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Over 100,000 people have signed the Impeach Bush petition.
Submitted August 7, 2008
Last week, Congressman Dennis Kucinich delivered a petition bearing more than 100,000 names to the Speaker of the House urging that impeachment proceedings begin into the conduct of President Bush. In a special video message (click here), Dennis is asking for your help to deliver an even more powerful message to Congress when it reconvenes in September.
With new disclosures that the Administration tried to "cook the books at the CIA" by creating a phony, forged link between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, "We cannot step back and let this President escape accountability."
If you have already signed the impeachment petition at www.kucinich.us, thank you. If you haven't, please do. And, in the next few weeks, please ask just one more person to sign so we can let the members of Congress hear our collective demand that they meet their obligation to uphold the Constitution.
Video by Chad Ely Submitted August 7, 2008 ... more -
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congresss to Stand Up and Check the Balance
In exactly two weeks, we are going to find out whether members of Congress have any respect for the institution they represent. We will see whether they have the courage to stand up to the Bush administration and defend the Constitution they took an oath to protect. Specifically, we will discover whether they are willing to take the measures necessary to ensure that Bush administration officials testify before Congress.
On July 10, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to investigate the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006 and the questionable prosecution and imprisonment of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman. Karl Rove, a potentially key figure in both incidents, has been issued a subpoena to testify before the committee. Rove's lawyer has said that Rove will not appear.
Congress has a few options here. First, if Rove fails to appear, they could pass criminal contempt charges against him, as they did against White House chief of staff Josh Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers. This is good, but will not result in immediate testimony.
The second option is to have Karl Rove arrested, under the theory of inherent contempt, and brought to Congress to testify. This is better, but may still be eventually unsatisfying if Rove ends up testifying yet asserts executive privilege repeatedly in order to avoid disclosing important information.
Another option - and the one supported by the American Freedom Campaign Action Fund - is to tell the president immediately that he will be impeached if members of his administration do not provide full testimony before Congress by a date certain in July. This has historical precedent as one of the three articles of impeachment ultimately brought against President Richard Nixon was based on his refusal to comply with congressional subpoenas.
The final option is to do nothing and set a precedent for the future by which any administration can claim that Congress does not have the ability to force executive branch officials to testify before Congress. This would be an affront to our Constitution and Congress is dancing perilously close to this line already.
We cannot allow Congress to become subservient to the executive branch. It must exert its oversight authority and force administration officials to testify. Please tell your U.S. representative to take whatever steps are necessary to compel testimony.
Thank you for sharing your feelings with your U.S. representative.
Steve
Steve Fox
Campaign Director
American Freedom Campaign Action Fund
I got the email a week ago. Sign petitions, send emails, and mail letters. heres links to legislators and bills.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
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http://catalog.loc.gov/ In exactly two weeks, we are going to find out whether members of Congress have any respect for the institution they represent. We wi... more -
Congressman Robert Wexlar's Calls For Impeachment Of George W. Bush Are Being...
Mainstream media is blocking calls impeachment from the floors of the United States Senate and The United States House of Representatives. Who does control the media ? Why isn't the vast majority of the public even remotely aware of these facts ? What is the extent of Goerge Bush's presidential executive priviledges ? How can the president and his vice president, Dick Chaney refuse to testify ? Image what would have happened if the former president, Bill Clinton, had refuse to testify in his impeachment hearings ? Where is the rage against this machine ? Mainstream media is blocking calls impeachment from the floors of the United States Senate and The United States House of Representati... more
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The Education of George W. Bush
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, June 12, 2008; 1:25 PM
President Bush's slow and painful schooling in constitutional law continued today as the Supreme Court ruled for the third time in four years that he had violated a basic precept of the American legal system.
The court ruled 5-4 that Bush cannot deny prisoners at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detentions in federal district court. Some of them have been held already -- without charges -- for more than six years.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, determined that the prisoners in the U.S.-run facility "have the constitutional privilege of habeas corpus. . . ."
(In other words, BushCo broke the law.)
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The Supreme Court decision was close -- one vote made the difference. And the dissent was bitter. Mark Sherman writes for the Associated Press: "In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called 'the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants.'
"Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas also dissented.
(One. Fucking. Vote. AAAARGH!)
"Scalia said the nation is 'at war with radical Islamists' and that the court's decision 'will make the war harder on us. It will almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.'"
(No. The invasion and occupation of a nation which did not pose a threat to us is what's going to almost certainly cause more Americans to be killed.)
Full piece available at link.
Man, I dig that Mr. Froomkin. By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Thursday, June 12, 2008; 1:25 PM ... more -
How to create an angry American
High treason... this adds credence to the idea that the powers that be do whatever they want at will and with impunity; adding credence to the fact that the U.S. Government doesn't give a damn about humanity or anyone's "rights". George Carlin's assertion that "it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it" seems especially true when these "officials" are called out and Congress doesn't freakn move! High treason... this adds credence to the idea that the powers that be do whatever they want at will and with impunity; adding credenc... more
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Call to ACTION! John Conyers Considers Cheney Impeachment Hearings
Let's all thank Mukasey for being a King sized JERK... This is an email I recieved from Democrats.com. SIgn the Petition, and CALL CONYERS! (While you're calling, show your support for HR 676!!)
Conyers Considers Cheney Impeachment Hearings
On Thursday, Chairman John Conyers' House Judiciary Committee held a hearing at which Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that he would not investigate torture or warrantless spying, he would not enforce contempt citations, and he would treat Justice Department opinions as providing immunity for crimes.
None of this was new, but perhaps it touched something in Conyers that had not been touched before. Following the hearing, he and two staffers met for over an hour with two members of Code Pink and discussed activism and impeachment, including Congressman Robert Wexler's proposal to begin impeachment hearings on Cheney.
Conyers expressed his concerns about what might happen following an impeachment, the danger of installing a Bush replacement or losing an election. But he said he's listening to several advocates for impeachment, including Liz Holtzman and David Swanson of Democrats.com. He hinted he could be swayed by a convincing argument, leaning out of his chair for dramatic effect.
So let's help Chairman John Conyers decide! We know Conyers agrees with all of us on the legal grounds for impeachment because he made this case himself in his 2006 book, "The Constitution in Crisis." Where Conyers needs persuasion is on the politics of impeachment, so we have addressed his concerns here:
http://www.democrats.com/conyers-start-impeachment-hear...
We'd like you to email Conyers (and other Judiciary Committee Democrats) with the link above, but please don't stop there.
1. Call his office at 202-225-5126 and say you would like him to begin Cheney impeachment hearings immediately. Tell him the hearings must be on impeachment because that's the only way to force the White House to comply with Congressional subpoenas. The phone in his office was reportedly ringing once every second, 60 times per minute, all day long on Monday. Let's ring it faster on Tuesday.
2. Print our petition
http://www.democrats.com/node/15663/print
and fax it to Conyers at 202-225-0072 with your name and address at the end.
3. Urge your Representative and Senators to sign onto Congressman Robert Wexler's letter to Conyers (which he plans to deliver on Friday) here:
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/125
We know we're asking a lot, but we're not alone - our friends from Code Pink are fasting for impeachment and meeting with Conyers on Tuesday to discuss opening Cheney impeachment hearings.
Want to do more? Start planning now to visit your congress member's office when they're back in their district between February 16th and 24th. Find ideas here:
http://impeachcheney.org
Join (or create) your Congressional District Impeachment Committee:
http://democrats.com/cdic-find Let's all thank Mukasey for being a King sized JERK... This is an email I recieved from Democrats.com. SIgn the Petition, and CA... more
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