Left Coaster: "Putting George out of Our misery"

[understandinglife]

Red Staters want it; Blue Staters want it ... the great uniter is truly uniting all of us to get rid of him AND Cheney, for starters. pessimist at The Left Coaster has posted a nifty summary of the consensus emerging:

I know that our Wrong-Wing Wregular$ are crowing about the temporary respite before the econo-political Katrina hits, but things are getting so bad that even some of the Good Orange County (CA) Republicans I work with are beginning to become afraid of what's coming. These GOC(CA)Rs all voted for Bu$h - both times - and he's losing their support. They can see, for example, the nascent housing slowdown affecting their retirement plans, and they are blaming Bu$h for not doing the right things to protect their investments (their words, not mine).

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A graphic on this page shows that when Zogby polled likely voters over the Clinton impeachment in 1998, only 27% supported that action. Today, Zogby reports that 51% say that impeachment is called for.

All across the nation, local governments and other political organizations are calling for the impeachment of King George (fear not - they aren't forgetting Unka Dickie!).

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A student at University of California Irvine - deep in the heart of Richard Nixon's Good Orange County (CA) Republican political stronghold - has another take on the impeachment situation:

Bush has shown that he’s on a mission, a mission that we keep preventing him from accomplishing. Can’t you see? The poor man is trying to get fired.

Being the president is tough and Bush just does not want the job anymore.

I support my president and his wishes, so that is why I hope to convince readers that Bush should indeed be thrown out of office.

I'm convinced! I hope you are as well. It is time to push for impeachment - the alternatives are all very much worse.

Much more at the link:
http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/007047.php

Well, I've been convinced since that Saturday in December, 2000, when Scalia violated America in a way that will be recorded, eventually, as one of the gravest attacks on the Republic, that Bush and Cheney should be impeached because they entered the White House fraudulently. They've spent the past five years assembling a rap sheet so vast and so monstrous that impeachment should just be the first step in the legal process of bringing them to justice.

Shayana Kididal is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and he writes in Illegal Spying & GOP Backroom Deals -- From an Attorney Bringing CCR v. Bush:

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Even Republican Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter admitted that he still doesn't know how the NSA Program works. In a letter this week, he wrote that "the wiretapping flatly violates the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" and he offered this disturbing admission: "I don't know what the program is, and the administration will not tell us."

Congress cannot lead the country out of this mess with a blindfold on.

We will continue to challenge the illegal domestic spying in court. Yet it is also important that Congress does not pass more legislation on domestic spying until it holds officials who broke the law accountable and fully investigates the NSA Program. A legitimate inquiry cannot be toothless. President Bush broke the law and Congress must consider every serious remedy, including censure and impeachment -- as we have urged Americans to tell their representatives.

The courts are already set to rule on the question of whether the Program violated the existing law and, more importantly, the Constitution. Congress must consider what it can do to force the President to come clean on the facts before it decides to tinker with the law.

Link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shayana-kadidal/illegal-spying-gop-back_b_17035.html

Since it is clear the Congress has, once again, become complicit in the crimes of George, Dick and their neoconster minions, we need to join with all our fellow citizens in doing what has happened in more than one City and begin the process of impeachment at the grass roots ... it seems that many agree per this current MSNBC online poll:

Should local governments take on national issues like impeaching a president? * 14771 responses

Yes, it's grassroots democracy at its finest.
88%

No, it only encourages extreme viewpoints to commandeer a local stage to make a national statement.
12%

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11724836

And, you can also go to the Center For Constitutional Rights website and arrange to send a copy of ... :

... to your Congressional Representative (and others)

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/ccr/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=2702

Be the Bush opposition, 24/7. It is time for Bush, Cheney and their many fellow criminals to be brought to justice.




Peace.

[Time for change]

1. Yes, I remember that Saturday in December 2000

After impeaching Bush and electing a new Congress we should then turn to Scalia and his cohorts and impeach THEM for the grossest politically motivated and treasonable USSC decision ever made.

Good summary of reasons for impeachment in the CCR link at the end. I added the violation of international law in our treatment of prisoners.

Recommended.

[understandinglife]

4. Thank you Tfc; that is an important addition.

And, yes, Scalia's indictment and prosecution are a must.


Peace.

[Time for change]

5. And we shouldn't forget Clarence Thomas either

:grr:

[understandinglife]

8. Indeed.

Peace.

[mod mom]

6. It's time to face the fact that fraudulent elections have a significant

cost. We need fair transparent and verifiable elections. period.

[understandinglife]

7. Yes, and many people are dead today as one indicator of how ...

... horrid and final some of those costs are.


Peace.

[lonestarnot]

2. Thanks left coaster, I'm also going to post further info re

book purchase.

[understandinglife]

3. Please do! Thank you.

Peace.

[donkeyotay]

9. bush has brought the country to a state of crisis

Many of us have no confidence left. No confidence in the economy, our defense industry, our courts, our dept of justice, our media, our congress. The K-street branch of government has left ordinary citizens out of the representative process. Washington looks like a giant conflict of interest, a clusterfuck. I have no confidence left. It seems like our country is rudderless. After the bushgang emptied the coffers, they had no other interest, and the country is left adrift awaiting the next gang.

[madokie]

10. this should be required reading. thanks.

[understandinglife]

12. Thank you! Please spread the link to all you can.

Peace.

[madokie]

16. To everyone I know, it'll be laying on the bar this evening.

[understandinglife]

17. Cool! Have one on me ...

:toast:

or two ...

:toast:


Peace.

[glitch]

11. Sweet compilation, K & R nt

[hiley]

13. K&R

passing along, thanks.

[Swamp Rat]

14. kick and recommended n/t

:)

[EFerrari]

15. K&R

:kick:

[texpatriot2004]

18. Impeach the terrorists NOW! nm

[Wordie]

19. Kick & (definitely!) recommended. I urge others to recommend this too.

When even his base is deserting him and none less than Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has serious questions about the NSA spying program, yet can't get answers from the administration, the time has come...

[Nothing Without Hope]

20. Thank you for this, UL. I was also struck by Lewis Lapham's passionate

statement, published in the March issue of Harper's (of which he is editor), about how upon reading Rep. Conyers' report supporting his call for Bush's impeachment, he became convinced that Bush MUST be impeached as soon as possible. Waiting for the next election is too long, he realized, something that he had not felt before reading the Conyers report.

I don't have a free link to the entire article, but there is a long excerpt (much more than the 4 paragraphs we are allowed by copyright rules at DU and a nice size to pass on) at this link:
http://harpers.org/TheCaseForImpeachment.html

He explains how at first he wondered why Conyers was going for impeachment - it seemed like tilting at windmills. Then he realized that the reason for this move was clear: Conyers is getting the truth out there in the report itself, so that no one can say, years from now, that no one told them what was happening. He describes Conyers' response to his question about this:

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...Why not wait for a showing of supportive public opinion, delay the motion to impeach until after next November's elections? Assuming that further investigation of the President's addiction to the uses of domestic espionage finds him nullifying the Fourth Amendment rights of a large number of his fellow Americans, the Democrats possibly could come up with enough votes, their own and a quorum of disenchanted Republicans, to send the man home to Texas. Conyers said:

“I don't think enough people know how much damage this administration can do to their civil liberties in a very short time. What would you have me do? Grumble and complain? Make cynical jokes? Throw up my hands and say that under the circumstances nothing can be done? At least I can muster the facts, establish a record, tell the story that ought to be front-page news.”

Which turned out to be the purpose of his House Resolution 635—not a high-minded tilting at windmills but the production of a report, 182 pages, 1,022 footnotes, assembled by Conyers's staff during the six months prior to its presentation to Congress, that describes the Bush Administration's invasion of Iraq as the perpetration of a crime against the American people. It is a fair description. Drawing on evidence furnished over the last four years by a sizable crowd of credible witnesses—government officials both extant and former, journalists, military officers, politicians, diplomats domestic and foreign—the authors of the report find a conspiracy to commit fraud, the administration talking out of all sides of its lying mouth, secretly planning a frivolous and unnecessary war while at the same time pretending in its public statements that nothing was further from the truth.<1> The result has proved tragic, but on reading through the report's corroborating testimony I sometimes could counter its inducements to mute rage with the thought that if the would-be lords of the flies weren't in the business of killing people, they would be seen as a troupe of off-Broadway comedians in a third-rate theater of the absurd. Entitled “The Constitution in Crisis; The Downing Street Minutes and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War,” the Conyers report examines the administration's chronic abuse of power from more angles than can be explored within the compass of a single essay. The nature of the administration's criminal DNA and modus operandi, however, shows up in a usefully robust specimen of its characteristic dishonesty.

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Lapham's recounting of his mounting rage when reading Conyers' report carries the weight of sincerity and passion, moreso than any other "mainstream media" call for impeachment that I have seen. It also shows that whatever the congressional trajectory of Rep. Conyers' HR 635, it is making a real impact as he hoped it would.

Listen to Lapham, who before reading the Conyers Report saw no reason to call for impeachment early:

The Conyers report doesn't lack for further instances of the administration's misconduct, all of them noted in the press over the last three years—misuse of government funds, violation of the Geneva Conventions, holding without trial and subjecting to torture individuals arbitrarily designated as “enemy combatants,” etc.—but conspiracy to commit fraud would seem reason enough to warrant the President's impeachment. Before reading the report, I wouldn't have expected to find myself thinking that such a course of action was either likely or possible; after reading the report, I don't know why we would run the risk of not impeaching the man. We have before us in the White House a thief who steals the country's good name and reputation for his private interest and personal use; a liar who seeks to instill in the American people a state of fear; a televangelist who engages the United States in a never-ending crusade against all the world's evil, a wastrel who squanders a vast sum of the nation's wealth on what turns out to be a recruiting drive certain to multiply the host of our enemies. In a word, a criminal—known to be armed and shown to be dangerous. Under the three-strike rule available to the courts in California, judges sentence people to life in jail for having stolen from Wal-Mart a set of golf clubs or a child's tricycle. Who then calls strikes on President Bush, and how many more does he get before being sent down on waivers to one of the Texas Prison Leagues?

I'm sorry that it is too late to recommend this thread with another vote - I dawdled too long before reading it. But I certainly do recommend it as a valuable resource to consult in our personal efforts to spread the truth about BUsh and how this greedy, murderous, criminal administation MUST be ejected from power as soon as possible. Every day brings new outrages, and those are just the ones we find out about.

[understandinglife]

21. Thank you, as always Hope, for adding substantially to the thread.

Peace.

[xxqqqzme]

22. I showed this around @ our AD meeting

Wednesday night - they voted 2 send another one 2 whorbacher (I sent one) - Best $5 I ever spent!

[understandinglife]

23. Most excellent!!! Thank you.

:thumbsup:


Peace.