Polls show that the American people are far out ahead of Congress. In every poll that has been done, a majority has favored impeachment and favored voting for pro-impeachment Congressional candidates.
Congressman John Conyers has introduced a bill to create an investigation, similar to the Watergate investigation, to make recommendations on impeachment. Twenty-seven members of Congress have signed onto that bill, House Resolution 635. None of them are from Virginia.
Our Congressman here in Charlottesville, Virgil Goode, whom we pay $158,000 a year, is devoting his energies to two projects. First, he wants to name English the official language of the nation. That should really ease the suffering of millions, right?
But, to be fair, our best challenger to Goode this year, Al Weed, has not spoken out for impeachment yet either. Maybe he doesn't realize that three quarters of Democrats are passionate about it, and so are a majority of Independents.
A large coalition of organizations recently announced plans to organize protests outside the homes of Congress Members to demand impeachment of Bush and Cheney and an end to the war. To get involved in that, you can sign up at www.Democrats.com/cd
Democrats.com is not the Democratic Party, but an activist group working to change the Democratic Party.
Virgil Goode lives in Rocky Mount, so it's far for us in Charlottesville. But we might have to be the once to caravan down one weekend and do it. We can also protest at his office here. The question is not whether we think he can be brought around, it's whether we can be brought around as citizens to do our proper duty and demand it.
Jefferson's manual provides rules on impeachment and says that a state legislature can send impeachment charges to the US House. A number of states have begun working on that. Our state may be too busy abusing gay people.
But our city of Charlottesville can pass a resolution supporting impeachment. A growing list of cities and counties and political parties around the country have done so. There's information at www.impeachpac.org
We can also pressure national organizations to take on impeachment. This is a debate right now within United for Peace and Justice, and it's not even on the radar screen of MoveOn.org. If our own organizations can't do it, how can we expect Congress to do so? Let's get to work!
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