From the Pen on Lieberman-Kyle amendment WE THE PEOPLE...

[ooglymoogly]

WE THE PEOPLE CUT THE HEART OUT OF THE LIEBERMAN-KYL AMENDMENT

It has taken a couple days for the actual disposition of the
Lieberman-Kyl amendment to leak out, but in FACT, the two most
offensive paragraphs (3 and 4), which we were objecting to so
strenuously as amounting to a declaration of war on Iran, were
REMOVED IN THEIR ENTIRELY prior to the vote. Which means we WON.

Yes, you did it, with your TENS of thousands of emails and phone
calls to Congress this last Monday and Tuesday. We are so proud of
our participants on this one. Claim your win.

What was left was not great, but ultimately it means nothing with the
actual teeth of the amendment extracted, not that that's any excuse
for those who voted yes (or did not vote at all). So the Senate
called some people a terrorist organization. Big deal, it's not
binding anyway, no more than their groundless and hypocritical
condemnation of MoveOn a week ago. And for those who may say this
gives Cheney and Bush an excuse to do anything, this White House
doesn't think it needs an excuse to do anything, that's the whole
POINT of impeachment.

Once again this PROVES that activism works. We beat them back this
time in a major way, folks, and why? Because we actually spoke out,
that's why! We dismissed the voices of defeatism and took action.
Fancy that, participatory democracy works. Are the evil ones going to
give up? Of course not, and that's why we're not going to give up
either. Let's say it together, we're going to keep ON speaking out in
even greater numbers.

There are many dirty secrets in Washington, but the biggest one of
all they are trying to keep may be that when you write and call in
mass numbers, members of Congress tremble, shaking in their socks,
especially in the House where they have to get reelected every two
years. Oh, sure, sometimes they send us their form letter responses
trying to sluff us off, trying to con us into thinking we are not
having an impact. But we know the truth, which is that they work for
us, and we do have the POWER with our personal messages to enforce
that.

WHAT DO WE DO NEXT? WHY, IMPEACHMENT OF COURSE

This week yet another video of Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney surfaced
from the early nineties, again articulating his views as to why
trying to occupy Iraq would be lead to nothing but a disastrous
quagmire. And yet this is the same man who not only lied the country
into doing just that once he seized power himself, but is still the
most aggressive force in the White House pushing for an even more
monumental debacle in Iran.

H. RES 333 ACTION PAGE: http://www.usalone.com/hres333.php

This is an NEW action page. We're going to have a new action page on
impeachment EVERY week from now on. That's the plan, we're ALL going
to call for impeachment once a week from now on, and each time
encourage everyone else we now to do the same using the friends
invitation section of the action page.

Recognizing the gravity of the increasingly loud drumbeats for more
war coming from the Vice President's office, this week Dennis
Kucinich, who had already gotten 20 cosponsors for H.Res 333 to
impeach Cheney, said he was seriously considering forcing the House
of Representatives to take up the issue of impeachment by bringing it
as a privileged resolution.

We have a major win in our pocket this week. We have slowed them
down. But we also recognize that the only thing that will stop them
completely is confronting the White House, and Cheney in particular,
with impeachment. Each and every member of the House must be called
to account at this moment in American political history, by the
demands of you, their constituents, whether they will stand up for
the Constitution and stop Dick Cheney's delusional march to Iran . .
or not.

Already more than 110,000 of your fellow constituents have voted in
the National Cheney Impeachment Poll. If we had a million people
write in one week, impeachment would be the centerpiece on the table
so fast it would make their heads spin. We're going to do it. We're
going to crank up our efforts to a new level this week. And when
Dennis Kucinich DOES introduce his privileged resolution, we're going
to crank it up even more.

THANK DENNIS KUCINICH PERSONALLY FOR HIS LEADERSHIP

Once again, Dennis Kucinich stands out as the leading voice calling
for restoration of our Constitution. Isn't that enough reason to make
whatever donation you can to him, to encourage him to speak out even
stronger on the issues more and more every day? If you have not done
so already, please do so now if you can.

DENNIS KUCINICH CONTRIBUTIONS:
http://www.usalone.com/donations_kucinich.php

Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
to be ours, and forward this message to everyone else you know.

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[Metta]

1. Thanks for the clarification. Its hard to know who to believe sometimes.

Up for Kucinich, too. One of the few consistently sane and rational voices these days.

[ooglymoogly]

2. I guess it was not known until details started leaking out

but still and all It is a terrible amendment even with the 2 worst articles removed and I personally do not let any of the supporters off the hook for this clear and unmistakable march toward war. It was millions of people like me and many others on this and other sites signing petitions, sending emails by the truckload and calling senators and house leaders that got the two astonishingly and bolt stupid war mongering articles removed from the still many that are left. After all if Hr. * can think and act on his signing statements as law, this even in its present form is red meat to the junkyard dogs in the WH.

[Metta]

6. Sadly so.

Sadly so.

[madfloridian]

3. Who is behind The Pen?

I have asked often, but there is nothing at their site and no one ever answers me. We are supposed to trust them to send messages in our name, but we don't know who they are.

[ooglymoogly]

4. the PEN stands for Peoples Email Network -link-...

http://www.usalone.com/
PEN's
Mission Statement:
Our democracy is only as strong as the participation of the people. Do your representatives only hear from you once every two or four years, assuming you vote at all? There are members of Congress who publicly bemoan the fact that they don't hear from more of their constituents more often. Our leaders are our generals in the political arena, but we are their troops. They can't do battle for us against opposing interests without being able to demonstrate our ongoing support. The People's Email Network is constructed to facilitate communication with our elected officials. By your participation you can establish that you are a voter who will call your government to account at each successive election. Your views do count. They will be heard. And most importantly, when you cast your votes in the section above, be sure to use the ground-breaking input functions of our website to also submit the email addresses of everyone you know. In this way we can together mobilize the entire country to speak in the loudest possible voice.

Here is a sample of their theme song "Its up to us alone" http://www.usalone.net/wtv_iutua2a.htm

[madfloridian]

5. Yes, but I mean who started the site.

Most sites have an About link. I know the bloggers mostly by name.

People posting opinions are one thing,they can be anonymous. But having a site which we need to trust to send things in our name is another.

That's what I mean.