WE THE PEOPLE CUT THE HEART OUT OF THE LIEBERMAN-KYL AMENDMENT
It has taken a couple days for the actual disposition of the Lieberman-Kyl amendment to leak out, but in FACT, the two most offensive paragraphs (3 and 4), which we were objecting to so strenuously as amounting to a declaration of war on Iran, were REMOVED IN THEIR ENTIRETY prior to the vote. Which means we WON.
Yes, you did it, with your TENS of thousands of emails and phones to Congress this last Monday and Tuesday. We are so proud of our participants on this one. Claim your win.
What was left was not great, but ultimately it means nothing with the actual teeth of the amendment extracted, not that that's any excuse for those who voted yes (or did not vote at all). So the Senate called some people a terrorist organization. Big deal, it's not binding anyway, no more than their groundless and hypocritical condemnation of MoveOn a week ago. And for those who may say this gives Cheney and Bush an excuse to do anything, this White House doesn't think it needs an excuse to do anything, that's the whole POINT of impeachment.
Once again this PROVES that activism works. We beat them back this time in a major way, folks, and why? Because we actually spoke out, that's why! We dismissed the voices of defeatism and took action. Fancy that, participatory democracy works. Are the evil ones going to give up? Of course not, and that's why we're not going to give up either. Let's say it together, we're going to keep ON speaking out in even greater numbers.
There are many dirty secrets in Washington, but the biggest one of all they are trying to keep may be that when you write and call in mass numbers, members of Congress tremble, shaking in their socks, especially in the House where they have to get reelected every two years. Oh, sure, sometimes they send us their form letter responses trying to slough us off, trying to con us into thinking we are not having an impact. But we know the truth, which is that they work for us, and we do have the POWER with our personal messages to enforce that.
WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? WHY, IMPEACHMENT OF COURSE
This week yet another video of Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney surfaced from the early nineties, again articulating his views as to why trying to occupy Iraq would be lead to nothing but a disastrous quagmire. And yet this is the same man who not only lied the country into doing just that once he seized power himself, but is still the most aggressive force in the White House pushing for an even more monumental debacle in Iran.
Recognizing the gravity of the increasingly loud drumbeats for more war coming from the Vice President's office, this week Dennis Kucinich, who had already gotten 20 cosponsors for H.Res 333 to impeach Cheney, said he was seriously considering forcing the House of Representatives to take up the issue of impeachment by bringing it as a privileged resolution.
We have a major win in our pocket this week. We have slowed them down. But we also recognize that the only thing that will stop them completely is confronting the White House, and Cheney in particular, with impeachment. Each and every member of the House must be called to account at this moment in American political history, by the demands of you, their constituents, whether they will stand up for the Constitution and stop Dick Cheney's delusional march to Iran . . . or not.
Already more than 110,000 of your fellow constituents have voted in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll. If we had a million people call in one week, impeachment would be the centerpiece on the table so fast it would make their heads spin. We're going to do it. We're going to crank up our efforts to a new level this week. And when Dennis Kucinich DOES introduce his privileged resolution, we're going to crank it up even more.
THANK DENNIS KUCINICH PERSONALLY FOR HIS LEADERSHIP
Once again, Dennis Kucinich stands out as the leading voice calling for restoration of our Constitution. Isn't that enough reason to make whatever donation you can to him, to encourage him to speak out even stronger on the issues more and more every day? If you have not done so already, please do so now if you can.
I do a lot of pro-Kucinich writing here. It's nice to see people understanding tht they should support him cause he is for the right things and not because they like the guy.
As I say in one article, you may not like him for president but separate his job from the campaign he is doing---his job as a congressman. We forget that people who run for president can still be making policy in Congress. And Dennis is still fighting vigorously for us to get impeachment, single-payer health care, and out of Iraq now while also making sure we do not go to war with Iran.
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Kevin Gosztola (302 articles, 146 quicklinks, 81 diaries, 1082 comments [77 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 29, 2007 at 9:29:15 AM
Dennis Kucinich is the only one who has DONE ANYTHING for the American people. If you have ever seen him in person, you would have no doubt that he must be our president. He is spellbinding in his passion for our country and us, the people. Hs is the only candidate who will take us out of this seemingly hopeless situation.
I had been so depressed about the present administration and their criminal activities. But then I started to do volunteer work for the Kucinich campaign. When you read his words and listen to his ideas for our benefit, you know that it is crucial that every person in the country know about him. We have to make people aware that Dennis is electable and we can do it! If everyone who is moved by his dedication to us and his thoughtful remedies for every problem we face, if all of those people vote for him he will win!
We don't get any help from the msm. They are all whores to big business. The establishment has decided that the status quo is what they want. They are sucking the wealth and the life out of our country, nay the world. It's time for a revolution. We, the people, again have to rise up and make it happen. That's what all of these wonderful web sites are about. We are getting stonger and stronger every day. We are angry about the situation that can allow this fascistic state to survive.
What has to happen now is for those of us who understand how crucial it is to force a change have to spread the word to the rest of the people. It's not that people are stupid. It's that they can't believe that this could happen here. Well, it's happening and it's a very strong force and we have to be stronger than they are to change it.
WAKE UP AMERICA, we're being shanghaied and I, for one will not go! Each of us has to work at educating others to the danger we all face. It's here already. Look around. We have lost our rights one by one.
I'm pissed as hell and I'm not going to take it any more. Start yelling at your representatives and make them do their duty.
And most important, vote for Dennis Kucinich.
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Caronome (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 327 comments [15 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:45:15 AM
Keep organizing and strategizing to counter the war pimps. And Hell yes promote Kucinich for the Democrats, and Ron Paul among the Republicans. Force both parties' machine politicians out of power.
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Mac McKinney (53 articles, 114 quicklinks, 241 diaries, 1414 comments [31 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 29, 2007 at 6:25:13 PM
Finally someone with a backbone. Now lets find out who blew up the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001 and then anthraxed Congress & the Press to shut them up. Impeachment is probably the only way to do it.
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foxii (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 32 comments [16 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Saturday, Sep 29, 2007 at 11:15:17 PM
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