I made my phone call and signed the petitiion, will you?

[lisainmilo]

I don't read my email everyday, I did today and got to sign the petition to begin impeachment hearings on Dick Cheney. Though I am a day or two late, I still feel we need to keep this going. If you are a day late and a dollar short, like I am, please join me. There are only about 6500 signatures, need 100,000. We have a long way to go.

Conyers Considers Cheney Impeachment Hearings

On Thursday, Chairman John Conyers' House Judiciary Committee held a hearing at which Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that he would not investigate torture or warrantless spying, he would not enforce contempt citations, and he would treat Justice Department opinions as providing immunity for crimes.

None of this was new, but perhaps it touched something in Conyers that had not been touched before. Following the hearing, he and two staffers met for over an hour with two members of Code Pink and discussed activism and impeachment, including Congressman Robert Wexler's proposal to begin impeachment hearings on Cheney.

Conyers expressed his concerns about what might happen following an impeachment, the danger of installing a Bush replacement or losing an election. But he said he's listening to several advocates for impeachment, including Liz Holtzman and David Swanson of Democrats.com. He hinted he could be swayed by a convincing argument, leaning out of his chair for dramatic effect.

So let's help Chairman John Conyers decide! We know Conyers agrees with all of us on the legal grounds for impeachment because he made this case himself in his 2006 book, "The Constitution in Crisis." Where Conyers needs persuasion is on the politics of impeachment, so we have addressed his concerns here:
http://www.democrats.com/conyers-start-impeachment-hearings

We'd like you to email Conyers (and other Judiciary Committee Democrats) with the link above, but please don't stop there.

1. Call his office at 202-225-5126 and say you would like him to begin Cheney impeachment hearings immediately. Tell him the hearings must be on impeachment because that's the only way to force the White House to comply with Congressional subpoenas. The phone in his office was reportedly ringing once every second, 60 times per minute, all day long on Monday. Let's ring it faster on Tuesday.

Please if you haven't signed the petition, please do so. If you have not called yet, please do so. We must continue to "fight the good fight".

Democrats.com (sign the petition) : http://www.democrats.com/conyers-start-impeachment-hearings

[azndndude]

1. Done!

[mac2]

2. Thanks.

I've signed petitions for impeachment but little goes foward.

http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080226/NEWS/80226036/-1/NEWS19&sfad=1 You go girl!!

[bodacious]

3. I signed

impeach!