WEXLER: "Impeachment Hearings Would Help Democrat's Domestic Agenda & Lift America's Status Abroad"

[kpete]

Wexler urges hearings on Cheney trial
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By GEORGE BENNETT
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Monday, December 10, 2007

What do higher fuel-efficiency standards, expanded children's health care and improved relations with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have in common?

According to U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, those are just a few of the benefits America can reap if Congress holds hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Wexler, who represents an ultra-Democratic Palm Beach-Broward district, recently took an e-mail poll of about 3,000 constituents and found 61 percent in favor of impeaching Cheney and removing him from office. Wexler insists he hasn't prejudged the matter but wants hearings to probe whether Cheney manipulated intelligence to bamboozle the U.S. into war with Iraq, which Wexler voted to authorize in 2002.

At last week's Palm Beach County Democratic Executive Committee meeting, Wexler took issue with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's declaration that impeachment should be "off the table." And Wexler disputed the notion that impeachment hearings would be a distraction, asserting instead that they would help the Democrats' domestic agenda and lift America's status abroad.

In addition, Wexler continued, hearings would strengthen America's hand in dealings with Iran, China and others. Every day the House Judiciary Committee isn't grilling Cheney is a day world leaders such as Indonesia's Yudhoyono keep their distance, he said. He described Yudhoyono as someone who "wants to be closer to America, but he can't because we are so negatively viewed. Well, let me tell you one more thing those impeachment hearings will do. They will make America more popular."

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[aquart]

1. Damn straight.

[nashville_brook]

3. those are exactly the words i heard in my head!

[stirlingsliver]

2. Words, Words, Words

So many nice words.

I want to see some action!

What has become of the impeachment resolution Dennis Kucinich introduced?

Stop all the talking, and start holding hearings, and then IMPEACH!

[Poiuyt]

4. Impeach BOTH Bush and Cheney

[Hydra]

5. Either the storm is gathering

or we're doomed. I really hope it's the first.

[intheflow]

7. I'm hopeful this is the case.

Six months ago no one in the CM (except maybe Olbermann) was saying anything about impeachment. The only discussion of the matter I ever saw was online and in people's living rooms. Now I hear it in some form or another at least once a week on the radio or on tv. That makes a strong case for gathering storm clouds.

[lonestarnot]

8. Please let it rain sleet snow ice hurricane tornado!

[bear425]

6. k/r n/t