Impeachment Countdown: Are Bush and Cheney Starting to Lose Sleep?

[Guest Gandalf Grey]

Impeachment Countdown: Are Bush and Cheney Starting to Lose Sleep?

 

By Dave Lindorff

Created Jul 13 2007 - 9:03am

 

Now it's Sen. Barbara Boxer.

 

The junior senator from California on Wednesday stated publicly on national

radio (the Ed Schultz Show) that in her view, impeachment of the president

should be "on the table."

 

The reference, of course, was a pointed dig at Boxer's San Francisco

neighbor, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who over a year ago announced that if

Democrats were to regain control of the House, impeachment would not even be

considered. It would, she famously vowed, be "off the table."

 

Of course, since Pelosi made that shameful declaration, brushing aside

Bush's already committed crimes against the Constitution, it has become

clear that this president has been refusing to enact dozens, perhaps

hundreds, of laws duly passed by the Congress, and that he has ignored the

clear will of the people to have the disastrous Iraq War brought to a quick,

merciful end As well, proof has mounted of presidential and

vice-presidential lying to put the country at war with Iraq. Also, more

recently, the vice president pushed for, and the president decided on a

commutation of I. "Scooter" Libby's sentence for perjury and obstruction of

justice. Beyond that, news has come of a string of political firings of U.S.

Attorneys, primarily because they had not acceded to the filing of harassing

election fraud lawsuits designed to help keep Democrats away from the polls.

 

In short, evidence of outrageous administration lawlessness and abuse of

power has been piling up for a year since Pelosi's statement, and during her

six-month stint as Speaker, during which time she has continued not just to

block impeachment bills in Congress, but to work hard behind the scenes to

undermine a growing grassroots impeachment movement.

 

Sen. Boxer's bold statement puts impeachment front and center inside the

Beltway, and in the national media. It adds new weight to the bill calling

for the impeachment of Dick Cheney which Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) filed

in the House on April 24, and which now has 14 additional co-sponsors.

 

We're not there yet, but thanks to a growing grassroots campaign,

impeachment is being forced into public and Congressional consciousness. It

is reaching a point where even the most cowardly or complicit news editors

will not be able to push it aside, black it out, or deride it as a "fringe"

thing.

 

We're getting to a point where the powerful in Congress, and the pundits and

opinion makers in the media, are going to have to acknowledge that

impeachment is being demanded by the public, and that it is appropriate to

the crimes that are being perpetrated by the White House.

 

Speaker Pelosi's position is becoming less and less tenable, and is looking

more and more shrill and even ridiculous.

 

How, after all, can the leader of the House say that impeachment is

inappropriate when the president is thumbing his nose at Congress every time

they send him a bill! She and the rest of the members of Congress are well

aware that if Bush doesn't like a bill, he will just sign it and then refuse

to enact it, making a joke of the whole legislative process.

 

How many other institutions can you think of where the members of that

institution have stood idly by, hands in pockets, while their power and

authority was trampled? Even on the grounds of simple ego, you would think

that Congress would be rising up as one to put an end to such a travesty,

and yet not one bill has been submitted calling for the president's

impeachment. Even Kucinich's bill is limited the vice president, and to

issues of war and peace, and it says nothing about abuse of power--the

really serious crime of this administration.

 

No wonder support for the Democratic Congress has tanked, falling to 23

percent in the latest poll on the subject. No wonder Pelosi herself has seen

her popularity in California plunge to 39 percent. No wonder she's being

threatened by peace activist and Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan with a

challenge for her seat in 2008.

 

But with each new member of the House who signs on to Kucinich's H Res 333

(the latest is California Democratic Rep. Sam Farr), and with each new

senator who joins Barbara Boxer in standing up and calling for impeachment,

it becomes easier for the next ones to follow.

 

President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been having pretty much a free

ride for six years, and have probably shared plenty of laughs at the

Democratic "opposition" over the last six years as they steamrollered both

them and the Constitution. But suddenly, things are turning around, and as

is often the case in politics, they are turning quickly.

 

My guess is that Bush and Cheney are starting to lose sleep, wondering if

they may end up facing impeachment after all. I suspect Pelosi is starting

to lose sleep too, wondering if she needs to rethink her menu.

_______

 

 

 

 

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"A little patience and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their

spells dissolve, and the people recovering their true sight, restore their

government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are

suffering deeply in spirit,

and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public

debt. But if the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have

patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning

back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at

stake."

-Thomas Jefferson

[Guest zzpat]

Gandalf Grey wrote:

>

> In short, evidence of outrageous administration lawlessness and abuse of

> power has been piling up for a year since Pelosi's statement, and during her

> six-month stint as Speaker, during which time she has continued not just to

> block impeachment bills in Congress, but to work hard behind the scenes to

> undermine a growing grassroots impeachment movement.

>

> Sen. Boxer's bold statement puts impeachment front and center inside the

> Beltway, and in the national media. It adds new weight to the bill calling

> for the impeachment of Dick Cheney which Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) filed

> in the House on April 24, and which now has 14 additional co-sponsors.

>

 

Impeachment should NEVER be taken off the table.

 

Pelosi should say she made a mistake and allow the congress move forward

with its primary mission of defending the constitution against all

enemies; foreign and domestic.

 

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[Guest zzpat]

Gandalf Grey wrote:

> Impeachment Countdown: Are Bush and Cheney Starting to Lose Sleep?

>

> My guess is that Bush and Cheney are starting to lose sleep, wondering if

> they may end up facing impeachment after all. I suspect Pelosi is starting

> to lose sleep too, wondering if she needs to rethink her menu.

> _______

>

 

How many major news organizations carried the story of Boxer saying

impeachment should be on the table? So far I can't find one.

 

We still live in an era in which a thousand voices all saying the same

thing is called "free speech" and a "free press."

 

 

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[Guest Barbi]

"zzpat" <zzpatrick@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:f7g6qf6p9e@enews4.newsguy.com...

> Gandalf Grey wrote:

>> Impeachment Countdown: Are Bush and Cheney Starting to Lose Sleep?

>

>>

>> My guess is that Bush and Cheney are starting to lose sleep, wondering if

>> they may end up facing impeachment after all. I suspect Pelosi is

>> starting

>> to lose sleep too, wondering if she needs to rethink her menu.

>> _______

>>

>

> How many major news organizations carried the story of Boxer saying

> impeachment should be on the table? So far I can't find one.

>

> We still live in an era in which a thousand voices all saying the same

> thing is called "free speech" and a "free press."

>

Yes and bringing back the fairness doctrine will destroy free speech!

Do you want to live in a country where the media is forced to do its job? If

we all just listen to FOX news we won't be so worried and we will be happy.

Every day in America with our great corporate media is a day spent in 1984.

[Guest LarsensAttack]

zzpat wrote:

> Gandalf Grey wrote:

>

>> Impeachment Countdown: Are Bush and Cheney Starting to Lose Sleep?

>

>

>>

>> My guess is that Bush and Cheney are starting to lose sleep, wondering if

>> they may end up facing impeachment after all. I suspect Pelosi is

>> starting

>> to lose sleep too, wondering if she needs to rethink her menu.

>> _______

>>

>

> How many major news organizations carried the story of Boxer saying

> impeachment should be on the table? So far I can't find one.

>

> We still live in an era in which a thousand voices all saying the same

> thing is called "free speech" and a "free press."

 

Besides, to impeach would mean that the House would have to

break with its corporate sponsors and special interests.

The same ones that funded and enabled both sides of the

aisle. They won't do that, because even if they lose their

seats, they're promised "something".

--

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==

IMPEACH CHENEY NOW!

Governments should fear their people, not vice versa.

Abolish the senate - its undemocratic.

30% of Congress are NOT bought and paid for.

Vote ALL incumbents out in '08

[Guest zzpat]

LarsensAttack wrote:

>>

>> We still live in an era in which a thousand voices all saying the same

>> thing is called "free speech" and a "free press."

>

> Besides, to impeach would mean that the House would have to

> break with its corporate sponsors and special interests.

> The same ones that funded and enabled both sides of the

> aisle. They won't do that, because even if they lose their

> seats, they're promised "something".

 

I disagree. The corporate owned media isn't interested in anything but

profits and like all for-profit corporations they don't care how they

get it. They even lie to their shareholders. Impeachment would be a

great story and great stories increase ratings and high ratings increase

profits.

 

Things don't have to be true or news worthy to be news (Whitewater for

example) but they do require hype.

 

Reid is finally learning how to out-hype GOP hype and expose their

hypocrisy on Iraq with his all-nighter. Next, he should introduce a bill

to increase taxes to pay for the war and watch GOP senators scurry into

the dark.

 

It's possible to completely destroy Bush and the GOP.

 

 

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[Guest LarsensAttack]

zzpat wrote:

> LarsensAttack wrote:

>

>>>

>>> We still live in an era in which a thousand voices all saying the

>>> same thing is called "free speech" and a "free press."

>>

>>

>> Besides, to impeach would mean that the House would have to

>> break with its corporate sponsors and special interests.

>> The same ones that funded and enabled both sides of the

>> aisle. They won't do that, because even if they lose their

>> seats, they're promised "something".

>

>

> I disagree. The corporate owned media isn't interested in anything but

> profits and like all for-profit corporations they don't care how they

> get it. They even lie to their shareholders. Impeachment would be a

> great story and great stories increase ratings and high ratings increase

> profits.

 

The big media corporates know that a GOP congress and president

will do NOTHING to reform rightwing media monopolies and control

of the airwaves.

>

> Things don't have to be true or news worthy to be news (Whitewater for

> example) but they do require hype.

>

> Reid is finally learning how to out-hype GOP hype and expose their

> hypocrisy on Iraq with his all-nighter. Next, he should introduce a bill

> to increase taxes to pay for the war and watch GOP senators scurry into

> the dark.

>

> It's possible to completely destroy Bush and the GOP.

 

Actually, they have done it themselves.

 

--

B3

==

IMPEACH CHENEY NOW!

Governments should fear their people, not vice versa.

Abolish the senate - its undemocratic.

30% of Congress are NOT bought and paid for.

Vote ALL incumbents out in '08

[Guest Bret Cahill]

If we impeach, they pardon each other and don't do any time.

 

If we wait until 2009 Cheney can be put behind bars.

 

 

Bret Cahill

[Guest A Veteran]

In article <1184671650.106183.231260@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com>,

Bret Cahill <BretCahill@aol.com> wrote:

> If we impeach, they pardon each other and don't do any time.

>

> If we wait until 2009 Cheney can be put behind bars.

>

>

> Bret Cahill

 

but, he is already suffering.

the miserable sod.

 

Aren't you worried about his "soul"?

 

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[Guest trippy]

In article <469b8b50$0$9669$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com>, Gandalf Grey

took the hamburger meat, threw it on the grill, and I said "Oh Wow"...

> Impeachment Countdown: Are Bush and Cheney Starting to Lose Sleep?

 

I doubt it. But they might if the GOP gets more disgruntled. And the

gonna lay it all on him once it implodes. I bet they'll lose lots of

sleep then.

>

> By Dave Lindorff

> Created Jul 13 2007 - 9:03am

>

> Now it's Sen. Barbara Boxer.

>

> The junior senator from California on Wednesday stated publicly on national

> radio (the Ed Schultz Show) that in her view, impeachment of the president

> should be "on the table."

>

> The reference, of course, was a pointed dig at Boxer's San Francisco

> neighbor, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who over a year ago announced that if

> Democrats were to regain control of the House, impeachment would not even be

> considered. It would, she famously vowed, be "off the table."

>

> Of course, since Pelosi made that shameful declaration, brushing aside

> Bush's already committed crimes against the Constitution, it has become

> clear that this president has been refusing to enact dozens, perhaps

> hundreds, of laws duly passed by the Congress, and that he has ignored the

> clear will of the people to have the disastrous Iraq War brought to a quick,

> merciful end As well, proof has mounted of presidential and

> vice-presidential lying to put the country at war with Iraq. Also, more

> recently, the vice president pushed for, and the president decided on a

> commutation of I. "Scooter" Libby's sentence for perjury and obstruction of

> justice. Beyond that, news has come of a string of political firings of U.S.

> Attorneys, primarily because they had not acceded to the filing of harassing

> election fraud lawsuits designed to help keep Democrats away from the polls.

>

> In short, evidence of outrageous administration lawlessness and abuse of

> power has been piling up for a year since Pelosi's statement, and during her

> six-month stint as Speaker, during which time she has continued not just to

> block impeachment bills in Congress, but to work hard behind the scenes to

> undermine a growing grassroots impeachment movement.

>

> Sen. Boxer's bold statement puts impeachment front and center inside the

> Beltway, and in the national media. It adds new weight to the bill calling

> for the impeachment of Dick Cheney which Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) filed

> in the House on April 24, and which now has 14 additional co-sponsors.

>

> We're not there yet, but thanks to a growing grassroots campaign,

> impeachment is being forced into public and Congressional consciousness. It

> is reaching a point where even the most cowardly or complicit news editors

> will not be able to push it aside, black it out, or deride it as a "fringe"

> thing.

>

> We're getting to a point where the powerful in Congress, and the pundits and

> opinion makers in the media, are going to have to acknowledge that

> impeachment is being demanded by the public, and that it is appropriate to

> the crimes that are being perpetrated by the White House.

>

> Speaker Pelosi's position is becoming less and less tenable, and is looking

> more and more shrill and even ridiculous.

>

> How, after all, can the leader of the House say that impeachment is

> inappropriate when the president is thumbing his nose at Congress every time

> they send him a bill! She and the rest of the members of Congress are well

> aware that if Bush doesn't like a bill, he will just sign it and then refuse

> to enact it, making a joke of the whole legislative process.

>

> How many other institutions can you think of where the members of that

> institution have stood idly by, hands in pockets, while their power and

> authority was trampled? Even on the grounds of simple ego, you would think

> that Congress would be rising up as one to put an end to such a travesty,

> and yet not one bill has been submitted calling for the president's

> impeachment. Even Kucinich's bill is limited the vice president, and to

> issues of war and peace, and it says nothing about abuse of power--the

> really serious crime of this administration.

>

> No wonder support for the Democratic Congress has tanked, falling to 23

> percent in the latest poll on the subject. No wonder Pelosi herself has seen

> her popularity in California plunge to 39 percent. No wonder she's being

> threatened by peace activist and Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan with a

> challenge for her seat in 2008.

>

> But with each new member of the House who signs on to Kucinich's H Res 333

> (the latest is California Democratic Rep. Sam Farr), and with each new

> senator who joins Barbara Boxer in standing up and calling for impeachment,

> it becomes easier for the next ones to follow.

>

> President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been having pretty much a free

> ride for six years, and have probably shared plenty of laughs at the

> Democratic "opposition" over the last six years as they steamrollered both

> them and the Constitution. But suddenly, things are turning around, and as

> is often the case in politics, they are turning quickly.

>

> My guess is that Bush and Cheney are starting to lose sleep, wondering if

> they may end up facing impeachment after all. I suspect Pelosi is starting

> to lose sleep too, wondering if she needs to rethink her menu.

> _______

>

 

I'd like to see impeachment happen. I always wanted it. I was hoping

this would happen. Yeah, the more we know, the more we want to know.

That's bad for this administration because I know we aren't gonna like

what we find.

 

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