HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD DICK CHENEY, HANG DOWN YOUR HEAD AND CRY

Let me say this while my mouth is free of an alpo sandwich with manwich

sauce. Impeachment is off the table. The table was impounded by the

creditors , along with the car and house.

Now I am looking for a place to lay my mangy head while I look for scraps.

I don't have the strength to move my paws, let alone to bark out loud.

What's the difference? We'll only get another mutt that will make us beg for

a bone. Let's just take a nap in the shade, while we can.

Woof,er whoa is me!

 

by Wolfie (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 1176 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 1:40:34 AM
 

60 articles next time?

Dennis said he will be back in 30 days, and next time would bring 60 articles of impeachment?   They might all be more effective if he were able to reduce their number instead, or if a few main articles could umbrella the rest.  One of John Conyers' main objections was the time factor. If the impeachment articles were reducible to something that could be dealt with more swiftly, that might remove the "reason" he gave.

(The first link given above, the tinyurl, doesn't seem to work.)

by Aurora (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 345 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 2:29:45 AM
 

AURORA IS DREAMING

Take out the dog and put in the cat, or you don't get no spendin' cash,

yakkety yak, don't talk back!

No problema, for Dubya. No cujones for Conyers. No impeachment

for Amerika. No time left for you, American woman.

by Wolfie (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 1176 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 3:42:28 AM
 

Fewer Articles - Same Result

Nancy Pelosi will not act on this, she is complicit in the crimes being committed by obstructing justice.  

 

by Dennis Kaiser (14 articles, 0 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 226 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 7:09:54 AM
 

"Should Have..." Chairman Conyers remains unconvinced

In spite of all co-signers, co-sponsors, petitions, letters, phone calls, personal pleas, city resolutions, state senate resolutions, state democratic party resolutions, all and more urging impeachment hearings, the "should have..." Chairman John Conyers remains unconvinced and refuses to hold a single hearing on the impeachment articles already on file, the epitomy of gross malfeasance in office.  

Conyers has turned his back on his constitutional duties and a deaf ear to accountability, the truth, the rule of law, and checks and balances, thereby ushering in for the American people and a once free nation a new form of goverance, the absolute rule of an imperial presidency.

"Should Have..." Chairman's first Article on "Why Nixon Should Have Been Impeached" by John Conyers Jr Link CLICK HERE http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/4/95218/85782

by Gene Cappa (24 articles, 0 quicklinks, 28 diaries, 202 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 7:07:01 AM
 

Help Impeach Bush

Perhaps "they" are waiting until after elections to start impeachment! 

Since right-wing nuts seem to be so "sensitive" and think everyone is playing their political games of name-calling.  They don't realize some of us actually want to see the crimes of this administration (whether democractic or republican) exposed and those that are guilty punished. 

Right-wing nuts are so clouded in their thoughts, they can't accept that Bush & Co. has put America in harms way!

If Congress were to impeach now, it may have a negative affect on the elections.  Right wing nuts will be out crying and screaming, "Dems are impeaching for political reasons!"  And there would be many uninformed Repubs (and trust me, there are many) who would be easily convinced and would follow along as they normally do instead of thinking on their own.

I say wait until the day after Obama wins and slap Bush and Cheney with impeachment!  Clean house!  We can not accept this outrageous, ignorant, arrogant, criminal mindset to exhist in the government of the greatest nation!

 

by Viki (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 47 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 7:22:45 AM
 

There is a problem with impeachment.

 

The problem is that we the people cannot do it. Only Congress can do it. And Congress is a bureacracy. This is a little allegory I wrote to try to explain John Conyers' predicament to those who keep asking him to impeach:

The Fable of Lanova Messiah
by Mark E. Smith

Lanova Messiah is a hero of the peace movement here in Exxonia. Lanova's mother was tortured and killed by the corrupt dictator who is currently our country's President. Lanova has been arrested many times protesting the crimes of our government, most recently at the office of one Member of Parliament who had promised to help us remove our dictator from power, but has not, and at the office of another who is also from Lanova's own political party but is protecting the dictator instead of protecting the people. So it was with great joy that we learned that Lanova is running for Parliament herself.

Of course we know that if elected, Lanova would be a junior member with no seniority, but we are happy to have a chance to vote for someone who cares about peace as much as we do, and who we know to be incorruptible. We also know that Exxonian elections are rigged, but we think that Lanova has a good chance of winning anyway. The only candidates with a chance of winning the Presidential election are one from the dictator's political party and one from Lanova's own party, but both have consistently voted for everything the dictator wanted and, if elected, are committed to continuing the dictator's agenda of atrocities and crimes against humanity. So if the private corporations that really run our country, and that own and program the voting machines, want the two-party system to retain any credibility at all, they may allow Lanova to have a token and powerless seat in Parliament. From the point of view of the corporations, this might help allay the growing rebellion within the citizenry, and will put Lanova in a position where she can be more easily controlled.

Exxonia's two ruling parties are the Corrupt Party and the Not-As-Corrupt Party. Like most decent Exxonians, Lanova is a member of the Not-As-Corrupt Party, but will have to run as an independent in order to get her name on the ballot in the next election. Once elected, however, Lanova will be considered part of the Not-As-Corrupt Party's voting bloc, despite being nominally independent. The job of the Corrupt Party in Exxonian politics is to promote the agenda of war crimes and atrocities to further enrich the already wealthy elites. The job of the Not-As-Corrupt Party is to support the same criminal agenda, but not quite as fervently. In this way they can co-opt those citizens who oppose war crimes and prevent them from opposing the system by allowing them to cling to the illusion that change could come about from within the system itself. Only half of Exxonia's citizens, seeing that their only choice is between flagrant supporters of war crimes and less flagrant supporters of war crimes, reject this as an unreasonable choice and refuse to vote in our rigged elections at all.

The overwhelming majority of Exxonians are unhappy with our government, but we show our displeasure by voting in rigged elections and by calling on our corrupt dictator and his lapdog Parliament to change their ways. We are a peaceful people with a relatively comfortable standard of living, and we are not given to violence. Of course we know that our government is a military superpower and one of the world's biggest arms dealers, so we can see how futile a violent revolution would be, even if we were to attempt one.

We Exxonians think of our Parliament as a sacred institution. This idea is perpetuated in the schools among the youngest children and is deeply ingrained. We revere the founders of our country who did not give us a mere dictatorship, but a dictatorship with the appearance of a democratic apparatus, Parliament, that had the possibility of being responsive to the people. We know that with one or two exceptions, all the Members of Parliament are wealthy elitists who can't be held accountable to their constituents, but we like to pretend that the rich aren't greedier and more corrupt than anyone else. We desperately need to believe that if Lanova is elected, and particularly if a handful of Lanova's colleagues are also elected, we will finally have achieved a real voice in government through our electoral process.

Deep in our hearts we know, of course, that our sacred institution of Parliament is really nothing more than a bureaucracy designed to shield the powerful from our grievances and our wrath. Like any bureaucracy, it has a hierarchy, a strict chain-of-command, complex procedures, and time-tested ways of dealing with troublemakers and insubordination. Facing the truth that our sacred institution is nothing more than a bureaucracy, however, would force us to accept the fact that we do not really have a voice in government, so this is something that we cannot do. We not only remain in deep denial with regard to this crucial issue, but we attack anyone who mentions it with the fury of those who have convinced themselves that a naked emperor is regally garbed.

Let's take a look at what Lanova will encounter in Parliament once elected. First of all there will be the complicated procedures that must be followed. For help in understanding and navigating these obstacles, Lanova will hire competent staff members who have made careers out of trying to work within these rocky channels. Naturally, it will never occur to such people to try to do away with the obstacles or to find ways to go around them, because then what would they do for a living? So Lanova will be taught about the proper procedures and how to follow them.

Lanova's first actions in Parliament, of course, will be similar to the actions that Lanova has taken as an ordinary citizen. She will attempt to speak out on the floor of the House of Commons, but will always be ruled out of order. She can then choose whether to confine her speeches to after hours sessions, where TV cameras will film her speaking to an empty room, or to continue attempting to speak out while the House is in session until she has been pronounced out of order, declared in contempt, and ushered from the floor by the Sergeant-at-Arms and the Parliamentary Police and arrested enough times to justify having her removed from Parliament by reason of having a criminal record.

It is also possible that Lanova will decide to abide by the rules of Parliament and attempt to work within those rules to persuade Parliament to remove the dictator from power and to stop funding his war crimes. But being a freshman, Lanova will not have any important committee assignments or any seniority with which to qualify for such assignments, so Lanova's legislation is unlikely to ever make it out of committee and get to the floor for a vote so that she can discuss it without being arrested. Lanova will quickly become frustrated and realize that in order to accomplish anything, it is necessary to first have more power, which would mean remaining in Parliament so as to gain more seniority. In order to do this, it is necessary to raise vast amounts of campaign money, so instead of legislating, Lanova, like all other Members of Parliament, will have to spend almost every waking moment trying to raise funds instead of legislating. Lanova will therefore need more staff to read and brief her on legislation that has reached the floor, and to remind her when it is time to vote.

Lanova's office will quickly be bombarded by hordes of lobbyists trying to influence the way that Lanova votes, so even if Lanova intends to ignore them, it will be necessary to have more staff to deal with them. And since lobbyists can often make the fundraising process easier, it is likely that due to her need to gain more seniority so as to be able to accomplish anything, Lanova's staff will at least have to be courteous to the lobbyists. Lanova's capitol and district offices will also be besieged by constituents seeking her assistance with personal and community problems, so Lanova will need more staff to cope with constituents. Parliamentarians themselves, no matter how much they may care about their constituents, simply don't have the time to communicate with them other than in town meetings during campaign season. Without her staff, Lanova would be as hobbled as a prerevolutionary Chinese woman with bound feet. But given a large and dedicated staff, including both paid professionals and unpaid interns and volunteers, Lanova will be able to concentrate on raising money to stay in office and gain the seniority necessary to have the power to accomplish anything in Parliament.

As a fierce warrior for freedom and the child of a martyr, Lanova may seek to circumvent the bureaucratic procedures of Parliament. This will be seen, by the corporations that really run Exxonia, as troublemaking and insubordination, so they will instruct the leaders of Lanova's party to punish Lanova by removing whatever seniority she may have gained, or refusing to grant her the privileges to which such seniority usually entitles one. Lanova may be denied committee memberships, and her party can easily withhold support for her legislation and, by endorsing and financing her opponent, substantially increase the costs of her subsequent political campaigns. If Lanova wishes to remain in Parliament long enough to gain the power to accomplish anything, she will find herself having to submit to party discipline, at least to a limited extent. Lanova will never become her Party's leader in Parliament, of course, because only those who commit to not opposing the dictator can rise to that position.

After many terms in office, if she submits to party discipline, Lanova may find herself the powerful head of a powerful committee. But she will still not have the power to accomplish anything. Even if her committee has the votes to get legislation to the floor, there are unlikely to be enough votes in Parliament to pass it. And of course it could still be rejected by the upper body (the House of Lords), vetoed by the Dictator, or struck down as unconstitutional by the dictator's Council of Final Decisions, the highest law of the land from which there is no possible appeal. And if Lanova tries to subvert Parliament by carrying her appeals directly to the people, she would be removed from her committee chairmanship by her party's leadership, she would no longer have subpoena power, and she would have to hold her hearings in a basement broom closet instead of in a grand committee hearing room. If she persisted, she might even be assassinated or “suicided.” But by then the dictator will have died or have been replaced with another dictator, and a new generation of idealists will be getting themselves arrested sitting in at Lanova's office, trying to force her to fulfill her promises to do that which it is impossible to do by working within our bureaucratic system.

But these are things that we dare not think about. So we in Exxonia are overjoyed at Lanova's decision to run for Parliament. We are sending her money, volunteering to work for her campaign, and those fortunate enough to live in her district will have the privilege of voting for her, whether or not their votes are actually counted. We are grateful that we live in a free country with a democratic Parliament, and that we have such patriots as Lanova to represent us.

Lanova Messiah for Parliament! Viva Lanova! Long live the democratic Republic of Exxonia!

 

by Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1320 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 7:44:14 AM
 

Congress

"Suppose I was an idiot, and suppose I was a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."    - Mark Twain

Do we need to understand anything more than this?

150 years later, the corrupt sytem is totally out of control.

by Bill Cain (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 284 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 9:09:04 AM
 

F&*CK Impeachment.

Just hang and quarter the bastards, and grind them into dog food.  No punishment is severe enough for the criminals in the White House and the Congress of the United States of America.  That goes for Pelosi and Conyers, too.

by daveys (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 168 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 11:53:49 AM
 

IT WAS FASCINATION I KNOW, NOW FASCINATION TURNED TO LOVE

Blood thirsty peace lovers? Emotionally satisfying, yet intellectually

bankrupt. Send them to be tried for war crimes. Allow them to be imprisoned

in isolation. Perhaps funnel in Abba music until they can't take it anymore.

by Wolfie (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 29 diaries, 1176 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 1:41:26 PM
 

No, not ABBA

The only sounds they deserve to hear are the screams and cries of widows, orphans and the maimed.

by Donald Rankin III (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 37 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 2:42:35 PM
 

GREAT IDEA DAVID!

Thanks, I called Monticello. CONGRATULATIONS! They already have a message on their machine redirecting folks who have comments about July 4th to email their comments to publicaffairs@monticello.org. So I sent this:

Thank you for preserving Jefferson's legacy, I have been to Monticello many times, and am proud that Jefferson was so instrumental in forming our great nation. Poor Thomas, however, must be turning in his grave to know that you have invited the despot he warned us about in the Declaration of Independence to speak on his hallowed ground on July 4th. I trust that impeachment proceedings will soon make it impossible for Bush to further contaminate the sacred ground at Monticello.

And just to make sure they got it, I sent an additional copy to the contact info on their site at http://www.monticello.org/contact.html along with my request for a brochure!

And I emailed the Daily Progress with a copy of my email, subject line, "WTF"

Thanks for making this so easy to follow through on!

I also sent handwritten postcards to all members of the Judiciary Committee, and I invite others to do the same.  My article and every committee member's contact info is here:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Impeachment-Action-Is-Work-by-Meryl-Ann-Butler-080626-483.html

 

 

 

 

by Meryl Ann Butler (43 articles, 41 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 343 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 5:03:40 PM
 

Meryl Anne and All

Some of us have done this for FOUR YEARS NOW. Contact Congress, sign 5 petitions of a couple million people, write letters to editors etc etc etc

 

NOTHING.

 

The ONLY way to make it happen now if the, wait for it, threatenn the Dems that if they do not, then you pewrsonally will not vote for ANY Dem..

 

Not for Prez, Congress, Dog catcher. Nothing.

 

Threaten their jobs. If they do not then, that will be proof positive that they are complicit in the Crimes and so do not deserve our support. 

 

ever again

 

Of course to do so would take a backbone campaign. For voters and activists.

by Michael Cavlan (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 224 comments) on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 at 11:44:34 PM
 

Here's an action plan I propose, Will this work, David?

1) Circumvent the bought-off Congress. Put on the pressure from the masses:

Get local officials to make pro-impeachment statements and resolutions. City Councils, County Supervisors, State legislators, Assemblymen/women.

 2) Get college newsletter editors to cover the story of the resolutions passed by officials above. HOpefully the mainstream press would become jealous and want to scoop the story.

3) How to "sell" the officials above on the need for impeachment and their good image as they do so?

Show them MSNBC, AOL and USA Today's impeachment polls: Even at USA today the figures are 53% in favor. And that's the lowest of all the mainstream poll figures! Surely it's to their best interest to get behind this, to be in favor of their constituency.

Show them Seymore HErsch's New Yorker article stating that we ARE going to war with Iran (Which implies greater gas price hikes, food riots as food transportation becomes too expensive to do, depression, etc plus maybe WW III). Show them articles from the Asia Times (google Coastal Post/Asia Times and you will see), Israeli Radio, etc announcements that the war on Iran is coming....by this AUgust, according to the Coastal Post/Asia Times!

No, the Congress will not listen....to a few voices. But they WILL listen to hte voices of the masses. We've seen it already: Resignations from public office as scandals break. Moveon.org millions of signatures turn Congresspeople around. The greater numbers work! Those of us who think "I wrote, and it did no good" and making one very short-sighted oversight: One voice alone can't count. Time to rethink! Get hte masses involved and KEEP GOING!

Surely the only way to GUARANTEE that nothing happens is to....do nothing.

We can also write letters to the editor to sway public opinion. Fact-based letters will do just that, but opinions/rants will only turn us into laughingstock. Give the facts and people will make up their own minds. (Facts like the war with Iran and PROVE the facts! Point out the inflated gas prices going up even more, and the outcome thereof. Etc..."Money talks" and the timing of htis gas price hike just may help the impeachment cause along!! THERE"s HOPE!!)

Keep up the hope folks. Don't  give in to despair. That's what the politicians want. KEEP GOING. PUT PUBLIC PRESSURE ON, IN MASS LEVELS, NOT JUST ONE-ON-ONE. THEN IT WILL WORK!

Thank you all.

by Kathryn Smith (93 articles, 2 quicklinks, 38 diaries, 361 comments) on Thursday, July 3, 2008 at 2:41:09 PM