81 Municipalities Across The Land Have Voted/Advocated For Impeachment

[Me.]

According to KO, tonight. The tide is rising across this land of ours. The people know what needs to be done. It’s only Congress that thinks it’s off the table, or will take too long or whatever…. As usual, the people are ahead of the pols, just as they were /are about the war. My prediction is that as the list of crimes mount, on a near daily basis, the people will have their way. Below are just a few links regarding impeachment resolutions.


http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-impeach5jul05,1,5735365.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=2957

www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/18707

http://impeachpac.org/node/3424

http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_206123711.html

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/22757

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/24/19366/9777

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/05/2313/

[John Q. Citizen]

1. impeachment: The cure for a sick country

[Ian David]

2. Did any towns or municipalities do this when Clinton got his blowjob? n/t

[Me.]

3. Acording To Google The Answer Would Be NO

In Praise of Impeachment
Pelosi may have put it “off the table,” but it’s not her decision anyway
By John Nichols

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“Why should we dismiss the Speaker-to-be’s adamant dismissal of impeachment as mere wordplay? Not because Pelosi is secretly plotting impeachment. Rather, because any meaningful movement to impeach a president—and, in the case of the Bush-Cheney administration, a vice president—does not come from the Speaker of the House. The Speaker is, in fact, often the last to know that the Constitutional moment has arrived.

Impeachment is an organic process, imagined as such by the founders. Its seed is not naturally planted in Washington, nor nurtured there. When an impeachment initiative is little more than a manifestation of inside-the-Beltway partisanship, as was the case with the Clinton impeachment of the late ’90s, its proponents invite an appropriate rebuke from the citizenry. But when proposals for impeachment are grounded in popular concern for the republic in general and the application of the rule of law in particular—as are moves to sanction Bush and Cheney for illegal war making and wiretapping—the process will begin at the grassroots and grow until it cannot be denied by Washington.”…cont.

“So the question is not: Where does Pelosi stand at the opening of this session of Congress? Rather, it is: Where do the people stand?

Polling tells us that Americans are a good deal more enthusiastic about holding this president to account than are the leaders of what is sometimes euphemistically referred to as an opposition party. A majority of Americans surveyed last fall in a national poll by the respected firm Ipsos Public Affairs, which measures public opinion on behalf of Associated Press, agreed with the statement: “If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable by impeaching him.”

It was not entirely surprising that 72 percent of the Democrats were inclined toward impeachment. What was more interesting was that 56 percent of self-described Independents were ready to hold the president to account, as were 20 percent of Republicans. For comparison sake, it’s worth noting that polling around the same time found that only 43 percent of Americans thought the Bush administration’s flawed No Child Left Behind law—which Pelosi and her fellow Democratic leaders will be quick to tell you is most definitely on the table—was a major problem that needed to be addressed….Cont.


http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2937/in_praise_of_impeachment/

[babylonsister]

9. Great question. I'll bet not.

Hell, my dad still hails Clinton and his admin, AND his wife.
We're both screaming liberals, and we wind up yelling at each other.
Very interesting.

[JacquesMolay]

4. Impeachment is just a game at this point -

... the Democrats better get off their ass and start articulating their view of the country, what's wrong with it and how they can make it better.

[Me.]

5. Not Just Articulating

The time for talk is over, action is needed. Even some conservative pubs know that. Bruce Fein has made the case on Moyers and KO. Buchanan has said it's up to Congress to set things right. Even the dreadfuls like Vigurie and Norquist know the jig is up. And when you have barkin' mad people like Richard Mellon Scaife questioning *'s sanity, there is very little left to say.

[mmonk]

6. Largest impeachment movement from the people.

Still no luck. Stubborn politics.

[Me.]

7. It's Building

The I word is on many lips

[Kurovski]

8. K&R for a nice line-up.

:kick:

[onenote]

10. I think its great, but there is a long way to go still

The only way impeachment is going to happen is for the pressure from the public to grow to a point that some repubs start abandoning ship. Unfortunately, none of the municipalities that have acted to date are ones that are likely to influence any repubs. But its important to keep working. There are over 20,000 municipalities in the US so there's a lot of work to be done.

[Usrename]

11. Why would the repubs ever come out from their safe haven.

Speaker Pelosi is giving them all the political cover they need to stay right where they are.

She wants to make friends with them.

[Hubert Flottz]

14. "She wants to make friends with them."

The scene where Nancy is all smiley faced and holding hands with Bush in the rose garden, reminds me of that little girl in the movie picking flowers with the Frankenstein Monster!

[Usrename]

15. Ha!

[Me.]

16. And We All Know What Happened To That Little Girl

Don't we?

[Senator]

12. K&R

[Me.]

13. Thanks

:kick:

[H2O Man]

17. I love the

sound of "impeachment." It reminds me of democracy.

Nominated.