Help drive away the monsters with ImpeachMints!
The Progressive Democrats of America are selling packs of 100 for $15 and 200 for $25, plus shipping — and there’s still time to get some before Halloween. They also sell lots of other good impeachment gear — t-shirts, stickers, lapel pins; have a look.
Very interesting webcast of a recent panel discussion at the Library of Congress about the expansion of executive privilege under recent Presidents. Charlie Savage, 2007 Pulitzer recipient, was the guest of honor. There is much good information here, but watch how Savage and Former Rep. Mickey Edwards quickly act to suppress the question about why the media suppresses the question of impeachment (toward the end of the clip.)
On Saturday, September 15, tens of thousands of people from across the country will gather at 12 noon at the White House (north side in Lafayette Park) and then march to the Capitol (west side) to call for an end to the Iraq war — and for impeachment of Bush and Cheney. A map of the march route and other event details can be found here.
Join us for a quick coffee and breakfast at the main Savory Cafe (the one at 7071 Carroll Avenue, up the hill from the gazebo in Takoma Park) around 10:30 am, and then we will walk down to the Metro together. Bring your IMPEACH THEM signs, banners, t-shirts etc. (If you miss us and want to try to find us at the demonstration, call 240-462-5973.)
Speaker and march co-chairman Ramsey Clark strongly supports impeachment, and the impeachment group ImpeachBush.org is a major co-sponsor of the demonstration. Clark:
Each and every one of us must do all that we can to support the major Peace/Impeachment demonstration in Washington, DC on September 15, 2007, backed by more than a million votes for impeachment, and accelerating… Only if we do our part might the rest of the world again believe, as it usually has, and has always wanted to do, that the American people are their friends, it is their government that is the problem.
Clark also makes his case for impeachment at the ImpeachBush.org web site.
Reading Paul O’Neill’s book, “The Price of Loyalty,” was a big turning point for me with regard to my opinion of this administration. This is a 2004 interview with the former Secretary of the Treasury that demonstrates that the Iraq war was not about terrorism but was a pre-emptive war planned before 9-11-01. Starting a war of aggression is one of the articles of impeachment in Kucinich’s Cheney impeachment bill H Res 333. (disclaimer-We’re not endorsing candidates on this site, but because the video was posted by Ron Paul’s campaign it contains some of his campaign messages, which you can take or leave as you wish! Lisa)
Takoma Park, MD citizens organize to Impeach Them! The city council unanimously passes a resolution to Impeach Pres. Bush and VP Cheney. Includes citizen interviews before and after the vote, citizen comments during the hearing and the council vote. – 2nd Edition with soundtrack. TRT approximately 45mins.
Thanks NPR! On Wednesday the NPR program Day to Day ran a balanced, accurate segment on impeachment that presented both sides (pro-impeachment and ‘it’s not going to go anywhere’). They even had Bruce Fein on saying Democrats are afraid of having 9-11 being used against them, etc. Unfortunately the show does not air where it counts – inside the Beltway. But let’s get in touch with them and thank them for this rare mainstream media coverage and encourage them to do more.
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Eighty-nine year-old Senator Byrd was talking impeachment before impeachment was cool. Hear him discuss the little-reported “shadow government” set up secretly by the White House in 2001, the dangers of an increasingly impotent Congress, and his amazing book Losing America with NPR’s Terry Gross in this 2004 interview.
In April 2006 he gave a short speech in the Senate that included these words:
Despite more than two centuries of pressure to change and “modernize” the Senate, as an institution, it remains remarkably similar to the body created at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. It retains all of its original powers, including providing advice and consent — yes. You said it. You better read that again in the Constitution.
It retains all of its original powers, including providing advice and consent to Presidents on nominations and on treaties, serving as a court of impeachment–you better believe it, Mr. President. The Senate can send you home. You better believe that.
If the House impeaches you, the Senate will try you. The Senate, don’t forget it, serves as a court of impeachment and has an equal say with the House on legislation. The Senate has an equal say with the other body on legislation.
Yesterday Rep. Ed Towns of Brooklyn, NY became the nineteenth cosponsor to Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s bill to impeach Dick Cheney. Some of his constituents share their secrets on what they did to encourage their Congressman to actually represent them. Read this for some very good advice and then Call Your Rep. just to say hi and by the way, you’d like him or her to defend the Constitution by supporting impeachment. Here in MD8 that is Chris Van Hollen
Read the article in Afterdowningstreet.org
By Dave Robinson of Brooklyn
Five of us Brooklyn people met with Congressman Ed Towns yesterday and successfully persuaded him to sign on to H. Res. 333. For what it’s worth here’s what worked with Ed. The same elements I think can only help you guys in dealing with YOUR REPS.
Carlson is worried that our resolution is somehow crossing the line between local and federal issues. You remember that passage in the Constitution about “separation of local and federal government,” right??
Tucker: Some years ago, when Takoma Park declared itself a nuclear free zone, there was some concern that Takoma Park was going to create an army or a militia or something and, kind of, strike out on its own. Is that—in the cards?
Mayor Porter. [pause] No.
Watch Video. Read MSNBC intro.
