Yesterday, Dennis Kucinich brought a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney to the floor of the House of Representatives.
In what is certainly a disappointment, but is no longer surprising, the Democratic Party leadership tried to have the impeachment resolution eliminated even before it could be considered and debated in Congress. They tried to squelch the popular Democratic support for impeachment.
Some Democrats had enough integrity to break away from their leaders’ treachery against Democratic voters. 86 Democrats voted against eliminating the impeachment resolution. They succeeded. The resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney remains alive, to go to John Conyers in the House Judiciary Committee.
Call Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers today, to tell him you want that impeachment resolution to be approved by his committee. His office’s number is (202) 225-5126.
The following are the 86 Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted to preserve the resolution to impeach Cheney. If your Representative is among them, give a call of thanks today.
Abercrombie
Allen
Baca
Baldwin
Braley (IA)
Capps
Capuano
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Cohen
Conyers
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (IL)
DeFazio
Dicks
Doggett
Doyle
Ellison
Farr
Filner
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hare
Hinchey
Hirono
Hodes
Holt
Honda
Hooley
Inslee
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Jones (OH)
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kilpatrick
Kucinich
Lee
Loebsack
Maloney (NY)
McDermott
Meeks (NY)
Michaud
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Napolitano
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Perlmutter
Price (NC)
Rangel
Richardson
Roybal-Allard
Rush
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Slaughter
Solis
Stark
Stupak
Sutton
Thompson (CA)
Towns
Velazquez
Waters
Watson
Watt
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
If your Representative is not on this list, give a call today and ask them to change their position.
Thanksgiving will be a holiday of specific thanks this year for Americans who care about the rule of law. Dennis Kucinich has promised that he will take to the floor of the House of Representatives and make a motion to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, and do it before Thanksgiving. Kucinich has already introduced an impeachment resolution to the House. Now, Kucinich will force a vote by formally moving impeachment to consideration through the power of of personal privilege.
It’s about time. Actually, it’s long past time.
Please call your member of Congress, and him or her to support Kucinich, and vote in favor of the impeachment of Cheney.
The latest from Nancy Pelosi: She is complaining that it’s just too darn hard for her to sit in her posh home and see Americans protesting outside. Oh, the poor, poor dear.
Memo to Pelosi - Get used to it. For as long as you continue to fail the American people, you will continue to see protesters on the sidewalk outside your breakfast window. The American people elected a Democratic majority to the House of Representatives in order to end the Iraq War, restore liberty to America, and impeach Bush. They have done none of this. Instead, they’ve helped make things worse, playing footsie with Bush and helping him to get the Protect America Act passed.
“I cannot speak for every Democrat, Independent, Green, or disenchanted Republican (and there are many) in America, but the consensus from my travels all over this country is that we put Democrats back in power in both Houses of Congress to be an opposition to the Bush Regime and to stop the annoying “bobble-headed, rubber-stamping” approval of all things criminal and murderous. We did not wish to keep heading in the same direction but desired to go another way, which would have required the Dems to finally step up and forcefully counter and stop the high crimes of BushCo. They have failed.
We are sick of excuses. We are tired of the blame being diffused on the Senate, the Blue Dog Dems, the Republicans, or even, incredibly, the people of Iraq. A true leader accepts responsibility in ways that are not even dreamed of by BushCo or Congress, Inc. A true leader would stand up and do what is intelligent and what is right and if he/she were a leader, then people would follow. A leader does not wait idly by for a crowd of sycophants to gather around her before she does her job with integrity and courage; a leader leads the way and the Democratic Congress with an approval rating even lower than George’s had better wake up to whom they need to follow: us!”
Cindy Sheehan is right. Nancy Pelosi is no leader. Pelosi betrayed the promise of 2006. She doesn’t even have enough backbone to stand up to a President with a 30 percent approval rating.
It’s time for Nancy Pelosi to go, and to be replaced with a real leader - Cindy Sheehan for Congress!
It didn’t take long for non-partisans to see that most of the the 2006 Democratic congressional candidates had no intention of acting strongly to confront the criminal behavior of George W. Bush. Many Democratic congressional candidates were just using anti-Bush, anti-war anger for their personal gain. Since the 2006 congressional election, we’ve seen the cost of the Democrats’ dedcation to self-interest above the good of the nation. Time and time again, the Democrats in Congress have caved in and given the Bush Republicans exactly what they wanted.
The Iraq War goes on and on. Our civil liberties are being hacked apart by laws like the Military Commissions Act, the Patriot Act and the Protect America Act. Alberto Gonzales remains in office, with more power than ever. Impeachment is off the table.
I found this video of Cindy Sheehan, talking in January, 2007, to be prescient. In the video, she predicts that the American people will need to push the Democrats to get anything done, and that the Democrats will begin to waffle and wimp out. It’s well worth a watch.
From Cindy Sheehan’s speech announcing her independent campaign for Congress, challenging Nancy Pelosi in 2008:
“A great majority of citizens in California’s 8th congressional district want the Bush regime impeached and want our troops home from the Middle East. I believe Ms. Pelosi has lost touch with the people of this district and America and it’s time for our reps that aren’t doing their jobs by upholding their sworn oaths to the Constitution to receive a wakeup call!”
Nancy Pelosi’s best response to this criticism is that she would be for impeachment if only she were not Speaker of the House. How convenient for Representative Pelosi. She’s only for doing something that matters when she doesn’t have the power accomplish much. What a useful excuse for submitting to the corrupt power of the Bush Administration.
If I were living in the 8th congressional district of California, I’d vote for Sheehan.
When presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich heard the news last week that government spy satellites will now be used by domestic law enforcement to track American citizens, he did not wait to express his outrage. Kucinich made a strong statement denouncing the plan by John Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence, that federal, state, and local law enforcement officials will now be able to gain access to U.S. military spy satellites in order to track the movements of American citizens.
The government acknowledges that, as part of the program, police will be able to use special government spy aircraft that can scan at wavelengths that allow the aircraft to actually see people inside of buildings, and even in underground bunkers. This is like the American government using U2 spy planes over the Soviet Union, only against American citizens on American soil, and using technology generations ahead of what U2 had available.
Dennis Kucinich was right on in his condemnation of this new program to expand the government’s programs to spy against American citizens far beyond the Constitution’s restriction of reasonable search and seizure. Kucinich points out that the program clearly violates the Posse Comitatus Act by using the might of the military, which is supposed to be aimed against foreign countries, as a law enforcement weapon against American civilians.
It’s a frightening thought that we now cannot even count on being free from the snooping eyes of our own government, not even when we’re out in the middle of nature. There will always be an eye in the sky, watching us. Kucinich said of this new government spying program, “Not only are they ramping up their attempts to lie and deceive this nation into another war, they are also using those lies and deceptions to justify creating a police state right here where everyone is under suspicion and everyone is secretly under surveillance from Big Brother in the sky.”
Kucinich is right. America is turning into a Big Brother police state.
If you’re for impeachment, support Cindy Sheehan for Congress. Cindy Sheehan is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi is best known, among activists struggling for the impeachment of George W. Bush for declaring that “impeachment is off the table”. Single-handedly, without bothering to investigate the alleged crimes of George W. Bush, or even taking a formal look at the evidence already available, without democratic debate in the Congress among all the members, Pelosi decided she would do whatever she could to prevent the impeachment of George W. Bush from happening.
Yesterday, “with a a heavy heart,” Cindy Sheehan declared,
“I announce my candidacy against Nancy Pelosi in California’s 8th. If anybody would dare think that I am not serious, I would hope that they would look back at the last three years of my life and everything that I have sacrificed to restore our nation to one that obeys the rule of law and can be looked up to with respect once again in the international community and not as the hated laughingstock on the block.”
There is not yet an official Cindy Sheehan for Congress web site. When it comes up, we’ll link there.
In the meantime, we’re adding a Cindy Sheehan for Congress section to our Imprison Bush shop, so that you can start to show your support for Sheehan as yet another way of moving toward the impeachment and imprisonment of George W. Bush
The latest in the growing list of communities calling for investigations into impeachable offenses by George W. Bush: Tompkins County, New York and the county’s major city, Ithaca. The Tompkins County legislature and the Ithaca Common Council have both passed resolutions encouraging their representatives in Congress to open up investigations into the illegal activities of the Bush Administration.
Note to Nancy Pelosi: Impeachment is back on the table. It’s the people’s table, after all, not yours.
