The American people will respect your decision to arrest Karl Rove for his crime. He is a criminal for violating the constitution, bully, li ...more »
The American people will respect your decision to arrest Karl Rove for his crime. He is a criminal for violating the constitution, bully, lier, and must be shamed by his actions.
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Madam Speaker - With regard to your rationale for taking impeachment "off the table" - a commitment to important legislation on behalf ...more »
Madam Speaker -
With regard to your rationale for taking impeachment "off the table" - a commitment to important legislation on behalf of the American people - I have 3 questions:
1) Which of these [** below] have you "accomplished" SATISFACTORILY on behalf of the American people?
2) If, as you assert, filibuster [threats] by Republican Senators have stalled these - why then are you NOT now pursuing impeachment?
3) During your & Sen. Reid's majority tenure (nearly 16 months), how many hours of functional filibuster have Republicans actually engaged in?
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** End the Iraq war & hold administration accountable for its failures & war's horrendous costs?
** Reverse Bush's failed tax policy - skewed to benefit the wealthiest?
** Strengthen the economy; reverse burgeoning budget deficits & trade imbalance?
** Effectively address climate change?
** Institute a viable long-range energy policy?
** Provide health care for ~ 50 million uninsured Americans?
** Remedy 37 million American children living in poverty?
** Protect constitutional rights; reinstate justice and the rule of law
(FISA, habeas corpus, torture, corporate criminality, politicization of Justice Dep't, etc.)
** Restore balance of powers (Bush's assertions of near-monarchical powers, domestic spying,
signing statements, refusal of subpoenas, lying to Congress & the American people, conservative activism by Supreme Court, etc)
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You seem to be more interested in representing the interests of the Israel than you are in representing the interests of the people of the U ...more »
You seem to be more interested in representing the interests of the Israel than you are in representing the interests of the people of the United States.
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This is not about politics or political calculation. It is about whether this Nation stands up and enforces the U.S. Constitution, The Bill ...more »
This is not about politics or political calculation. It is about whether this Nation stands up and enforces the U.S. Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and the most basic of Human Rights, or whether this Nation instead establishes completely criminal conduct, the tyranny of mass-murder, and the arrogance of dictatorship ('unitary executive') as legal American public policy. Over one million totally innocent people in Iraq, many of them little children and women, have been murdered without provocation. Richard Bruce Cheney and George Walker Bush have also used our own sons and daughters recklessly as cannon fodder in a dishonest war based on propaganda and a marketing campaign of entirely phony scare tactics ('mushroom clouds', 'unmanned drones' from the militarily crippled Nation of Iraq). Over 30,000 more Americans have been crippled and left deformed for life. And this has cost American citizens hundreds of billions of dollars, that we do not have, and destroyed the reputation of this once honorable Country and replaced it as the home now of human torture, secret rendititions, the mass-violence of aggressive War, the use of illegal weapons such as White Phospersous, and civilian-killing Cluster Bombs, and other treachery. In addition, our civil liberties have been systematically dismantled, and, due to the abuse of 'signing statements', even the laws of Congress itself have been made irrelevant.
The U.S. Constitution says that Congress SHALL Impeach, (not "may if it is convenient"), the executive when such crimes against our Constitution and mankind have been committed.
If Congress refuses to use the Impeachment clause in the presence of these horrific crimes against our Nation, our Constitution, and against mankind now, then when would Impeachment ever apply? Congress, by doing nothing now, will have set the bar for Impeachment so high as to be essentially stripped completely from the American experience altogether. Therefore, free license by the executive branch to commit horrific crimes at will is only inevitable, and the co-equal separation of powers will be destroyed. A message will have been sent to all future Presidents and Vice-Presidents, that this is all acceptable, legal, permissible conduct. Our Nation will soon devolve into a de-facto Monarchy, whereby the U.S. Constitution itself is null and void, and the basic Human Rights of man are only at best selectively applied. How can you simply stand there and do nothing, while this happens to our beloved Nation? Is this what you wish to be remembered for?
Furthermore, by taking no action and refusing to enforce the U.S. Constitution, the Congress is itself violating the principles of the U.S. Constitution, and is itself acting as a direct accomplice and a willing accessory to the 35 Articles (Crimes) committed by these plainly corrupt officials, Cheney and Bush.
History also shows that when investigations were first held against Richard Nixon, Impeachement was initially unpopular, but it became clearly supported by the majority of law-abiding Americans once the criminal evidence was discovered, and Nixon was forced to be held accountable. Government accountability is always supported by the public throughout history, and the more serious the crimes the MORE it is overwhelmingly supported. History shows that the Democratic Party then won the 1974 midterm elections in a landslide, and then the Presidency in 1976. Cheney and Bush today are already the most unpopular figures to hold their respective offices in modern U.S. History -- even without prosecution, and holding them accountable to the law will only disgrace and embarrass them further.
But as stated previously, this is not about politics. It is about whether all future Presidents and all furture Adminstrations have now: the legal right to start the mass-violence of aggressive War for specious reasons, the legal right to torture human beings, the legal right to wiretap American citizens, the right to ignore at will the very Laws of Congress, and the legal right to destroy and disregard the U.S. Consitution itself at their pleasure -- all with no possible recourse. This is what non-action assures. It assures that this history will be repeated (McCain, Jeb Bush, etc.) again, and that the conduct of Dick Cheney and Bush will be now legitimized as "non-criminal", acceptable conduct - no longer subject to recourse.
History will regard yourselves and this Congress as cowardly, treasonous accessories to these awful crimes, and as the willful enablers of these Bush-Cheney crimes. For such crimes and horrible abuses can never just happen in a vacuum. Evil only can only triumph when good men decide to do nothing. This will be your own legacy and history. You may as well print on your tombstone, "I let this happen".
The blood of millions of innocent lives is on your own hands. Hanging in the balance, is new aggressive acts of mass violence (War) against Iran -- this time possibly involving Nuclear Weapons, and based once again on more trumped-up fear and falsehoods. Yet you have a chance to re-establish and make clear just what is legal conduct, and what is not (Cheney, Bush) by putting the U.S. Constitution first, and common good of our Country first.
It is, in fact, your own sworn oath to do precisely this.
It is time to start defending the U.S. Constitution, and STOP protecting and defending the disreputable Richard Bruce Cheney and George Walker Bush.
Either you are with us, or you are with "them" (the criminals: Cheney and Bush), and against everything that this Nation is supposed to stand for.
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Madame Speaker, I ask simply, will you actually protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies, forei ...more »
Madame Speaker,
I ask simply, will you actually protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies, foreign and domestic? Your oath of office. There are too many instances of violations of the Constitution and Bill of Rights committed by the Bush Administration to list here (not to mention outright crimes), although many have listed them already, and repeatedly. No (wo)man is above the law. You have held strong to your statement of Impeachment being off the table with incredible backbone, why is that you cannot exert the same backbone to protect not only the Constitution, but the American People as well? If it is a matter of campaign contributions, would you please let us, the American People, know what the price is so we can be "represented fairly" too?
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Madame Speaker, As I am sure you are aware, your low approval ratings stem directly from the perception that Congress, especially it's l ...more »
Madame Speaker,
As I am sure you are aware, your low approval ratings stem directly from the perception that Congress, especially it's leadership, have capitulated to, enabled and defended the most unpopular President in modern American history.
Recently, after examining all the evidence, a bipartisan Senate committee concluded that the administration did, in fact, lie us into the war in Iraq. Also, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellen recently testified under oath about the administration's involvement in the outting of an undercover intelligence agent. After hearing that testimony, a representative in attendence called for impeachment hearings based upon that testimony.
Your oath of office requires that you uphold the Constitution which all evidence indicates has been corrupted and abused at the highest levels. The logical consequence of not upholding the Constitution is that it is undermined and citizen confidence in our govenment will rightfully plummet.
My question is this - Why do you continue on this path when the facts do not support you and the only result of your inaction has been that your approval ratings are lower than those of the least popular president in modern American history?
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Should the Congress arrest Failure To Appear violators to enforce its self-provided subpoena power? If not, why isn't Congress's subpoena p ...more »
Should the Congress arrest Failure To Appear violators to enforce its self-provided subpoena power?
If not, why isn't Congress's subpoena power a farce?
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I have heard that you have taken impeachment off of the table so that Congress can attend to the American People's business. Exactly what b ...more »
I have heard that you have taken impeachment off of the table so that Congress can attend to the American People's business. Exactly what business is it that we, as a People, have that trumps upholding the Constitution?
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Impeachment, telco immunity, a government that actually has three branches, enforcing subpoenas, etc. Many of us are under the impression t ...more »
Impeachment, telco immunity, a government that actually has three branches, enforcing subpoenas, etc. Many of us are under the impression that we are being totally ignored on these issues that are most important to us. (Look at what's got rated up here!) *Why* are we being ignored, I would like to know. *What* are your *real* reasons, I would like to know.
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Madame Speaker: The principal reasons that the NetRoots have fought so hard against telecom immunity in the FISA update legistation is that ...more »
Madame Speaker:
The principal reasons that the NetRoots have fought so hard against telecom immunity in the FISA update legistation is that (a) we want to know how egregiously the government and its private sector partners have violated our Fourth Amendment rights and (b) we want to see those responsible for crimes against the Constitution held accountable. Do you foresee this ever happening? If so how? If not, how can you claim to be defending and upholding the Constitution?
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The single most important task of Congress is to protect and defend the Constitution. A strong Constitution protects the Nation, and thus We ...more »
The single most important task of Congress is to protect and defend the Constitution. A strong Constitution protects the Nation, and thus We The People and as such, is paramount for our national security. Congress is the voice, the will, the protector, and the conscious of We The People. Given the Congress' acquiescence to all measure of executive overreaching for the past 7-1/2 years, what will the Congress finally do to restore the balance of power by reigning in a near-unitary executive, by holding them to account for any crimes committed against the Constitution and against We The People, and by using punitive measures to prevent such crimes from ever happening again? Given the past 7-1/2 years, what assurances can you give us that crimes against the Constitution and the American people will not be swept under the rug to be repeated by a future administration, dangerously emboldened by history's precedent of getting away with it?
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