California Democrats Endorse Impeachment

[struggle4progress]

April 29, 2007
Democrats endorse Iraq withdrawal, impeachment

The California Democratic Party approved a resolution on Sunday to begin withdrawing U.S. soldiers from Iraq and calling on Congress to investigate the actions of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and take appropriate action, including impeachment.

The Iraq resolution calls for Bush to immediately begin the orderly withdrawal of combat forces.

The impeachment resolution calls on Congress to investigate abuses of power by Bush and to "take necessary action to call the administration to account with appropriate remedies and punishment, including impeachment." ~snip~

http://weblog.signonsandiego.com/news/breaking/2007/04/democrats_endorse_iraq_withdra.html

via http://warrenreports.tpmcafe.com/blog/ticia/2007/apr/29/california_democrats_endorse_impeachment

[Bicoastal]

1. I wish they all could be California Dems....

K and R!

[struggle4progress]

3. !

:D

[mtnsnake]

4. Well East Coast Dems are hip

I really did those styles they wear...:smoke:

[DKRC]

5. And the Southern Dems with the way they talk

They knock me out when I'm down there

B-)

Couldn't resist.

[rwenos]

10. The Midwest Farmer's Daughters Really Get the Vote Right Out

And Northern Dem's with their straight heads on
Keep on Burning up the Right.


I wish they all could be California Dem's . . . .

[mtnsnake]

2. Then they should endorse Kucinich as well. No?

There is nobody more passionate about total withdrawal and impeachment than Dennis Kucinich.

[rinsd]

16. State parties don't do candidate endorsements in the primary (nt)

[mtnsnake]

20. Then what's this?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3241171&mesg_id=3241171

[rinsd]

21. That would be a list of CA Democrats supporting John Edwards

Everyone spoke at the convetnion except for Biden.

If you show me a California Party endorsement that was voted on at the convention I would be happy to take back my assertion.

[mtnsnake]

22. If you're correct, then that thread claiming that CA Dems endorsed Edwards is bogus, right?

I believe you, btw. Just trying to sort this out.

[rinsd]

26. It was a poorly worded press release seeking gravitas it did not have.

It is am impressive list of CA Democrats that endorse John Edwards.

It was released during the time of the convention.

However, the convention did not endorse any of the candidates.

[DKRC]

6. Great news out of CA!

K&R!

[illinoisprogressive]

7. I like it.

[Tom Joad]

8. Progressive Democrats of America Press Release

Sparked by an insurgency among delegates, the California Democratic Party has taken an historic step forward on the issue of impeachment. In a resolution affirmed by the full state party convention Sunday, the Democrats called on the U.S. Congress to use its subpoena power to investigate misdeeds of President Bush and Vice President Cheney – and to hold the Administration accountable “with appropriate remedies and punishment, including impeachment.” The delegate insurgency was coordinated by Progressive Democrats of America and its allies.

While Speaker Pelosi had declared impeachment “off the table,” the Democratic Party rank-and-file has demonstrated its commitment to putting the issue “on” the table. And it’s no longer just the rank-and-file: Even among the members of the convention’s Resolutions Committee (appointed by the California Party chair), the impeachment resolution was the top vote-getter (tied with one other resolution).

Coming on the heels of mass actions and resolutions across the country in support of impeachment, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s introduction of Articles of Impeachment against Cheney, this action by the powerful California Democratic Party builds on the pro-impeachment momentum.

The resolution refers to Bush and Cheney having acted in a manner “subversive of the Constitution” by. . .


1. using false information to justify the invasion of Iraq

2. authorizing “the torture of prisoners of war”

3. “authorizing wiretaps on U.S. citizens without obtaining a warrant”

4. “disclosing the name of an undercover CIA operative”

5. suspending “the historic Writ of Habeas Corpus by ordering the indefinite detention of so-called enemy combatants”

6. “signing statements used to ignore or circumvent portions of over 750 Congressional statutes”

The resolution ends by calling for “vigorous investigation” and “appropriate remedies and punishment, including impeachment.”

PDA Director Tim Carpenter said: “This was an example of the Party grassroots speaking its mind, and the Party officials responding to the call. This action represents the successful culmination of PDA’s one-month, eleven-city barnstorming tour across California – aimed at putting impeachment and ending the occupation of Iraq at the top of the Party’s agenda.”

http://pdamerica.org/

[glengarry]

9. But Nancy has more important things to do than her constitutional duty...

just like Kindasleazy has more important things to do then respond to Waxman's subpoena. Like hit the Sunday news show, go shoe shopping and make Putin gag.

As for Nancy:

The table is bare
And there's emptiness all around
And if she won't set it you see
Then they can bring the curtain down

[eridani]

12. Nancy is in the line of succession

She is the very last person who should be pushing impeachment. That doesn't mean that all the other congresscritters are off the hook of course.

[Tom Joad]

14. She is doing more than not pushing impeachment, but forbidding it

for her impeachment is "off the table"
war with iran, or nuking it to smithereens, "that's on the table".

Let's go and flip that table over!

[Peace Patriot]

11. WHAT table? That's what I want to know. And why weren't the grass roots of

the Democratic Party who made Nancy Pelosi Speak of the House AT that table?

As for the California Dems--and I've been one all my life: Maybe I'll forgive our leaders now, for their shameful performance in helping to "swiftboat" our good Sec of State Kevin Shelley out of office, after he sued Diebold and demanded to see their source code (May '04), then helping Schwarz put a Diebold shill into that office. The CA Progressive caucus was wonderful in getting a reformer back into the Sec of State's office--Debra Bowen--one of the miracles of the '06 elections. Kudos and laurels wreaths for that! But the party legislative leadership had really soured me on the state party. I felt that we managed to restore objectivity to the Sec of State's office in spite of them. They seemed to WANT stolen elections!

This impeachment resolution tells me two things: 1) that the real Democrats are back in charge, in California--and perhaps can lead our legislative leaders out of the Dark Forest of compromise and collusion with Bushites; and 2) combined with Debra Bowen's election, that the grass roots of the party can truly restore transparent vote counting in this state, in spite of apparent corruption in Congress on this issue, and bipartisan corruption of county election officials.

Bowen is conducting a thorough top to bottom testing of the voting machines, and is restoring Shelley's policies including Californians' right to a paper ballot on demand. We have a long way to go to get rid of the "trade secret," proprietary programming code, owned and controlled by Bushite corporations--which is present in ALL voting machines AND in the central tabulators. But this is how we start down the road to vote counting that everyone can see and understand, and vote counting that cannot be manipulated by ANYONE on the order of magnitude that electronic voting, as currently designed, makes possible. But Bowen is instituting these reforms against the outrageous opposition of corrupt local officials.

Californians who don't know about this should get on it now. Does your local registrar support reform? Is he/she in Diebold's pocket?

The best position, in my view, is a ballot for every vote and a 100% handcount of the ballots, against the machine totals, at least for the next several elections. (Venezuela handcounts 55%. That should be sufficient eventually. They also have open source code!) We need to circumvent the corruption issue, for the moment, and GET THE VOTES COUNTED! Whatever machines they use, demand that they count all the ballots and post the results BEFORE any electronics are involved.

We need to put pressure from below--on these county officials who are obstructing reform.

[dweller]

24. just a

:kick: for your thread, like a bocci ball to the OP.

dp

[snappyturtle]

13. Thank you for reporting this!

I knew the resolution was to be introduced at the convention but I hadn't heard before your post how it turned out! I'm sure we'll be hearing about it on MSM. :sarcasm:

[Kurovski]

15. K&R. (nt)

[rinsd]

17. I believe this is the 2nd year in a row they have done this (nt)

[L. Coyote]

18. X-Post Kick: Should Americans vote for impeachment by sending just $3.33 to Kucinich?

X-post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x746432

[cally]

19. Credit the Progressive Democrats for this...I was a delegate

and the Progressive Democrats had a well thought out campaign. They passed out "Impeach" stickers and most of the delegates wore them. They had signs which we waved and kept up the pressure on the party leaders. The delegates supported it all along, but the Progressive Dems campaign showed how strongly the delegates felt about this.

[struggle4progress]

23. Thanks!

:bounce:

[rodeodance]

25. and on Pelosi's home turf.

[rinsd]

27. Psssssst. Speaker Pelosi's district is San Francisco not San Diego (nt)