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And I would like to suggest that you consider backing the impeachment of the President and Vice-President. Passing resolutions will not end the war as long as this administration continues to behave illegally and as a "unitary executive."
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting." Sun Tzu
Please support Barack Obama.
by DaveV on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 11:55:52 AM PDT
and am convicted that this administration has lost respect for our Constitution.
Please, Senator Feingold, for the sake of our Nation - please take a stand for what is right. Pursue the impeachment and conviction of George W. Bush II and Richard Cheney. Both of these men (and their staff) are doing irreparable harm to our Country. Short of picketing and demonstrating, We the People are powerless. It is YOU who holds the power to end this madness.
Please, impeach. Please.
When our country falls, know that it was because Americans were too afraid to take a stand against corporate greed and personal hatred.
by pkbarbiedoll on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:01:46 PM PDT
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If not now, why? And when? Please explain how this administration and the actions they've taken do not warrant impeachment?
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by TexDem on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:46:00 PM PDT
There are tens of thousands of us sir and we're sick of waiting.
Please (!!!!) use your might & power to push for hearings. Urge your collegues in the House to back H. Res 333, which would start investigations of Cheney toward possible impeachment.
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by Alegre on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:48:34 PM PDT
This month American Research Group poll shows that 54% of Americans want "the US House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney"! 76% of Democrats!
This month Rasmussen poll shows 39% of Americans want Bush impeached "and removed from office"! 56% of Democrats!
We have these astounding numbers despite our Democratic politicians not figuring out how to forcefully break through the MSM fog regarding all the outrages we newshounds witness every day, and without most of our representatives even calling for it.
"Well, yeah, the Constitution is worth it if you can succeed." -Nancy Pelosi
by Susan Something on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 02:55:18 PM PDT
IIIII M M PPPP EEEEE A CCCC H H I MM MM P P E A A C H H I M M M PPPP EEEE AAA C HHHHH I M M P E A A C H H IIIII M M P EEEEE A A CCCC H H
"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek." ~ Barack Obama
by Reality Bites Back on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 04:22:13 PM PDT
I was at one of Russ' listening sessions a few months ago. One of the first questions asked came from an elderly lady, who stuggled to get to her feet and then yelled out: "Why haven't we impeached those guys yet?" Huge round of applause from nearly all gathered here in my very "red" part of Wisconsin. Russ--I've written, I've called, I've emailed, and I'll add my voice here: We must impeach! Please do what you can to encourage your friends in the House to begin proceedings. And thank you, thank you, for all the fine work you do.
by coolsub on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 05:34:30 PM PDT
Is to impeach. The American people support it, even without the corporate media reporting on it. Which is pretty amazing if you think about it.
"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way." "Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution." "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
We have been hearing the constant drumbeat from the Bush administration about how 'fighting them over there' was the reason we were safe from terrorism over here. Now members of the Bush administration and GOP (Santorum for one) are threatening us with Al Qaeda attacks over here in spite of the surge, and seem excited with the prospect that we will then wake up and support their war 'over there' after we are attacked over here. Of course this is completely illogical and makes me wonder about the sanity of the people who say these things. They cannot possibly have it both ways.
"Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view," said the former senator from Pennsylvania.
I want to go on record: if there is an attack here, I want our troops brought home immediately to defend us, HERE. From all enemies, foreign or domestic.
Thank you. Wish I was a constituent.
-7.25, -7.08 What would Lincoln do?
by feduphoosier on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 06:49:24 PM PDT
is to impeach. If Senator Feingold and his congressional colleagues don't, we continue down the road toward tyranny.
by Jarett on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 12:56:58 AM PDT
I compiled my list of reasons to impeach the president, if to avoid a full out revolution within America at the worst.
sorry for pimping diary, but someone from the Senate needs to see those YouTube videos. and no i'm not a good author.
by ichi brown on Mon Jul 16, 2007 at 04:48:04 PM PDT
See my art at Peace Angel and Al Gore'08
by Tigana on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 10:24:38 PM PDT
I understand the political downside to impeachment, particularly on the eve of the 2008 elections.
However, the egregious behavior of President Bush, Cheney, and Alberto Gonzales warrant impeachment. It is quite simply the right thing to do.
I am by no means a radical, and it took me a long time to come around to this point of view. I am hearing widespread support from family and friends for impeachment, even among those that are typically not that political.
Thanks for all of your efforts regarding the Iraq War. You are truly one of our greatest senators.
by pathgirl on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:51:34 PM PDT
PLEASE EXPOSE THESE BASTARDS FOR THE INSANE CRIMINALS THAT THEY ARE - AND BEGIN NOW!!!!!!!
JUST GET IT STARTED!!!!!
IMPEACH!!!!
"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." Robert F. Kennedy
by enough already on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 04:08:03 PM PDT
there may be no more impeachment. We must impeach to save impeachment!!!! - oh and that Constitution thing that lets us impeach leaders who violate the public trust instead of having to bow down before them as our divine rulers.
by Reality Bites Back on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 04:29:13 PM PDT
It will be difficult to restore faith in government unless those who have broken the faith are held accountable.
That said, Russ, we still trust you!
An illusion can never be destroyed directly... SK.
by Thomas Twinnings on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 05:40:31 PM PDT
..."Let us count the ways":
>>>Committing an Act of High Treason against the Constitution by the nullification of the Writs of Habeas Corpus with the passage of the 2006 Military Commissions Act.
>>>Torture and Rendition.
>>>Over 1000 counts of de facto coup d'etat and over throw of the Legislative and Judicial branches with abuse of the Unitary Executive powers by Signing Statements.
>>>Disobeying Congressional duly-issued Subpoenas duces tecum.
>>>Waging an aggressive war of occupation against a sovereign nation at peace with us in the name of a false mission(GWOT), as the Commander-in-Chief of al-Qaeda, one Osama bin Laden, is alive and well and in "full operational command" in the mountains of Afghanistan/Pakistan-not in the spider holes of Baghdad!
>>>Wanton destruction of Iraqi civilian population centers, razing their towns and cities to the ground. Destruction of schools and hospitals.
>>>Committing genocide in the premeditated murder of over 650,000 Iraqi citizens, causing over 2 million Iraqis to flee their nation, and internally displacing over one million, with the willful invasion and occupation of sovereign Iraqi territory.
>>>Warrantless wiretapping and domestic surveillance of United States citizens.
>>>Dereliction of their (collective)duty for failing to ensure the National Security of the United States for failing to enact the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Report, thus leaving the U.S. open for further terrorists' attacks.
>>>Dereliction of duty for sending our combat troops into harm's way without the proper training and/or the most advanced body armor and equipment available at the original time of their deployment,and in subsequent deployments from 2003 to present.
>>>Dereliction of Duty for failing to kill/capture the Commander-in-Chief of al-Qaeda, for allowing him to escape at Tora Bora, and for taking the focus off the central front in the GWOT in Afghanistan by the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
>>>Deliberately and with malice of forethought vetoing the original Iraqi Emergency Supplemental bill, thus further endangering our troops in harm's way; for vetoing a bill that would have changed the course in Iraq and set a timeline for the orderly withdrawal and redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq.
>>>Deliberately endangering the National Security of the U.S. by over-extending our Armed Forces in Iraq with continuous back to back tours, many units on their 3rd, 4th, and 5th tours, thus breaking the backs of our fine troops, and rendering them useless to defend the continental U.S.; or for any further conflicts that may arise if the United States is directly attacked by any foreign enemy.
>>>Committing an Act of High Treason, by outing the covert identity of one Valerie plame, a covert CIA operative, in a time of war, for the sole purpose of political revenge, thus endangering her life as well as everyone of her associates that she worked with or ever had contact with her.
>>>Committing an Act Of High Treason with the passage of the 2007 John Warner Defense Authorization Act, an "Intolerable Act", which allows the creation of a National Police Force(or Gestapo), re-writes Posse Comitatus and the Insurrection Act, authorizes the construction of civilian detention centers(or concentration camps) within the borders of the U.S.
>>>Committing a multitude of War Crimes by the creation, financing, and utilization of Death Squads(the Wolf Brigade)in Iraq.
>>>Turning the Justice Department into their own personal law group, and political arm.
>>>War Profiteering. Waging an Aggressive War of Occupation for the sole purpose of subjugation and plunder. Bush is not a Roman Emperor and Iraq is not a rebelling province of Bush's "Roman Empire".
This is just the "short list" of abominable usurpations, treasons, and other high crimes and misdemeanors this war criminal cabal has committed in our names!
"Great men do not commit murder. Great nations do not start wars". William Jennings Bryan
by ImpeachKingBushII on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 12:11:44 AM PDT
Bush/Cheney have taken hardball politics into the stratosphere.
Keep fighting, fight back harder.
Fight for impeachment!
Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything. Harry S. Truman
by deepsouthdoug on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:01:57 PM PDT
I see that he, along with Senator Luger, is working to pass a bill requiring the reauthorization of the Iraq war. It sounds good, but Warner has pulled this same routine before. He's a poser. He looks like he's fighting the war or the Military Commissions Act. But once the people are convinced that his way is the right way, he slips in the toxic pill. The MCA allowed torture although that's what Warner supposedly disapproved of. His Iraq resolution watered down the original Dem resolution and siphoned votes away from it. He is Mr. Trojan Horse. He is always the republicans' man. Watch him!
Barack Obama - I'll never see the threat of terrorism as a way to scare up votes, it's a threat that should rally this country against our common enemies
by madgranny on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:24:34 PM PDT
Expose him. Enough of this polite deference, cowardly actions should be called out.
He should be called out on the Senate floor and every outlet you can get on to tell of his duplicitous acts.
by TexDem on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:49:57 PM PDT
Do you see any justification for impeachement of Bush, Cheney, and Gonzo?
In my view of this administration there is no doubt they MUST be removed.
by kharma on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:02:17 PM PDT
For God's sake, Bush admitted that his administration broke the FISA law. Sounds like a high crime to me.
by HugoDog on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:06:42 PM PDT
are pretty far down on the list of their crimes. Contempt of Congress and corruption of the Department of Justice are begging for resolution. Yes, I have been begging that we focus on the War in Iraq, but it looks more-and-more like that war cannot be ended if there are no controls on the Executive branch.
by Thomas Twinnings on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 05:50:32 PM PDT
...no longer sees himself as part of the Executive Branch is enough to remove him in my opinion.
I'm sure you'll have some cosmic rationale - Billy Joel
by leftbird on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:24:17 PM PDT
...to make Dick Cheney not part of the Executive Branch. Impeach his ass.
Kuulray
by kuulray on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 04:57:42 PM PDT
It's just a shame that Ben Nelson didn't see fit to remove money from Cheney's office.
by DKHOLLA on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 10:26:54 PM PDT
and I know you are aware of and appalled at the blatant lawbreaking and reckless disdain the Bush admin has for our Constitution.
Please encourage you friends in the House to begin impeachment proceedings against the criminals in the Executive branch.
If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves. -Carl Sagan
by LightningMan on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:34:07 PM PDT
"I don’t support impeachment, and I don’t support impeachment hearings, even though I think the president has probably committed an impeachable offense," Feingold said in response to a question from Al Schulz of La Crosse. "We are not required to impeach the president simply because he’s committed an impeachable offense, which I think he did with the illegal wiretapping. We have to decide whether it’s in the best interest of the country to go through that process."
"I don’t support impeachment, and I don’t support impeachment hearings, even though I think the president has probably committed an impeachable offense," Feingold said in response to a question from Al Schulz of La Crosse.
"We are not required to impeach the president simply because he’s committed an impeachable offense, which I think he did with the illegal wiretapping. We have to decide whether it’s in the best interest of the country to go through that process."
Listening session, Onalaska, WI, as reported in LaCrosse tribune
Democratic Candidate for US Senate, WI (2012) Masel4senate
by ben masel on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:58:18 PM PDT
IS in the best interest of this country to impeach. We are not just talking about wiretapping anymore.
Thanks for the cite, ben.
My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total. Barbara Jordan 1974
by gchaucer2 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:03:32 PM PDT
of the grounds tossed aroound. Less a political decision than many causes cited. The Wiretap Act's pretty specific in allowing onlty taps authorised by courts, or which fit under the FISA exemptions.
by ben masel on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:11:12 PM PDT
arguments in Clinton's case? That was hardly useful to the nation. It seems more than a little hypocritical.
"...and it's here the lonely say that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way." --Leonard Cohen, "Democracy"
by maralenenok on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:15:31 PM PDT
based on an understanding that once the House impeaches, the Senate has a duty to try. Not inconsistent with a reading that the House MAY impeach.
Sometimes holding to ones' reading Constitutional principles is inconvenient.
by ben masel on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:36:01 PM PDT
Thanks.
by maralenenok on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 03:15:53 PM PDT
But then, Feingold is hardly a super-liberal.
Now up: Poll results, bias, MOE, chance of winning
by plf515 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:44:41 PM PDT
Had I been elected to our other Senate seat last fall, the rest of the country would have seen that by Wisconsin standards, he's no radical.
by ben masel on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 02:03:31 PM PDT
I am so sick and tired of the senate and the house sitting around in their hearings, rocking back and forth in their chairs, listening to this and that for days on end about politics and doing nothing about writing legislation, discussing those bills, and getting to work on real reform. Impeachment is just another waste of time...Bush will be out and long gone in just a few more months. If the old crap wants to veto bills, then override him each and every time. I prefer that some work get done instead of spending the time throwing insults, disgrace, and causing a big circus for the media. Lives in Iraq...American LIVES are at stake. Each and everyday congress pisses around about Bush this and Bush that, they are not trying to protect and save those lives and bring them home to our soil.
Pray for Good Change to happen.
by piec on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 08:01:29 PM PDT
You have earned our respect time and time again. The festering wound that is this administration grows deeper and fouler every day. Two years ago ending the war in Iraq might have sufficed. Today we must impeach both Bush and Cheney. They are nothing but criminals writ large, doing great damage to our nation. That will only grow even worse over the next eighteen months. Impeach now. Today. Immediately.Their little dog Gonzo too. Rice, Hadley, Addington, Fielding,and Rumsfeld MUST all be held to account. Impeach, Imprison. Do it today. Thank you.
by berko on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 02:02:42 PM PDT
Time's a wastin - and this country will not survive unless this cancer called 'neo-cons' is finally exposed to the sunlight and properly removed. This is an evil of historical proportions - and I'm sure you know it as well as we do! Let us stop pretending and get BUSY!!!
IMPEACH!!!
by enough already on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 04:19:17 PM PDT
that impeachment is the only Congressional decree this administration will abide by.
Please back impeachment, Senator.
(-7.75, -7.69) No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up - Lily Tomlin
by john07801 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:13:38 PM PDT
conviction, and removal too?
Don't be so afraid of dying that you forget to live.
by LionelEHutz on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:29:53 PM PDT
I will break my passifist stance and say it's time for the army to intervene.
-10.00 -7.13 (www.politicalcompass.org) If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all... Or I will stab you. (kidding, of course.)
by daeros on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:52:28 PM PDT
one coward who likes to dress up like a tough guy and another coward who deferred 5 times. I think I could take both of them out and I'm 57.
by gchaucer2 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:04:58 PM PDT
below Dave's first comment and indicate Impeachment if you are for it.
by gchaucer2 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:17:27 PM PDT
article saying that Bush will defy any resolution getting us out of Iraq. Not veto, defy. Bush is declaring himself Warlord of the United States.
by DaveV on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:22:35 PM PDT
Warlord since no one has heard from the Czar lately.
by gchaucer2 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:27:54 PM PDT
for getting starting the drumbeat -- Thanks.
by gchaucer2 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:28:47 PM PDT
I'd say "my pleasure," but there is absolutely no pleasure involved in what's become of our Constitution.
by DaveV on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:35:14 PM PDT
they could do whatever they liked - right?
This career path gives Mr. Cheney a unique perspective on today's debate over executive vs. legislative power. He formed his views on the subject during the Ford administration, a time when presidential authority was ebbing. "In the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate . . . there was a concerted effort to place limits and restrictions on presidential authority--everything from the War Powers Act to the Hughes-Ryan Act on intelligence to stripping the president of his ability to impound funds--a series of decisions that were aimed at the time at trying to avoid a repeat of things like Vietnam or . . . Watergate. "I thought they were misguided then, and have believed that given the world that we live in, that the president needs to have unimpaired executive authority. It doesn't mean, obviously, that there shouldn't be restraints. There clearly are with respect to the Constitution, and he's bound by those, as he should be. . . . But I do think the pendulum from time to time throughout history has swung from side to side--Congress was pre-eminent, or the executive was pre-eminent--and as I say, I believe in this day and age it's important that we have a strong presidency." (emphasis added)
This career path gives Mr. Cheney a unique perspective on today's debate over executive vs. legislative power. He formed his views on the subject during the Ford administration, a time when presidential authority was ebbing. "In the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate . . . there was a concerted effort to place limits and restrictions on presidential authority--everything from the War Powers Act to the Hughes-Ryan Act on intelligence to stripping the president of his ability to impound funds--a series of decisions that were aimed at the time at trying to avoid a repeat of things like Vietnam or . . . Watergate.
"I thought they were misguided then, and have believed that given the world that we live in, that the president needs to have unimpaired executive authority. It doesn't mean, obviously, that there shouldn't be restraints. There clearly are with respect to the Constitution, and he's bound by those, as he should be. . . . But I do think the pendulum from time to time throughout history has swung from side to side--Congress was pre-eminent, or the executive was pre-eminent--and as I say, I believe in this day and age it's important that we have a strong presidency." (emphasis added)
Link.
We can't have acquittals, we've got to have convictions." Pentagon Chief Counsel Haynes on military tribrunals in Gitmo.
by sailmaker on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:36:52 PM PDT
We have a renegade administration in the White House. Only impeachment will restore our faith in government.
I'm a Bayfield County Constituent and I know firsthand how proud Wisconsin is of you. If you were to use your well earned stature to move investigations forth we will be behind you.
You have the respect and trust of the people. Use all the power you have to get these criminals out of office.
A society of sheep must beget in time a government of wolves. Bertrand de Jouvenel
by Little Red Hen on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 01:28:16 PM PDT
He grew up in Wisconsin and says Senator Feingold has redeemed the state from the stain of Joe McCarthy. ;D
Senator Feingold is our favorite Senator and honestly, we'd give anything if he was our representative. I have a pretty good relationship with both of my Senators (OK, Evan Bayh doesn't write back, but seems an OK guy.) However Senator Feingold is our hero. He has always been on the right side of every issue (that we've seen, anyway.) He kept his head after 9/11, always kept the Constitution in front, center and defended it; he tried to clean up election financing, get us out of the war (first, keep us from even going INTO the war.) He's the Elliot Ness of the Senate.
But I still want impeachment........ love my democracy.
by feduphoosier on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 12:22:49 AM PDT
I'm a constituent, too, and strongly in favor of impeachment.
"Mission Accomplished" -7.62, -6.36
by wiscmass on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:22:13 PM PDT
time getting to a decision for me....
as of yesterday, I'm calling for impeachment as well.
Please listen to the voice of the country. We're finally saying the same things.
"In political discussion heat is in inverse proportion to knowledge." J. G. C. Minchin
by LucyMO on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 04:15:01 PM PDT
I'm in DC, so I don't have anyone to call.
Impeachment is the only option at this point.
by Politburo on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:24:09 PM PDT
I keep forgetting about you poor D.C.ers (where is that bill, by the way?) I whine about having Lieberman, but you have no one.
by gchaucer2 on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:26:48 PM PDT
IIRC, the Senate isn't considering the bill.
The bill would only add a rep, FWIW.
by Politburo on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 12:29:01 PM PDT
Just sayin'... :-)
"The truth shall set you free - but first it'll piss you off." Gloria Steinem
Iraq Moratorium
by One Pissed Off Liberal on Fri Jul 13, 2007 at 02:43:38 PM PDT
by feduphoosier on Sat Jul 14, 2007 at 12:24:23 AM PDT