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A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.
The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush
The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law
United States v. George W. Bush et al.
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush
The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens
The Case for Impeachment
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney
George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying
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Impeach Bush: A Funny Li'l Graphical Novel About the Worstest Pres'dent in the History of Forevar
Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America
Six Judiciary Committee Members for Impeachment
By David Swanson
Forty-five Congress Members now stand in one manner or another for impeachment.
Congressman Steve Cohen from Tennessee, and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee of Texas have signed onto H. Res. 333. That makes six Judiciary Committee members ready to impeach the Vice President. The other four are Hank Johnson of Georgia, Keith Ellison of Minnesota, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, and Maxine Waters of California. Four of these six are African American. A fifth, Cohen, is white but represents a majority black district and attempted unsuccessfully to join the Congressional Black Caucus. All six represent urban districts, three from the South, two from the Midwest, and one from Southern California. All six are Democrats. None of the six chairs a subcomittee. Three of them are freshmen.
There are 23 Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, and 17 Republicans.
All told, 19 congress members have signed on as cosponsors of H. Res. 333, a bill proposing articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. H Res 333 cosponsors include, Dennis Kucinich, Jan Schakowsky, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Albert Wynn, William Lacy Clay, Yvette Clarke, Jim McDermott, Jim Moran, Bob Filner, Sam Farr, Robert Brady, Tammy Baldwin, Donald Payne, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson-Lee. Nine are African-American, 10 are white. All 19 are from urban or suburban areas, three from the South, five from the Midwest, five from the East, and six from the West. One, Jan Schakowsky, is Chief Deputy Democratic Whip. Let's hope she starts whipping!
Twenty-eight congress members have signed onto H Res. 589, a bill proposing the impeachment of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The cosponsors are Jay Inslee, Xavier Becerra, Michael Arcuri, Ben Chandler, Dennis Moore, Bruce Braley, Tom Udall, Earl Blumenauer, Peter DeFazio, Hank Johnson, Steve Cohen, Keith Ellison, David Wu, Yvette Clarke, Darlene Hooley, Betty McCollum, Timothy Bishop, Barney Frank, Carolyn Maloney, Ed Perlmutter, Tammy Baldwin, Shelley Berkley, Raul Grijalva, Ed Pastor, Ellen Tauscher, Rush Holt, Jim McGovern, Gary Ackerman.
Only Johnson, Ellison, Clarke, Baldwin, and Cohen have signed onto both bills (four of them Judiciary Committee Members, four of them freshmen). (19 + 28 - 5 = 42)
Congressmen Jesse Jackson Jr. and Maurice Hinchey have recently said that they support the impeachment of Cheney and Bush, but have not yet signed onto any bills. (42 + 2 = 44)
Other Congress Members have said privately that they favor impeachment but not these bills, even that they would only support impeachment if it included Bush. The lack of cross-over support between the two existing bills is an indication of the importance of petty personal politics within Congress, and the extent to which Congress Members will sign onto a bill based on who the sponsor and cosponsors are and who asks them, and whether anyone asks them, to sign on.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has opposed impeachment since May 2006, but this week said that if she were not the Speaker she would probably be backing impeachment, and that impeachment of Gonzales is clearly merited. (44 + 1 = 45)
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Keep Calling
So it seems it was Cohen who answered his office phone last night. I had left a comment about that. I did not mention that he had asked me how I had found about about his intention to sign on to H Res 333.....
I told him from this web site. Every grain of sand we can put in our bucket makes a difference in tipping the scales of justice back where they belong...fair and balanced (sorry...couldn't help that)..
Keep calling and doing whatever you can...Thanks David for all your great work.
great job
keep it up!
there are more likely prospects on the Judiciary Committee
Impeachment,
Pathetic. Many well meaning people in the general public, local, state and U.S. official and politicians, in some cases both political parties say they back Impeachment. We all know that "Impeachment is off the table". Ladies and gentlemen, I smell a MOLE or two! You know Bush is into every thing else, he might just as well be in the Democratic Party, what do you think about that?
MOLE = AIPAC
IMPEACH BUSHCO & RICO PNAC/AIPAC>"OUT" ANTI-AMERICAN CABALS!
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Are the democrats that talk the talk of impeachment , just like the ones that voted against given the Decider unlimiting more powers of spying and inforcement of his dictatorial policies , saying this for election in 2008 , or is it trying to give the democrats voters a bone saying that they are really with us all though they are not really supporting us.
Does anyone get the opinion that the democrats are now treating the voters the same way Bush has done for the last 6 plus years as their little people that believe any BS they say.
Pete
YES - Impeach ALL SIMULTANEOUSLY!
Two more for impeaching Cheney now! With any luck, both these impeachments - Gonzales' and Cheney's - will be joined by IMPEACHMENT OF BUSH and ALL 3 PROCEED RAPIDLY.
I can only interpret the new co-sponsorship - of CHENEY, not Gonzales - by Cohen and Jackson-Lee (the latter from TEXAS, no less) as meaning that both have HAD IT with the obstructionism of their Party Leadership. No doubt balking at a very probable recent directive; one or both of the following:
1) Ordering the Gonzales impeachment to be offered up as "throwing a bone" to the public in lieu of a MEANINGFUL PROSECUTION OF CHENEY/BUSH, or;
2) Ordering the RACE CARD TO BE PLAYED, using the Conyers uproar, to fracture and discredit attempts to impeach Cheney and Bush that way.
So God Bless these two Southerners for taking the PRINCIPLED stand, and for doing it NOW!
Speaking of which, Congressmen Jesse Jackson Jr. and Maurice Hinchey should to be advised: If they retract and don't ever sign on to HRes333, they will be reviled as "pulling a Conyers" - worse even than those who simply and consistently refused to impeach from the start - and we will not soon forget that.
But if they're eventually going to sign on to HRes333 anyway, then why not do it NOW - and be of the maximum possible HELP - to TURN THIS COUNTRY AROUND.
Semper Fi,
-Matty in Florida
lets make sense of it
Impeachment is verbage. What we need now is action. Action to make
a difference in our government and the way the Democratic process is going.
Since the selection of president in year 2000 every rock has been unturned and no goodness has resulted from it...
We need to get back to integrity, honesty, thoughtfulness, empathy, constitutional awareness, ect.. But I think this is asking to much of an administration that wrecklessly abandoned the constitution, the rights of individuals, and freedoms that separated this country from the rest.
The sad secret is the rulers of this country want to make a new world order by developing this country into a blend of the rest.
But a military power to control the rest...