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December 17, 2007 at 14:35:24

Headlined on 12/17/07:
Time for Another Big Impeachment Push, Folks!

by Dave Lindorff     Page 1 of 1 page(s)

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Readers of this website helped mightily to get 55,000 people to sign on to wexlerwantshearings.com, the site Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) set up on Friday to elicit public support for his call, made jointly with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), for the House Judiciary Committee to begin immediate hearings on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's bill (H Res 799) for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

UPDATE! This is working. Since I filed this story in mid-afternoon, the number of signers has jumped by 10,000 to 90,000. We can break 100,000 tonight.

Although this dramatic development in the impeachment movement of having three senior members of the House Judiciary Committee join in calling for hearings has still not been reported by any mainstream news organization, by early this afternoon, the number of signers on the website had grown to 80,000. And people are adding their names at a rate of almost one per second.

We have a good chance to drive this number up over 100,000 today, if people will press their friends and relatives to go to the site and sign on.

There is also word that other members of the Judiciary Committee--perhaps as many as six or more--are considering adding their names to the Wexler-Gutierrez-Baldwin call. If that happens, and if the petition grows beyond 100,000 names, it is hard do see how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can continue her anti-democratic position of keeping a lid on impeachment.

It is also time to start calling your own local member of Congress. Demand that he or she sign on to the Wexler-Gutierrez-Baldwin call for action, and if they won't, then demand to know why they won't. Use Wexler's arguments against them, and remind them about this petition, with its 80,000+ names.

So get to work people. We have an impeachment to get on the table!

Dave Lindorff

 

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

Dave Lindorff, a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His latest book, coauthored with Barbara Olshanshky, is "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, May 2006). His writing is available at http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

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George Washington

George Washington is a pen name. I am using the pen name, with the approval of the publisher, because I have received death threats due to my 9/11 research and writing. I am using a pen name to protect myself and my family.

George WashingtonGeorge Washington

George Washington is a pen name. I am using the pen name, with the approval of the publisher, because I have received death threats due to my 9/11 research and writing. I am using a pen name to protect myself and my family.

Mr. Lindorff: A Question

You write "remind them about this petition, with its 80,000+ names."

Would it  be more powerful to say "remind them about this petition, and the fact that 80,000+ names were gathered in a mere ___ days"?

(where the blank is filled in with how many days the petition has been available for signing?) 

by George Washington (68 articles, 18 quicklinks, 139 diaries, 180 comments) on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 3:03:57 PM
 


A concerned citizen and former mathematician/engineer now retired and living in rural Maine.
PrMaineA concerned citizen and former mathematician/engineer now retired and living in rural Maine.

Nancy Said

A month or so ago, it was reported that Nancy Pelosi had said that if she received 10,000 handwritten letters asking for impeachment she would initiate proceedings.  There may have been a deadline on this offer, probably now passed.

As soon as I heard this, I sat down with pen and ink and wrote my own contribution to the cause.  Has anyone heard how many letters she received?  It's hard for me to believe it was less than 10,000. 

by PrMaine (8 articles, 5 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 284 comments) on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 8:49:06 AM
 


Between jobs, passions are motorcycles, music, and green-tech
truthtruffleBetween jobs, passions are motorcycles, music, and green-tech

I signed it

Did you?

by truthtruffle (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 94 comments) on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 7:41:42 PM
 


Retire high school English teacher. Grandmother of eight grandchildren, six of them Muslim. Love to travel. Have been to Russia, Spain, Morocco, Crete and Santorini, Cosumel and Chichen Itza. Alas, not enough places. However, the ocean anywhere satisfies the soul.
ChristieRetire high school English teacher. Grandmother of eight grandchildren, six of them Muslim. Love to travel. Have been to Russia, Spain, Morocco, Crete and Santorini, Cosumel and Chichen Itza. Alas, not enough places. However, the ocean anywhere satisfies the soul.

Something seems funny with the Wexler Site numbers

I have been following wexlerwantshearings.com  Site 
frequently checking the numbers. I kept watching it go up rapidly.
At 7:16 I wrote down 90,266.
At 7:46 it was--to my surprise-- 83,870.
Thinking that was a computer glitch, I kept checking back:
At 8:32 : 84,300.  pretty much indicated the radical change
 in the speed of rise of numbers after the reduction downward.

Anyone have an answer for this?

by Christie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 149 comments) on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 8:15:40 PM
 


George Washington

George Washington is a pen name. I am using the pen name, with the approval of the publisher, because I have received death threats due to my 9/11 research and writing. I am using a pen name to protect myself and my family.

George WashingtonGeorge Washington

George Washington is a pen name. I am using the pen name, with the approval of the publisher, because I have received death threats due to my 9/11 research and writing. I am using a pen name to protect myself and my family.

I've noticed

it also.  It is possible someone is hacking the site and reducing the numbers.  OR it is possible that the Wexler people themselves are first counting new signatures, but then throwing them out if they turn out to be obviously bogus.

I've started online petitions before, and people try to mess up the petition by signing things like "Daffy Duck" or "Bin Laden".

I don't know which is happening here. 

by George Washington (68 articles, 18 quicklinks, 139 diaries, 180 comments) on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 12:05:40 AM
 


i am retired military veteran. i served over 25 years in the Unites States Army. i retired in 1983. i served in the vietnam war. a total of 27 months in that war. i also retired from Boeing aircraft. i am 68 years old. i live in texas. iwork out on my treadmill each day. i am married. i like politics. but i dont like what is going on in our government. we need a better government with politicans that answer to the people of america. after all this is our government. ( we the people) according to...

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vincent passiatorei am retired military veteran. i served over 25 years in the Unites States Army. i retired in 1983. i served in the vietnam war. a total of 27 months in that war. i also retired from Boeing aircraft. i am 68 years old. i live in texas. iwork out on my treadmill each day. i am married. i like politics. but i dont like what is going on in our government. we need a better government with politicans that answer to the people of america. after all this is our government. ( we the people) according to...

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Another Big Impeachment Push

 If these two Imbeciles are not Impeached, before leaving office then the next president i hope it will be Dennis if not then may be O'bama or Edwards  will bring congressional investigations and charges against these two TYRANTS. They must face criminal charges, and war crimes. they deserve jail time. IN FACT LOCK THEM UP IN A DUNGON. FOR 40 YEARS. AND HARD LABOR.

by vincent passiatore (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 161 comments) on Monday, December 17, 2007 at 10:48:04 PM
 


JUST A CONCERN CITIZEN AND LOVE MY COUNTRY GREW UP IN A SMALL FISHING TOWN IN NJ,BUT THE DAY I GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE,SPENT MOST OF MY TIME EXPANSING MY MINE. LEARNED A LOT THE HARD WAY,BUT MOSTLY STREET SMART. AT 65 HAVE PRETTY GOOD IDEA WHO THE SNAKES ARE.
RICHARD SHADEJUST A CONCERN CITIZEN AND LOVE MY COUNTRY GREW UP IN A SMALL FISHING TOWN IN NJ,BUT THE DAY I GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE,SPENT MOST OF MY TIME EXPANSING MY MINE. LEARNED A LOT THE HARD WAY,BUT MOSTLY STREET SMART. AT 65 HAVE PRETTY GOOD IDEA WHO THE SNAKES ARE.

IMPEACHMENT WHAT IS GOING ON

WHY DID NANCY PELOSI EVEN TALK ABOUT IMPEACMENT AND SAY ITS OFF THE TABLE, WHAT DARK FORCE IS AT WORK HERE, SHE KNOWS IMPEACHMENT IS THE ONLY WAY TO STOP A RUN AWAY PRESIDENT THAT THINKS HE IS ABOVE THE LAW. IS HER BETTER JUDGEMENT BEING SWAYED BY FEAR, OR GUILIT OF NOT STOPPING THESE ILLIGAL WARS AND BEING COMPLESED IN ALL THE CRIMES BUSH AND CHENEY HAVE COMMITTED. THERE PEOPLE DIEING EVERY DAY THAT SHE KEEPS IMPEACHMENT OFF THE TABLE. WHAT IS GOING ON.

WE ALL KNOW WHATS GOING ON BUT IF YOU RIGHT THE TRUTH HERE YOU GET FLAGED, SEAMS FREE SPEACH IS OFF THE TABLE. 

by RICHARD SHADE (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 460 comments) on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 1:49:03 AM
 


JUST A CONCERN CITIZEN AND LOVE MY COUNTRY GREW UP IN A SMALL FISHING TOWN IN NJ,BUT THE DAY I GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE,SPENT MOST OF MY TIME EXPANSING MY MINE. LEARNED A LOT THE HARD WAY,BUT MOSTLY STREET SMART. AT 65 HAVE PRETTY GOOD IDEA WHO THE SNAKES ARE.
RICHARD SHADEJUST A CONCERN CITIZEN AND LOVE MY COUNTRY GREW UP IN A SMALL FISHING TOWN IN NJ,BUT THE DAY I GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE,SPENT MOST OF MY TIME EXPANSING MY MINE. LEARNED A LOT THE HARD WAY,BUT MOSTLY STREET SMART. AT 65 HAVE PRETTY GOOD IDEA WHO THE SNAKES ARE.

ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT

THIS IS THE TRUTH AND THESE GLOBALIST HAVE GOT CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT AND OUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS, APACK, CFR, TC, AND MAYBE A LITTLE FREEMASONRY . THERE IS NO MORE GOVERNMENT FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE ANYMORE, AND THE 2008 ELECTION IS A FIX GAME AND THE MASS MEDIA DECEPTION AND MISINFORMATION LETS THE VOTING PUBLIC "THINK" THEY CAN PLAY. NO MANATORY PAPER TRAIL VOTING MACHINES,THANKS TO DIANNE TC FEINSTEIN SHE NOCKED THAT BILL RIGHT OFF THE TABLE. LOOK AT POLLS HUCHABEE MADE A SPEACH AT CFR AND NOW HE'S THE TOP DOG. DON'T ANYBODY GET THE PICTURE.

by RICHARD SHADE (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 460 comments) on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 2:08:45 AM
 


36 year old Bid rose well above the ignorant environs of his family's upbringing and filled his mind with the extremes of subversive underground counterculture and illegal substances until he wound up sitting naked on the end of his bed in one of his empty rooms of this world, bleeding, and trying to braid a noose to hang himself with out of a trashbag that contained the last of his worldly belongings... Then he cut off all his hair and moved straight away to the wild unknown country where he c...

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C.Bid36 year old Bid rose well above the ignorant environs of his family's upbringing and filled his mind with the extremes of subversive underground counterculture and illegal substances until he wound up sitting naked on the end of his bed in one of his empty rooms of this world, bleeding, and trying to braid a noose to hang himself with out of a trashbag that contained the last of his worldly belongings... Then he cut off all his hair and moved straight away to the wild unknown country where he c...

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Steve,

You may be right.

But there's no harm in trying and it only takes a minute or two.

The Impeachment Movement is gathering momentum at least.  The signatures may very well exceed anyone's expectations and I hope they will continue to be impressive whether or not they wind up playing a factor at all in the grand scheme of things!  Progress is being made... and that's with no thanks to be given to naysayers and others like yourself.

Cheers,

Bid

by C.Bid (0 articles, 7 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 647 comments) on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at 10:46:11 AM
 

 

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