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Impeachment News

by BooMan
Sat May 12th, 2007 at 10:37:34 AM EST

From Atlanta Progressive News:

US Rep. Albert Russell Wynn (D-MD) has become the fourth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the other two Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 333 are US Rep. Janice Schakowsky (D-IL) and William Lacy Clay (D-MO)

Four is not a lot. But:

Congresswoman and House Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters (D., Calif.) has spoken up in support of impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Waters said she advocates impeaching Cheney first, which is the same approach taken by Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio) in his bill, H. Res. 333. Waters has not yet cosponsored that bill.

She made a statement.

And it's not just urban Democrats.

On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson [Colin Powell's former chief of staff], speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

He, too, made a statement.

Forty percent of Americans agree. The Dissident Voice discusses the Ecology of Impeachment.

The American electorate is looking more and more like the polar bear stranded on a shrinking ice floe — still powerful but with democracy melting out from under our feet. Unlike the polar bear, however, we should be able to analyze our situation and take action. The first thing we have to do is accept that certain familiar features of our habitat, which we have depended on in the past, are just gone.

If I'm a polar bear I should be able to get whatever I want, right? Like, how about I get some of the 5 to 15 million dollars of oil money that go missing each day in Iraq? How would that be?

Finally, people keep voting to impeach.

At Town Meeting on Saturday, Shutesbury became the latest town in Massachusetts to publicly call for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

Leverett passed a similar measure last week during its Town Meeting.

The shrillness warms my heart.



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Impeachment, always impeachment. There's a much simpler way to handle these guys; the World Bank's executive board has figured it out. From today's WaPo article on the Woes of Wolfie:

Board members are betting that a strong expression of dissatisfaction will persuade the Bush administration to withdraw its support and urge Wolfowitz to step down...

Here we go on about impeachment, assuming there's no other way to alter the disastrous course Bush/Cheney have set the country on, when all along a simple strong expression of dissatisfaction is all it would've taken to get these guys to change their stances. Darn -- why didn't anybody try that before?

And these guys are worried that Wolfowitz's presence undermines confidence in the Bank.

by no3reed on Sat May 12th, 2007 at 12:27:36 PM EST
Tell you the truth, I'm in favor of a military coup! if that's what it takes to get W out of office so be it..Free and Fair elections will be held in 2008. It can't be any worst, cuz W has been a dictator for the last six years. Impeachment takes to long, maybe we should have people power revolt! like the phillipines got rid of the Marcos.
by americanforliberty on Sat May 12th, 2007 at 01:26:11 PM EST
Heh!   Al Wynn saw the light last September when he almost lost the primary by the skin of his teeth to a relative newcomer, Donna Edwards (who is considering challenging him again in '08).  Since then, Wynn has been a very good Democrat, and has been paying attention to what people in his district want... Out of Iraq and Impeachment are both pretty strong around here.

Little by little, the message is bubbling up... Out of Iraq.  Impeachment.

Louder and louder and louder the rumbling grows...

Keith Olbermann speaks for me.

by JanetT in MD on Sat May 12th, 2007 at 09:08:41 PM EST


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