Inslee has Jus Announced the *Impeach GONZO Resolution* with 15 Co-Sponsers at PRESSER on C-Span3

[KoKo]

Inslee appeared with looked live 5 Co-Sponsors (although he said he had 15)just now on C-Span 3. What I heard was he said that they wouldn't bring it up for a vote until after the August Recess, though.

So far a check of CNN Breaking News plus our Liberal Websites TWP/Think Progress....shows NOTHING about this. There were reporters there asking questions so I'm hoping we will finally see this announced somewhere!

Anyway...it's disappointing they can't vote until after the Recess but Gonzo is on notice and so is Bush that this Congress is down to Business with bringing on the Investigations and Impeachment at least of Gonzo and hopefully up the ladder. Interesting that the Judicial Committee doesn't need to put forth the Resolution...but that the House itself can initiate the Resolution for Impeachment. I think lots of us didn't know that.

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(This from Yesterday about them Introducing the Resolution to Impeach)

Inslee leading effort to impeach Gonzales

By Alicia Mundy
Seattle Times Washington bureau

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jay Inslee will introduce a resolution today directing the House Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should be impeached.

Five co-sponsors have joined Inslee, D-Bainbridge Island, in backing the resolution.

At issue, said Inslee, is whether Gonzales lied to Congress in testimony about secret government wiretapping and about the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, including John McKay, the former federal prosecutor in Seattle.

Inslee and his co-sponsors are all former prosecutors. Inslee prosecuted cases for the city of Selah, Yakima County, while working as a private attorney in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

"Our resolution follows the careful procedure of conducting a thorough investigation before the House would decide on articles of impeachment — a fairness the attorney general did not afford to his fired U.S. attorneys," Inslee said Monday.

The House and Senate Judiciary committees have held several hearings at which Gonzales has testified this year. None of the leaders of the House Judiciary Committee, including Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., has signed on to the resolution. Inslee does not sit on that committee.

Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the ranking Republican on the committee, denounced the resolution Monday night.

"The call by Democrats to impeach Attorney General Gonzales is a misuse of congressional power for purely political reasons and a waste of the American public's money and time," Smith said in a statement.

He said Democrats have chosen "to engage in a politically motivated campaign to slander the Justice Department and undermine the credibility of federal law enforcement."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2003813954&zsection_id=2002111777&slug=inslee31m&date=20070731

[rodeodance]

1. was in introduced in the House? on the floor? (sorry, I am a bit confused)

[IChing]

3. It was an inaccurate title he introduces it tomorrow at 10:00

He said..... "be there or be square"...... really..... at the press conference.

[KoKo]

4. I just fixed the OP ....my C=Span feed conked out...and I thought it was a floor speech.

Thanks for the clarification. So, it's 10:00 tomorrow that he introduces it and then the vote is after the Recess.

[porphyrian]

2. Good. And don't worry, Lamar Smith, we won't waste as much as Ken Starr did. - n/t

[ORDagnabbit]

5. Only 15? fricken everybody should sign on it immediately

[tekisui]

6. Will Gonzo make it through the break?

They only have 15 co-sponsors because Inslee went to those in congress who are former prosecutors. He wanted to start with a strong group. I'm sure enough will sign on to get impeachment rolling after the break.
Start with Gonzo and move up with the evidence during Impeachment Hearings. Gonzo will bail before an Impeachment vote.
I hope congress Impeaches even after he resigns.