AN OPEN LETTER TO DIANNE FEINSTEIN - Mimi Kennedy (RE: Impeachment)

[helderheid]

May 22nd, 2007

Dear Senator Feinstein:

This morning I received your e-mail answer to my e-mail urging you to impeach Dick Cheney. Thanks. But your reply troubled me, so rather than occupy a staffer whose time is better spent on investigations, I’ll reply publicly:

You wrote: “Impeachment proceedings against President Bush or Vice President Cheney will only divide the country even further and frustrate hope for meaningful change… given the challenges our country faces I believe that we need to focus on constructive and cooperative steps that would lead us in the right direction.”

Senator, your belief that constructive and cooperative steps are possible with this Unitary Executive Administration evinces a denial that makes you seem complicit. Where is your sense of alarm as the shocking facts accumulate? The late-night hospital visit to Ashcroft by Gonzalez and Card; the firings of the U.S. prosecutors; the RNC computers in the White House sharing a server with computers of the Secretary of State of Ohio on election night 2004; does any of this suggest that constructive cooperation is on this Administration’s agenda? The GOP hounded Clinton mercilessly for politicizing the people’s house when he let some donors stay overnight in the Lincoln Bedroom. But Democrats have said little about the RNC computers busy for years under the White House roof. Are constructive, cooperative steps in the “right direction” (did you mean to pun?) possible with people who undermined your political party for years on our tax dime, violating laws with impunity? How do you feel when months of constructive and cooperative steps are erased by the stroke of a signing-statement pen?

You mentioned election reform as a challenge facing our nation; I agree! But you continue to permit electronic balloting, which is easily manipulable by anyone willing to commit crime for political advantage. Have not many Administration officials suggested, with a parade of convictions and resignations, that they were so willing? In California, judges and officials stymie activists who want to recount the paper trail to check electronic tallies. The fundamental connection between us and you is broken. Your trust in cooperation with this Administration makes you seem ill-equipped to reform it.

read more >>>>>>>>>
http://blog.pdamerica.org/?p=1116#more-1116

[Tigress DEM]

1. Go MiMi! Go MiMi!

[EST]

2. Spot--freaking--on!!

Beautifully done. Without the rule of law, which this criminal administration has flouted from the time, and before bush senior-on taxpayers' dime-smoothed the way for his worthless wayward son to go to "work" on the taxpayers' dime in the TANG, the country cannot possibly come out of the troubles that beset us. There has been nothing but crimes, coverups, misdirection, fraud; the list is incalculable.

If the rule of law counts for so little that they feel it necessary to ignore and diminish just so they can pursue their own version of what they think is right for the country, then we do, indeed, have the wrong people in there doing our business. In normal court, what they are doing could conceivably be named obstruction and that makes them complicit-no matter how high flung they consider their motives to be.

[annabanana]

3. Excellent letter.. Every single "cooperative and constructive"

Democrat ought to get a copy.

k&r

[helderheid]

4. Agreed.

[Bitwit1234]

5. No reasonable, sensible, human and intelligence will do anything

to change the minds and actions of these two fugitives from the human race.

[chimpymustgo]

6. "... a denial that makes you seem complicit." nt

nt

[helderheid]

7. My heart is sinking.

[cascadiance]

8. Mimi is one great lady!

She and I share birthdays and we had a great time talking and standing next to each other with our protest signs, etc. during Al Franken's morning show at DemocracyFest here earlier last year protesting the Busby/Bilray special election electronic voting issues, etc.

She's right on the money here! This isn't a time to be "bipartisan", when that isn't what is really happening, but giving in to contentious behavior on the other side that is ANYTHING BUT an attempt to be "constructive and cooperative". It takes two to tango. Otherwise it is just enablement and aquiescense.

[helderheid]

9. Mimi is incredible - I am so honored to work with her!