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“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke
Welcome to Day 87 of ImpeachmentWatch™, your daily diary that tracks Impeachment, whether the Mainstream Media covers it or not.
Why won’t Nancy Impeach?
COUNTERPUNCH – A false conservative-liberal fight distracts attention from the growing police state that is destroying civil liberties for all Americans. It obscures the real motives of policies in behalf of special interests that are leading to nuclear confrontation with Russia and China.
What is wrecking America is not conservatives, but a neoconservative ideology of US hegemony.
What is wrecking America is the “impeachment-is-off-the-table” twins, Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers.
What is wrecking America is the Democratic Party, which was put in control of the House and Senate in the 2006 congressional elections to stop the gratuitous wars and gestapo police, but, instead, has continued to cooperate with the Cheney/Bush regime in behalf of war and police repression, such as we witnessed at the Republican National Convention.
Frank’s book, “The Wrecking Crew” falls into the scapegoat category of blaming the innocent and irrelevant. The Democrat Party could impeach Cheney/Bush and cut off funding for the wars and corrupt military contracts. But they do nothing and get a free pass from Frank.
Cindy McCain’s $300,000 Outfit
Cindy McCain
This woman wears more money than most will ever earn:
Oscar de la Renta dress: $3,000
Chanel J12 White Ceramic Watch: $4,500
Three-carat diamond earrings: $280,000
Four-strand pearl necklace: $11,000-$25,000
Shoes, designer unknown: $600
Total: Between $299,100 and $313,100
Number of Days until Rep. Kucnich delivers the Petition to Impeach Bush to Congress: 5
Help Dennis reach his goal of 1,000,000 signatures. Sign today and ask your friends and family to do the same!
Cindy Sheehan is running as an Independent against Nancy Pelosi in a very liberal district.
The Speaker of the House can be defeated. It has happened before.
Let’s take Nancy off the table.
buddydrama :: ImpeachmentWatch Day 87 (2008-09-04)
Impeachment Video of the Day
Fight back against the Police State — WE HAVE THEM OUTNUMBERED
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.
Recent Highlights
I believe we should let George Bush get away with breaking the law because the attempt to hold him accountable wouldn’t be as useful as waiting for Barack Obama to maybe become President so he could maybe investigate Bush then.
I felt a bit nauseous watching the Republican convention last night. I’m very much a give-the-benefit-of-the-doubt kind of guy, so I try to listen to the arguments people make even when they’re made in over-the-top or patronizing ways. Sometimes it’s good to distinguish between the rhetorical devices and the underlying substance. Even people who use manipulative language sometimes have an important point beneath their persuasion techniques (ads against smoking, for example).
I usually don’t feel uneasy when I put those filters on, but last night – during the Guiliani speech – I realized I was no longer filtering a speechwriter’s intentional manipulation; I was trying to look beyond real hate. These folks were gritting their teeth, shaking their fists, and smiling the way gladiators do when going into combat against barbarians. And this is the incumbent party. The ones currently in power.
What is it they hate? Guiliani and Palin both made it pretty clear: community organizing. Community organizing is energized from below. From the periphery. It is the direction and facilitation of mass energy towards productive and cooperative ends. It is about replacing conflict with collaboration. It is the opposite of war; it is peace.
Last night, the Republican Convention made it clear they prefer war. They see the world as a dangerous and terrible place. Like the fascist leaders satirized in Starship Troopers, they say they believe it is better to be on the offensive, taking the war to the people who might wish us harm than playing defense. It is better to be an international aggressor – a bulldog with lipstick – than led by the misguided notion that attacking people itself makes the world a more dangerous place.
The Bush Indictment Project has begun. The difference between Impeachment and Indictment is like the difference between night and day. The call for Impeachment looks like a Sunday School picnic by comparison. Impeachment has its flaws. It trivializes the war crimes. It is better than nothing, but not by much. Impeachment can result in removal from office. The criminal prosecution of George W. Bush could result in a life sentence or the death penalty.
Imagine Nuremberg. Imagine hundreds of indictments all across the country. Approximately one thousand public officials have the legal authorization to bring forth an indictment – fifty State Attorneys General, and nine hundred-fifty county prosecutors. No criminal action can be brought by a private citizen. The citizen’s power to act is limited to the voting booth; therefore, the most important vote cast in the upcoming election will be for the candidate who is authorized to take legal action – your State Attorney General.
It is really very simple. Get the facts which are clearly laid out in ‘The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder’. Find a candidate who supports your view. Pull the correct lever. Get the popcorn ready. The war crimes trials will be televised.
NEW YORK TIMES — When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set out to promote her new motivational book this month, she simultaneously touched off her national why-haven’t-you-impeached-the-president tour.
At the moment, the House is officially scheduled to meet for less than three weeks in September before adjourning for the elections and perhaps the year – hardly enough time to mount an impeachment spectacle even if top Democratic lawmakers wanted one.
Note the specious word choice: an impeachment spectacle. It’s not about law and order, holding the administration accountable for their crimes and ensuring that no future President will ever yield such imperial power, it’s a “spectacle”, a circus, or as Wikipedia says:
In general spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates.
Please note that we’ve seen this dismissive frame before: CNN Anchor Slams Impeachment as “Kabuki Theatre”
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.
Pelosi kept saying – if you want change, vote for Obama. Someone in the crowd yelled out, “that’s what we elected you to do – make change.” The democratically controlled Congress has been limited in passing anything progressive because of the almost unanimous number of republicans and a strong group of conservative democrats who have stopped those type of bills. But when it came to funding the wars, funding the torture and funding the death – many of us believe there were enough Democrats to stop funding bills from passing. But this never happened. Pelosi and “her” democrats went along with all and more of Bush’s deluded requests for money. The death and torture went on. People continued to die. Michael Krasny never asks those type of questions of the celebrities who he seems so enamored with. And why is impeachment off the table? It’s not about what is right and honest – it’s about whatever Pelosi says it is and she somehow decided that it was her personal prerogative to take impeachment off the agenda. If Richard Nixon has only had her as Speaker – he might have survived.
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.
“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)
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)
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)
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
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: 24,877
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
Daily Impeachment Tracker
Day 87 – 2008-09-04
INDYBAY: Thurs Noon SF MySpace – Protest Excluding 3rd Parties from Debates & Corporate Domination
COUNTERPUNCH: Who is Wrecking America?
STATESMAN-JOURNAL: Bush’s presidency is worthy of impeachment
COUNTERPUNCH: The Obama Construct
GREENBAY-PRESS-GAZETTE: Why not impeach Bush, Cheney?
VANITY-FAIR: Cindy McCain’s $300,000 Outfit
CNN: Lieberman could lose chairmanship, Democrats warn
RAWSTORY: ‘Polar bear’ beaten with sack of money at RNC protest
ADS: Denver Begins Investigation Into Police Assault on Protestor
ADS: Judge Says Gov’t Must Produce Waterboarding Memos
ADS: Movements and Elections – You Can Ignore Politics, but Politics Won’t Ignore You
ADS: Woodward’s ‘Secret History’ of Bush Administration To Debut Sept. 8
BOINGBOING: Douglas Rushkoff on the RNC
Day 86 – 2008-09-03
MSNBC: St. Paul set for more politics and protests
DISSIDENT-VOICE: Taking on the War Machine: An Interview with Cindy Sheehan
OEN: American Interests: Where do we draw the lines?
RINF: Holding murderers accountable
NEW-AMERICAN: According to Pelosi, Impeachment Proceedings Are “Off the Table”
INDEPENDENT-POLITICAL-REPORT: Dennis Kucinich calls for impeachment, and calls for 1,000,000 to sign petition
GUARDIAN: Those who are tasked to police this democracy are blinded by confetti
OEN: An Open Letter to Nancy Pelosi: Save Yourself and Our Republic
BUZZ-FLASH: Impeachment Coalition Plans Washington Post Ads
DAILY-HERALD: Authorities owe protesters apology
AHN: Kucinich Fires Up Dems In Convention
OEN: INTERNET BUZZ IS AS HIGH AS EVER ON “IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY” AS 2008 ELECTION DRAWS TO A CLOSE
RAWSTORY: ACLU condemns mass arrests of RNC demonstrators
RAWSTORY: Blogs mock ‘Hookers and Blow’ party at RNC
ADS: Preemptive Strikes Against Protest at RNC
ADS: Journalist Amy Goodman Arrested/Released in MN (Update With Press Conference) (video)
ADS: Federal Government Involved In Raids on Protesters
ADS: Alex – Impeach the Bastards – Watch the Lies! (video)
Day 76 – 2008-08-24
RAWSTORY: Cheney’s link to corrupt senator Stevens exposed (keyword: pipeline)
OEN: Biden: Smart Guy, Wrong on PNTR
MSNBC: U.S. seeks quick release of Olympic protesters
FOXNEWS: Bush’s Popularity Seems to Benefit From Success of Troop Surge
SFGATE: Pelosi daughters recall house rules growing up
ADS: Bad News for Nancy Pelosi (video)
ADS: Watch the New Impeachment Trial Play (video)
ADS: Rep. Conyers: You’re STILL Failing America – We Support You – Just Hold The Hearings (video)
ADS: Daily Show Welcomes RNC to Minnesota
RAWSTORY: Pentagon’s intelligence arm steps up lie detecting
RAWSTORY: Company’s limit on Internet use upsets customers and portends new era in online service
Day 75 – 2008-08-23
ADS: “Peace Mom” v. “Guardian of Power”
FOXNEWS: Bush Blames Democrats for High Gas Costs
FOXNEWS: Bush Positive on U.S., Iraq Deal for U.S. Troop Withdrawal by 2012 (just six more months, and six more months…)
CITY-NEWS-OHIO: Impeachment Warranted
RAWSTORY: Buchanan accuses ‘McCain’s neocon warmonger’ of treason
RAWSTORY: CNN: Conspiracy theorists ‘not swayed’ by WTC7 explanation
RAWSTORY: Obama dogged by claims of birth certificate forgery
WAPO: Barack Obama’s choice of Joe Biden as his running mate is unlikely to shake-up the presidential horse race. (and let’s never speak of him again)
ADS: Rep. Conyers: You’re STILL Failing America – We Support You – Just Hold The Hearings
ADS: Daily Show Welcomes RNC to Minnesota
ADS: America’s Outrageous War Economy! Pentagon Can’t Find $2.3 Trillion
ADS: Uncounted: The Electronic Voting Machine Hokey Pokey (You Put Your Right Vote In. It Spits Your Wrong Vote Out) (video)
ADS: Judge Sides with Maker of “Bush Lied” T-Shirt
ADS: DU Shells Used by U.S. Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
ADS: Fascism Anyone?
ADS: Greens Call Military-Style Police Measures and Violation of Citizens’ Rights a “Breakdown of Law”
Day 74 – 2008-08-22
RAWSTORY: Documents reveal PR push for Iraq war preceded intel findings
ABCNEWS: Sex Trade Spikes During Conventions
ABCNEWS: Pigeon Jailed for Carrying Drugs
THE-UNION: Hold real Impeachment hearings
PRAVDA: Impeachment is Not Enough
BUZZFLASH: Impeachment Update: Conyers sent letters, did not call members back from recess
PEJ: Bush has no right to lecture about human rights
DU: A Few Words about the “Loony Left”
WSWS: Democrats and Obama prepare platform of war and reaction
PERENNIAL-ZEN: King George II
NEWSHOUNDS: For Fourth Night In A Row, Hannity And Guests Accuse Barack Obama Of Wanting To Kill Infants
RAWSTORY: White House missing as many as 225 days of e-mail
TPMCAFE: White House Attempting To Press Russia into the Iraq Cookie Cutter
ADS: The Humiliation of Georgia (and Bush)
DEMOCRATS.COM: WMD Sources Ignored By the Bush Administration
Day 73 – 2008-08-21
RAWSTORY: Libby questioned on forged letter linking Saddam to 9/11
MSNBC: Federal report refutes 9/11 conspiracy theory
CBSNEWS: U.S. Strike Aided Bin Laden-Taliban Ties?
CBSNEWS: McCain’s Warped Worldview
RAWSTORY: McCain refuses one-term pledge, says no need to differentiate himself from Bush
RAWSTORY: McCain to angry mom of veteran: ‘I don’t disagree’ with draft
CBSNEWS: Dubya Made Obama Possible
CBSNEWS: Hallmark Introduces Gay Marriage Cards
CBSNEWS: Rice: U.S., Iraq Close To Withdrawal Pact (if a frog had wings…)
BOSTON-GLOBE: Hey, can we get a little impeachment action here?
BALTIMORE-CHRONICLE: Peace Mom v. Guardian of Power
NAPPERVILLE-SUN: Charges against protesters dropped
PUBLIC-RECORD: Conyers Asks Intelligence Officials to Discuss Bogus Iraq/Al-Qaeda Letter
COUNTERPUNCH: Bush Still in Like Flynn, Musharraf Out Like Nixon
NUKE-SYLO-13: Why Bush Will Pardon AIPAC for Espionage
RAWSTORY: Denver to hunt protesters with maps, bicycles, football helmets
RAWSTORY: City panel to cops: Hold off on pot arrests during Democratic Convention
RAWSTORY: White House missing as many as 225 days of e-mail
ADS: Cannonfire on Cheney: Oil + Impeachment = RICO
ADS: Impeachable Offense?
ADS: Do NOthing Congress Leaves Us Wanting
ADS: Tomgram: John Feffer, The View from 2016
ADS: Senators Introduce Legislation to End CIA Coercive Interrogations & Secret Detentions
TPMCAFE: Unless NATO Stands Down, Russia Expected To Pre-Emptively Strike Poland
Day 72 – 2008-08-20
THE-OLYMPIAN: TNT: impeachment fans write in Kucinich vs. Rep. Smith
CBSNEWS: Queen Clinton Is VP Favorite Among Delegates
CBSNEWS: Mr. September — Giuliani To Be Keynote Speaker At Republican National Convention
CBSNEWS: Faux-Democrat Lieberman to speak at the Republican Convention
NEW-AMERICAN: According to Pelosi, Impeachment Proceedings Are “Off the Table”
LJWORLD: Impeachable crimes
CONSORTIUM-NEWS: Musharraf, Not Bush, Follows Nixon
NYT: One Protest, 52 Arrests and a $2 Million Payout [Google News]
RAWSTORY: CNN investigates McCain’s ‘greatest moral failure’
RAWSTORY: Obama, McCain accepted illegal funds from foreigners
RAWSTORY: OLBERMANN: Bush creating ’embryonic police state’
RAWSTORY: BBC: Some residents ‘furious’ over NYC terror checks
RAWSTORY: Ohio: No ‘sleepovers’ for voting machines
TPMCAFE: Russia Shows President Bush Is Isolated, Weak
ADS: Computer Expert: They Don’t Want to Win Elections – They Want to Steal Them (video)
ADS: Welt Online: George W. Bush to Be Impeached?
ADS: Loserville: Obama Is Channeling Kerry and Gore
ADS: US Accused of War Crimes Over Torture Methods
ADS: He Warned Us (IKE)
ADS: Chico CA Council Rebuffs Impeachment Efforts
CBS4DENVER: Democratic Suckers Asked To Buy Obama Speech Tickets HA HA!
Day 71 – 2008-08-19
ABCNEWS: Bush Involved in U.S. Attorney Scandal?
AFP: Bugliosi is Going for the Big One
WELT-ONLINE: Dennis Kucinich posts online impeachment petition
OEN: The Urgency of Impeachment
SCHOLARS-ROGUES: Impeachment? Truth and reconciliation commission? Never mind that – haul George Bush into a court of law, part 1
RAWSTORY: Woodward’s ‘secret history’ of Bush admin. to debut Sept. 8
ADS: Amy Goodman Interviews House Judiciary Chairman Conyers and “Way of the World” Author Ron Suskind. Part 2 (video)
ADS: Out Damned Blot: A Letter to Colin Powell
ADS: September 10th – A Message from Rep. Dennis Kucinich
ADS: What Is a Common Good Bank? (video)
ADS: Bush Has Reasons to Stiff Vermont
ADS: Did Washington Waste Millions on Faulty Voting Machines?
CNN: CAFFERTY: Is McCain another George W. Bush?
TPMCAFE: Russia Heeds Bush’s Example, Parses Written Obligations
Day 70 – 2008-08-18
ADS: Conyers Calls Committee Back from Summer Recess to Investigate Suskind Allegations
ADS: Pelosi Gets “Booked” & Confronts Her Own Past
ADS: Willie Nelson Stands Up for Our Returning Troops – Will You? (video)
ADS: Huffing and Puffing at the Pentagon
ADS: Democracy Dreaming
IMPEACH4PEACE: IF YOU WOULD NOT IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH, WHO WOULD YOU IMPEACH?
RABBLE: Nader in Canada: ‘Unreasonable man’ runs again
PAGEONEQ: Intelligence agency seeks gays
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?
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]
Nancy Pelosi’s Table – Youtube – VodPod – Digg – MyBlogLog – FriendFeed – Scribd – ImpeachmentWatch Mobile – Technorati
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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