will get Bush out of office so we can get our troops out of Iraq," said Lauren Kuzma, 17, of Murrieta.

The center is sponsored by Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles, Westside Greens, Santa Monica Democratic Club and the Los Angeles Greens. Activists plan to work there on the campaign through phone calls, mailings, petitions and lobbying.

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By all means listen to Olberman's chastisement of Bush and demand for his resignation. A little honest, clear-thinking anger is a delight to the jaded eye.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 07:40 PM

The time has come to hold Dick Cheney accountable for his crimes against the people of the United States and the world - and the Constitution of the United States.

We have formed a brand new partnership with many great progressive groups and Brave New Films, the creators of powerful documentaries like Iraq for Sale, OutFoxed, Wal-Mart, and Uncovered - the War on Iraq.

And we have just released a powerful short video showing Cheney's most bald-faced lies about Iraq and Iran. 

Please watch the video, sign the petition, and pass it along to your friends.

The time for accountability is now - not after Cheney leaves office. Thanks to your efforts, 14 Democrats already support H.Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment for Dick Cheney. With a little more effort, we'll get enough Democrats on board to start impeachment hearings in the House Judiciary Committee. And when the American people see the evidence in our video with their own eyes, they will join us in demanding accountability for Dick Cheney.

Together, we can impeach Dick Cheney.

Bob Fertik

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 06 Jul 07 - 07:43 PM

New video: Impeach Dick Cheney

That's right, we said the "I" word. And you should be saying it too -- to your family, your friends, your neighbors, your pets and the hearty 26% of Americans who somehow still believe the Bush/Cheney team more worthy of sitting in the Oval Office than an undisclosed location stripped of all authority to further damage the country we love.

You'll want to say it even more after watching our video with the evidence for impeachment right there: http://impeachcheney.org/?utm_source=rgemail

Dick Cheney has been a malevolent force on the checks and balances of American government for over six years. He has subverted government processes to lead us into this tragedy in Iraq, and is now seeking to do the same with Iran. Two countries, mind you, he did business with while CEO of Halliburton.

We are at an important moment in American history. For if we don't take action in light of the High Crimes and Misdemeanors committed by one Richard Cheney, we might as well throw the word away. Because there will never be a time when it is more justified.

Sign the petition: http://impeachcheney.org/petition.php?utm_source=rgemail

14 representatives already support H. Res 333, the articles of Impeachment against Dick Cheney. Your signatures will be used to get other House members to to sign on. We are working with a substantial and growing coalition led by Democrats.com and AfterDowningStreet.org.

Let's make this travesty a turning point in our history. Please join us in restoring democratic principles to our government by IMPEACHING DICK CHENEY.

Sincerely,
Robert, Cliff, Paris, Jim G and the entire Brave New Films team

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 07 Jul 07 - 12:09 AM

Nearly half Americans want Bush impeached

Posted 4 hours 55 minutes ago


Under fire: George W Bush (AFP: Paul J Richards)

Nearly half of the US public wants President George W Bush to face impeachment, and even more favour that fate for Vice-President Dick Cheney, according to a new poll.

The survey by the American Research Group found that 45 per cent support the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Mr Bush, with 46 per cent opposed, and a 54-40 split in favor when it comes to Mr Cheney.

The study by the private New Hampshire-based ARG canvased 1,100 Americans by telephone from July 3-5 and had an error margin of plus or minus three percentage points.

The White House declined to comment on the poll, the latest bad news for a president who has seen his public opinion standings dragged to record lows by the unpopular war in Iraq.

The US Constitution says presidents and vice presidents can be impeached - that is, formally charged by the House - for "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanours" by a simple majority vote.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: katlaughing
Date: 07 Jul 07 - 10:40 AM

Wasn't sure where else to vent my outrage at the crap he spews:

THE US President, George Bush, has compared the war in Iraq with the US war for independence in his Fourth of July speech.

Like the revolutionaries who "dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty", Mr Bush said American soldiers were fighting "a new and unprecedented war" to protect US freedom.

My own contribution to impeachment: Dump the chumps

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: kendall
Date: 07 Jul 07 - 08:39 PM

That shows you what he knows about history

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 09:58 AM

And that was his major at that C- college he went to.

An interesting essay on the duty to impeach Cheny and Bush can be found on this page.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 10:00 AM

Thousands of U.S. citizens are in prison for the same (or similar) crimes as "Scooter" Libby committed. Their sentences will not be commuted; they just have to serve out their time.
   This is the way it should be, but apparently the phrase "liberty and justice for all" is no longer relevant under the Bush administration. It seems that well-connected individuals such as "Scooter" get a special brand of liberty and justice.
   This is yet another reason to impeach Bush and Cheney. They have proved again that they have no respect for the laws of this country or the Constitution.
   People who break the law should be held accountable. The same laws should apply equally - to everyone - regardless of who they are or who they know. "Scooter" Libby should serve his jail time, and Bush and Cheney should be impeached. No one is above the law.
   
   Amanda Butler
   Salt Lake City

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 10:04 AM

Poll: 54% of the US Wants Cheney Impeached
>http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/24390


By David Swanson

A new poll conducted by http://www.americanresearchgroup.com finds that 54% of American adults want the US House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney, including 76% of Democrats, 17% of Republicans, and 51% of Independents. The same poll found 46% of voters in favor of the same thing for President George W. Bush, including 69% of Democrats, 13% of Republicans, and 50% of independents.



The poll also asked about Bush's commuting of I Lewis Scooter Libby's sentence, and found that 31% of Americans approve, and 11% would approve of a full pardon.

The details are available at http://www.americanresearchgroup.com

Past polls on impeachment of Cheney and Bush are available at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/polling

A growing movement for the impeachment of Cheney hopes to build on the current majority and released a new video by Robert Greenwald on Friday at http://impeachcheney.org

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 03:31 PM

By Rachel Kapochunas, CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
Published: July 9, 2007
Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan mainly has targeted her wrath over Iraq at President George W. Bush and other Republicans. But just more than a month ago, she pronounced herself disillusioned with the leaders of the Democratic Party, calling them too soft on Bush.

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And now Sheehan says she is considering taking her displeasure directly to the source — by waging a third-party challenge to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi next year in the California Democrat's San Francisco-based 8th District.

Sheehan told the Associated Press on Sunday that she would enter the 2008 House contest, in one of the nation's most solidly Democratic and liberal-leaning districts, unless Pelosi introduces articles of impeachment against Bush by July 23.

Sheehan said she believes the president misled the public about the reasons why he took the nation to war in Iraq and committed other impeachable offenses.

Moved to political activism by the death of her son while serving in Iraq, Sheehan rose to national attention in 2005 as she set up camp outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and demanded without success an audience with the president to discuss her grievances over the war as the mother of a serviceman killed in action.

Sheehan announced late this May that she was leaving the Democratic Party because she felt its members in Congress were "caving in" to the president by supporting continued funding for the war in Iraq.

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APN Chat with US Rep. Bob Filner on Impeachment
Monday, 9 July 2007, 8:47 pm
Column: Atlanta Progressive News

APN Chat with US Rep. Bob Filner on Impeachment
By Matthew Cardinale

"I'm calling to confirm my cosponsorship of H Res 333 to impeach Bush and Cheney," US Rep. Filner (D-CA) told Atlanta Progressive News in a phone interview.

"These guys have governed with cynicism and complete contempt of the American people from the beginning," Filner said.

"For political reasons impeachment was taken off the table," Filner said.

"The latest... to say he's above the law and he's not part of the Executive Branch... he's just gone too far for the average American citizen," Filner said.
...

H Res 333 is Articles of Impeachment of Vice President Cheney. President Bush's impeachment has also been proposed–although not yet through any bill–by several Members of Congress.

Currently, 10 total cosponsors are listed on the Library of Congress website for H Res 333: US Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), plus US Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Keith Ellison (D-MN), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), and Albert Wynn (D-MD), so far.

Two additional cosponsors confirmed by APN are US Rep. McDermott (D-WA) and US Rep. Filner (D-CA).

Impeachment activist David Swanson says US Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) has also indicated to a source that he wanted to have been a cosponsor but said a clerical error had left his name off the list. Moran has been out of the country and will confirm either way shortly when he returns.

US Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) called for US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to put impeachment back on the table, in a press release on his website. He did not specifically state he would cosponsor H Res 333, and actually, his remarks seem to relate more to Bush than Cheney.

Kucinich's Office did not return a call today seeking confirmation on Moran's cosponsorship.

US Rep. Filner had been a cosponsor of H Res 635, a former bill in the last Session by US Rep. Conyers (D-OH), to create a Select Committee to investigate possible impeachment offenses by Bush.
...

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 10 Jul 07 - 03:33 PM

Bush's Erects Another Stonewall Against Accountability John Nichols
Mon Jul 9, 12:59 PM ET
Yahoo


The Nation -- Barely a week after he commuted the 30-month sentence of a former White House insider who was convicted of engaging in felonious attempts to thwart investigations of administration wrongdoing, President Bush has erected another barrier to getting to the truth about whether he and his aides have knowingly violated the law.

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In a letter sent Monday to the Michigan Congressman John Conyers, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, and Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who heads the parallel Senate panel, Bush invoked executive privilege to deny requests by the committees for testimony from former White House counsel Harriet Miers and former White House political director Sara Taylor.

Bush's lawyers suggested that Miers and Taylor, both central players in the scandal that has emerged over attempts by the administration to politicize federal investigations and prosecutions, might speak with members of Congress about the firings of US Attorneys who did not go along with the administration's agenda. But the administration says that can only happen in closed-door, off-the-record "interviews" that would not be given under oath.

Conyers and Leahy have repeatedly rejected such proposals. The committee chairs say, correctly, that inquiries into whether the administration used the Justice Department for political purposes--particularly moves to fake up so-called "voter fraud" cases as part of a broader push to make it harder for elderly, low-income and minority citizens to cast ballots--must be open and above board.

That is not the style of this White House.

So uncooperative is Bush that his attorney, White House counsel Fred Fielding, even refused a request from lawmakers that the President explain the basis for invoking executive privilege.

Fielding would only claim that the "assertion of executive privilege here is intended to protect a fundamental interest of the presidency: the necessity that a president receive candid advice from his advisers and that those advisers be able to communicate freely and openly with the president, and each other and with others inside and outside the executive branch."

The truth, of course, is that the "fundamental interest" of the Bush presidency that is at stake is far more consequential than that of defending candid conversation in the White House. As with the decision to commute the sentence of "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, this imposition of executive privilege would appear to have far more to do with protecting the president from scrutiny than with maintaining the quality of internal White House communications.

Earlier this year, former White House counselor Dan Bartlett unwittingly confirmed that President Bush participated in discussions with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and political czar Karl Rove about firing US Attorneys who weren't sufficiently political in their prosecutions, is hightailing it out of the administration.

That makes the congressional requests for testimony from key players in the US Attorneys scandal something very different than a political "fishing expedition" that might chill dialogue in the White House. This is a matter of national interest that goes to the most critical question about any administration: Is the president playing by the rules of the Republic? Or has he placed himself above the rule of law and the Constitution to which he has sworn a solemn oath?

The determination of this administration to stonewall the US Attorneys inquiry--as it has so many others--sets up a classic confrontation in the courts. Both Leahy and Conyers have said that they are prepared to seek a Contempt of Congress citation, which is the essential first step in asking the federal courts to determine whether Bush has abused his authority to invoke executive privilege to block requests from the legislative branch.

It was on the basis of such a challenge that the Watergate scandal during the presidency of Richard Nixon evolved into a serious discussion of impeachment.

Objecting to the administration's "unacceptable all-or-nothing position," Conyers complains that Bush & Co. "now will not even seek to properly justify their privilege claims."

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 12:38 PM

Never before has there been such a compelling case for impeachment and removal from office of the president and vice-president of the United States. Bush and Cheney have committed the most serious crimes known to law and history. Nothing in the experience of the impeachment power under the US Constitution compares.

Of course, the first and foremost reason to impeach Bush and Cheney is their pack of lies to Congress and the American people depicting an "all-powerful" Saddam Hussein being an imminent threat to the US in order to justify an illegal preemptive attack on Iraq. By lying to Congress, Bush violated US laws related to fraud and false statements (Title 18, Chapter 47, Section 1001) and conspiracy to defraud the United States. The truth is that while these two liars were still in the process of whipping up their climate of fear and hate to discourage dissent to their war goals, 30,000 US troops had already secretly fought their way in and took control of 15% of an impotent Iraq.

Bush and Cheney repeatedly spewed out the big lie that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction and that they knew where they were. They falsely claimed that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program for which it was importing aluminum tubes and uranium and warned of seeing mushroom clouds. They made the bogus charge that Iraq had produced thousands of tons of chemical agents and used mobile weapons labs. They fabricated the tale that the secular Saddam had ties with the al-Qaeda religious extremists. And, they mislead the public with mind-blurring rhetoric that implied Iraq had indirectly caused 9/11.

In their deceit, Bush and Cheney played fast and loose with intelligence. They failed to provide Congress with all the unfettered intelligence that they possessed. They deleted portions of reports such as the August 6, 2001, presidential daily brief. They supported their charges with unreliable evidence such as forged documents, plagiarized student papers and vague satellite photos. They pressured the CIA and other intelligence agencies to manipulate intelligence fixing it around the policy of going to war with Iraq (Downing Street Memo). They enlisted CIA head George Tenet to conjure up a bogus National Intelligence Estimate that corroborated their war policy. And, they created the Office of Special Plans inside the Pentagon, which "cherry-picked" and embellished findings supporting war while debunking whatever that didn't. This group resorted to taking information out of context, juxtaposing unrelated data and removing caveats such as "likely," "probably" and "may".

Bush and Cheney deceived the public with the misconception that their war in Iraq was in response to 9/11. The truth is 9/11 was just a "convenient" excuse to kick off their war that was in the works years before the Bush presidency. Back in 1997, Dick Cheney's group dubbed as the "Project for a New American Century" (PNAC)(Neo-Cons), which included Jeb Bush and subsequent major players in George W. Bush's administration, embraced the policy to conquer Iraq and turn it into a base of operations to control the oil reserves in the Middle East and Central Asia for privatization by the oil companies. Not long after, they unsuccessfully lobbied President Clinton and Congress to attack an already weakened Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein and build permanent U.S. bases.

...

(Balance of article here).

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 12:50 PM

An interesting perspective on Republican votes.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 02:30 PM

Another month gone by Amos.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 12 Jul 07 - 04:49 PM

A sleeping giant stirs exceeding slow, T.


A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 13 Jul 07 - 03:06 AM

Then best wake him up soon Amos or he'll miss the bus.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 07:27 PM

Here ya go -- a video of interest, from Bill Moyers.

July 13, 2007

A public opinion poll from the American Research Group recently reported that more than four in ten Americans — 45% — favor impeachment hearings for President Bush and more than half — 54% — favored impeachment for Vice President Cheney.
Unhappiness about the war in Iraq isn't the only cause of the unsettled feelings of the electorate. Recent events like President Bush's pardoning of Scooter Libby, the refusal of Vice President Cheney's office to surrender emails under subpoena to Congress and the President's prohibition of testimony of former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers in front of the House Judiciary Committee have caused unease over claims of "executive privilege." In addition, many of the White House anti-terror initiatives and procedures — from the status of "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo to warrantless wiretapping — have come under legal scrutiny in Congress and the courts.

Bill Moyers gets perspective on the role of impeachment in American political life from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION's John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT.

"The founding fathers expected an executive who tried to overreach and expected the executive would be hampered and curtailed by the legislative branch... They [Congress] have basically renounced — walked away from their responsibility to oversee and check." — Bruce Fein

"On January 20th, 2009, if George Bush and Dick Cheney are not appropriately held to account this Administration will hand off a toolbox with more powers than any President has ever had, more powers than the founders could have imagined. And that box may be handed to Hillary Clinton or it may be handed to Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or someone else. But whoever gets it, one of the things we know about power is that people don't give away the tools." — John Nichols

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Jul 07 - 10:40 PM

I saw the Moyers piece...there are serious, well-placed people beginning to agree that there may be impeachable offenses going on.

I'll still bet 25¢ they won't do it with only 15 months to go...but...

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 12:07 AM

OK Bill you've got a bet. It didn't take the Repugs long to impeach Clinton and lying about a question that should never have been asked is not a really good reason to impeach. However, Bush and Cheney have been caught committing scores of high crimes and the people are going to hold their representatives accountable for upholding their oaths of office.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 12:29 AM

Interesting, Amos, thanks for the Moyers link. (I could not get any video, just audio for some reason.)

Thanks, also, for keeping this thread going.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 12:58 AM

Never before has there been such a compelling case for impeachment and removal from office of the president and vice president of the United States. Bush and Cheney have committed the most serious crimes known to law and history. Nothing in the experience of the impeachment power under the US Constitution compares.

Of course, the first and foremost reason to impeach Bush and Cheney is their pack of lies to Congress and the American people depicting an "all-powerful" Saddam Hussein being an imminent threat to the US in order to justify an illegal preemptive attack on Iraq. By lying to Congress, Bush violated US laws related to fraud and false statements (Title 18, Chapter 47, Section 1001) and conspiracy to defraud the United States. The truth is that while these two liars were still in the process of whipping up their climate of fear and hate to discourage dissent to their war goals, 30,000 US troops had already secretly fought their way in and took control of 15 percent of an impotent Iraq.

Bush and Cheney repeatedly spewed out the big lie that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction and that they knew where they were. They falsely claimed that Iraq had a nuclear weapons program for which it was importing aluminum tubes and yellowcake uranium and warned of seeing mushroom clouds. They made the bogus charge that Iraq had produced thousands of tons of chemical agents and used mobile weapons labs. They fabricated the tale that the secular Saddam had ties with the al-Qaeda religious extremists. And, they mislead the public with mind-blurring rhetoric that implied Iraq had indirectly caused 9/11.

The many individual members of Congress, state legislatures and city councils calling for impeachment have cited a long list of other potential impeachable offences:

Willfully violated their oath of office to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Ordered the National Security Agency to violate provisions of the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) [50 U.S.C. Chapter 36], a felony, specifically authorizing the agency to spy on American citizens without warrants.

Committed war crimes as a result of new and unorthodox measures used by the Bush administration in the "war on terrorism."

Exempted detained Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters from the provisions of the Geneva Conventions.

Authorized violation of the Torture Convention of the Geneva Conventions, a treaty regarded as supreme law by the United States Constitution.

Retaliated against critics.

Held American citizens and citizens of other nations as prisoners of war without formal charges, trial or legal representation.

Leaked classified national secrets to further a political agenda, exposing an unknown number of covert United States intelligence agents to potential harm and retribution while simultaneously refusing to investigate the matter.

Authorized, ordered and condoned attacks in Afghanistan and Iraq on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties are unavoidable.

Violated international law by threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming his personal intention to change its government by force.

Authorized, ordered and condoned violations of rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eight Amendments to the Constitution and of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and other international protections of human rights.

Authorized, directed and condoned bribery and coercion of individuals and governments to obtain war ends.

Was negligent in responding to the victims of hurricane Katrina.

Demonstrated a pattern of abuse of office and of executive privilege and contempt for the Constitution and our democratic ideals while seeking to expand the powers of the presidency (imperial presidency).

Illegally used government funds for domestic political propaganda related to the administration's Medicare package, paying commentator Armstrong Williams, etc.

Used uniformed military personnel for Republican party political purposes.

Obstructed and hindered the work of congressional investigative bodies.

Failed to take responsibility for, investigate or discipline those responsible for an ongoing pattern of negligence, incompetence and malfeasance to the detriment of the American people.

Violated the letter and spirit of laws and rules of criminal procedure used by civilian and military courts, and violated or ignored regulatory codes and practices that carry out the law.

Failed to supply our troops in Iraq with adequate war materials such as body armor, armored vehicles and other equipment.

Allowed our maimed and injured troops to be subjected to abhorrent medical care at Walter Reed Hospital.
Why would it be worth impeaching Bush and Cheney at this late date?

Our present national emergency must be ended post haste. Corruption is running rampant with Bush and Cheney covering their connection to it with subterfuge such as commuting the sentence of a convicted crony. Under this regime, America is turning fascist, seeking war and not peace and losing its moral authority in the world. Incompetent political appointees are in charge, profit-driven contracted corporations are doing the work of government (privatization), elections are being stolen by vote rigging and our welfare safety net is being dismantled. Thousands of soldiers are being killed and maimed while the war industry is reaping huge profits. Of course, impeachment would prevent any further crimes by these two men as well as their appointment of another extremist jurist to the Supreme Court.

Bush and Cheney are lawless, dangerous men with war in their hearts. Despite their war in Iraq going way wrong, Cheney's "PNAC" stated goal of turning Iraq into a base of operations to control the oil reserves in the Middle East and Central Asia for privatization by the oil companies is right on track. The construction of permanent military instillations is moving forward.

They are now beating the drums for war against Iran in order to get their hands on its oil reserves, which are easily accessible on a small strip along the Iraq border. Many believe that such an attack would spark WWIII. In fact, the two men have promised a multi-generational "long war."

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More than welcome, Kat, and thanks for the nod.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 01:16 AM

Without doubt the most hilarious load of claptrap I have read for a long time Amos.

As one of the current administrations harshest critics Amos, can you enlighten us as to exactly how you have been retaliated against.

To take the items listed in your diatribe one by one and subject them to real scrutiny and apply rules of evidence the results would come in as a stream of "Not Guilty" verdicts.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 12:43 PM

It may not be a list of impeachable offenses....no doubt most of those would never get a conviction.....but it sure is a list to remind voters next year which party tolerated and encouraged most of those egregious acts and behaviors.

I think I'll save it and add to it.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Barry Finn
Date: 15 Jul 07 - 07:13 PM

The only call after almost 7 yrs is from Amos, myself most of us mudcatters with a few exception & "we the people" (John Q Public). The folks we have representing US resent US for putting them on the spot with this issue. Bastards are bandwagon jump-ons & wouldn't rock an apple cart to save their mothers & children from the plague. Any politican that now calls for this should be treated with just a little less dignity than those that are still holding out & the same for those on the issue of Iraq. If they didn't know better early on then they deserve far less support now than those that have been protesting from the begining. I hold little hope that Bush & company will ever see justice & I wish them the hell they so rightly deserve. Impeachment after they've spent 7 yrs treating the nation & it's people like shit is a little late, it should've happen eons ago. A bullet would be a much better soultion at this point & it would send a future message for those that would think to travel the same road. If you think this is a bit strong, suck eggs. Look at what they've done & didn't do!
Impeachment is far to mild a sentence, it's like a last minute lame duck presidential pardon, fuck him. Do I have reason to be afraid of Home Land Security now that I've spoken my piece, someone needs to even though most would rightfully be fearful to.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: GUEST,dianavan
Date: 16 Jul 07 - 04:21 AM

You're right, Barry, impeachment is too good for Cheney and Bush. So is a bullet. I'd like to see them subjected to the same indignities that their prisoners have been subjected to. I also think all of their assets should be siezed. After both of those deeds are done, they should be forced to live under bridges and eat from soup kitchens for the rest of their lives.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 17 Jul 07 - 03:21 PM

ANd folks like this, from The Huffington Post:

Impeach Bush -- Not Such A Bad Idea After All

Posted July 16, 2007 | 10:29 PM (EST)



         

It remains to be seen how much political traction a movement to impeach President Bush can muster in the nation's capital. With eighteen months remaining in his imperial reign, it's still worth a gamble, still worth pursuing.

So kudos to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D- CA) for firing that first salvo late last week when she announced that "she asked four presidential scholars for their opinion on former White House Counsel John Dean's statement that President Bush admitted to an 'impeachable offense' when he said he authorized the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without getting a warrant from a judge."

Boxer later went on the Ed Schultz talk show and said impeachment of the President "should be on the table." (And let's place it right beside those Iraqi benchmarks.)

Domestic spying is the least of Bush's sins. It's like convicting Al Capone for tax invasion. The Decider-in-Chief has reinterpreted the meaning of the Oval Office, and rather than restoring dignity -- as he so often promised during the 2000 presidential race -- he has besmirched it with an unprecedented power grab.

Of course we can't blame one man for getting us into Iraq, illegal eavesdropping, cronyism, torture, gutting of the Judiciary, and overall incompetence. He had plenty of help from Cheney, Rove, and their enablers.

It's not so much as a fish-rots-from-the-head thing. It's that Bush is intellectually and morally ill-equipped to run this country, especially when so many more young American soldiers will die or get wounded in Iraq on his stubborn, myopic watch.

Here's why impeachment matters. Anything to tie up George, Karl and Dick with additional headaches is a good thing for America. Just because they squirmed scot-free with Scooter, it doesn't mean that they should get a free pass. Wouldn't we all be better off if their days and nights were spent huddling with lawyers instead of causing more lasting political damage?

Impeachment is the kind of partisan gambit whose efficacy should be determined not only by whether there's enough votes to impeach Bush, let alone have the Senate convict him, but by the impact it will have in changing the debate on how America views the president despite his already abysmal approval ratings. Will it clarify and solidify our disgust? I think so. Will it force the media to focus more intently on Bush's "crimes and misdemeanors?" Yes. Will it weaken the administration's position on Iraq by adding more political energy to the anti-war movement? Yes.

Support for an impeachment surge is the reverse of a troop surge.

Bush continues to use his Oval Office bully pulpit with complete disregard for those who disagree with his unpopular policies. If he's immune to change, then let's put a burr under his saddle.

He cares a great deal about how history will look back upon his presidency. So why not have that big "I" by his name, just like an asterisk next to some future steroid-using Hall of Famer. We need to delegitimize his political rule.

Though we shouldn't make impeaching the president habit-forming, the stains Bush is leaving on the Constitution are far more damning than the Clinton stain left behind on Ms. Lewinsky's blue Gap dress.

Perhaps as a preliminary step to drawing up articles of impeachment, we should establish a benchmark report card -- just like the bogus one on Iraq's dubious progress that the administration presented last week. Its spin was breathtaking in its reach for plausibility. Its own interpretation of "satisfactory progress" is like a doctor examining a someone in a brain-dead coma and saying, "the patient's still breathing and alive and that's a good sign that things might improve."

How can the situation get any better in Iraq when whatever political breathing room there was supposed to be following the surge has been choked and smothered in continued religious violence. With the Iraqi parliament jetting off to Dubai for R&R while brave young U.S. soldiers patrol lethal swaths of the country in sweltering global-warming desert heat, there won't be much, if any, progress with the political situation until September when General Petraues's report comes due.

So this gives us more breathing room right now and right here in America to tighten the impeachment thumbscrews on Bush. Too often, he has managed to hold all the cards in shaping the national dialogue. Because of where he's sits in the White House, he's given himself carte blanche to lie or grossly distort the truth whenever it suits his purposes.

The mere hue and cry of impeachment will put the Republicans even more on the defensive as they contort themselves in different positions on the war. It's important that those who favor impeachment ignore the catcalls of being labeled partisan, unpatriotic, or not supporting the war or our troops. We've played that rhetorical game far too long.

Let's impeach Bush. Should the vote pass and he goes up for trial in the Senate, it will be interesting to watch Vice President Cheney preside in that chamber. He'll feel right at home. After all, he did maintain that the Office of the Vice President "is not part of the executive branch." But there's an outside chance that Cheney himself might face impeachment first if U.S. House Resolution 333 picks up momentum.

Impeachment is not a diversion from the war. It's the correct conclusion to a tragic narrative. Support the Boxer rebellion.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 18 Jul 07 - 10:04 PM

Ordinance passes 6-1; Telluride is first in Colorado

By Reilly Capps

Taking a step into national politics, the Telluride Town Council passed an ordinance yesterday calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.


The ordinance says that Bush and Cheney violated the public trust and knowingly harmed the United States and Colorado.

The measure passed easily, 6-1.

Several Telluriders pleaded passionately about the need to get rid of a duo that has lied, tortured, and spied on Americans. No one spoke out against it, nor did anyone defend the administration.

The ordinance reached the council's desk after 71 voters signed a petition. The council's other option, besides passing it, was to put the ordinance on the November ballot and let voters decide.

But instead of doing that, the council sent the message itself.

"I'm surprised that they did not refer it to the people," said Thom Carnevale, who organized the petition. "It was a strong stand the council took."

Mark Buchsieb was the only member of the council who voted against the motion.

It appears that Telluride is the first community in Colorado to call for impeachment. A vote in the town of Nederland ended up tied.

But dozens of communities in other states have passed similar ordinances. It began in liberal places like San Francisco and Vermont. More recently, more mainstream cities like Detroit and Chapel Hill, N.C., have joined.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Cleveland, has introduced a resolution in the House calling for impeachment, but most Democrats have said they don't see impeachment as a viable option.

A call to the White House seeking comment was not returned yesterday.

At the meeting, Phil Miller railed against an "imperial presidency" that launches unnecessary wars, and spoke forcefully and movingly against an administration that steamrolls dissent and then flattens foreign countries.

"The people have acquiesced too easily because they don't know the horror that war unleashes," said Miller, who was a soldier during World War II, who saw babies starve and families hunkered down in bombed-out buildings. He himself was hit by a bullet while fighting in the Philippines. "I have seen the brutality of war that turns nice young men into barbarians."

(From the Telluride, COL, Daily NEws.)

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:15 PM

Must make a note, in future subscribe to "The Huffington Post".

Kinda fun paper, in the "right-on" way of things, quoted by Amos.

Well since he started this "Amos-dominated-cut-n-paste-thread" absolutely damn all has happened, and neither will it, because "Impeachment" is a legal process that requires that substantive evidence is produced and verified. It then has to stand up to what is commonly known as the rigors of, "rules of evidence".

Most in the know + the House of Representatives and the Senate know that there are absolutely no grounds whatsoever on which to base an action against the current President or Vice-President - Amos and the rest of the chattering left do not, which is why you hear so much "Magpie chatter" - loud, but it signifies nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 08:47 PM

That's not what they know at all, T. The grounds are there. But the case is not being made.

In any case, my compliments for not drinking the lefty Kool Aid here. I wish you well, but I am afraid you are standing in the shadows, pal.

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Jul 07 - 09:12 PM

Well, well, well...

Jus' thought I's stop in here... I played music until 3:30 this mornin' at Blues Week, then got a couple hours sleep and rove home today so I'm is a stupor ( some would say I'm always ina stupor) but...

...therer won't be any impeachements... The Repubs can use the same rules that the Dems have used since '94 in fillibusterin' an' so there won't be any impeachments...

So, fir you folks who would like to see it happen, it won't... Georege Bush could be caught withan 11 year old girl on camera and it wouldn't happen...

No, impeachemnt is like a "perfect storm"... And you need the voyes to override a fillibuster... Clinton didn't thave them and therefore he was impeached... Not removed... But impeached.... And later censored...

Impeachement from here out will be nuthing but partisan political theater... Nuthin' more and nuthin' less...

George Bush has proved beyond a shadow of doubt that any and all laws cand be either negated (signing statements) or broken and if you have enough of yer buddies on the court then that ain't no problem either...

This is the case...

Should it be impeachable??? Yeah...

Willit bring an impeachement??? Never...

Like I have pointed out over and over, the US govrenment is very corrupted... I don't say this as ome grandsatnding thing... It's just fact... It is badly broken... It is way too finaced and owned by corporate interests and it is broken...

I will predict this:

Unless the US get's it's act together we will see impeachements of every president in the future that has a Congress that has enough votes to pull it off...

The US democracy is badly broken, folks...

This is reality...

It's broken...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Jul 07 - 04:54 PM

I am actually sorry to see this...I understand why he is doing it, but i think it falls short:

WASHINGTON, July 22 A U.S. senator said Sunday he 1s working on a censure resolution against President George Bush, saying the administration has "assaulted the Constitution."

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., said on NBC's "Meet The Press" that his resolution, to be introduced shortly, will address two areas: the administration's run-up to the war in Iraq and its "outrageous attack on the rule of law" regarding its surveillance program and "their attitude about torture."

"This administration has assaulted the Constitution," Feingold said. "We need to have on the historical record some kind of indication that was has happened here is."

Feingold says a censure resolution is a moderate course. It wouldn't tie up the chambers with an impeachment, but would ensure a historical record is available, he said.

The resolution hasn't been drafted, Feingold said, adding he's spoken with Senate leadership. Regarding whether any Republicans would support the resolution, he said, "I think this might be an opportunity for some Republicans who may be uncomfortable with taking steps such as impeachment to say, you know, somehow we have to reflect the fact that so much of this has gone wrong."

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 12:03 PM

Yahoo News comments:

"John Nichols
Mon Jul 23, 12:28 PM ET



The Nation -- There is every reason to be enthusiastic about U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's decision to ask the Senate to consider a pair of censure resolutions condemning the President, Vice President and other administration officials for misconduct relating to the war in Iraq and for their repeated assaults on the rule of law.

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Indeed, as the movement to impeach Bush and Cheney attracts more support with each passing day, Feingold's resolutions should be seen as evidence that the essential American principle of presidential accountability is finally being put back on the table by responsible members of Congress.

Feingold is renewing and extending a call for censure that that the Wisconsin Democrat initially made in March, 2006. The senator now proposes one resolution censuring the president, the vice president and their aides for overstating the case that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, particularly nuclear weapons, and falsely implying a relationship with al Qaeda and links to 9/11; for failing to plan for the civil conflict and humanitarian problems that the intelligence community predicted; for over-stretching the Army, Marine Corps and Guard with prolonged deployments and for justifying U.S. military involvement in Iraq by repeatedly distorting the situation on the ground there. A second resolution would censure the administration for approving the illegal NSA warrantless wiretapping program, for promoting extreme policies on torture, the Geneva Conventions, and detainees at Guantanamo; and for refusing to recognize legitimate congressional oversight into the improper firings of U.S. Attorneys.

Feingold, a Constitutional scholar, is well aware that these misdeeds of the George Bush, Dick Cheney and their minions fall, as the senator has suggested, "right in the strike zone of the concept of high crimes and misdemeanors." He has frequently suggested that he "would not rule out any form of accountability," including an impeachment inquiry beginning with proper investigation and hearings."

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 12:05 PM

City Council Strongly Backs Bid to Impeach Bush, Cheney

By Dan Morse
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, July 24, 2007; Page B05

Over the years, Takoma Park (Md) has declared itself a nuclear-free zone, established an immigrant sanctuary law and written a 5,000-word manual for its trash and award-winning recycling programs.

Last night, its City Council voted to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Lisa Moscatiello helped create a resolution that calls for removing the president and vice president from office. (By Susan Biddle -- The Washington Post)


"Takoma Park has passed many resolutions over the years, and I've been proud of most of them," council member Reuben Snipper told a crowd of about 100. "I personally am as appalled as many of you are at the actions of Bush and Cheney."

The council approved the resolution 5 to 0, with two members absent.

Earlier, during a public comment period, all 19 people who spoke on the measure expressed their support.

"I come before the council because America is under threat," said Jay Levy, a 32-year resident and a retired Montgomery County schoolteacher. He said Bush and Cheney are "shredding" the U.S. Constitution.

"This is the finest thing you'll ever do," resident Thomas Nephew told the council. After he finished, he walked to the side of the room, and his 9-year-old daughter ran up and hugged him.

Before the vote, council member Terry Seamens added two amendments, including one aimed at other Maryland politicians. It calls for the city of Takoma Park to write letters to the Montgomery County Council, the county executive, the Maryland legislature and the governor asking them to consider adopting similar resolutions. ...

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jul 07 - 12:08 PM

Group looks to impeach Bush




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ROSEBURG (Oregon): A group of Roseburg area residents met Friday to form a committee to call on members of Congress to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Group organizers said Bush and Cheney have failed to obey their oaths to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

They said the group was formed to educate people on the impeachment process and to urge representatives in Washington to seek impeachment of the nation's two highest-ranking officials.

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Dickey
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 01:33 AM

What was the advertisement for Amos? Are you too lazy to clip the bullshit out of your cut and pastes so as not to waste bandwidth or are you just too good?

Hey by the way the Democrats are never going to impeach and remove Bush cause they don't have the guts to deal with fulfilling ther rhetoric about withdrawing from Iraq so you and Tacoma Park can work your fingers to the bone about impeachment gut all you are going to get are boney fingers.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Dickey
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 01:38 AM

Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and dozens of supporters were arrested at the Rayburn House office building in Washington DC on Monday following an hour-long meeting with Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan.

Sheehan and others came to the offices to meet with Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to demand he initiate impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. When Conyers indicated he would not begin such proceedings and the protesters refused to leave, an estimated 47 were led away in plastic handcuffs by Capital Police.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jul 07 - 03:10 PM

"There is absolutely no sane or defensible reason for you to hand Bloody King George more money to condemn more of our brave, tired, and damaged soldiers and the people of Iraq to more death and carnage. You think giving him more money is politically expedient, but it is a moral abomination and every second the occupation of Iraq endures, you all have more blood on your hands."

..."So, Democratic Congress, with the current daily death toll of 3.72 troops per day, you have condemned 473 more to these early graves. 473 more lives wasted for your political greed: Thousands of broken hearts because of your cowardice and avarice. How can you even go to sleep at night or look at yourselves in a mirror? How do you put behind you the screaming mothers on both sides of the conflict? How does the agony you have created escape you? It will never escape me...I can't run far enough or hide well enough to get away from it."

(Excerpt from a speech by Cindy Sheehan).

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How about you, Dickey-boy? Which of the perfumes of Arabia do you use to cleanse your wee hands for your complicity in the slaughter of your own species? Or do you manage to not hear the mothers' screams and the tears of children caught in crossfires? Do you shut out, too, the wounded minds of those forced into brutality beyond their worst imaginings by decisions of convenience, made by men far away in comfortable office suites?

Shame.


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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Dickey
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 10:39 AM

Mr educated Amos:

If your cause is so just, why do you need to use such ridiculous rhetoric?

Bloody King George? You should listen to yourself some times.

The Democrats can stop this war anytime they want by cutting off the money.

Why haven't they done it?

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 10:50 AM

"People don't see the monstrosity that Bush is fighting since he is seen as dumb and ineffectual.



Believe me...people see the monstrosity more clearly every day.


Military intervention and subverting the US Constitution will only aggresively FEED the monstrosity. It will however feed the military industrial base in the US while starving infrastructure and citizens.

There are powerful means to STARVE the monstrosity.
Leadership that recognizes the need to implement stratagies to starve the monstrosity are required NOW not later.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Teribus
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 10:51 AM

Where the hell was Cindy Sheehan, Amos and all the fellow travellers when Saddam was operating at full tilt? 3.72 dead per day? You lot obviously did not manage to hear the mothers' screams and the tears of children caught by Saddam, or his sons. 3.72 per day!! - Saddam's average over 24 years ran to somewhere between 154 per day and 282 per day depending on what figures you use.

You lot only get roused up and interested in defending the high moral ground only if you can beat the current President and his administration about the ears with it - strangely silent on everything else - Darfur being a bloody good example.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 11:16 AM

Teribus:

I have not been silent on Darfur.

Your outraged generalizations do not address the question. You are clearly a man who believes deeply in war.

The fundamental psychosis of the proposition itself escapes you, because you are embedded in the mindset it feeds on. The idea that violence is an absolute last resort, and that there is an urgent need to discover other means than the ratrace of destructive force to handle the human problem.

As long as you are embedded in this sorry and desperate condition,
your bitterness about those who would strongly prefer a better approach will not subside, and your conversational skills will suffer accordingly.

A

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 11:44 AM

Transcript of a deep conversation with Bill Moyers on questions surrounding the impeachment issue can be found here.

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 11:54 AM

"When "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert asked, "Isn't this futile?" (sounding every bit like the arbiter of inside-the-beltway realism that he is), Feingold spoke eloquently of the need to set the historical record straight. What message does it send, he asked, if elected representatives do not hold accountable a President and Vice President who have used mistruths, spin, manipulated intelligence reports and fear to drag this country into a war that is the most colossal foreign policy mistake in our history? What message does it send if we do not hold them accountable for weakening our security through relentless assaults on the rule of law on which our country was founded?

History must therefore record, Feingold argued, that when faced with an administration which doesn't recognize or respect the separation of powers, which perpetually acts as if the executive branch is above the laws of our nation, the people and their elected officials stood up and demanded accountability.

While Feingold believes that Bush and Cheney have committed what our Founding Fathers would have thought of as "high crimes and misdemeanors," at this time he does not believe it is in the nation's best interest to put important issues confronting our country on the back burner to go through months of a divisive impeachment process. That is a view shared by many progressives.

At the same time, however, a growing majority of the country disagrees — in fact, a majority believe Cheney should be impeached. And many progressives as well as conservatives — including Bruce Fein, former Reagan Justice Department official — make a coherent and impassioned case for the value of pursuing the impeachment process. The case for impeachment was given the airtime it richly deserves in an extraordinary July 13 Bill Moyer's Journal, program featuring The Nation's John Nichols in conversation with Fein.

Feingold needs citizens' help to develop and push these resolutions forward. E-mail your representatives, bombard them with your appeals and demands that they stop this White House from shredding the Constitution and, as Feingold puts it, "thumbing their noses at the American people." "


CBS News opinion article)

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Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Jul 07 - 12:04 PM

No argument there - of course its all Cindy's fault except when its all Bill's fault.


ya know ya gotta move past fault with real action. The kind of action that Reagan took when he cut and ran from Lebanon

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 09:10 AM

From Dallas:

"It looks like our Democrats in Congress may finally move to impeach Bush and Cheney. Have they come to realize that it is their responsibility to uphold the Constitution? That our Constitution is more important than political strategies or the next election? Or are they just hearing from enough of us that enough is enough?

The excesses of the current administration will not be cured by electing a new president in 2008. If we don't correct the balance of power and restore our freedoms now, the opportunity will be lost.

Even my self-proclaimed "conservative" relatives (including one currently serving our country in Iraq) understand this.

They are horrified by the prospect that the precedents set by this administration (lying, spying, obstructing justice) will persist like a cancer, coming out of remission at the convenience of future executives.

The framers of the Constitution gave Congress the tools of impeachment and the power of the purse for good reason. They fully expected the executive branch to try to grab more than its share of power. In so far neglecting to employ either tool to rein in Bush and Cheney, Congress has become complicit in their tyranny.

-- Lisanne Pearcy, Dallas"

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From West Hollywood:

The City Council's resolution cites abuses of power and other misdeeds. Some residents say they should have been consulted first.
By Ari B. Bloomekatz, Times Staff Writer
July 22, 2007


The White House is more than 2,600 miles from West Hollywood, a distance emblematic of how far left the progressive city is compared with elected leaders running the nation on Pennsylvania Avenue.


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FOR THE RECORD:
Impeachment: An article in Sunday's California section about 80 cities around the United States passing resolutions calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney misspelled the name of Arcata, Calif., as Arcada. —

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Last week the distance came into focus as West Hollywood officials made their city the first in Southern California to pass a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

West Hollywood was the 80th city or township in the nation to pass such a declaration, following similar actions in Michigan, Ohio and Vermont as well as six cities in Northern California, including Arcada and Eureka.

Citing perceived abuses of power and constitutional transgressions, such as domestic wiretapping and torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, the City Council passed the resolution unanimously Monday.

Mayor John J. Duran said he thought it was his civic responsibility to hold elected officials responsible for what he called egregious crimes.

"Someday I know I'll look back and I'll be satisfied that when I thought the Constitution was in peril, I took some action rather than just sat passively by," Duran said.

He hopes the Santa Monica and Beverly Hills councils will follow suit, increasing pressure on Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) to take action in Congress.
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From Kamsas City, Missouri:

"By Jamilah Nasheed

Nasheed I, along with Rep. Jeanettte Mott Oxford in the Missouri House, agree with the "Impeach" billboard in the middle of the wheat field, described in a July 15 article by Steve Kraske. No U.S. president and vice president have ever deserved impeachment as much as President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Many Democratic colleagues at the state and federal level argue that it is better not to impeach our highest elected officials so the GOP will continue to stumble along without the unity that impeachment might produce. We, however, are a part of a growing consensus, broader than our party, that says the values of the U.S. Constitution should not be sacrificed to political strategy.

How can we not call for impeachment? Bush and/or Cheney have:

•Carried out a massive propaganda campaign with distorted information about weapons of mass destruction and supposed al-Qaida connections in order to drag our nation into an unnecessary war, putting our men and women in uniform in harm's way without just cause;

•Endorsed policies of torture in contravention of federal statutes and treaties;

•Engineered a warrantless domestic surveillance program targeting American citizens on American soil, violating the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act;

•Helped leaked the identity and intelligence agency employment of Valerie Plame through Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby because her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had questioned the administration's evidence regarding weapons of mass destruction (and then commuted Libby's jail time).

This spring, we filed House Concurrent Resolution 46 calling on Congress to investigate whether there are grounds to impeach Bush and Cheney and remove them from office.

Rep. Oxford and I were joined by co-sponsors Reps. Shalonn "Kiki" Curls, Leonard "Jonas" Hughes, Beth Low, Jenee Lowe and Mike Talboy of Kansas City and Rep. Tony George of St. Louis County. Unfortunately, House Speaker Rod Jetton refused to assign our resolution to committee until the final day of the legislative session, so it did not get the hearing that this serious issue deserves."...

From Telluride, Colorado:

TELLURIDE, Colo. — Telluride Town Council members have voted 6-1 to call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

If the measure survives a second reading Aug. 7, it would become the town's official position.

Community leaders said they had endured criticism from near and far following last week's vote, but at least one council member said that was because people do not understand the town's home-rule municipality...."

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Dickey
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 09:59 AM

Where the hell is Cindy Sheehan, Amos and all the fellow travellers when 46 million human lives per year are terminated on purpose?

3,700 per day right here in the US.

With one more pull, he could easily deliver the child's head, but that would defeat the contract. The contract is to deliver a dead baby. He then turns the child's body so that the nose is facing the mother's tailbone. At this stage this baby is kicking, moving its arms and has likely urinated. Now the abortionist, with two fingers, retracts the vaginal ring at the base of the skull, and then plunges a scissors into the neck at the base of the skull. This injures or severs the spinal cord and results in instant decerebrate rigidity, that is, a spastic arching of the back and spastic extension of all four extremities. He then spreads the blades of the scissors and threads a large bore catheter between them and up into the skull. Attaching this to a powerful suction, he sucks out the brains. This kills the baby and with one more gentle pull, he delivers the head.

Almost universally we have read that the brains are sucked out "in order to collapse the skull so that it may be delivered." This is simply incorrect. This is not done to collapse the skull. This is done to kill the baby.

Subject: RE: BS: A Declaration of Impeachment
From: Amos
Date: 27 Jul 07 - 10:18 AM

My goodness, Mister Dickey, I had no IDEA you were such a vessel of compassion concerning human life! Are you a Buddhist at heart? Or are you more of a Fish and Game sort of lover of life -- once they get above a certain size, anything goes?

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