Other members of the Giants like Steny Hoyer, whose job is to bend over and hike the ball to Pelosi, have said: “This administration has approximately 12 months to 14 months to go. We have some major priorities. We believe that we need to pursue those policies and focus on those policies.”
The Giants have the backing of the presidential candidates campaigning for so-called change.
Barack Obama has said, "I think you reserve impeachment for grave, grave breaches, and intentional breaches of the president's authority,” and goes on to say, “I believe if we began impeachment proceedings we will be engulfed in more of the politics that has made Washington dysfunction. We would once again, rather than attending to the people's business, be engaged in a tit-for-tat, back-and-forth, non-stop circus."
Hillary Clinton has avoided the matter for the most part. One can only imagine that when asked about impeachment she said, “I don’t support it because of what I saw impeachment do to my husband when he was in office.”
John Edwards said in this video in August 2007 that he understands the feeling people have who support impeachment but would rather focus on getting the right nominee in office---me.
In lieu of the fact that the candidates have chosen to root for the Giants, they have divided the support for impeachment by making some who supported impeachment feel electing them is instead the answer.
The Patriots have a smaller team than the Giants but one thing they have going for them that the Giants do not have is a passion for what they are fighting for, which is why I would not say they will lose yet. They also have strategized more than the other side. The Giants are only playing because the Patriots issued a challenge.
The Patriots team consists of Dennis Kucinich, the leader, and Tammy Baldwin, Luis Gutierrez, and Robert Wexler, who all will be a force to be reckoned with for John Conyers and Nancy Pelosi before Monday is over.
Other members include Rep. Robert Brady [D-PA], Rep. Yvette Clarke [D-NY], Rep. William Clay [D-MO], Rep. Steve Cohen [D-TN], Rep. Danny Davis [D-IL], Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN], Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA], Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA], Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ], Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX], Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA], Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick [D-MI], Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA], Rep. James McDermott [D-WA], Rep. James Moran [D-VA], Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ], Rep. Janice Schakowsky [D-IL], Rep. Edolphus Towns [D-NY], Rep. Maxine Waters [D-CA], Rep. Diane Watson [D-CA], Rep. Lynn Woolsey [D-CA], Rep. Albert Wynn [D-MD]…
And Congressman Mike Michaud, a conservative and Blue Dog Democrat from Maine sent a letter over the holiday break to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers calling for impeachment hearings of Vice President Dick Cheney. He takes the position that representatives likes Wexler have, which is that hearings for impeachment are necessary to determine if impeachment should occur. (All cosponsors presumably would already have no problem voting for impeachment.)
The Patriots team has grown from 3 to between 25 and 30 since May 2007. They have a lot of momentum going into this showdown despite the unlikelihood of achieving victory.
While the Patriots team has unified themselves for the impeachment of Cheney, it is expected they will do the same and unify for the impeachment of Bush.
Further reports conclude that a band of Rethuglicans might streak across the field halfway through crying out about how preposterous this is and saying they want the Democrats to debate it so they have to stand up and take a stand for or against what has caused the Patriots and Giants to clash. Nobody knows how valid that report may be but one thing is for sure: This won't be your grammy's or granddaddy's impeachment showdown.
The countdown to kickoff begins now with this video by Robert Greenwald:
H. Res. 333 (now H. Res. 799) otherwise known as the Impeachment of Cheney
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