The Superior Daily Telegram has called for the impeachment of President Bush. The Telegram is the first area paper to do that, and one of the first in Wisconsin.

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by Steve Terrell

Two Democratic state senators on Tuesday introduced a resolution calling for impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, accusing the pair of misleading Congress over the Iraq war, torturing prisoners and violating Americans’ civil liberties.

New Mexico’s Legislature would be the first to pass an impeachment resolution.

But even though Democrats are in command of both chambers, the impeachment measure ran into immediate trouble.

Senate leaders immediately assigned Senate Joint Resolution 5 — introduced by Sens. Jerry Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque, and Sen. John Grubesic, D-Santa Fe — to three committee hearings.

That many committee assignments generally is thought of as the kiss of death for legislation. Not only are there three chances to kill a measure before it gets to a floor vote, it also increases the chance that time will run out in the 60-day session before a measure can make it through both chambers.

No Republicans in the Legislature support the memorial, supporters acknowledge.

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by Joe Stinebaker (AP)

HOUSTON — Rep. Ron Paul, the iconoclastic, nine-term lawmaker from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward a second, quixotic presidential bid _ this time as a Republican.

Paul filed papers in Texas to create a presidential exploratory committee that will allow him to raise money. In 1988, Paul was the Libertarian nominee for president and received more than 400,000 votes.

Kent Snyder, the chairman of Paul’s exploratory committee and a former staffer on Paul’s Libertarian campaign, said the congressman knows he’s a long shot.

“There’s no question that it’s an uphill battle, and that Dr. Paul is an underdog,” Snyder said. “But we think it’s well worth doing and we’ll let the voters decide.”

Paul limits his view of the role of the federal government to those duties laid out in the Constitution. As a result, he sometimes casts votes at odds with his constituents and other Republicans.

He was one of a handful of Republicans to vote in 2002 against giving President Bush the authority to use military force in Iraq, contending that only Congress had the power to declare war. At times, he has voted against funds for the military.

Paul bills himself as “The Taxpayers’ Best Friend,” and is routinely ranked either first or second in the House by the National Taxpayers Union, a national group advocating low taxes and limited government.

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UPDATE >> VIDEO: Ron Paul Warns of “False Flag” Terror Attack (01/16/2007)

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NEWFANE, Vt. –Dan DeWalt is hoping what he started in his small town a year ago will spread around Vermont this Town Meeting Day and eventually to the halls of Congress.

DeWalt a member of his town Select Board, got his meeting to vote last year to support a call for Congress to impeach President Bush. He said this year, people in 50 Vermont towns are circulating petitions to get the question before voters at Town Meeting, the first Tuesday in March.

“We will be barnstorming the state on this,” DeWalt said. “In towns where we do not get it on the warning” — the official agenda for the meeting — “we will try to have it taken up under other business.”

source: The Boston Globe

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by John Nichols, The Nation

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, is today introducing legislation to uniquivocally “prohibit the use of funds for an escalation of United States forces in Iraq above the numbers existing as of January 9, 2007.”

Kennedy voted against authorizing President Bush to invade Iraq and he has been a consistent critic of the war. But this targeted piece of legislation specifically addresses the “surge” being proposed by the president.

Even more importantly, Kennedy’s bill reasserts the role of Congress in a time of war. The Constitution allows the president to serve as commander-in-chief and affords him reasonable war-making powers in that role. But it reserves for Congress the power of the purse, and the founders were clear in their believe that the House and Senate should use that power to constrain a president who is waging war without reason or sound strategies.

The Congress has frequently used the power of the purse to control presidential war-making. Kennedy points to examples from the Vietnam era, but there are also examples from just the past quarter century of the Congress specifically embracing troops caps in Lebanon, in the European NATO countries and in Colombia. Indeed, as the Center for American Progress notes in a detailed new report, “Congressional Limitations and Requirements for Military Deployments and Funding,” the Congress has a rich record of stepping in to prevent presidents from expanding U.S. involvement in foreign conflicts.

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Will other members of congress support the action Congresswoman McKinney has brought forth?

At the table in what could be considered her impeachment “war room” the question is brought up a number of times.

Mike, an advisor to McKinney, mentions, “Conyers was supposed to have investigations. They were chomping at the bit 6 months ago to do subpoenas.”

McKinney quietly replies, “Now they say they aren’t even going to issue subpoenas.”

Looking up from her papers she takes a deep breath, “I’m going in alone on this one because now it is all about them playing majority politics.”

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By Linda Milazzo

On CSPAN’s Roundtable Conversation this past Friday, Pennsylvania Congressman Rep. John Murtha stated that the United States would NOT be well served if a new majority Democratic House attempted to impeach George W. Bush. He also stated that Democratic House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi holds the same opinion. Said Murtha, “I think Nancy’s taken the same position. She’s said over and over again let’s not talk about impeachment. Let’s try to solve the problems of this country.”

Then why not start by removing the nation’s principal problem, George W. Bush? If Mrs. Pelosi and Mr. Murtha want “to solve the problems of this country,” removing George Bush would be a superb place to start. Especially since his presidency is the de facto creation of the idiot Drs. Frankenstein who currently occupy our Congress. Those who have fashioned this President into an overpowered, overindulged, overruling monster.

Odd that they’ve named this the “do nothing” Congress when they’ve obviously done way too much.

To those who attribute the re-creation of this Presidency to Mr. Cheney and Mr. Rove, I respond in the strongest Rumsfeldian terms, POPPYCOCK! Had the spineless Congress not voluntarily relinquished its power, chunky Rove and chubby Cheney would be nothing more than a pair of flabby men whom any adult could kick the living crap out of.

But no, rather than controlling the sibilant ‘S’, baby-talk Bush, both houses of Congress collapsed into a theatre of the absurd. Coerced, feckless and dedicated to their own demise, they created the unitary executive which severely diminished their power. And since only fools relinquish their power, this is a Congress of Fools. On both sides of the aisle.

Pelosi’s spineless anti-impeachment position is nothing new. Neither is her disabuse of international anti-Bush/anti-American sentiment. Pelosi is so insulated from world opinion that Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez actually shocked her when he publicly demeaned George Bush during his recent visit to the United Nations. True Chavez was a bit over-the-top, but at least his weapons were ‘words’, and not the torture, guns, bombs, depleted uranium, and body burning phosphorous that are the weapons of choice for George Bush. Nonetheless, Pelosi deemed Chavez “a thug” and vehemently defended George Bush.

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By Brendan Scott

Congressional candidate John Hall has shown little restraint in expressing his contempt for the Bush Administration on the campaign trail this year.

Explaining what he would do about it if elected to Congress, however, has proved more difficult for the longtime Democratic activist. In recent months, Hall has been gently tiptoeing around questions about whether he would move to impeach the president if he’s elected as a voice for the mid-Hudson in the U.S. House.

The topic last came up Wednesday — the day after Hall’s primary romp over three other Democrats — as he took part in an online chat with the progressive blog Firedoglake. In the conversation, the party’s new nominee was prodded by a participant to stake out a clear position on the topic, which has become a loyalty test for some Democrats.

“Clarifying your views on impeachment would go a long way to showing that you’re not one of the Lieberman/Harman/Shays/Kelly phony centrists,” the blogger noted, referring to several members of Congress.

Hall replied by professing support for a couple of notable impeachment advocates and saying the president should be investigated. But he stopped short of endorsing impeachment “before hearing evidence.”

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Celebrate with Impeachment of Bush and Cheney!

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Independent candidate for Congress Peter White will join in the National Impeachment Vigil on September 1 that is being coordinated by the organizers of After Downing Street and Progressive Democrats of America.

White will lead a demonstration in front of Representative Delahunt’s office at 146 Main Street, Hyannis, from 3:00 PM until 5:00 PM that Friday, and he invites all peace and justice supporters to join him.

“We the People must demand that Representative Delahunt follow his oath of office to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States by introducing Articles of Impeachment of Bush/Cheney immediately,” said White. “He is letting them continue the War for oil in Iraq that has killed and maimed tens of thousands of our troops, and hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Iraq. Delahunt has admitted that Bush/Cheney’s policies of torture and illegal wiretapping are grounds for impeachment, and yet he refuses to start impeachment proceedings because he says that would be bad for the Democratic Party!”

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By Oshrat Carmiel

Speaking before an audience of Iraq war dissenters and presidential critics, Rep. Steve Rothman, D-Fair Lawn, pledged to support an inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Bush over the war in Iraq.

That offers a critical reason, Rothman told his applauding audience in Edgewater on Wednesday night, to elect Democrats in November.

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By Carol Broulliet

Film makers, activists, candidates, researchers, outraged citizens, truth-seekers, are taking action, producing events, films, books, art, music to challenge the Big Lie about 9/11. On the fifth anniversary of 9/11, the country is divided into doubters of the official story and the misinformed. A bevy of 9-11 Truth events are coming up in the Bay Area, NY, all over the world.

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Here is an update on what Sen. Russ Feingold has been doing and saying:

• Iraq’s Pile of Lies
• Bush Needs Censured
• Russ on Israel
• Senator Feingold to Address Chicago Bar
• Feingold is Gold

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Impeachment resources (incomplete):

• After Downing Street, http://www.afterdowningstreet.com Site owner David Swanson is an indefatigable writer/activist for impeachment, peace and holding politicians accountable. Provides hosting space for Fearn’s Impeach for Peace & Justice site, hosts numerous impeachment resources such as resolutions, letter templates, a petition and more.
• Center for Constitutional Rights http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net/ Articles of Impeachment and “How to Impeach a President” video trailer. 
• ImpeachBush.org, http://www.impeachbush.org Mission is to bring visibility to the impeachment movement, lists articles of impeachment against Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld and Gonzales; major petition drive, ads. 
• Impeach for Peace & Justice, http://www.ifpj.org (In English and Spanish) Provides tools and information. 
• Impeach For Peace http://www.impeachforpeace.org, is a national effort maintained by the Minnesota chapter of World Can’t Wait. Features the “Do It Yourself Impeachment Kit.”
• ImpeachPac, http://www.impeachpac.com Impeachment news and endorsements of pro-impeachment candidates, “A Citizen’s Guide to Impeachment,” (In English and Spanish), sample text for resolutions, sample letters, talking points, organizing tips.
• Progressive Democrats of America Impeachment Working Group http://www.pdamerica.org/impeach-wg.php
• World Can’t Wait, http://www.worldcantwait.org Mission is to remove Bush from office

More Ways to Take Action

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By John Conyers, Jr.

I wanted to update you on the lawsuit I have filed against George W. Bush and members of his administration, referred to in legal parlance as Conyers v. Bush.

You are likely familiar with a number of steps I have taken to challenge the legality and constitutional grounds of the Administration’s actions. From the lead up to Iraq, to the Downing Street Minutes, to the outing of a CIA agent, to warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens, I have called loudly for the Bush White
House to explain itself.

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I decided to file suit against the President in Federal Court in Michigan, along with 11 Senior Democratic Members of Congress. This suit was necessary because of a clear violation of the constitution. When the President signed the Deficit Reduction Act (which “reduced” the deficit by cutting taxes, health care benefits, and student loans), he signed into law a bill that had not passed the House and Senate. A different version of the bill passed each house of Congress with a multi-billion dollar difference in funding for life-saving medical equipment.

Anyone who ever watched Schoolhouse Rock knows this to be a problem.

Given the stakes involved I felt it was imperative to aggressively take this fight to the courts. The President’s lawyers tried to get the bill dismissed, but late last week I responded with legal filings that stand up for the rule of law and the Constitution and hope to bring the President, and our United States government, back under the rule of law.

I wanted to email you this news today to update you on our efforts and to thank you for your help and support. Thank you also for your continued dedication to a better democracy.

Sincerely,

John Conyers, Jr.

Contact Information
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Conyers for Congress
P.O. Box 17204
Alexandria, Virginia 17204
Phone: 313-438-2004

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(Editor’s Note: Today, July 19, 2006, marks the first National Impeachment Day sponsored by the Center for Constitutional Rights to raise awareness about impeachment, offer citizens a strategy to impeachment and organize to stop the assault on the American people and her constitutions.)

By Dave Lindorff

Happy Impeachment Day!

The Center for Constitutional Rights, which has been playing a leading role in battling the Bush administration’s attacks on the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and international law, has declared today to be Impeachment Day, with teach-ins scheduled around the country.

Seems like a great occasion to offer up 10 reasons for impeaching the president, as presented in Barbara Olshansky’s and my new book The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office.

The case for impeachment just grew much stronger, with the US Supreme Court’s powerful decision in Hamdan v Rumsfeld. In that decision, the justices didn’t simply say that the President was wrong and in violation of U.S. and the international law in arbitrarily claiming that the Guantanamo detainees were not subject to the Geneva Convention on Treatment of Prisoners of War. The five-justice majority, which included conservative Anthony Kennedy, declared the President’s bogus claim to have “special powers” as commander in chief in “time of war” to be just that–bogus.

What has been missed in almost all the mainstream media coverage of this important ruling is that this slap-down of Bush’s justification for his Guantanamo decision also undermines his justification for many other of his constitutional violations.

Read More at OpEdNews.com

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By Paul Joseph Watson

Republican Congressman Ron Paul says President Bush has presided over a doctrine of violating the Constitution at every turn and that he should be impeached - but that likely Democratic efforts to do so will be in the interests of playing politics and not the health of the nation.

During an interview with Alex Jones on the GCN Radio network, Paul outlined the likely scenario as to how impeachment proceedings would unfold.

“I’d be surprised if they win both - I think they’re going to win one body and if they win the House right now they do not say they would have an impeachment but I think the way that place operates I think they probably will make every effort,” said Paul.

“If they happened to have a ten or fifteen vote margin that would be a political thing - it would be payback time.”

Paul said that Bush should be impeached not under the umbrella of partisan vengeance but for ceaselessly breaking the laws of the land.

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Bill Paparian, former Mayor of Pasadena and candidate for Congress, has called on all State legislators and in particular the Democratic leadership, to support and pass AJR 39, a California resolution calling for impeachment proceedings against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.The resolution calls upon Congress to begin impeachment proceedings, and cites House of Representatives rules and precedents that compel impeachment proceedings if a state legislature calls for them.

Read More at the California Chronicle

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