Since Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) filed his impeachment bill against Cheney back April 24, five other members of the House have signed on as co-sponsors
When it comes to defending the Constitution from the saboteurs of freedom and democracy in the Bush administration, my hero is Conyers. Not Congressman Conyers.
Impeachment is the constitutional remedy for a unilateral president whose governance is an insult to traditional American democratic norms and values. However, impeachment alone is simply a measure which addresses the symptoms of a larger malaise that has stricken America.
Advocates for impeachment can take some measure of encouragement not just from the 85 cities and towns and 14 state Democratic parties that have passed impeachment resolutions, or the 11 state legislatures that have introduced them
The push to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney is gaining a hearing in some parts of the country, but not in Washington. More than 70 cities and 14 state Democratic parties have urged impeachment or investigations that could lead to impeachment.
I haven't read the thing, itself, but I have now read several accounts of Al Gore's new book, Assault on Reason, wherein he trashes the Bush 43 administration from start to finish, enumerating all of Bush's "lies" and mistakes.
The Democrats in the Congress are making a fatal error by playing nice with Bush and his gang of bandits. They are sacrificing the long-term interests of the progressive movement for short-term electoral gain
The divide between Democratic leaders contemplating their re-election prospects in 2008 and rank-and-file Democrats is becoming a chasm--one so wide that Congressional Democrats may soon find it hard to straddle it. The issue is impeachment.
Congress, the media and most of the American people have yet to turn decisively against Bush because to do so would be to turn against some part of themselves.
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Go over to MSNBC and vote. (http://ww... 429,860 votes so far with 88% saying yes. Of course this is unscientific, but the numbers are astounding nonetheless. To get an idea of how it works, check out this book: The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office.
Let's not be shy. Let's get the "I" word -- IMPEACHMENT -- out there loud and clear. Say it, SHOUT it -- it has a good patriotic feel to it. And yes, in fact, the attorney general CAN be impeached. It is legal, it is proper, it is time.
One Democratic activist is fed up with Democrats negotiating with a president who is contemptuous of the Constitution and has a 28% approval rating. He writes to Pelosi, "What have you given us? Non-binding resolutions, blank checks for Bush, and staying the course on no Impeachment, that's what you've given us, Madame Speaker."
When the lawmakers of the country your occupying don't want you around any more, you know your war is in trouble.
Since it doesn't appear that any significant changes in U.S. Iraq policy will be implemented while CheneyBush rule, and since that policy is endangering America abroad and shredding the Constitution at home, only one legal remedy is available to the Congress and citizenry: impeachment.
Bob Dylan once wrote "even the President of the United States sometimes has to stand naked." This is the time for the trappings of power to be stripped from George Bush. He needs to stand naked before the law and take full responsibility for the failures of his Administration. Impeach Dubya.
As public sentiment begins to build for impeachment, it might be illuminating to examine the many ways President Bush operates in a manner reminiscent of history's tyrants. Here are 10 areas that come readily to mind.
The House of Representatives has the sole power to impeach, and therefore, the power to define impeachable offenses. Historically, some impeachment charges have been clearly politically motivated. But in the case of Vice President Dick Cheney, the charges of misconduct are solidly based.
ATLANTA ΓΆβ;¬" US Rep. Albert Russell Wynn (D-MD) has become the fourth total co-sponsor of US Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-OH) bill to impeach Vice President of the United States Dick Cheney, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. In addition to Kucinich, the other two Members of Congress who have signed on to H. Res 33
If this president is not to be impeached, Congress may as well amend the Constitution to remove the impeachment clause. It will, in that case, have become as much an anachronism as prohibition.
It's time already. George W. Bush should be fired. No severance. No letters of recommendation. Return the key to the executive rest room and black box. His personal items in a brown paper bag he can pick up at the guard kiosk. No more PX privileges.
On Thursday, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on NPR, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "You compare Bill Clinton's peccadilloes for which he was impeached to George Bush or Dick Cheney's high crimes high crimes and misdemeanors, and I think they pale in significance."
The fact is that the simpering George W. and his sidekick Dick clearly deserve impeaching, if anyone ever did. Not only that, there seems to be more sentiment to throw the bums out than official Washington knows.
Poll: 39% of Public Already Support Impeachment While hack lamestream news anchors and reporters mock impeachment advocates like Dennis Kucinich as far left wackos, a new poll shows that 39% of responents supported impeachment of Bush AND Cheney, and that 42% of indepents, the people who will decide the next election, support impeachment.
Many Americans are aware that Bush and Cheney, with the connivance of key members of both parties, planned, initiated, and conducted wars of aggression and occupation that have essentially destroyed entire countries. They have infringed the prerogatives of the legislative and judicial branches; authorized the CIA and the military to torture and mis
Impeachment is a constitutional imperative, If we don't begin to talk about impeachment, the next president will be allowed to torture, do wiretapping, lying, and engage in manipulation of everything in signing statements.
The corporations that control our communications system do not report the grounds for impeachment, do not poll the public's support for it, and have not reported on our movement. Exceptions, like the Boston Globe's Charlie Savage, who reported on our President's habit of violating laws and announcing his intention to do so with signing statements.
Two Democratic Members of Congress joined Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) in co-sponsoring articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. One accused Cheney of an "arrogant abuse of power" that "needs to stop."
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to speak out yourself in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll, which already has over 27,000 submissions, to send your vote to all your members of Congress at the same time, together with a letter to the editor of your nearest daily newspaper all with one click, and to rally everyone else you can to
In his articles of impeachment, Kucinich details the many statements Cheney made that turned out to be factually wrong.
This nation faces a crisis of credibility and honor. Impeach? Yes, of course. Anything less would make this Congress and the American people complicit in all that has gone on to damage the national fabric and our place in the world.









