Comments on: Pelosi greeted with “Impeach” Bush and Cheney buttons http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/ Tracking the 2008 U.S. campaign Sat, 17 May 2008 03:05:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Steven Delco http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-360666 Steven Delco Tue, 13 May 2008 11:35:40 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-360666 The End of American Democracy If our elected representatives do not hold all the members of the Bush administration accountable with serious consequences now for their transgressions against the spirit and the letter of the law of our constitution than our democracy as envisioned by the founders has been breached. This precedent of over-reaching executive power and complete abrogation of the precious “checks and balances” so wisely engineered into our constitution will result in the lost forever of our nation’s cherished ideals. The power stolen by this administration will poison the well of our democracy for the foreseeable future. This over-reach of power will become more absolute no matter what party is elected. And this absolute power will continue to erode any constitutional integrity we have left. If our elected representatives don’t exert their responsibility to check the executive with all the power that has been vested in them by the constitution than we have lived to see the end of the great American experiment started by Adams, Jefferson and Franklin et al. The End of American Democracy
If our elected representatives do not hold all the members of the Bush administration accountable with serious consequences now for their transgressions against the spirit and the letter of the law of our constitution than our democracy as envisioned by the founders has been breached. This precedent of over-reaching executive power and complete abrogation of the precious “checks and balances” so wisely engineered into our constitution will result in the lost forever of our nation’s cherished ideals. The power stolen by this administration will poison the well of our democracy for the foreseeable future. This over-reach of power will become more absolute no matter what party is elected. And this absolute power will continue to erode any constitutional integrity we have left. If our elected representatives don’t exert their responsibility to check the executive with all the power that has been vested in them by the constitution than we have lived to see the end of the great American experiment started by Adams, Jefferson and Franklin et al.

]]> By: Steven Delco http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-360665 Steven Delco Tue, 13 May 2008 11:11:25 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-360665 Nancy Pelosi's Choice and Legacy Will Nancy Pelosi be sited in history as the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives or the first Speaker of the House of Representatives that for politically expedient reasons would not investigate or pursue impeachment proceedings against G.W. Bush and company and thereby permitting under her watch a major constitutional breach? In a recent book US vs. George W. Bush, et.al. Elizabeth de la Vega a former federal prosecutor lays out a brilliant case against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and Colin Powell, for tricking the nation into war, or, in legal terms, conspiracy to defraud the United States. Daniel Ellsberg a former State and Defense Department official who revealed the Pentagon Papers has said about the book: “On the basis of the evidence presented by former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega, I'm convinced that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their fellow "indictees" are fully entitled to a fair and honest trial—indeed, several fair and honest trials—by juries of their peers”. In a recent phone call to Pelosi’s California office an aide hemming and hawing on the phone tried to justify to me the lack of action by Pelosi in abrogating her constitutional duty to launch a full investigation of potential high crimes and misdemeanors by the President. The aide I spoke with revealed that many angry constituents of Pelosi have called in on this matter and in what seemed to be fit of frustration over Pelosi’s tactics blurted out “They (Bush, et al.) will not get away with this” -- an interesting statement with no further explanation. But the aide trying to get off the phone as soon as possible went on to say that Pelosi feels it would be too “time consuming” to pursue an investigation towards impeachment whether or not there was probable cause. I am not a legal scholar but I never thought that launching an investigation or impeachment against a President that has possibly broken the law is a choice that the Speaker of the House has the right to make. It is my understanding that it is his/her duty under the constitution and if it is not the constitution is seriously flawed because then it puts the Speaker and the President above the Laws of the Land. Nancy Pelosi’s Choice and Legacy

Will Nancy Pelosi be sited in history as the first woman Speaker of the House of Representatives or the first Speaker of the House of Representatives that for politically expedient reasons would not investigate or pursue impeachment proceedings against G.W. Bush and company and thereby permitting under her watch a major constitutional breach? In a recent book US vs. George W. Bush, et.al. Elizabeth de la Vega a former federal prosecutor lays out a brilliant case against George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, and Colin Powell, for tricking the nation into war, or, in legal terms, conspiracy to defraud the United States. Daniel Ellsberg a former State and Defense Department official who revealed the Pentagon Papers has said about the book: “On the basis of the evidence presented by former prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega, I’m convinced that George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their fellow “indictees” are fully entitled to a fair and honest trial—indeed, several fair and honest trials—by juries of their peers”.

In a recent phone call to Pelosi’s California office an aide hemming and hawing on the phone tried to justify to me the lack of action by Pelosi in abrogating her constitutional duty to launch a full investigation of potential high crimes and misdemeanors by the President. The aide I spoke with revealed that many angry constituents of Pelosi have called in on this matter and in what seemed to be fit of frustration over Pelosi’s tactics blurted out “They (Bush, et al.) will not get away with this” — an interesting statement with no further explanation. But the aide trying to get off the phone as soon as possible went on to say that Pelosi feels it would be too “time consuming” to pursue an investigation towards impeachment whether or not there was probable cause. I am not a legal scholar but I never thought that launching an investigation or impeachment against a President that has possibly broken the law is a choice that the Speaker of the House has the right to make. It is my understanding that it is his/her duty under the constitution and if it is not the constitution is seriously flawed because then it puts the Speaker and the President above the Laws of the Land.

]]> By: Brian http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-339368 Brian Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:54:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-339368 Wrong, Steve Gray. We are the same people who thought Hitler was a dangerous lunatic back in the 1930s. Don't forget Bush's grandfather did business with the Nazis and was a member of a group that actually tried to overthrow our own government because they thought fascism was much better than having Roosevelt as president. It's obvious his grandfather's values were passed down to the current tyrant in the White House. Wrong, Steve Gray. We are the same people who thought Hitler was a dangerous lunatic back in the 1930s. Don’t forget Bush’s grandfather did business with the Nazis and was a member of a group that actually tried to overthrow our own government because they thought fascism was much better than having Roosevelt as president. It’s obvious his grandfather’s values were passed down to the current tyrant in the White House.

]]> By: Steve Gray http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-338998 Steve Gray Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:27:59 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-338998 All of you nut cases who call Bush a murderer and worse are just plain crazy. You're the same people who thought Winston Churchill was a crackpot back in the 1930's. We all know how many lives could've been saved if the world would have had some backbone then to do what needed to be done with Hitler and the Axis. Bush is absolutely correct, he's doing what needs to be done, and you're all too ignorant to even know it. Go study some history. All of you nut cases who call Bush a murderer and worse are just plain crazy. You’re the same people who thought Winston Churchill was a crackpot back in the 1930’s. We all know how many lives could’ve been saved if the world would have had some backbone then to do what needed to be done with Hitler and the Axis. Bush is absolutely correct, he’s doing what needs to be done, and you’re all too ignorant to even know it. Go study some history.

]]> By: jameslarkin http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336575 jameslarkin Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:32:15 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336575 Pelosi thinks impeachment would be divisive? Meaning that democrats might lose the favor they've curried with the right wing. Too bad she doesn't care about dividing democrats -- she divided me right out of the party after 30 years of voting democrat. Nice work, Nancy -- but I doubt you'll get enough republican voters to make up for the hemorraging your decision to put politics above the Constitution for which the idealists of the American Revolution struggled and died at the hands of King George. Or do you think all those people involved in fighting for the rule of law and the refusal to subjects of a tyrant sacrificed it all for your personal right to be too busy to be distracted by rights, liberties, freedom, and laws? I will never again vote for a democrat, not even town clerk, who doesn't now and today speak out for impeachment. There are other parties, and if it comes to that, I'll become a republican and laugh while the democrats pander to me as they once scorned me as a democrat, and I'll vote republican, just to see that democrats never again think they can win by kowtowing to the right. Divisive? She has cut me and many others right out of the party's heart. Goodbye, party of the little guy, goodbye party of the common man, goodbye party of social justice! Bon Voyage! Pelosi thinks impeachment would be divisive? Meaning that democrats might lose the favor they’ve curried with the right wing. Too bad she doesn’t care about dividing democrats — she divided me right out of the party after 30 years of voting democrat.
Nice work, Nancy — but I doubt you’ll get enough republican voters to make up for the hemorraging your decision to put politics above the Constitution for which the idealists of the American Revolution struggled and died at the hands of King George.

Or do you think all those people involved in fighting for the rule of law and the refusal to subjects of a tyrant sacrificed it all for your personal right to be too busy to be distracted by rights, liberties, freedom, and laws?

I will never again vote for a democrat, not even town clerk, who doesn’t now and today speak out for impeachment. There are other parties, and if it comes to that, I’ll become a republican and laugh while the democrats pander to me as they once scorned me as a democrat, and I’ll vote republican, just to see that democrats never again think they can win by kowtowing to the right.

Divisive? She has cut me and many others right out of the party’s heart.

Goodbye, party of the little guy, goodbye party of the common man, goodbye party of social justice!
Bon Voyage!

]]> By: gary harper http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336309 gary harper Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:54:45 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336309 Nancy Pelosi is not an american.She violates the constitution she swore an oath to protect.The fact is almost all of the congress have violated thier oaths to the constitution.The only presidential canidate who wants to return the power in this country to the people is Ron Paul.The rest of them well intentioned or not want to be our next king or queen.Is it any wonder Dr.Paul gets more donations from the military than any of the others.Maybe they hold thier oath to the constitution to be something scared. Nancy Pelosi is not an american.She violates the constitution she swore an oath to protect.The fact is almost all of the congress have violated thier oaths to the constitution.The only presidential canidate who wants to return the power in this country to the people is Ron Paul.The rest of them well intentioned or not want to be our next king or queen.Is it any wonder Dr.Paul gets more donations from the military than any of the others.Maybe they hold thier oath to the constitution to be something scared.

]]> By: gary harper http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336304 gary harper Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:38:34 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336304 maybe Pelosi needs to be impeached herself maybe Pelosi needs to be impeached herself

]]> By: fran http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336290 fran Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:34:53 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336290 SOMEONE SHOULD RUN OUT THIS BLOG AND SEND IT TO NANCY PELOSI FEDERAL EXPRESS. SOMEONE SHOULD RUN OUT THIS BLOG AND SEND IT TO NANCY PELOSI FEDERAL EXPRESS.

]]> By: Hugh Cantell http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336284 Hugh Cantell Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:46:11 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336284 Also contact the House Judiciary Committee and voice support for impeachment proceedings against Cheney! One Step Closer to a Cheney Impeachment By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet Posted on January 23, 2008, Printed on January 23, 2008 http://www.alternet.org/story/74629/ Also contact the House Judiciary Committee and voice support for impeachment proceedings against Cheney!

One Step Closer to a Cheney Impeachment

By Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet
Posted on January 23, 2008, Printed on January 23, 2008

http://www.alternet.org/story/74629/

]]> By: Hugh Cantell http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336282 Hugh Cantell Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:37:04 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/01/18/pelosi-greeted-with-impeach-bush-and-cheney-buttons/#comment-336282 I just read this story in The NY Times. Kucinich is about to introduce articles of impeachemnt against Bush on the floor of the House! Tell Kucinich to draft impeachment articles for Bush's accomplice, Pelosi, as well as Bush -- and please don't forget that criminal Cheney too! Show Kucinich some support. Email or call his office and let him know that the vast majority of Americans support him in this effort and WE WANT IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS TO BEGIN NOW!!! http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/kucinich-starts-new-impeachment-drive/index.html?nl=pol&emc=pol Kucinich Starts New Impeachment Drive By David M. Herszenhorn Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio may get excluded from Democratic presidential debates, as he has been recently, but no one can deny him the floor in the House. And today Mr. Kucinich took to the floor to fire off his latest salvo at the Bush administration: his plans to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush on Jan. 28 — the day of Mr. Bush’s State of the Union speech. Accusing the administration of lying about the need for the war in Iraq, Mr. Kucinich said he did not need to hear the president’s assessment. “We know the State of the Union,” he declared. “It’s a lie.” He also fired a volley at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California who has maintained that impeaching Mr. Bush is not on the table for Congressional Democrats. “If impeachment is off the table,” Mr. Kucinich said, “truth is off the table. If truth is off the table then this body is living a lie.” Mr. Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney last April and in November, with the surprise help of Republicans seeking to embarrass the Democrats, he nearly succeeded in securing an hour of debate on the House floor. House Democratic leaders blocked that, however, by referring the impeachment effort back to the Judiciary Committee. Anti-Bush groups have been urging Mr. Kucinich to undertake an effort to impeach the president. I just read this story in The NY Times. Kucinich is about to introduce articles of impeachemnt against Bush on the floor of the House!

Tell Kucinich to draft impeachment articles for Bush’s accomplice, Pelosi, as well as Bush — and please don’t forget that criminal Cheney too!

Show Kucinich some support. Email or call his office and let him know that the vast majority of Americans support him in this effort and WE WANT IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS TO BEGIN NOW!!!

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/ 01/23/kucinich-starts-new-impeachment-dr ive/index.html?nl=pol&emc=pol

Kucinich Starts New Impeachment Drive

By David M. Herszenhorn

Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio may get excluded from Democratic presidential debates, as he has been recently, but no one can deny him the floor in the House.

And today Mr. Kucinich took to the floor to fire off his latest salvo at the Bush administration: his plans to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush on Jan. 28 — the day of Mr. Bush’s State of the Union speech.

Accusing the administration of lying about the need for the war in Iraq, Mr. Kucinich said he did not need to hear the president’s
assessment. “We know the State of the Union,” he declared. “It’s a lie.”

He also fired a volley at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California
who has maintained that impeaching Mr. Bush is not on the table for Congressional Democrats. “If impeachment is off the table,” Mr. Kucinich said, “truth is off the table. If truth is off the table
then this body is living a lie.”

Mr. Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice
President Dick Cheney last April and in November, with the surprise help of Republicans seeking to embarrass the Democrats, he nearly succeeded in securing an hour of debate on the House floor. House Democratic leaders blocked that, however, by referring the impeachment effort back to the Judiciary Committee.

Anti-Bush groups have been urging Mr. Kucinich to undertake an effort to impeach the president.

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