36,000 signatures and counting: Come On People!

[cal04]

by dlindorff
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/15/143956/60/559/422531

Rep. Wexler's call for people to sign his petition calling for immediate hearings on Dick Cheney's impeachable crimes has garnered 36,000 signatures in less than 24 hours. Have you signed?

It's not being reported in the corporate media, which also refused to publish an opinion piece penned by six-term Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI).

But the truth is that these three members of the House Judiciary Committee who are calling on Committee Chair John Conyers (D-MI) to start immediate hearings on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-OH) bill, House Res. 799) to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, have already gotten 36,000 people to sign a petition at WexlerWantsHearings.com calling for action now.

Wexler has said he wants at least 50,000 signatures, and it seems certain he'll have at least that many by the end of today. But why stop there. If everyone at DailyKos were to go to the site and sign on (all it takes is 30 seconds of your time), he'd get closer to 500,000 signatures.

And if each of us were to send out a call to sign to ten of our friends, then we'd have half a million signatures, which would be hard for Conyers and the Democratic leadership, Speaker Nancy Pelosi included, to ignore.

So let's do it!

Go to WexlerWantsHearings.com and sign the petition!

Kucinich's impeachment bill was filed on April 24 and has been ignored now for almost eight shameful months. On Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of 218 members of the House voted to send it from the floor of the House back to the Judiciary Committee for action. Now it's sat there for over four weeks.

We need to tell Congress, and particularly the Democrats who are stalling on this important defense of the Constitution and of democracy itself that time's up. We the American People want action. We want impeachment hearings!


now up to 39,338
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Done

39456--when I signed a minute ago it was 39390, so there are a lot of folks signing.

[eleny]

2. Done

[Flabbergasted]

3. This is funny....

If you sign you come to the second page and at the bottom asks you to select which issues you are most interested in...

I am most interested in the following issues: (check)

1 The Iraq War
2 Holding Cheney Impeachment Hearings
3 Universal Healthcare
4 Protecting the Environment
5 Voting/Accountability and a National Paper Trail
6 Legalization of Online Gaming and Poker

#6 seems a little out of place.

[Javaman]

4. okay, so I signed it...

I will now be waiting with bated breath so see this become reality. :eyes: color me you resident cynic.

[acmavm]

5. 3:15 p.m. CST

39573signed up
and counting

[TahitiNut]

6. 39787

39787
signed up
and counting

[DeeDeeNY]

7. Done nt

[alfredo]

8. 40,253 and counting

[cal04]

9. 40,379 and counting

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

[slipslidingaway]

10. Signed yesterday and two comments...

I do not remember any resolution from the 500,000 signatures Conyers collected relating to the Downing Street Memo???

Also the idea of accountability/impeachment lost a voice that received national exposure when Kucinich was not allowed to participate in the last debate, even though Alan Keyes somehow qualified for the same Republican debate.

Today is a good day to contribute whatever you can to the Kucinich campaign if you feel this administration should be held accountable.

http://www.dennis4president.com/


Imagine the direction our country may have taken if citizens had demanded Reagan and Bush be held accountable for their actions.

:( :(


Rep. Henry Gonzalez, impeachment of Reagan and Bush in 1987

"...Another war-related impeachment effort came in response to the Iran-Contra scandal. You wouldn't have known it from media coverage or congressional debate, but the Reagan administration's Iran-Contra maneuvers were part of a Washington-driven war that enabled the U.S.-backed Contra guerrillas to terrorize Nicaraguan civilians, killing thousands in the process. When Rep. Henry Gonzalez, a Democrat from Texas, pushed for impeachment of President Reagan (and, for good measure, Vice President George H. W. Bush) in 1987, he stood virtually alone on Capitol Hill..."

more links here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=72317&mesg_id=72423

[slipslidingaway]

15. delete

[KansDem]

11. Completed. 41,172 now...(nt)

[Blue_In_AK]

12. Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen this.

[WA98296]

13. 41,852 keep it coming

[cal04]

14. 42, 236 and still

counting
definitely over 50,000 by tonight

[slipslidingaway]

16. 46552 n/t

[slipslidingaway]

17. 49105 n/t

[tekisui]

18. 49,134 kick

[EFerrari]

19. K&R

[bonito]

20. Done!

[Libby2]

21. 49,318

[cal04]

22. 49,312

Wexler has said he wants at least 50,000 signatures, and it seems certain he'll have at least that many by the end of today. But why stop there. If everyone at DailyKos were to go to the site and sign on (all it takes is 30 seconds of your time), he'd get closer to 500,000 signatures.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. 49,343 n/t

[slay]

24. Signed - now at 49,352

:)

[mmonk]

25. I did it.

Under other, I was tempted to put Sibel Edmonds hearings but that would scare him.

[Patchuli]

26. We were 49,661st!

Kick & Rec!! :kick:

[caligirl]

27. 49741 since you posted this. signed and kicked

[ConsAreLiars]

28. Over 50,000 now!

Thanks for the reminder.

[mia]

29. up to 50730

:kick:

[kineneb]

30. done

added: preserve Social Security

[Greybnk48]

31. done.

[greyghost]

32. Done

[Blue_In_AK]

33. 51,856

[cynthia]

34. 51,880 yeah!

[deacon]

35. k + r n/t

[proud patriot]

36. Glad to help

[radfringe]

37. done -- and as of 5:53am et... the count is: 52968 (eom)

[usaftmo]

38. 53,011 (including me) n/t

[Caretha]

39. 54383 and counting

[Laelth]

40. I signed.

k&r

:dem:

-Laelth

[Sugar Smack]

41. Done.

Thank you.:applause:

[candymarl]

42. I signed

n/t

[lonestarnot]

43. babylonsister notes 50k in one day. watsup with dis?

[KoKo]

44. Signed it.....he needs hundreds of thousands for them to listen....

Spread the link far and wide...

[cal04]

45. 56,608 signed and counting

http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

[IndyOp]

46. Over 60,000 signatures now (6 p.m. EST 12/16)... K&R!

[kma3346]

47. Done!

60,506 now. Boy, it's increasing amazingly quickly! Every time I hit refresh, there's another 5 names added (OK, I'll stop now!)!


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