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Friday, December 14, 2007
Cheney Impeachment Hearings Can Begin With Your Help
I'm so excited right now, I can hardly type!
As very few of you probably know, Dennis Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice-President Dick Cheney last month and they passed the House of Representatives. Yes, I typed that correctly. They passed the House of Representatives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not want to go immediately into debate, so the Articles of Impeachment moved into the House Judiciary Committee. The House Judiciary Committee is where hearings are to take place if the Chairman, John Conyers, decides to proceed.
Rep. Robert Wexler is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and he is calling for impeachment hearings to begin! But the Democratic leadership is still standing in the way. Robert Wexler and two other members of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Luis Gutierrez and Rep. Tammy Baldwin, have written an op-ed in support of starting hearings which can be found on the website Robert Wexler has set up to show public support for starting hearings. He also filmed a you-tube video that you can watch below.
In a blog post he wrote today for The Huffington Post, Wexler promised, "If we can get 50,000 or even more people to sign up in support of this effort I will report back to each and every Democratic colleague of mine the true power that exists behind this movement." I think we can easily get a million people to sign it by the end of the day.
Here's what you need to do:
1) Go to Wexler's website and sign the petition.
2) Check and see if your Congressional Representative is on the Committee (you only have one representative in the House. If you don't know who that is, go to the top right hand side of this blog, under the previous posts, and type your zip code into the "Contact Congress" box). If he or she is on the House Judiciary Committee, call them and write them emails until they agree to support starting hearings.
3) Call your mom, dad, brothers, sisters, friends, enemies, colleagues, old high school buddies, frat brothers, sorority sisters, cats, dogs - everyone you know - and tell them to sign this petition. Then get on the internet and spread the word as fast as you can type.
We can actually make a difference today, kids!
Ready... set... Go!
Nick Juliano
Raw Story
Saturday December 15, 2007
As the House Judiciary Committee continues to refuse any action on proposals to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, three of that panel's members tried to take their case to influential op-ed pages of the nation's largest newspapers.
They were turned down by every one -- including the New York Times, Washington Post and Miami Herald -- so now one of the lawmakers has taken his campaign to the Internet.
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) on Friday launched a new Web site, WexlerWantsHearings.com to advance his call to impeach Cheney. The site hosts an op-ed article censored by the nation's major newspapers and outlines the case for impeaching Cheney.
"The truth is the mainstream media have no interest in this issue," Wexler said Friday.
"They have bought into the notion that impeachment hearings are outside the bounds of what the congress ought to be doing," the six-term Congressman elaborated during a conference call Friday.
The House Judiciary Committee has before it a resolution introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) calling for Cheney's impeachment and accusing the vice president of a raft of high crimes, including manipulating intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, obstructing federal investigations and conspiring to expose the identity of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said impeachment in strictly off the table, and the Judiciary Committee seems unlikely to move forward with any hearings. Wexler encouraged impeachment supporters to sign a petition on his new site to allay the notions of Democratic leaders that impeachment supporters are little more than "a fringe, marginal group of people."
Wexler said the House has the constitutional obligation to begin impeachment hearings to investigate malfeasance within the Bush administration, and he blamed the lack of enthusiasm thus far on the "bad taste" left by the GOP's last impeachment crusade.
"People are just afraid that we would just be putting the shoe on the other foot and just doing ... what the Republicans did to Bill Clinton," Wexler told the conference call, which was organized by Democrats.com.
The "kangaroo court" Republicans used to impeach Clinton, on grounds that he lied about his liaison with an intern, cannot become the precedent by which the constitutional tool is judged, Wexler said.
Although Bush and Cheney will be leaving the White House for good in 13 months, Wexler said impeachment hearings were necessary because of the need to ferret out possible criminality in the administration.
"We have to follow the evidence where it leads," he said. "We have an obligation to do it, and to do it as thoroughly as possible."
Wexler posted the following video appeal on his impeachment Web site.
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Hey Marc,
Sorry to leave this comment on an unrelated thread but I wanted to give you a heads up on some exciting news. As you may or may not know, the impeachment of Dick Cheney has passed the House and is waiting for action in the House Judiciary Commitee. Robert Wexler, a member of the judiciary committee, is now calling for hearings to begin. He is asking for 50,000 signatures on the petition he has set up at www.wexlerwantshearings.com. On that site, you can also find a you-tube video he filmed and an op-ed he co-wrote with two other members of the judiciary committee in support of hearings.
Please let your readers know about the petition. We can actually help save our country today!
Wexler also wrote a blog at The Huffington Post today if you'd like to check that out too.
Spread the word!
Jen