“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke
Welcome to Day 55 of ImpeachmentWatch™, your daily diary that tracks Impeachment, whether the Mainstream Media covers it or not.
No one is above the law. Impeach the President Today!
Snarky Questions to Mainstream Stories
Q: Who’s Obama being compared to now?
A: CBSNEWS: Obama’s Tight-Knit And Tight-Lipped Operation Is Inviting Comparisons To The Campaign Of George W. Bush
Q: Are the Olympics going to improve human rights in China?
A: No, the Olympics are aparently “no longer political”, as according to REUTERS: Bush’s China hurdle: Keeping sports, politics apart
Q: Who would want Pelosi’s support for Obama’s VP?
A: CNN: Pelosi offers Veep support for House darkhorse — Rep. Chet Edwards (D – Texas)
Nancy Pelosi is on a national book tour to promote her book “Know your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters”. Democrats.com is holding a citizen journalism contest. The reward: up to $1,000. The task: get Pelosi to give “a direct and substantive answer to the Impeachment question” and record it for playback on democrats.com.”
Cindy Sheehan for Congress! — Let’s Table the Speaker
buddydrama :: ImpeachmentWatch Day 55 (2008-08-03) – Sunday Funnies
Headzup: Nancy Pelosi On The View
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
No one is above the law. Impeach the President Today!
Recent Highlights
I believe we should let George Bush get away with breaking the law because the attempt to hold him accountable would make the Republicans want to illegitimately impeach a future Democratic President, and the warfare between the parties would never end.
Judiciary Backpedals on Reports and Transcripts from “Non-Impeachment” Hearings
Claiming an intern error, the House Judiciary Committee has retracted Monday statements regarding updates on the July 25th hearing on alleged presidential abuses, AKA the “non-impeachment” hearings.
A late Wednesday afternoon call showed the Judiciary Committee now claiming congressional procedures will require the official transcripts of the six hour hearing to be held for 90 days, meaning the official transcripts will not be made available to the American public until just before the November elections. A staffer who declined to give her name claimed that Monday’s statement that the transcripts would ready for the public on Aug. 3rd was an “intern error,” explaining that there are “new people in the office and they don’t know.”
The same explanation of “intern error” was given for the retraction of another, even more critical, earlier statement that an official committee report, or announcement of the findings from the hearing would be made available in “two weeks.” “There are no plans for any report or statement regarding the findings from those hearings. They are completed. We do not make press releases on hearings that have already happened.”
The brutal fact is, and I do believe it’s a fact, impeachment hearings offer the Democrats the best chance they have of not only insuring Obama’s victory, but also for taking 60 seats in the Senate.
PELOSI: Well, I think that it- I think it was important- When I became speaker- and by the way, a very important position, president, vice president, speaker of the House- I saw it as my responsibility to try to bring a much divided country together to the extent that we could. I thought that impeachment would be divisive for the country.… If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.
Last Friday one of two things indisputably happened. Either a dozen senior Congress members and several well-known expert witnesses went certifiably and collectively insane, or charges of the most extreme executive abuses of power ever heard in the history of this nation were backed up by overwhelming evidence during a six-hour hearing of the House Judiciary Committee focused on the possible need to impeach the President and the Vice President. Either way, a nation with a public communications system worthy of a democracy would have learned the news.
What we actually have in this country is a news media conglomerate that functions as a part of the executive branch of the federal government. Call it the United States Department of Media. But “branch” is not the right word, since the executive branch is all that remains of our government (aside from whatever Dick Cheney is). The legislative and judicial branches have been eliminated. Or, rather, they are constantly and effectively being shut out of the government, in no small part by the Media Department. But “department,” too, is not the right word if one imagines any degree of independent decision making. None of the so-called departments and agencies in the executive government are any longer empowered to make significant decisions independent of the president (and whatever Dick Cheney is). And the Media Department is no exception.
Elliott Adams, President of Veterans for Peace: “Now, Congressmen, it is your time, and I hear there is not enough time! Now is your time, and I hear it will not be good for one party or the other party! Now is your time, and I hear there is not enough political will around you! When our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence they were not worried about political will, or how much time there was, or about any parties’ political future, they were just worried they were going to be hanged by the neck. But they did what was right. Now it is your time to standup. Einstein said – ‘The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.’“
The Declaration of Independence instructs that all just powers of government derive from the consent of the governed. And the core principle of self-government is that the people must know what their government is doing and why intelligently adapt, shape, and direct their political loyalties or energies. James Madison, father of the Constitution, lectured that a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power that knowledge gives. Democracy resting on popular or congressional ignorance is a farce. In addition, sunshine is the best disinfectant. The executive branch will be deterred from lawlessness, folly, or maladministration by the knowledge that its actions will be made known to the public or Congress in a timely fashion. The executive branch ceased authorizing torture once knowledge of the practice by the United States in the war against international terrorism entered the public domain. A strong presumption favoring transparency in the executive branch is a constitutional imperative.
Here’s how the propaganda model works: Take an issue that is at odds with how elite policy makers view the world, say Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bid to impeach President Bush in early June 2008, and evaluate the media coverage of the event. Kucinich’s attempt to impeach the President elicited a mere 132 words in every major media outlet including the New York Times, Washington Post, and CNN.com.
“This is not intended to be a mere discussion of violations of law that have occurred,” said convener Lawrence Velvel, dean and cofounder of the school. “It is, rather, intended to be a planning conference at which plans will be laid and necessary organizational structures set up, to pursue the guilty as long as necessary and, if need be, to the ends of the Earth.”
The blogs are alive with the sound of Impeachment. The notices are rolling into my computer faster than I can open them, sign them and send them out to friends or family. That’s called activism, pushing back against this destructive force called Bush.
H.RES.333 – Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors. [2007-04-24]
Sponser: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10]
Co-Sponsers (27): Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2], Rep Boswell, Leonard L. [IA-3], Rep Brady, Robert A. [PA-1], Rep Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11], Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1], Rep Cohen, Steve [TN-9], Rep Davis, Danny K. [IL-7], Rep Ellison, Keith [MN-5], Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17], Rep Filner, Bob [CA-51], Rep Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7], Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18], Rep Johnson, Henry C. “Hank,” Jr. [GA-4], Rep Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-13], Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9], Rep McDermott, Jim [WA-7], Rep Moore, Gwen [WI-4], Rep Moran, James P. [VA-8], Rep Payne, Donald M. [NJ-10], Rep Schakowsky, Janice D. [IL-9], Rep Stark, Fortney Pete [CA-13], Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10], Rep Waters, Maxine [CA-35], Rep Watson, Diane E. [CA-33], Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19], Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6], Rep Wynn, Albert Russell [MD-4]
Complete Text – Complete Video
H.RES.1258 – Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. (35 Articles) [2008-06-09]
Sponser: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10]
Co-Sponsers (7): Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19], Rep Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6], Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9], Rep Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22], Rep Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2], Rep Farr, Sam [CA-17], Rep Towns, Edolphus [NY-10]
Complete Text – Complete Video: Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5
H.RES.1345 – Impeaching George W. Bush, President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors. (1 Article) [2008-07-10]
Sponser: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10]
Co-Sponsers (2): Rep Wexler, Robert [FL-19], Rep Lee, Barbara [CA-9]
Complete Text – Complete Video
videos thanks to cspanjunkie.org
“Ernest Hemingway once wrote, ‘The world is a fine place and worth fighting for’. I agree with the second part” — Seven
No one is above the law. Impeach the President Today!
Mainstream Story Counts
front pages as of 10:00 am PST
ABCNEWS: 0
CBSNEWS: 0
MSNBC: 0
FOXNEWS: 0
CNN: 0
AP: 0
REUTERS: 0
Google News: 0, Impeachment: 5,367 – (487) – (547)
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. — Margaret Mead
No one is above the law. Impeach the President Today!
Daily Impeachment Tracker
Day 55 – 2008-08-03
ADS: Bob Barr: Karl Rove is In Contempt of Congress (video)
ADS: McCain’s Goons Spot a Black Reporter, Throw Him Out
ADS: Is It Fascism Yet? (audio)
ADS: HOW THE UNITED STATES REVERSED ITS POLICY ON BOMBING CIVILIANS
ADS: Protesters Disrupt Obama in St. Pete
ADS: Now In NYC & Soon in Theatres Across the Nation: Stealing America – Vote by Vote
OEN: In the Company of Tyrants
PRESS-CONNECTS: Impeachment ignored
DEMOCRACY-NOW: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Defends Her Opposition to Impeachment
HELENA-IR: We must impeach
RAWSTORY: CIA vet may face repercussions for revealing agency secrets
RAWSTORY: Obama backs away from McCain’s debate challenge
RAWSTORY: Army declines comment on anthrax researcher
RAWSTORY: First Wal-Mart union begins in China thanks to gov’t
Day 54 – 2008-08-02
ADS: Anthrax Attacks Inside Job? (video)
ADS: Impeachment Support Makes Wexler a Target (video)
OEN: Please Help: Impeachment has made Robert Wexler a Target
OEN: O’Reilly’s Revenge
OEN: Nancy Pelosi and the Hope That Was
COUNTERPUNCH: Bush Judge Does the Right Thing on Executive Immunity
CAPITOL-TIMES: Impeachment hearings need to get done
PEOPLES=WORLD: Let’s impeach
METROWEST: Evidence supports impeachment
PACIFIC-FREE-PRESS: The Invisible Candidate: Lighting on the Nader Media Blackout
WAPO: Waiting for Rove
LATIMES: Pelosi hopes her new book is more popular than Congress
NEWSBLAZE: A Message to America’s Daughters: Know Your Math!
RAWSTORY: Senate bill would restrict Bush from secret executive orders
Day 53 – 2008-08-01
OEN: Pelosi needs a reason to impeach, I’ll give her one
OEN: PARDON ME WHILE I RETCH–THE NATION’S INTERVIEW WITH PELOSI
OEN: Judiciary Backpedals on Reports and Transcripts from “Non-Impeachment” Hearings
CAPITOL-TIMES: Putting the I word on the agenda
PEOPLES-VOICE: The People, the Press, and the Case for Impeachment – Part 2
PEOPLES-VOICE: Bush Accused of Tyranny and Murder – Part 1
RAWSTORY: Bush turning intelligence agencies on Americans
RAWSTORY: Absolute Power, No Responsibility: White House reaction to the Department of Justice hiring scandal
THINKPROGRESS: To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them
TPMCAFE: DoJ Staff Counsel Confronted With War Crimes Evidence Linking Them To Illegal War Plans in Syria
ADS: Cafferty Covers News on CNN, Still Hasn’t Been Fired for It (But why didn’t he cover Friday’s hearing?) (video)
ADS: Pelosi Again Claims to Have No Evidence of Crimes: This Time in Time Magazine
ADS: AG Mukasey Seeks Extended Definition of “Battlefield” in WOT; Rivals “Onion” Satire
ADS: Rep. Walter Jones Not Opposed to Using Inherent Contempt (video)
ADS: Lobby Rep. Keith Ellison Today
ADS: How to win big in November: Impeach
DEMOCRATS.COM: Is It Time to Abolish the CIA?
DEMOCRATS.COM: The Daves Show
DEMOCRATS.COM: The Two Facts War Supporters Are Least Likely to Know
Day 52 – 2008-07-31
ABCNEWS: US Judge: White House Aides Can Be Subpoenaed
CBSNEWS: Bush Aides Can Be Subpoenaed, Court Rules
MSNBC: Bush aides can be subpoenaed, judge rules
FOXNEWS: Federal Judge Sides With Congress, Says Lawmakers Can Subpoena Bush Administration Aides
CNN: White House aides not immune from subpoenas, judge says
AP: US judge: White House aides can be subpoenaed
REUTERS: Judge: Congress can subpoena Bush aides
ABCNEWS: Bush Rewrites Spy Laws
FOXNEWS: Bush Says Shorter Deployments in Iraq Will ‘Ease the Burden on Our Forces’
CQ-POLITICS: Kucinich Seeks to Punctuate His Efforts to Abbreviate Bush’s Term
HUFFPO: Impeachment: Key to Dems’ Win in November
FAIR: CNN Scoffs at White House Critics
RAWSTORY: Judge orders White House to find, preserve e-mails
RAWSTORY: McCain’s $520 loafers put ‘elitist’ shoe on the other foot (video)
RAWSTORY: Bush drug warrior crashes pot press conference
RAWSTORY: Judiciary Committee approves resolution holding Rove in contempt of Congress
TPMCAFE: Incredible DOJ IG Testimony Does Not Reconcile With Evidence
ADS: Impeachment Movement Moving to Denver
ADS: HAS AMERICA BECOME FASCIST?
ADS: News Flash! Bush Judge Does the Right Thing!
ADS: Judge Rules According to Law, Miers and Bolten Must Testify
ADS: Obama Worries Peace Movement
ADS: Randi Rhoads Interviews Dennis Kucinich (audio)
ADS: David Swanson on Blog Talk Radio With Tim Gatto
Day 51 – 2008-07-30
LATIMES: Impeach Bush crowd dogs Pelosi’s book tour
FOXNEWS: Dems Weigh Punishments for Bush White House Officials for Alleged Misdeeds
SALT-LAKE-TRIBUNE: The non-impeachment of George W. Bush
DETROIT-METRO-TIMES: Impeachment lite
BOSTON.COM: Holding executive branch accountable
INDYBAY: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Defends Her Opposition to Impeachment
KANSAS-CITY-INFOZINE: Pelosi Claims No Bush Crime, No Cause for Impeachment
OEN: Friday’s House Judiciary Hearing on Impeachment: A Victory and a Challenge
IPA: Pelosi Claims No Bush Crime, No Cause for Impeachment
BLACK-AGENDA-REPORT: Freedom Rider: Obama Pardons Bush
OEN: Pelosi Tells The Nation Magazine Why She Won’t Impeach
RAWSTORY: Judiciary Committee approves resolution holding Rove in contempt of Congress
TPMCAFE: Your Bank Helped President Violate FISA
ADS: Should Conyers Impeach or Write Another Book About Bush’s Crimes?
ADS: $1,000 to Ask Pelosi a Question: She’s Coming to a Town Near You
ADS: I Have Contempt for Contempt
ADS: Pelosi v. Fein (video)
ADS: Kucinich Shows Pelosi the Evidence of Bush’s Crimes: Your Move, Nancy!
ADS: Gravel: Take Bush to The Hague
ADS: America Is Already Committing Acts of War Against Iran
ADS: Declare the War Over
Day 50 – 2008-07-29
NRO: Impeachment Petition Deadline Midnight Wednesday
OEN: The People, the Press, & the Case for Impeachment
BRADBLOG: Impeachment Hearing: Bush Dead-Enders Make One Last Stand
CONCORD-MONITOR: Impeachment, now
NEWS-TALK-1310: Groups to gather to call for impeachment
BUZZ-FLASH: Why couldn’t Jon Stewart say the ‘I’ word to Speaker Nancy Pelosi?
NOLANCHART: Book Synopsis: The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder by Vincent Bugliosi
DEMOCRATS.COM: Impeachment Step 2
DEMOCRATS.COM: Citizen Journalism Contest: Ask Pelosi ‘What is an Impeachable Crime?’
DEMOCRATS.COM: Pelosi Would Impeach Bush If She Had “The Goods”
ADS: Pelosi Says She Would Impeach Bush If Somebody Knew of a Crime He’d Committed
ADS: Milwaukee Pushes for Impeachment (audio)
ADS: Testimony of Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson
ADS: The Origins and Scope of Presidential Impeachment
ADS: Elliott Adams Speaks for Impeachment, Congress Members Scared to Ask Him a Single Followup Question (video)
ADS: EPA tells its staff: Don’t answer watchdogs’ queries
RAWSTORY: Sen. Stevens indicted: 7 false statements counts
RAWSTORY: Nader: Obama supporters are in ‘political slavery’
Day 49 – 2008-07-28
ABCNEWS: Two former Bush Economic Advisers Now Advising Obama
TPMCAFE: Rove Confronted With Second Attempted Citizen’s Arrest
HUFFPO: How to Perform a Citizen’s Arrest of A Bush Administration Official
DEMOCRACY-NOW: House Judiciary Committee Hold Historic Hearings on the Case for Impeachment
OEN: CNN Anchor Erica Hill Slams Impeachment As Kabuki Theatre. FIRE HER!! (video)
PACIFIC-FP: What Does it Take to Get a Guy Outta Here?!
CHICAGO-TRIBUNE: Panel holds ‘non-impeachment hearing’
OEN: Impeachment blockading excuse: Fear ye, fear ye the terrorists!
CAPITOL-TIMES: Impeachment town meeting in Madison Monday night
THIRD-PARTY-WATCH: Barr scolds Congress on FISA
OEN: NEW ORLEANS 3rd anniv. of Katrina IMPEACH NOW protest?
GLOBAL-RESEARCH: The Bush Administration’s Secret Biowarfare Agenda
DEMOCRATS.COM: Primary Challenge Scares Nadler into Considering Impeachment
DEMOCRATS.COM: Impeachment Radio: David Swanson Interviews (audio)
ADS: The U.S. Department of Media
ADS: Omnipresent Military
ADS: More MSM Malfeasance — The Conyers Hearing And Tom Brokaw’s So-Called “Interview” Of Obama
ADS: New Zealand Students Offer New Bounty For Arrest of Condoleezza Rice For War Crimes
ADS: The Military-Industrial Complex: It’s Much Later Than You Think
TPMCAFE: Congressman King Attracts Attention To Lack of Imminent Threat
RAWSTORY: Conyers mulling perjury charges for Gonzales
Day 48 – 2008-07-27
ADS: We’ve Opened the Door, How Do We Keep It Open?
OEN: Let’s See How Our “Free Press” Covers Impeachment
OEN: Notes from the Non-Impeachment Hearings
HUFFPO: A Note for Wolf Blitzer, et. al. on Congressional Approval
COMMON-DREAMS: House Democrats Bash Bush Over Abuse of Executive Power
COMMON-DREAMS: Impeachment Hearings Are the Appropriate and Necessary Next Step
COMMON-DREAMS: The Parade of ‘Shrill, Unserious Extremists’ on Display at Today’s Impeachment Hearings
Day 47 – 2008-07-26
AP: Bush critics get an unimpeachable forum
LA-TIMES: Is hearing to impeach Bush merely ‘anger management’?
CHICAGO-TRIBUNE: Panel holds ‘non-impeachment hearing’
CBSNEWS: House Committee Hears The “I-Word”
CBSNEWS: Big Crowd Gathers For House Judiciary Hearing On Bush “impeachment”
FOXNEWS: Cindy Sheehan Set to Challenge Pelosi
XINHUA: U.S. House holds hearing to criticize President Bush
SALT-LAKE-TRIBUNE: Ex-SLC mayor to Congress: Impeach Bush
FREEP: Conyers’ hearing impugns but does not impeach Bush
THE-NATION: House Committee Considers the “I” Word
PRESS-TV: Gravel: Take Bush to The Hague
PRESS-TV: Sheehan: US leaders abuse executive powers
JURIST: US House committee investigates Bush ‘expansion’ of constitutional powers
OEN: Who do you believe gave the most valuable testimony at the “impeachment” hearing today?
THIRD-PARTY-WATCH: Barr, Fein speaking in House today on impeachment
IPA: Impeachment on the Table?
VOANEWS: US Congressional Panel Hears Testimony on Case for Bush Impeachment
ADS: Freeway Blog Now!
ADS: Hearing on Impeachment Videos (video)
ADS: Real News (video)
ADS: Olbermann (video)
ADS: Bugliosi (video)
ADS: Cohen, Holtzman, Fein (video)
ADS: Wexler Wants Real Impeachment Hearing Now
ADS: Impeachment Press Conference (video)
ADS: Kucinich Testifies on Abuses of Executive Power
RAWSTORY: ‘Imperial presidency’ hearing packed to capacity
Day 46 – 2008-07-25
FOXNEWS: Rep. Kucinich Gets His Day to Air Impeachment Article
CBSNEWS: Big Crowd Gathers For House Judiciary Hearing On Bush “impeachment”
FREEP: Committee hearing will discuss presidential limits
THE-HILL: Kucinich raises Bush impeachment at hearing
AMERICAN-CHRONICLE: Congress Hears Ringing Call for Impeachment
OEN: Impeachment hearings underway now
FOXNEWS: Cindy Sheehan Set to Challenge Pelosi
CLEVELAND-PLAIN-DEALER: Kucinich at House Judiciary Committee hearing on Bush’s ‘imperial presidency”
DETROIT-NEWS: Michigan congressman opens critical Bush hearing
CQ-POLITICS: Kucinich Again Calls For Impeachment of Bush
THE-NATION: An Opening for the Constitution
RAW-STORY: ‘Imperial presidency’ hearing to feature 13 witnesses
INDYBAY: 9am EDT – Friday – Live Broadcast – House Pre-Hearing on Impeachment – ON NO LIES RADIO
OEN: POLL: Should John Conyers Hold An Impeachment Hearing in August?
EXAMINER: House Committee considers impeachment today
OEN: POLL: Can The Bush Family Wealth Be Seized Under The Trading With the Enemies Act?
RAW-STORY: Conyers: Judiciary Committee not holding ‘impeachment hearings’
TPMCAFE: War Crimes Prosecutors Reviewing 9-11 As Pretext For Geneva Violations
TPMCAFE: Rove’s Incomplete Denials To House Judiciary
ADS: Live Blogging Hearing on Impeachment (Not Yet Impeachment Hearing)
ADS: Congress Hears Ringing Call for Impeachment
ADS: Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations (video)
ADS: Tammy Baldwin Says Bush and Cheney Should Be Impeached
ADS: Robert Wexler Demands Impeachment Hearings Now
ADS: Campaigners push for Bush impeachment
ADS: Cynthia Papermaster for Impeachment (video)
ADS: Hear This Barack – NO Bush, NO Baker, NO Corporate War Maker. We’ve Had Enough!
ADS: Cindy Sheehan on Impeachment (video)
ADS: Bruce Fein on Impeachment (video)
ADS: David Swanson on Impeachment (video)
Day 45 – 2008-07-24
THE-NATION: Cindy Sheehan is Putting Impeachment on the Table
OEN: House Judiciary Committee to Hold Impeachment Hearings
THIRD-PARTY-WATCH: Nader: Why can’t I testify on Bush/Cheney impeachment?
OEN: Conyers Tries To Kill Impeachment Hearings Before They Start
INDYBAY: ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN interviewed by Peter B. Collins on IMPEACHMENT (audio)
UN-OBSERVER: As close to impeachment hearings as we’ve seen so far!
BUZZ-FLASH: Ed Ciaccio: Why Bush’s Impeachment Is Necessary
OEN: The Democratic Majority: Enabling a Rogue Presidency and Stonewalling the American People
OEN: Do you want Impeachment? CALL THE MEDIA TODAY!!
RAW-STORY: With so many Bush scandals, Slate makes detailed diagram
SLATE: Crimes and Misdemeanors (interactive Venn Diagram)
COUNTERPUNCH: Shutting Out Ralph Nader
DEMOCRACY-NOW: Obama Adviser Cass Sunstein Debates Glenn Greenwald on FISA Vote, Executive Power and Prosecuting White House Officials for War Crimes (video/audio/transcript)
HUFF-PO: Executive Accountability: A Constitutional Amendment for the Next Congress
INDYBAY: Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington
GATHER: ImpeachBush.Org – Please forward this message to your Congressman
RAW-STORY: 100,000 signatures in ‘Send Rove to Jail’ campaign
TPMCAFE: Conyers Takes Witness Oath Off the Table
ADS: No Rule of Law, But Plenty of Rules in Congress
ADS: We’re a Nation of Lemmings
ADS: NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT NETWORK UPDATE FROM DC
CONSORTIUM-NEWS: Rove End-Runs House Democrats
ADS: Willie Nelson agrees to Farm Aid-type event in support of Impeachment
Day 44 – 2008-07-23
MORNING-CALL: Support impeachment of George ‘the tyrant’
CONNIE-TALK:
Kucinich Impeachment Resolution To Be Heard Friday
OEN: Impeachment Hearing This Friday, July 25
OEN: Hey America! Pelosi Handed You a Booby Prize! What Are You Going To Do With It?
RAW-STORY: Turley fears Dems will let alleged ‘Bush crimes’ stay buried forever
GATHER: A Challenge to Idealistic Progressives
DEMOCRATS.COM: Support the Kucinich Impeachment Hearing on Friday
ADS: ACLU Defends Constitution Without Apparently Having Read It
ADS: DC, NATIONAL MALL: IMPEACH FOR PEACE PICNIC THIS SUNDAY! COME PARTY AND BODY-SPELL “IMPEACH!”
ADS: Just the Fax, Ma’am (Here are the steps to fax a letter to every member of the Judiciary Committee)
ADS: Mukasey to Congress: Defy the Rule of Law
ADS: MSNBC Live Vote on Bush Impeachment; Over 630,000 Voted Yes!
ADS: George W. Bush’s Overall Job Approval Drops to 21%
ADS: Story on Rocky Anderson’s Upcoming Testimony Avoids the I Word
TMPCAFE: DCAA Auditors Threatened: Is Congress Still Asleep?
Day 43 – 2008-07-22
CITIZEN-TIMES: We should hold Bush accountable for his actions
PAKISTAN-DAILY: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep John Conyers plans George W Bush impeachment substitute
MARKET-ORACLE: McFadden’s Attempts to Abolish the Federal Reserve System
CATOOSA-COUNTY-NEWS: Better late than never – Impeach Bush and Cheney
ADS: Liliana Segura Talks Impeachment and Sending Karl Rove to Jail (video)
ADS: Glen Greenwald Speaks for Impeachment on Democracy Now!
ADS: Tell Bob Barr to Speak Up for Impeachment on Friday
ADS: TSA to Use Full-Body Imaging This Fall at Chicago O’Hare
ADS: Nancy Pelosi, How Do You Plead?
ADS: Bush Lied, Knew He Was Lying, Thought It Was Funny, and Killed Over a Million People
ADS: Bush Is NOT Complying With Supreme Court’s Restoration of Habeas Corpus
Day 42 – 2008-07-21
HERALD-NEWS: Unfathomable that Bush has escaped impeachment
METROWEST: No reason to delay impeachment
OEN: Open Discussion Thread: How can we Stop Martial Law?
MODESTO-BEE: Impeach Bush and his administration
BEYOND CHRON: Pelosi Passes the Buck; Gore Let Off the Hook at Netroots Nation
OEN: Impeach the Puppet Masters
ADS: Executive Power and Its Constitutional Limitations
ADS: Adam Kokesh on John Conyers (video)
TPMCAFE: Alleged War Crimes Evidence: Communication Between DC-DOJ and Remote US Attorney-DoJ Leadership
TPMCAFE: Propaganda To Discredit Andover Dean’s Call For War Crimes Indictments of American Officials
TPMCAFE: Limited Coverage of Turley’s Call For International War Crimes Tribunal To Investigate US
Day 41 – 2008-07-20
STATESMAN-JOURNAL: Obama should have backed impeachment
METROWEST DAILY-NEWS: No reason to delay impeachment
OEN: More Important Than Impeachment
ADS: Nine Reasons to Investigate War Crimes Now
ADS: The Pentagonization of U.S. Life (video)
ADS: Harold Ford Advocates Letting Bush and Cheney Off Because “the Constitution doesn’t poll very well.”
ADS: If You Live in Keith Ellison’s District
ADS: When Their Lips Are Moving (video)
ADS: Pelosi Tells Netroots Nation She Opposes Impeachment Because She’s BiPartisan
ADS: Cass Sunstein, Adviser to Barack Obama, Urges Commitment Never to Prosecute Bush and Cheney
ADS: Bush’s “Imperialism Lite”
ImpeachmentWatch Archives: 1-17 – 18-28 – 29-36 - 37-40
Day 0 – 2008-06-09
RAWSTORY: Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles (video)
Pre-Impeachment
ALTERNET: Colbert says Impeach Bush now or you’re a bunch of pussies… (video)
ALTERNET: Why Is Impeachment Important? (video)
ADS: If the People Want Impeachment, Why Can’t it Happen?
No one is above the law. Impeach the President Today!
How to Help
We need to put serious pressure on Conyers, Pelosi and the rest of the House Judiciary. FAX them. A fax, unlike a voicemail or an email, is a physical piece of paper that CANNOT BE IGNORED or easily deleted. Use FaxZero to send 2 free faxes everyday. [h/t Randgrithr]
Nancy Pelosi: 202-225-4188
Harry Reid: 202-224-7327
Jerrold Nadler: 202-225-6923
John Conyers: 202-225-0072
Sending them the List of the Articles of Impeachment might not be a bad idea. Maybe they just haven’t had a chance to read the list yet. Or maybe they’d like the complete text.
Other Ways to Help
- Write a letter to your local newspaper in suppport of Impeachment.
- Write a letter to your Congressman supporting impeachment.
- Post stories about Impeachment on your blog and other political websites.
- Wear Orange Every Friday! (and ask your friends and family to wear orange)
- Sign the Petition To Impeach Bush
- OEN: Some things we can do to help impeachment along
- ADS: Some Ways You Can Help Impeach Bush
Don’t let the talk of Impeachment die. Dennis has re-introduced the articles of impeachment. It’s up to us, the independent bloggers of the internet to keep this story going. The RULE OF LAW demands that we Impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney for the high crimes and misdemeanors they have committed against the people of this country and the world. We are the media now. Stand up and help Rep. Kucinich. Keep this story alive!
A future without impeachment paints a frighteningly bleak picture, a picture that at this point many of us can see but too few of us are acting to prevent. If ever there was a time to act, now is that time. It’s time, right now, to promote the necessity of impeachment as widely as possible. It is imperative that the Bush regime be driven from office and held accountable for its many crimes – it’s time to act now.
At this point the future in unwritten; which one we get is up to us.
Learn More about Impeachment [h/t Revisionist]
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No one is above the law. Impeach the President Today!
Cindy Sheehan Will Be on Ballot and she will win. – Removing the Speaker of the House who “took impeachment off the table” will be an important first step to holding the war criminals accountable for their crimes. Cindy Sheehan is running as an Independant against Nancy Pelosi in a very liberal district. She will win. The Speaker of the House can be defeated. It has happened before.
Be the change that you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi
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