100K Signatures for Impeachment Delivered to Pelosi
By bluegal Thursday Aug 07, 2008 11:00am
From Kucinich.us:
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. ...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."
Baltimore Chronicle & Sentinel (Dave Lindorff):
The dramatic hearing on presidential crimes and abuses of power held on Friday by the House Judiciary Committee was both a staged farce, and at the same time, a powerful demonstration of the power of a grassroots movement in defense of the Constitution. It was at once both testimony to the cowardice and self-inflicted impotence of Congress and of the Democratic Party that technically controls that body, and to the enormity of the damage that has been wrought to the nation’s democracy by two aspiring tyrants in the White House.
[Most mainstream media outlets] have blacked out news of impeachment. Incredibly, the New York Times, for example, has not even reported on Friday’s hearing, even as a news “brief.” Those news organizations, like the Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer, that did report on the hearings did so only in short, inside articles. Though the hearing was aired in full on C-Span (and is still available for download), many Americans don’t even know it happened.
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If only someone could prove to Nancy something illegal happened
IMPEACH HIM ALREADY!
Yay! The site is back up... I tried getting here with Firefox and IE and wasn't getting through.
Impeach the bastards!
I guess I didn't notice the exact moment it happened - can anyone tell me exactly when Congress was castrated?
Someone needs to give Pelosi a copy of Suskind's new book.
During the recent Judiciary Committee hearing on the Constitutional Limits of Executive Power, I think it was Rep. Steve King that tried to introduce the "Habash Letter" and an article about the transport of yellowcake uranium to Canada as evidence that Congress wasn't mislead. Washington already knew that the yellowcake was well-documented and left over from the first Gulf War and not in Saddam's control, but now even the letter about the yellowcake deal and Atta's Iraqi training - probably the only piece of "evidence" they ever had - has proven to be as fake and manipulated as the info in the Security White Paper delivered to Congress.
I hope this info can be entered into the evidence of that hearing alongside Rep. King's pathetic attempt to defend this criminal administration.
For all the "junk" out there about Hillary and Bill (why don't the idiots stop poking a stick at him?)...it's Reid and Pelosi who are the annoying DEMS I'd love to see LONG GONE...perhaps they would have been with Hillary as candidate...but not so much Obama who will be made to believe he can't do it without them...200 MILLION signatures wouldn't budge that "bitch"...and Bush will walk away with his life in tact after destroying it for so many others...PITIFUL!!
sorry, but Russia has just invaded Georgia with hundreds of tanks
shooting at civilians in the streets.
Impeachment will become a side show.....if it happens at all.
Pelosi also needs to check the Clinton's....those two shitty losers are trying to fuck things up again.
Accountability Now/Strange Bedfellows money bomb is today, please help out and donate if you can.
The link is to Glenn Greenwald's Salon article about it. There is a link to donate from there.
100k wont be enough to budge her. more like 10 mil sigs from San Fran county to get her to even think about impeachment. Vote for Cindy Sheehan and get this traitor out of office!
Pelosi knows there will be no election in November and that martial law is coming. She has probably been promised some position once the facists unveil their true intents.
Is there any info out there about PREVENTING Chimpy McCodpiece from issuing blanket pardons to himself and his criminal cabal?
Seems to me like I "heard something" about a Preznit under an ongoing indictment could NOT issue Presidential Pardons....but I'd sure like to know if there's a way to head off such bullshit.
Because the NYT is part of the corporate media protecting this president. The myth of it being "liberal" is debunked for good.
I don't think anything is going to happen to our idiot in Chief. Then again, that's what my father said when the Watergate burglary took place. I'm in!
God bless Kucinich!
Kucinish left the impeachment petition on the table for Pelosi, but she accidentally knocked it off in her rush to go on vacation.
Kucinich is the man, I singed a while back. Must just be Coincidence Crooks and Liars post this and the web site starts having problems. They wrecked the internet too people.
God Bless America we need to keep em stupid, good job Nazi American Freaks, keep up the good work. You are gonna bring civil war so mach faster, thanks.
Kucinich Rocks! He is one of the only congressmen I really respect on either side of the aisle. If only there were more like him, our country would be moving in a much better direction.
6 oraknabo
Says: Someone needs to give Pelosi a copy of Suskind’s new book.
Perhaps a copy of the Constitution would be better except for the parts that the Bush Administration have redacted.
Where is my comment?
The link to the hearing is not working for me.
good luck with that, dude...
Way to go Koooooch!!!!!
And a big ol' FUCK YOU to the MSM for blacking it out! Complicit much?
The State of Texas executed another non-American citizen today while Bush and Laura sat in Bird's Nest Stadium enjoying the Olympic opening ceremony.
I just have to wonder how corrupt and contemptuous of the laws of this land a president would have to be for Nancy Pelosi to suddenly do the job that she swore that she would do as a U.S. representative and Speaker? Or is she as corrupt and contemptuous as Bush and Cheney?
i'm certainly not sure and i don't think any of us are....but if we push this.. bush may attack iran....it seems over the top.......but after listening to suskind...i believe they are capable of anything. there's no moral compass in the white house
First I've heard.
Getting a blowjob from a consenting intern and having wife who gives "a wink and a nod" to your extramarital gymnastics...impeachment.
Fucking over the American public and the Constitution...no problem.
I'm sure if the 100,000 names (mine included!) had been $100,000 contributions Dennis might have gotten Nancy's attention.
I obviously support this whole heartedly but am certain the criminal branch of the government will never see any sort of justice in the US. Me? I'm hoping The Hague will eventually get these bastids on the docket.
Yes my comment is missing too. Strange coincidence isn't it. All Hail Bush and the Moron 20 percenters that controll all our info and free speach. This is not the place for political discusion, Only place you can discus politics is in your bathroom taking a shower while flushing the toilet and the exaust fan has to running with nobody home even your neigbors , then only then you can discus politics.
unless ofcoarse its pro nazi american, corporate facist, oil loving, god freaks, then you can say what ever you want when ever. :P
http://speaker.house.gov/contact/
If you have not already signed the petition, you may contact Ms. Pelosi at the link above.
Yea, the freedome facists seem to be in full force today, wonder why.
Welcome back C&L! Did Ted Stevens put something in the tubes here?
Has Nancy shredded the signatures yet?
"[Most mainstream media outlets] have blacked out news of impeachment."
The media is just being even handed and fair. They know that, just like the Clinton impeachment hearings, nothing is going to come of it. Oh, there were a few page 6 references in the tabloids to Clinton's hummer. But the serious mainstream media largely ignored it because they knew that nothing was going to come of the hearings. Why? Because only a Party populated by narrow, mean, small minded, hypocritical, sexually deviant imbeciles would proceed with an actual impeachment against President Clinton on such superficial and silly charges.
(I snark, of course.)
The main question to ask yourself is why do you want him impeached?
If your objective is to make a statement for history to note that this administration went beyond failed stewardship to extreme malfeasance, then I would say you have a valid cause.
If you actually believe that it will result in his eviction from office then your reality check just bounced.
The situation with this administration is that you have to get rid of both Bush and Cheney. The republican members of congress will resist with all their republican tactics the branding of a republican administration as bad. Furthermore if you think they would allow a Democrat to become president as a result of action by the legislative branch you’re smoking powerful stuff.
And even further-furthermore, if by some stretch of the imagination they would consider allowing a Democrat to become president, they have put a lot of effort to make Nancy Pelosi and her San Francisco values a pariah to their constituents.
GOP smears Obama through emails (I've gotten 37)
Why don't we do an impeachment email?
With millions of Dem's this year why only 100k?
Separately blogs have their own followers but if
KOS, C&L, MY DD and well where ever you blog need to come together for total domination.
if every member on every progressive site comes together it will reach millions
If they don't do it, as we all know, history will judge them at least as harshly as it will GWB.
"He never would have gotten away with it, had it not been for the craven cowards and feckless enablers of the US congress and senate, whom, at every turn, abdicated their responsibility to the Constitution and the American people.
The resulting damage to our political process festered for decades, and was subsequently abused by several more presidents."
Hot Holy Crap---WTF is this woman waitng for?
Left&Left @ 9:
How so?
We`ll get another 100,000,then another 100,000 and so on.Go to Kusinich.us and send the link to your friends,relatives,and enemies.Send it to your newspapers.We don`t have to expose these criminals,they have exposed themselves;we have to let people know that we don`t fear them and we`re tired of criminals in the White House.
lucid fiction , fiction is correct. It's the Georgians who've been shooting at the civilians in the street. The city tried to seccede from Georgia. Georiga surrounded the city with troops. The Russians crossed the border and attacked the Georgians.
Now back to IMPEACHMENT NOW!
Thank you, Barack Obama for your appearance in Berlin two weeks ago. Since you made that speach, the US dollar has rallied steadily against the Euro and is predicted to continue strengthening. The word in Europe is that the dollar declined because the Euro bankers wanted to stick it to Bush while that fool was in office. Now that they approve of Obama, they can get back to selling Mercedes to Americans.
At this late date, there will be no impeachment proceedings. The Dem leadership is too complicit in the Bush crimes to have them investigated. The Bushies were smart to have included them in closed-door, classified hearings about the war, wiretapping and torture. They knew what was happening and bringing down BushCo would include themselves.
impeach Bush now, lose federal election.
It's interesting to compare the media's wall-to-wall coverage of the Clinton impeachment hearings with the non-coverage of Bush impeachment. Of course for the media, sex sells, while upholding the rule of law and defending the constitution does not.
We need to dump Pelosi. She can't even sell books.
Cindy Sheehan is running against Pelosi in the November election.
Donate to her at www.cindyforcongress.org/
Send a message to Washington!!
Impeachment for Bush and Cheney is long overdue.
Communications to Geroge Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, John McBush, Lindsay Graham, Joe Liberman, (the rest of the 'gang of nine'), OR Nancy Pelosi is like chasing a fart in a wind storm!
35 -john j
It would be easier with Obama's million's of donors list. Just he's being all delicate about it impeachment
but we do have plenty of progressive sites and blogs that collect contact info
1 Site might have 100-250-800-1,200-2,000
Together we could reach a million easy
I thought repugs couldn't cook anything.
They just hire an illegal house-maid.
Too little, too late. The Dems should have been on the ball the moment they seized control.
To attempt impeachment now would be the best way to kiss the Whitehouse and a stronger majority goodbye.
Pelosi knows this.
Pelosi = GOP
Impeachment = Not Happening
Get Over It. If the Democrats were ever going to do the right thing, they'd have have done it by now.
Write Nancy a letter (snail mail version) and send one to Kucinich and your own reps. I think 100,000 letters delivered to Ms Pelosi via a couple of mail trucks would be a big impact! And besides, the post office needs the revenue...
pete592 @ 51:
Explain.
Rove'sBrain @ 46:
At this point I'd support paris hilton if she was running against pelosi.
i can't say 'thank you' enough to dennis. but, i'll say it again: thank you dennis
america thanks you (even the ones too lazy or ignorant to realize how much they SHOULD be thanking you yet aren't).
i would make one suggestion though: keep the petition going. 100k is awesome, but let it grow. hit 1 million, 5 million, 10 million, etc. if the rulers won't act the people will (or should).
compliciti-pelosi must be feeling pretty bushian these days. i wonder how it feels to be a bush enabler and protector?
39 Peter G
He's just pissed because Hillary is talking on the 2nd night of the convention and Bill the third.
Their people are still working with Obama's people whether and how to remove her name from the national convention ballots. By doing nothing, the name would stay on.
it has to reach the masses....it needs coverage on the idiot box.....they had plenty of idiot box coverage on clinton....it took the evangelical demographic from watching judge judy.
in addition to that bush and/or cheney have a sharp object pushed up against her back if she(n.p) proceeds.
Impeach Bush? The darling of the corporate oligarchs? Can we say corporate censorship? The corporations now own the US. The MSM is controled by only 6 companies, what little news we get from the networks(out of the 22 min that they have, you only get "news" until the first commercial break, unless they have a story on Obama-bad or McCain-good. Nothing happens in the rest of the world, What's a durfur?(yes I know I mispelled it, on purpose to make a point-in these times one must spell out everything)where is Iraq-heard anything in the news lately?) We have to be the most ignorant people in the world, and we allow the corporations to continue to misinform us. Bunch of sheeple, except that here, the wolves are acting as the sheepdogs-and shortly they won't even bother trying to hide what they are. As an old fart, I won't have to live thru the next 50 years, I feel sorry for those of you who are under 30, you are going to have a very hard life because of the fact that the corporate oligarchs now control the US-not just the govt, but everything. Consume more! Buy more! borrow more! Get more credit cards! Become a debt slave-that is your future!
Let me guess, she blinked herself into a seizure, or better yet, she was doing that Matrix thing where they get instructions downloaded into their brains except instead of gaining a new skill they were just instructions from cheney to keep obstructing justice.
Go to kucinich.us,copy the link send it to all your friends,relatives,and enemies as well as your newspapers and news outlets;then we`ll see what happens when congress returns
George@53 has a good idea,too
Pelosi's to busy right now out on tour promoting her book to deal with the Nations business. No doubt the main reason she was in so much in a hurry to turn out the lights and split town.
Maybe C&L ought to consider running Viagra ads
To help keep the site up.
Considering Pelosi wasted the best opportunity to do this, in 2006 or 2007, instead of now, when his term's reaching the bottom of the barrel, I doubt even 200 million signatures would matter, unfortunately.
Pelosi is worried about her own criminal complicity (torture).She is a disgrace to her office.
Like that will help when the nominee is an "Off the Table", "compromising", triangulating, 95% Hillary kinda guy.
Paleeze.
Ron @ 54:
Political fallout. Public disenchantment. The well-connected, well-financed right-wing slime machine of professional liars using the control they have over the message to portray the Democrats as petty and vengeful.
I'm not saying tossing impeachment aside is right or just. I'm saying it is very costly politically.
@ 35 Don Webber.
Yes the rule of law and the constitution, the thing that holds our country together , the thing that makes us the best, the greatest, the most prosperous country on the planet.
Notice; The country isn't doing so well at the moment(in REALITY) , wonder if maybe possibly it has something to do with raping down the constitution?
For almost 100 years the congress and senate in coperation with the executive has been tearing the country apart for corporate profits, they use any one for money, the organized christians are the most easily fooled and bought off in this country. I am christian myself but unlike most christian I have a brain and use my free will to think........................sad
I thank the internet for exposing this to me, too bad it is gone now.
pete592 @ 67:
If it were to happen, the MSM would have to cover the investigations and it would open the eyes of the voters. I don't see that as a bad thing. Most are in the dark. Impeachment investigations would enlighten them.
Number 67 said
"Political fallout. Public disenchantment. The well-connected, well-financed right-wing slime machine of professional liars using the control they have over the message to portray the Democrats as petty and vengeful.
I’m not saying tossing impeachment aside is right or just. I’m saying it is very costly politically."
Are you serious ? So NO Crimes should go unchallenged or noticed- we are talking HUGE Hugh Crimes- Crimes that caused thousands to die - LIES * Coverups- worse than Nixon or any blowjob !!! and you think we should just move along....
Screw the Constitution? Screw ANY Justice ? ....
And Any Impeachment Evidence could also be used for War Crimes....
We all need to man up and face WHAT the Bush Regime DID to This Country, OUR Country and the world...and WE THE PEOPLE should not give them a pass or Pardon them ......not now or ever...
( oops in Number 70- I meant to say HIGH CRIMES..sorry)
There's no real point in having this done. Congress is so corrupt these days, that nothing will happen.
How george and dick destroyed America
So here we are, exactly in the place many of us thought we might get to. we are still engaged in a War of Choice against a country that was not a threat to us. We've Spent almost a Trillion US Dollars on that shit-hole of a war. We're just about bankrupt and borrowing heavily from the Chinese. We didn't do anything about Darfur (no oil there).
Now we have Georgia ( a heavily Western leaning Nation who favors the US being attacked and we really are impotent at this point in time.
This is the "bush legacy" (lower case intended), he has done with the USA what he did with all of his companies and his baseball team, ran them into ruin.
But even in the face of all this ruin Americans still seem to have a huge "Moron Factor" in that they seem to be leaning toward McCain who beats the same old drum that bush and cheney have over the last 7.6 years.
If America elects McCain, then they will deserve what they get, they will be on the road that bush has already started toward being a second rate world power. A kind of derelict with her own infrastructure crumbling. We used to be the leader of the free world in Science and Technology, now we are sliding backward on that also.
So ... Sorry Georgian people, all we can do is send someone over to pay lip service at this time.
Thanks george and dick, may you both die slow painful deaths.
Now I'm off to bed.
Bangkok Bob in Chiang Mai
Has anyone considered what will happen if we don't impeach and then lose the election?
empy @ 1:
Well, she's not that stupid but she clearly believes that we are. Impeachment doesn't happen after proof of high crimes and misdemeanors has been established. That's what happens in the Senate trial after the House forwards articles of impeachment to them. The impeachment proceedings in the House are akin to a grand jury proceeding wherein it is determined whether there is sufficient cause to warrant a trial.
Liberal AND Proud @ 28:
Yup and the world has taken very close note of what the US people allow their leaders to do and not.
Merkin @ 22:
Quite, this will never come to anything, the US is bought and paid for; And Bush and his cabal and very VERY rich.
Gotta love Kucinich. Heard he has Croatian roots, yay!
How nice of "our msn" to decide for us what news we need to know and what we don't. I shot my tv, right in the head and put it into a hole on the back forty with a stake in it's heart. I don't miss it a bit, I don't give a shit who's "lost" or how many times jack saves the country. I don't miss sleep wondering how someone who can't sing a lick gets past the pre-screeners and onto the show. I didn't even know matt was gone, let alone where he was. Of course their is a down side, I didn't get to look up "katies" ass for her cancer test, and I don't know what is "hot" and whats not. The "hottest" new band, dance, food, clothes, haircut, or new cancer fighting foods you should eat, why do you know that I don't even have a clue what kind of teeth whiter is best or that smoking pot leads you to shooting heron and the very gates of hell! Gee I guess I'am not "hip", I guess I'am "out of the loop". I'am free,I'am free, thank the magical being, I'am free!-CEO
Thank you, Crooks and Liars, for featuring Dennis Kucinich and his courageous pursuit to impeach the president. I protest on occasion that he doesn't get the kind of coverage that he and his causes deserve on your web site, but I certainly applaud you for this. Thank you!
And god bless you, Dennis Kucinich.
Time to "Restore America!"
Ron@69
you assume the msm would cover it. or cover it w/o skewing to favor the ruling class.
but, i agree with your sentiment. i think impeachment is REQUISITE. and nancy 'party before country' pelosi has let america down by shielding bush.
its just that i think the msm would barely cover it, and the coverage it would get would be of an exasperated/mocking sort.
Peter G @ 39:
Yeah...saw something about this on the daily show...didn't catch all of it. But it seemed they're trying to elbow their way into something.
Samson #79
I agree that their coverage would still be biased but, the public would at least be aware of the charges and can make their decisions from the evidence presented I don't think they will vote republican because of impeachment proceedings.
Stop looking to a person complicit in the cover up, for justice.
This political whore knew about the program from her time on the Senate Intel Committee.
Hell, she ran on a platform of reform and transparency in govt, got elected, then promptly
took impeachment off the table. That should tell you everything you need to know about
Nancy Pelosi and just how much her "word" counts for.
The reason is simple:
If she allowed impeachment proceedings, her part in all of this would be laid to bear
and we all know she's not going down that road.
Besides,she's got a book of garbage, lies and platitudes to sell, why on earth would she
waste her valuable time on doing her job?
Well, if I don't vote for Obama, I will probably write in Kucinich... I know that's about as futile as the cartoon about the last great act of defiance with the little mouse flipping off the approaching eagle or falcon or whatever it is... It's plainly clear now, Nancy has putzed away her chance at doing something great for the nation by playing Quisling to Bush's Hitler.... Looks like Dennis is the only one in that pathetic house who knows how to even try to 'set a table'.... All or most of the rest are shallow poseurs. I wish I thought he would be successful, but mad props to him for giving it a real attempt. History won't forget that Congressman Kucinich... You sir, are the only true patriot I have seen in offical office lately, all the rest are just the lowest form of consharks, or politicians, if you will..........J.D.
EarthAbides @ 12:
Jesus Christ I wish what you are saying is just a joke - but unfortunately I see this as a very distinct possibility. "When they kick at your front door, how ya gonna go? Shot down on the pavement or waiting in death-row?" History repeats itself and we are looking at a repeat of 1930s Germany happening right here in the U.S.
Bush could bite into the jugular of a new born baby on TV and Polosy still would block impeachment. She knew about the torture, she knew about the illeagal spying. She's just as much of a criminal as Bush and just as full of shit as he is.
liberalNmoderation @ 23:
What you said!!! The MSM does a crappy job of what its premise is in the first place... to let the people know what's going on. That task is being achieved by blogs like this one; my sincere thanks to John Amato, Nicolle Belle, Steve Benen, and all the others with the courage and smarts to contribute here. You all rock!!!!
If only our votes/signatures had any weight.
What DOES Ms. Pelosi consider an impeachable offense? Other than a blowjob, I mean.
Now, I read somewhere that if Bush is undergoing the impeachment process he CANNOT pardon anyone. Is this true? That ALONE would be reason enough.
Use Your Power To Force Impeach Hearings(or lose it forever)
"As John Dean points out, Bush/Cheney have broken the same laws Nixon did, only Nixon's actions did not cost the lives of over 4000 brave American men and women".
Bush and Cheney are the most impeachable US executives in American history. If the House Democrats do not hold impeachment hearings soon it will be plain to all that they are unworthy of their office.
The failure of the House Democrats to hold Bush and Cheney accountable for the WMD Lies is unforgiveable. The only way any Incumbent House Democrat will get my vote is to hold Impeachment Hearings prior to the election.
No matter what Bush/Cheney Crimes evidence comes out the House Democrats will try to ignore it. It is time for some tough love for Incumbent House Democrats.
How can we make Impeachment Hearings Happen?
Arrayed against impeachment literally, is nearly the entire Democratic Party establishment as well as most Republicans. But the Democrats control Congress and can start Impeachment Hearings with a simple majority vote. The Dems have the votes.
Most rank and file Democratic voters want Impeachment but are being ignored by the Democratic Congress.
In addition, many of the so called progressive organizations are also in lockstep with the House Democrats (such as: MoveOn, ACLU & UFPJ ) and are against impeachment. It will take a very hard fight to over come this and some real courage on the part of individual Democratic voters.
In Colorado we have actually been doing negative campaigning against all incumbent Democratic Congressmen who refuse even to discuss impeachment.
We have a Congressman Udall who is running to be a Senator from Colorado. He supposedly has a liberal background but is moving right as fast as he can. He avoids all protesters who want to stop the Iraq War funding and who support impeachment. The difficult aspect is that the Colorado Democratic Party, the Media, and most Colorado Progressive organizations are helping him avoid us.
Even so, the race for the US Senate from Colorado is statistically "too close to call", so we have a real chance to make a difference here. We believe that since the race is "so close" that we actually can stop Udall from winning and going to the Senate.
The way we are doing this is by doing "Negative Protesting" at our weekly impeachment events, at all of his public events and by constant "commenting" on all newspaper articles about Udall (nationwide). We only have to sway the vote of a very small percentage of voters to keep Udall out of the Senate. This is doable.
Up until about two weeks ago, the honking at our weekly events had quadrupled since January. Then we used much "tougher" anti-Udall language on our signs and the honking doubled again. So much so that the Denver Police came and threatened arrest if we continued to use "honk to impeach" signs and also threatened us with citations for "disturbing the peace". A strong indication that we are getting to the Democratic establishment and that the public is with us.
Regarding "commenting", after awhile you become somewhat adept at changing the subject of an article to relate it to Udall and why he shouldn't be a Senator from Colorado. It really stirs people up and gets the discussion going.
Given that impeachment advocates have worked hard to lobby Congress to hold hearings and have done so for many years with no results, we think it is time for all impeachment advocates to get tough with Incumbent House Democrats.
The House Democrats have ignored us for years. Unless we threaten to un-elect them with negative campaigning they will continue to ignore us. The only thing they care about is getting re-elected.
Unless Angry Liberal Democrats, Independents, Republicans, Greens and the rest of you get off the couch and carry signs in front of all Incumbent House Democratic Congressmen's offices with harsh language such as "UDALL is a Traitor to Our Constitution because he Refuses To Impeach"...
There Will Be No Impeachment.
It is up to you.
John H Kennedy, Denver CO, 43 yr Democratic voter,
Obama delegate to the Denver County Democratic Convention, organizer of the
IMPEACH COLORADO COALITION http://ImpeachCO.com
..
by John H Kennedy (6 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 86 comments) on Friday, August 8, 2008 at 9:42:50 AM
Push for impeachment now. one voice, nothing, a million voices in unison, action. it's time to impeach these pompous asses. Dennis was my candidate of choice and he still is. i will vote for obama, but dennis was no sellout for the vote.
Only one way to impeach... It has to be sexual misconduct, or an all out sex crime, all others needn't bother to be reported...
It could have been one million signatures for all of the effect it will have on Pelosi.
Kathy @ 89:
Not saying "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. That, and saying anything nasty about a Repub while in congressional session.
time to impeach pelosi
RECALL PELOSI!!!
Seriously, just do it!
If you're in her district, try to find other like minded people and get together a recall initiative.
Someone needs to hurry up and start a blog or group or something in the SF area to this affect. I go through Google and see lots of references to recalling her, but no official groups.
Get on it people! Time is short!
Indeed Quisling Pelosi....
As far as the M$M is concerned, meet the "Neo-Con" Pravda.
All fascist regimes seek nothing more than greed for the few and repression and poverty for the rest.
Pelosi is a corporatist puppet as is Bush, both are narcisstic, a-moral jack-asses who either sold their soul to the devil or never had one to start. As for Darth Vadar, he is basically a black-hole that would consume any object or energy source and leave a void.
pete592 @ 67:
I, for one, WILL NOT vote for any candidate that does not support impeachment. All this talk about political cost is ass-backwards. The cost of ignoring the Constitution will cost the Democratic party EVERYTHING.
I might be off-topic a bit here, but would like to comment on something included in this item, if I may.
"[Most mainstream media outlets] have blacked out news of impeachment. Incredibly, the New York Times, for example, has not even reported on Friday’s hearing, even as a news “brief.” Those news organizations, like the Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer, that did report on the hearings did so only in short, inside articles. Though the hearing was aired in full on C-Span (and is still available for download), many Americans don’t even know it happened."
I would expect newspapers in oh, say Russia, to purge items that the might cast aspersions on their government, but it's something I NEVER would have expected from the American media. Do they think we're stupid and unaware that the truth - the whole truth - is out there in cyberspace for all to see? The vast majority of our citizens can get ALL the news from the Internet rather than the few crumbs of news the Editors choose to throw us. Actually, even when they do throw us something, it's a day late, to boot!
Of course, if Dick Cheney was told that 99% of the country wants him and Bush impeached, he would just say, "So?"
Mere impeachment? Too late. Think War Crimes Trials, think prosecution for Murder. Then you get to send the bastards to jail.
The dogs bark but the caravan passes.
IMPEACH ALREADY
Kucinich who? Oh, right. That guy who deserved to be the Democratic nominee for president but was too short--literally. Nice effort, Crooks and Liars, but you backed the mainstream a@#holes from day one.
Any bets that those 100,000 names end up on the no fly list?
Pelosi's in a bad position. More so when she became speaker, but no doubt it's hard for her to get out of that mindset.
I'm not making excuses for her in any way. The rule of law for everyone, including Presidents, pretender-governors illegally in office, etc. is more important. The constitution is more important, agreed.
Pelosi, when becoming SoTH, became 3rd in line for the presidency. At the time of the 2006 election, it was all over the news about how the people were sending a message to Congress, that major changes had to happen. If she endorsed impeachment then, she'd have been accused of maneuvering for the White House. Taking impeachment "off the table" cut off any speculation there.
She has said that she did it because impeachment proceedings would have made it impossible for Congress to have done any good (minimum wage, etc.), but those excuses lost any weight when they failed to end the Iraq war -- the ostensible reason for the 2006 election upset. The obvious concern was the political fallout of "miring the government in pointless procedure", giving Republicans the opening of accusing the of Democrats "political grandstanding", and "not caring about doing their jobs" as everyday politicians 'should'.
The saddest part is that this attitude will continue. Assuming Obama wins the election (all things being equal, he should -- but since when has that been the case?) and Democrats can improve their numbers in both sides of Congress, it's still unlikely they'll proceed with any actual criminal proceedings/prosecution. Why? Not just political fallout, not just fear of Republican name-calling.
You're going to hear things like, "It's over, we want to fix the problems they caused", "I'd rather look toward the future, than dwell on the past", and "there are more important things to do for the people than bother with all this procedure". I wouldn't even be surprised to hear Obama say something to this effect between November 3rd and February 28, 2009.
Very few elected officials in DC really understand that, if the people are educated on the facts, they'll agree high crimes and misdemeanors have been perpetrated. The public learns when the media continually inundates them with reporting the news. The people didn't buy that Nixon or his staff were guilty of any wrongdoing until the hearings began. Some did, before the fact. Some didn't, even after the fact (e.g.: Cheney). But overwhelming public opinion changed.
Public opinion is already down for this administration. Sure, it's lower for Congress (if you believe the skewed reporting of parts of the polls), but from the bottom, the only way to go is up. "It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." - Tyler Durden
.....Bush could bite into the jugular of a new born baby on TV and Polosy still would block impeachment. She knew about the torture, she knew about the illeagal spying. She’s just as much of a criminal as Bush and just as full of shit as he is......
86 -- Chris. Maybe Pelosi has a boyfriend.
The Hague.
We have spent the last 8 years watching our freedoms and liberties taken away from us by an Administration that did so with a sparkle in their eye. They have taken the Constitution and dismissed it as what the faceless Americans must follow, but not the politicians. And we have witnessed the outing of a CIA operative, which that alone should put them all in prison.
We found out much too late that no one in their upper eschelan believed that there was any danger from a bunch of back woods people from Saudi Arabia that lived in caves could ever cause us any harm, even though they had been warned from day one. Even when the PDB specifically stated that Al Quida was planning an attack against our country, it was dismissed.
All of the reasons would fill volumns, and has been by much more skilled writers than myself. I have no understanding why impeachment procedings have not started. I cannot believe that the reason would be the Democrats feel they do not have their feet firmly on the ground yet. In this case, they never will.
There have brutal crimes against humanity by attacking a country and killing it's people - men, women, and children - so that their oil company friends can get no bid contracts and become more wealthy beyond their dreams. Bush and Cheney will reap the rewards from this move as well. And it is appalling to me that, what they are asking our service men and women to do - go into battle, was something that they were not willing to do at all. To me that spells the opposite of courage.
GET THEM OUT NOW !!!!!!!
I signed, now lets see what Pelosi,Hoyer,Reid, and Schummer does.
I am for impeachment!
It is the responsibility of the US president to be truthful in all matters . I feel that he should have stepped down when it was revealed to the public that he deliberately lied in order to go to war. He is personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of US soldiers and the permanent injury for thousands more.
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lucid fiction @ 8:
Trying to change the subject seems trollish. Impeachment is vital or this country is a joke. Please stop protecting this rogue president.
I would suggest to the President and Vice-Presendent to think about the cost of lives of our soldiers and the citizens of Iraq. I hope that congress will press charges against them under the Geneva Convention for declaring war on a country under false pretenses. We have lost our respect and diginity for the government because of their lies and false statements. I hope as a nation we will keep our eyes open and let the senators who represent the state which we live in or the next president that we will be keeping a close watch on all that they have promised and the people of this country will expect them to keep the promises they made during their campaigns.
I don't think an impeachment will happen against Bush and Cheney, but I think that Congress will come up with a charge under the Geneva Convention against these two men and I hope it will hurt them in their pocket book. I should hope that the government will compensate the soldiers and their families on back benefits and money on those who do come back and who didn't.
I am a citizen of this country and it will take a long time for me to trust anything this government says. I hope that every citizen keeps vocal on what happened in Iraq and make sure our rights under the constitution of the USA are not violated ever again.
Impeach!
these (not just W the whole "régime") treasonist, murdering, liars need to be tried for crimes against humanity, impeachment is the least they deserve....
There is something really creepy about that shiny bug eyed ***** Nancy Pelosi.
impeach him .no passing go..throw him out..
Alice X - (Chomsky Nader) - status quObama - change you can pretend in - @ 4:
Impeach his ass
I have it on good authority that Pelosi's comment after receiving the petition was, "I'm grateful that so many Americans share our goals of income equality and an honorable end to the war in Iraq. We will work tirelessly on issues that matter to the American people."
I for one, wish they would impeach him. I cannot trust anyone that lies to the American people. I say impeach him, and show him the American people do have a voice. And that when push comes to shove, united the American people stand.
impeach the worst liar to ever hold office now !
IMPEACH NOW !!
For the love of God could someone gather some sense and impeach the man already!
impeach him. duh.
These Gentleman do indeed need to be held accountable for their...more than questionable actions ! I do hope we see that day !
Impeach Impeach Impeach. Need I say more?
it should be about time
IMPEACH
it's amazing to see how awake the population is to the injustice in DC, but impeachment is irrelevant & misguided at this late date in monkey-boy's second term... instead, i recommend:
NOW:
we need to focus our political passion on keeping mccain out of the white house. get the voters to the polls & make sure obama gets the popular AND electoral wins!
LATER:
escort bush & cheney out the back door of the whitehouse on inauguration day in shackles & handcuffs... toss them in a cell in guantanamo & let 'em rot awaiting trial for their high crimes against america, the constitution, and all that they stole from us!
Impeach him; if he is lying now, what makes you think we can trust him? I certainly don't, and never will. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK HE WON'T DO IT AGAIN, AND KEEP DOING IT? WHAT DOES HE CARE? You don't lie to the American people, and then try to cover it up. I am a citizen of this country, and I'm proud to say I'm also the daughter of Vietnam Vet...the government certainly needs to pull their heads out and get people in there that are worth a damn. Get people in there that do what they say, and say what they mean! Impeach the liars, they have screwed us up enough already; IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH!!!!!!
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