More Support for Impeachment Inquiry

[ProSense]

More Support for Impeachment Inquiry

The Nation
47 minutes ago

The Nation -- The list of House members who have signed on as cosponsors of U.S. Representative John Conyers (news, bio, voting record)' resolution calling for the establishment of select committee that would examine whether President Bush and Vice President Cheney should face impeachment continues to grow. Four more members of the House have added their names to the resolution, bringing to 27 the total number of representatives, including Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, who are calling for the creation of "a select committee to investigate the administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment."

The new cosponsors, all Democrats, are Wisconsin's Gwen Moore, New York's Nydia Velasquez, and John Olver and John Tierney of Massachusetts Wisconsin's Gwen Moore. Olver made his decision to sign on after meeting with Massachusetts members of the national group Progressive Democrats of America, which has been spearheading the drive to attract cosponsors.

Another cosponsor, California Democrat Barbara Lee, put the effort to hold the president and vice president to account in perspective Friday with a powerful critique of the administration's attempts to justify warrantless spying on Americans and other assaults on civil liberties and the rule of law.

"What separates us from terrorists is not simply that our principles are deeply offended by the idea of torture or the murdering of innocents, but that we are a nation of laws. Our principles are enshrined in our Constitution and a system of duly enacted laws, and in a government where all are accountable and no one is above the law," explained Lee, a co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.


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[Burning Water]

1. all well and good.

without a few REpublicans to add a shade of "biparisanship", it will go nowhere.

my own opinion, for whatevet it is worth, is that effort on impeachment is wasted effort until we take back the House

[havocmom]

2. And until we manage to unseat the powers behind the throne,

we are impeaching only a shadow. They will just pull a prettier image poster boy (or girl) outta their asses to hypnotize the masses with vows to restore dignity and honesty to the White House while they finish the job of killing America.

[Independent_Liberal]

3. Kick!

1. Investigation
2. Impeachment
3. Trial
4. Conviction and Removal from Office
5. Tribunal at the Hague
6. Imprisonment

Remember those.

:)

[ProSense]

4. Very positive sign! n/t

[saltpoint]

5. Just as the ghost of Christmas future came to educate Scrooge, it would

be dandy if the ghost of Democracy's future came to perform the same service for most Republicans.

Their party is led by a vacuous moron who is shredding our form of government and dividing the people who comprise it.

This post brings some genuinely good news in the right direction. I'm glad you put it up tonight, Prosense. I needed a lift.

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edit: spellin'

[GetTheRightVote]

6. Whether it is acted upon today or tomorrow the fight must continue

to insure that we continue to practice our rights as citizens of a free nation !!

:kick:

[ProSense]

7. A December online poll

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904

[ProSense]

8. October 2005

Poll: Americans Favor Bush's Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq

Submitted by Bob Fertik on October 11, 2005 - 9:40am.Impeachment | Polls
For Immediate Release: October 11, 2005

Poll: Americans Favor Bush's Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq

By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans want Congress to consider impeaching President Bush if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. adults on October 6-9.

The poll found that 50% agreed with the statement:

"If President Bush did not tell the truth about his reasons for going to war with Iraq, Congress should consider holding him accountable by impeaching him."

44% disagreed, and 6% said they didn't know or declined to answer. The poll has a +/- 3.1% margin of error.

Among those who felt strongly either way, 39% strongly agreed, while 30% strongly disagreed.

http://democrats.com/bush-impeachment-poll-1