H.R. 333 Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United
States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
IMPEACHMENT: The
word is back!
Impeachment as an essential tool of America's
democratic system.
Bill Moyers
Journal :
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There are
six separate references to IMPEACHMENT in our Constitution. The founding
fathers wanted us to know this word and use the process. According
to the Constitution, the first obligation of the state is to make
people free, not to build empires. Because the Founding Fathers expected
an executive would try to overreach his powers, they wrote IMPEACHMENT
into the Constitution so he (or she) would be hampered and curtailed
by the legislative branch. The last Republican dominated Congress put
party ahead of country and allowed Bush and Cheney to abuse the powers
of their offices. This Democratic Congress has walked away from their
responsibility to oversee the presidency.
THIS IS NOT
PARTY POLITICS. According to Bruce Fein, Conservative Think
Tank expert, "If George Bush and Dick Cheney are not appropriately
held to account, this Administration will hand off a toolbox with more
powers than any President has ever had— more powers than the founders
could have imagined. And that box may be handed to Hillary Clinton
or it may be handed to Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or someone else.
But whoever gets it, one of the things we know about power is that
people don't give away the tools."
A public opinion poll from the American
Research Group recently reported that more than four in ten Americans — 45% — favor
impeachment hearings for President Bush and more than half — 54% — favored
impeachment for Vice President Cheney.
This is one of
the most informative public discussions of IMPEACHMENT to date and concerns
every single citizen. A staunch
Conservative Consititutional lawyer and a knowledgeable Liberal journalist
are in agreement about usurption of executive power and speak out responsibly
about the dangers that Bush and Cheney have placed on our Constitution
and the future of our country.
NOTE: SOME THE LINKS BELOW ARE BEING WORKED ON.
REASONS FOR
IMPEACHING CHENEY
WHAT IS IMPEACHMENT?
HOW IS IT DONE?
IMPEACHMENT must come from the House of Representatives. All concerned
cititzens need to contact House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi to put IMPEACHMENT
back on the table and move this debate forward. Nancy Pelosi is disregarding
her oath of office and she needs to do this NOW!
HOW CAN I HELP?
Download and mail the YorkGrassroots postcard to Nancy Pelosi.
Go to these Web sites and learn what others are doing:
CommonValues.org
ImpeachBush.tv
Download our action checklist for York, PA. (coming
soon)
Write to your Congressional Reps and Senators.
BILL MOYERS on Karl Rove
Resignation:
He Sold Greed and God to Americans
Karl Rove figured out a long
time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious
draft-averse naughty playboy in a flight jacket with chewing
tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas,
was to sell him as God's anointed in a state where preachers
and televangelists outnumber even oil derricks and jack
rabbits. Using church pews as precincts Rove turned religion
into a weapon of political combat - a battering ram, aimed
at the devil's minions, especially at gay people.
It's so easy, as Karl knew, to scapegoat people you outnumber, and
if God is love, as rumor has it, Rove knew that, in politics, you better bet
on fear and loathing. Never mind that in stroking the basest bigotry of true
believers you coarsen both politics and religion.
At the same time he was recruiting an army of the lord for the born-again Bush,
Rove was also shaking down corporations for campaign cash. Crony capitalism became
a biblical injunction. Greed and God won four elections in a row - twice in the
lone star state and twice again in the nation at large. But the result has been
to leave Texas under the thumb of big money with huge holes ripped in its social
contract, and the U.S. government in shambles - paralyzed, polarized, and mired
in war, debt and corruption.
Rove himself is deeply enmeshed in some of the scandals being
investigated as we speak, including those missing emails that could tell us who
turned the attorney general of the United States into a partisan sock puppet.
Rove is riding out of Dodge city as the posse rides in. At his press conference
this week he asked God to bless the president and the country, even as reports
were circulating that he himself had confessed to friends his own agnosticism;
he wished he could believe, but he cannot. That kind of intellectual honesty
is to be admired, but you have to wonder how all those folks on the Christian
right must feel discovering they were used for partisan reasons by a skeptic,
a secular manipulator. On his last play of the game all Karl Rove had to offer
them was a hail mary pass, while telling himself there's no one there to catch.
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