Kucinich DID IT Articles of Impeachment Made Public

Kucinich Has Introduced Articles of Impeachment Against Vice President Richard Cheney
Congressman Dennis Kucinich has acted. Here are his Articles of Impeachment and supporting materials.
It's time now for us to follow through by asking the rest of Congress to get on board with the American public, and by letting the media know where we stand.
http://www.impeachcheney.org
Ask your Congress Member to support impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney:http://tinyurl.com/yttnxq
Ask members of the House Judiciary Committee and Speaker Nancy Pelosi to lead, follow, or get out of the way:http://tinyurl.com/2ar8ch
Tell the media that you support Congressman Dennis Kucinich's proposal to begin impeachment proceedings:http://tinyurl.com/2cag7t

Learn more at:http://www.impeachcheney.org
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It's Time to Poll on ImpeachmentAfter the Downing Street Memos proved George Bush lied about Iraq's WMDs, Democrats.com began lobbying corporate media polling organizations to include impeachment questions in their polls. For two years, those pollsters have contemptuously dismissed our requests. But now that Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced Articles of Impeachment for Dick Cheney, it is time for pollsters to include impeachment questions in every poll they take. You can ask them to here:http://tinyurl.com/ys4yax
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Public to Demand Impeachment at Capitol on Wednesday
http://www.impeach07.org
WHAT: Coalition statement in support of impeachmentWHEN: 12:00 Noon ET, Wednesday, April 25, 2007WHERE: The Cannon House Office Building Outdoor Terrace, Washington D.C.
A group of prominent Americans will gather at the U.S. Capitol to speak in support of beginning impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush and Vice President Richard B. Cheney. Among them will be mayors, including Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City and John Shields of Nyack, NY; state legislators including Washington State Senator Eric Oemig; city council members, including Dave Meserve of Arcata, CA; and former government officials, including Daniel Ellsberg who released the Pentagon Papers; David MacMichael, a former analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency and a member of the steering committee of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity; and retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, a career diplomat who quit in protest the day the war began.
Also participating will be authors, journalists, poets, and playwrights, including Chris Hedges, Justin Frank, Mark Kurlansky, John Nichols, David Lindorff, Gerald Stern, and Ann Marie Macari; actors, producers, and photographers, including Eunice Wong, and Kathy Chalfant, leading anti-war voices, including Andy Shallal, Cindy Sheehan, Tina Richards, Medea Benjamin, Bob Fertik, David Swanson, Debra Sweet, Kevin Zeese, Michael Berg, Carlos Arredondo, and Elaine Brower; and organizer of the national day of impeachment events coming up on April 28th Jacob Park.
Town Hall Forum on Impeachment Wednesday EveningAn open forum on impeachment will be held in a church Wednesday evening, featuring some of the speakers from the noon event: Rocky Anderson, Mayor, Salt Lake City; John Shields, mayor of Nyack, NY. Debra Sweet for World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime, Norman Birnbaum of Georgetown University, and Marcus Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies.WHEN: 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. ET, Wednesday, April 25, 2007WHERE: All Souls Unitarian Church, Pierce Hall, at 1500 Harvard Street N.W., Washington, D.C.
Learn more: http://www.impeach07.org
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Events Are Scheduled Everywhere on Saturday
Find one near you:
http://www.a28.org
When you join together with people on April 28, please plan to have with you stack of impeachment petitions, some pens, and some clipboards. Collect people's names and contact info on the petitions. Then use that list to organize future activist efforts locally, and also add the names to the national list. You can get the petitions and everything you need at:http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/petition
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Here Comes the Veto
The Democrats in Congress have watered their war funding bill down, so that it merely "sets a goal" to end the war. But Bush may follow through on his promise to veto it, and he may do so this Friday. When he does, our response should be to demand of Congress:
No New SupplementalImpeachment Instead
Let your Congress Member know that you don't want a weaker or stronger or fancier war funding bill. You want impeachment:http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/congress
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Happy Springtime (Bush Is Over)
Watch this amazing and inspiring video:http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/21662
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Crist trying again to win my love .... come ON, Charlie ...

UPDATE: This is BETTER reading ..... full credit to North Country Gazette

Oh, and a bit of an update: Charlie does not appear to go for sales tax increase.
SO-- I changed the title of the post it used to say Crist Fell Short and Fell short again. I want him to be good.
What isn't good enough for ME: Jeb Bush was an ass. I didn't make him an ass; I TRIED to like and respect him. WTF? I didn't fall out of the box hatin me no Bushes. They taught it with the FCAT and other heinous tools of govt. Such as having teachers filling out forms (200-300 questions long about each child in the class such as are his nails clean? regular haircuts? All kinds of sickening, intrusive, PERSONAL stuff. Took the teachers hours and hours TOO. Sucked all around.)
The point is: As much as I disliked Jeb, I'm not just going to love Charlie cause he set the worst whip down and is somewhat better. I want him to be the Governor I did NOT vote for but wouldn't mind learning to love. He can do that. He can make me love him just like Jeb made me loathe him. It wasn't always that way with me and JEB. We used to email and talk and back and forth. Well, like I said --- Charlie can make me love him. Part of that would be if he would answer his own email but I'll take what I can get as proof that he loves me for the time being.

Charlie --- just do the right thing.

New Florida Felon Voting Rules Fall Short, Critics Sayby Michelle Chen While new rules will make it easier for some felons to regain certain rights they lost when convicted, civil-rights activists say the process is still far from libertarian.Apr. 10 – Florida’s recent voting-policy reforms have been lauded as a breakthrough for people previously barred from the polls due to criminal convictions. But some civil-liberties advocates argue the new re-enfranchisement process merely carves out more exceptions to a fundamentally unjust ban. !

Court Rejects Felon 'Poll Tax' (Mar 31, 2006)
The new rules, published last week by the governor-led Office of Executive Clemency, offer an expedited process for restoring voting rights to some people with criminal convictions. The rules also apply to the right to apply for occupational licenses, serve on a jury and hold public office.

Governor Charlie Crist declared the rule-changes a way to grant ex-offenders "a meaningful way to re-enter society."

While most states impose some restrictions on voting rights for people convicted of felonies, the Florida constitution’s disenfranchisement provisions are among the most severe, indefinitely banning hundreds of thousands from casting ballots even after completing their sentences.

Previously, exceptions were granted through individual reviews or hearings before the Clemency Board. For some lower-level offenders, exceptions came after a conditional waiting period.

According to the Florida Parole Commission, since 1999, the Board restored rights in about one-fifth of clemency applications processed.

The Clemency Office’s reforms purport to streamline re-enfranchisement for certain ex-felons, allowing faster approval under existing review procedures. Yet critics point to lingering bureaucratic impediments.

As under previous laws, re-enfranchisement still depends on completion of parole or other post-release supervision and payment of "restitution" related to the sentence. Some more-serious classes of convictions remain ineligible for expedited re-enfranchisement, including murder, some sex-related crimes, and "facilitating or furthering terrorism."

Civil-liberties groups argue that disenfranchisement laws, which expanded under post-Civil War segregationist policies, hinder reintegration of former prisoners into communities and disproportionately impact black and Latino populations due to their relatively high incarceration rates.

In 2000, an estimated more than 800,000 Florida residents were officially barred from the polls. That was about 7 percent of the state’s total voting-age population, including about 16 percent of blacks of voting age, according to a study by sociologists at Northwestern University and the University of Minnesota.

The American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the reforms as too cumbersome, noting the Clemency Board must still review an ex-felon’s record and issue a certificate for re-enfranchisement. The group is calling for a "paperless" re-enfranchisement process for people with felony convictions, regardless of the nature of the offense or whether restitution has been paid.

Muslima Lewis, director of the Racial Justice and Voting Rights projects of the Florida ACLU, challenged the government’s assertion that the reforms bring "automatic" restoration of rights to some felons.

"It’s really important for folks to realize that it could have been different," she said. Had the governor simply issued an executive order authorizing immediate restoration of voting rights, Lewis said, former convicted felons could have registered to vote instantly, without prior clearance from the state.The only place he really excelled at representing the people was in advocating with the tax breakers. As in: STOP charging us so much for our BIG lot line to lot line BOXES. And everyone knows that is a Republican wet-dream.

Okay, Gov. Crist ---- let me put it straight.

You said you were a Floridian FIRST.

Proof, please.

I would like to see proof.

Prove to us Floridians that you are a Floridian first.

I really want to believe you.


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Deal with the facts as they are

From Joe Biden. A speech made on the Senate floor.

President Bush has spent the last two weeks talking up the "progress" we're making in Iraq and talking down the Democrats and some of our Republican colleagues for trying to bring this war to a responsible end.

But sometimes, you have to deal with the facts as they are -- not as the President wants them to be but as they exist on the ground. And the fact is that the President is totally out of touch with reality, he's out of touch with the American people and he's out of touch with America's interests in the region.

I have been here a while Mr. President and I can say I have never seen a president so isolated since Richard Nixon. The president appears to be totally removed from reality. He tells us Attorney General Gonzales has done a great job when anyone who watched it views it as one of the least impressive appearances of an AG. He tells us that the president of the World Bank, is doing a great job, oblivious to the damage being done to America's reputation around the world. And against the advice of some of the most gifted military men and women in a generation, he's adopted a policy in Iraq is a disaster.

The president argues that the surge is succeeding. But for every welcome development he cites, there is an equally or even more "unwelcome development" that gives lie to the claim we are truly making progress. For example: While death squad violence against Iraqis is down in some Baghdad neighborhoods where we have surged, suicide bombings have increased by 30 percent over the past six weeks. And violence is up dramatically in the belt ringing Baghdad. The civilian death toll increased 15 percent from February to March. When we squeeze the water balloon in one place, Mr. President, it bulges somewhere else.

It is true that Moqtada al-Sadr has not been seen, but he has been heard, rallying his followers with anti-American messages and his thugs to take on American troops in the south. Last week, he pulled his ministers from the coalition government. Intelligence experts believe his militia is simply waiting out the surge.

Closing markets to vehicles has precluded some car bombs, but it also has prompted terrorists to change tactics and walk in with suicide vests. The road from the airport to Baghdad may be safer, but the skies above it are more lethal, witness the ironic imposition of "No Fly Zones" for our own helicopters.

Tal Affar is the most damning evidence of the absolute absurdity of this policy. The President cites it as progress. Architects of the President's plan called that city a model because in 2005, a surge of about 10,000 Americans and Iraqis pacified the city.

Then we left, just as our troops will have to leave the Baghdad neighborhoods that they have calmed. Last month, Tal Affar was the scene of some of the most horrific sectarian violence to date: a massive truck bomb aimed at the Shiite community led to a retaliatory rampage by Shiite death squads, aided by the Iraqi police. Hundreds were killed. The population of Tal Affar, which was 200,000 just a few years ago, is down to 80,000.

There is an even more basic problem with the President's progress report, and it goes to the heart of the choice we now face in Iraq. Whatever tactical progress we may be making will amount to nothing if it is not serving a larger strategy for success.

The administration's strategy has virtually no prospects for success. The administration hopes that the surge will buy time for Prime Minister Maliki's government to broker the sustainable political settlement our own military views as essential to success. But there is no trust within the government, no trust of the government by the people it purports to serve, and no capacity on the part of the government to deliver security or services.

And there is little prospect that the government will build that trust and capacity any time soon. How many times have my colleagues heard that beginning in January how there is an oil agreement? Has anybody seen that deal?

In short, the most basic premise of the President's approach -- that the Iraqi people will rally behind a strong central government that looks out for their interests equitably -- is fundamentally and fatally flawed.

If the President's plan won't work, what will?

History suggests only four other ways to keep together a country driven by sectarian strife. And it's not to put American troops into a city of 6.2 million people to try to quell a civil war. Throughout history four things have worked. You occupy the country for a generation or more. That's not in our DNA -- we're not the Persian Empire or the British Empire. You install a dictator. Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony for the United States -- to go back after taking one down and install another one? You let them fight it out until one side massacres the other -- that's not an option in that tinderbox part of the world.

Or lastly, you make federalism work for the Iraqis. You give them control over the fabric of their daily lives. You separate the parties. You give them breathing room. Let them control their local police, their education, their religion and marriage. That's the only possibility: change the focus to a limited central government and the federal system that their constitution calls for.

I can't guarantee that my strategy will work. But I can guarantee that the road the President has us on leads nowhere, with no end in sight. We have to change course, Mr. President, to end this war responsibly.

That is what Congress wants to do. Later this week, we will send the President the emergency supplemental spending bill for Iraq. It provides every dollar our troops need and the President requested.

It also provides what the majority of Americans expect: a plan to start to bring our troops home and bring this war to a responsible end, not escalate it indefinitely.

If the President vetoes the emergency spending bill, he's the one who will be denying our troops funding and he's the one who will be denying the American people a path out of Iraq.

The President's double talk on Iraq is reaching new heights of hypocrisy.

On April 16, the President claimed that setting a timetable to start bringing home our troops would be to "legislate defeat."

Just two days later -- two days later -- his own Secretary of Defense had this to say: "The push by Democrats to set a timetable for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq has been helpful in showing Iraqis that American patience is limited -- that this is not an open ended commitment."

Then, in arguing against the Supplemental, the President claimed that by sending him a bill he would somehow be forced to veto, the military would run out of money for Iraq in April -- which is not true -- and as a result, he would have to extend the tours of troops already in Iraq.

Extending those tours, the President said, "is unacceptable. It's unacceptable to me, it's unacceptable to our veterans, it's unacceptable to our military families, and it's unacceptable to many in this country."

Unacceptable?

The very next day -- the very next day -- the administration announced it was extending the tours of every U.S. ground troop in Iraq by three months. Once you get over the hypocrisy, that announcement is an urgent warning that the administration's Iraq policy cannot be sustained without doing terrible long-term damage to our military.

If the administration insists on keeping this many troops in Iraq into next year, it will have to send soldiers back on third, fourth and fifth tours and extend deployment times from six months to a year for Marines and from 12 months to 16 or 18 months for the Army.

The military will also be forced to end the practice of keeping troops at home for at least a year between deployments; to fully mobilize the National Guard and Reserve; and to perpetuate a backdoor draft.

This President is breaking the military. We don't have to guess at the impact on readiness, recruitment and retention.

This month, we learned that recent graduates of West Point are choosing to leave active duty service at the highest rate in more than three decades. This administration's policies are literally driving out some of our best young officers.

Instead of working with Democrats and Congress on a way forward, the President, divorced from reality, is accusing us of emboldening the enemy and undermining the troops.

Mr. President I have a message for you: the only thing that is emboldening the enemy is your failed policy. Instead of escalating the war with no end in sight, we have to start bringing it to a responsible conclusion.

This war must end. The hour is late. Much damage has been done.

But the time is now. My responsibility as a Senator is to keep relentless pressure on the President to come to grips with reality. To continually push every single day. To say Mr. President, stop, stop this policy of yours.

It is my hope, even though he [The President] is likely to veto this bill, that we will keep the pressure on and ultimately convince at least a dozen of our Republican colleagues that it's time to stop backing the President and start backing the troops.

It's time, Mr. President, it's time to bring this war to a responsible end.

Yet ANOTHER conspiracy Theory you GO Kevin Tillman

I guess most can respect the dead man's brother and the man who stood next to him when he died.
I feel bad when people won't find the truth for themselves.

Here is Kevin Tillman forced to defend himself and his family against the United States Government (the Army) which they both swore to protect and serve.(along with the murderers and those who instructed them to cover up same)

What does THIS remind me of? Yeah. My own situation only I'm still here telling it.
If just half the men and women in Hillsborough Cty and Tampa City employ had the integrity of this one man we'd be just fine as wine. (and some of you ARE persons of integrity and valor and I thank you from the bottom of my lil heart ...) I even understand why the cops can't be out there alone without backup. I read it in their faces when they fuck with me and don't enjoy it. And I note when you enjoy it, too. It's sad to see a man who feels like he has to bow down like that. It makes me sad. Just don't do it. Stand up for something. Do it. It feels good.

And here is the Ranger who was with Pat Tillman when he died and was told to cover it up.

See? They can shout down one. But, it's harder and harder to shut down those 'conspiracies' when the truth is so obvious.

And that's why it would be so awesome FUCKED UP if we let Rupert Murdoch have all the newspapers .... then he could say whatever he wanted and Pat Tillman's loyal, beloved brother wouldn't have a voice. AT ALL.

And people know that.

No, you shitty teachers may NOT have more money.
No, Rupert MAY NOT have all the newspapers.


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I want all the shitty smartass teachers who are only grade b. actors. to give half their money to the few marvelous, wonderful, awesome teachers who remain and who manage to slip through the bureaucracy in other places besides Tampa .... then --- shut the hell up and teach the subject.
Let the REAL teachers do the rest.
Remember --- those who can --- TEACH.
The rest of you -- shut up and sit down.
And -- keep the kids' private lives to yourself if ya don't mind.

I'm not really fooled by some of you standing up to Elia. The ones who really stand up to her are stalked, fired, called on the carpet. If that is not happening to you, you are full of shit.
If that happens to you NOW,after I say this, it's an act.
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