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Tape: Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery.

In damning transcript, ex-CIA official says Cheney likely ordered letter linking Hussein to 9/11 attacks

A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript of a conversation with the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer.

The transcript was posted Friday by author Ron Suskind of an interview conducted in June. It comes on the heels of denials by both the White House and Richer of a claim Suskind made in his new book, The Way of The World. The book was leaked to Politico's Mike Allen on Monday, and released Tuesday.

See the rest of this story at: RawStory.com

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP BRING ACCOUNTABILITY TO BUSH & CHENEY

Rep. Kucinich and five other co-sponsors of his articles of impeachment (Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, Keith Ellison, Maurice Hinchey, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Hank Johnson) are calling on all Americans to contact their representatives

(202-224-3121) 24 hours, seven days a weekand 365 days/year

and urge them to join in co-sponsoring those articles and in calling for a formal impeachment hearing
PRIOR TO THE ELECTION.

You can call after normal business hours and leave a message urging your Congressman to join in co-sponsoring those articles and in calling for a formal impeachment hearing.
ALSO And Very Important:
PLEASE CALL ALL of Colorado's Democratic Congressmen/women
and demand they immediately Call For Impeachment Hearings Prior To The Election.

Contact info for Colorado's Congressmen

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And if you have time on any Saturday around Noon-1:00 pm

Our group holds an Impeachment Protest at East 6th & Speer in Denver every Saturday. We have lots of Impeach Signs so just show up and help. OR JUST DRIVE BY REPEATEDLY and HONK TO IMPEACH.

John H Kennedy, organizer
Impeach Colorado Coalition ImpeachCO.com

( other groups around Colorado do similar events and are listed on our Calendar at ImpeachCO.com )

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Friday's House Judiciary Hearing on Impeachment: A Victory and a Challenge by Dave Lindorff at Commondreams.org

The dramatic hearing on presidential crimes and abuses of power held on Friday by the House Judiciary Committee was both a staged farce, and at the same time, a powerful demonstration of the power of a grassroots movement in defense of the Constitution. It was at once both testimony to the cowardice and self-inflicted impotence of Congress and of the Democratic Party that technically controls that body, and to the enormity of the damage that has been wrought to the nation's democracy by two aspiring tyrants in the White House.

As Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), chairman of the committee, made clear more than once during the six-hour session, this was "not an impeachment hearing, however much many in the audience might wish it to be." He might well have added that he himself was not the fierce defender of the Constitution and of the authority of Congress that he once was before gaining control of the Judiciary Committee, however much his constituents, his wife, and Americans across the country might wish him to be.

At the same time, while the hearing was strictly limited to the most superficial airing of Bush administration crimes and misdemeanors, the fact that the session -- technically an argument in defense of 36 articles of impeachment filed in the House over the past several months by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) -- was nonetheless a major victory for the impeachment movement. It happened because earlier in the month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has sworn since taking control of the House in November 2006, that impeachment would be "off the table" during the 110th Congress, called a hasty meeting with Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Rep. Conyers, and Rep. Kucinich, and called for such a limited hearing.

It was no coincidence that shortly before Pelosi's backdown, peace activist and Gold Star mother Cindy Sheehan announced that her campaign had collected well over the 10,000 signatures necessary to qualify for listing on the ballot as an independent candidate for Congress against Pelosi in the Speaker's home district in San Francisco. Sheehan has been an outspoken advocate of impeaching both Bush and Cheney. "Pelosi is trying to throw a bone to her constituents by allowing a hearing on impeachment," said Sheehan, who came to Washington, DC to attend. "It's just like her finally stating publicly that Bush's presidency is a failure -- something it has taken her two years to come to, but which we've been saying for years."

So determined were Pelosi and Conyers to limit the scope and intensity of the hearing that they acceded to a call for Republicans on the Judiciary Committee to adhere to Thomas Jefferson's Rules of the House, which prohibit any derogatory comments about the President, which was interpreted by Chairman Conyers as meaning no one, including witnesses or members of the committee, could suggest that Bush had lied or deceived anyone. Since a number of Rep. Kucinich's proposed articles of impeachment specifically charge the president with lying to Congress and the American People, this made for some comic moments, with witness Bruce Fein, a former assistant attorney general under former President Ronald Reagan, to say he would reference his listing of crimes to the "resident" of the White House.

In the end, the rule imposing a gag on calling the president a criminal fell by the wayside, with witness Vincent Bugliosi, a former Los Angeles deputy district attorney, accusing Bush of being guilty of the murder of over 4000 American soldiers and of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians because he had "lied" the country into an illegal and unnecessary war, and with committee member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-CA) suggesting that the president may have committed treason in invading Iraq, and that he appeared to be preparing to do it again with an unprovoked invasion of Iran.

Conyers also acquiesced in a Republican effort to minimize public monitoring and involvement in the hearing, allowing the minority party to fill most of the available seats in the hearing room with office staffers who showed little interest in the proceedings. Only a few dozen of the hundreds of pro-impeachment activists who had come to the Rayburn Office Building at 7 am in order to get seats in the Judiciary Committee hearing room were allowed in, with the rest having to remain in the hall or go to two remote "overflow" rooms to watch the proceedings on a TV hookup. Conyers also went along with a call by Republican members of the committee to have some of those who did make it into the hearing ejected simply for wearing buttons on their shirts calling for impeachment (the Republican members referred to these as "signs"), though such small personal tokens are routinely allowed in congressional hearing rooms.

It was clear that this was to be a tightly controlled and strictly limited hearing.

It was also clear that it was intended to go nowhere.

At one point, after hearing witnesses like Fein, Bugliosi, former representative and Nixon impeachment committee member Elizabeth Holtzman, former Salt Lake City mayor and impeachment activist Rocky Anderson, former House Clinton impeachment manager Bob Barr, former Watergate Committee counsel and current senior counsel of the Brennan Center for Justice Frederick A.O. Schwartz, and Elliott Adams, president of the board of Veterans for Peace, lay out the administration's crimes and abuses of power -- which included charges of usurping the legislative powers of Congress, violating international treaties, war crimes, lying to Congress, an illegal war, felony violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Fourth Amendment, defying Congressional subpoenas, obstruction of justice and more, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), chair of the Constitution subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, appeared convinced that the abuses were real and serious.

But Nadler, who for two years has been a major obstacle on the Judiciary Committee to any efforts to move impeachment to a formal hearing, said, "No president has been removed from office through impeachment." He asked the witnesses, "How would you approach impeachment today so it would be a viable option?"

Former Rep. Holtzman responded, "The real remedy to a president who believes he is above the law is impeachment. There is no running away from that." She said, "An impeachment inquiry, handled fairly, could work. Maybe I'm a cockeyed optimist, but I believe it could work."

The basic point, made by Holtzman, by Fein and by many others, including this writer, is that worrying about the political opposition to impeachment, both in the House, and in the Senate, not to mention among the broader public, is completely wrongheaded. Even when impeachment articles were first filed against Nixon, the public and the bulk of the Congress were against the idea. It was during the hearings that the tide turned, as evidence of malfeasance, criminality and abuse of power became evident through hearing testimony. The same would happen in the case of President Bush and/or Vice President Cheney. Most Americans don't even know that the president made up evidence to justify the war against Iraq out of whole cloth. They don't know what the Geneva Conventions are with regard to torture. They don't know why Congress passed the FISA act, which Bush has been feloniously violating to spy on them (it was passed because Nixon was using the National Security Agency to spy on Americans without judicial warrants!). They don't know the Bush has been refusing to enact laws passed by the Congress. Public hearings by an impeachment panel would make all these high crimes and misdemeanors clear on national TV to all sentient Americans. Moreover, as Holtzman pointed out, the president would not be able to use the claim of "executive privilege" to withhold testimony from aides in an impeachment inquiry, the way he has done when they have been subpoenaed by other House and Senate committees. Impeachment would be about violations of the very executive actions he would be claiming privilege on. As well, an impeachment committee, unlike any other committee of the Congress, is specifically sanctioned and empowered in the Constitution, meaning that even strict "constructionist" Federalists on the bench would have a hard time backing presidential obstruction.

As Holtzman noted, "There is no executive privilege in impeachment, because refusing to testify is itself an impeachable offense."

Committee Republicans, aided by two law professors they had brought in to testify, Stephen Presser of Northwestern University School of Law and Jeremy Rabkin of George Mason University School of Law, tried to argue that impeachment was only meant for crimes in which the official, or the president, was seeking personal gain. This nonsense was knocked down by most of the speakers, who quoted numerous founders who made it clear that what high crimes referred to were actions -even taken with the noblest of intentions -- that undermined the Constitution or abused the powers of the office. As Rep. Nadler said, "Impeachment has nothing to do with intentions or with good faith. Impeachment has to do with abuse of power which weakens the balance of power."

In the end, the hearing petered out, taking no action of any kind -- exactly the result that Pelosi, Hoyer and Conyers cynically intended.

Now it is up to the public and the impeachment movement to call their bluff and take impeachment to the next level. Noting that even Rep. Conyers ended the hearing by saying, "We are not done yet, and we do not intend to go away until we achieve the accountability that Congress is entitled to and that the American people deserve," Rep. Kucinich and five other co-sponsors of his articles of impeachment (Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, Keith Ellison, Maurice Hinchey, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Hank Johnson) are calling on all Americans to contact their representatives (202-224-3121) and urge them to join in co-sponsoring those articles and in calling for a formal impeachment hearing.

They are also calling on everyone to contact their local and national media, nearly all of whom have blacked out news of impeachment. Incredibly, the New York Times, for example, has not even reported on Friday's hearing, even as a news "brief." Those news organizations, like the Washington Post and the Philadelphia Inquirer, that did report on the hearings did so only in short, inside articles. Though the hearing was aired in full on C-Span (and is still available for download), many Americans don't even know it happened.

Time is short, but even at this late date, it would be a simple matter to impeach the president on some issues. As several of Friday's witnesses pointed out, President Bush has essentially dared Congress to act, admitting that he openly violated the FISA law -- a felony, and openly admitting that he has refused to enact laws passed by the Congress, claiming a power-unitary executive authority not even mentioned in the Constitution. He has openly admitted to having known about, and approved, "enhanced interrogation techniques" devised by his subordinates -- techniques like waterboarding which clearly violate the Geneva Conventions and US law. No hearings would be required to establish these high crimes and misdemeanors. They could simply be voted on by an Impeachment Committee and sent to the full House for a vote.

Even if there were no time for a Senate trial, the simple act of impeaching the president for one or more abuses of power would serve notice on future presidents that future such abuses would not be tolerated. Failure to do so, and allowing this administration to leave office unimpeached, would send the opposite message: that Congress is no longer a co-equal branch of government, but is merely a consultative body, at best, and that a president is in effect a dictator.

That Pelosi buckled and permitted a hearing on impeachable crimes by the Bush/Cheney administration is a major victory for the impeachment movement, but it must not be the end of the line. Impeachment activists need to now redouble their efforts to make Congress do its Constitutional duty, and initiate a formal impeachment proceeding.

As former Republican representative Bob Barr, now the Libertarian candidate for president, told Friday's hearing, "We had a nuclear clock during the Cold War. In the '90s we had a debt clock. Now we have a Constitution Clock."

That clock is getting close to midnight, and it is ticking.

Dave Lindorff is a Philadelphia-based investigative journalist and columnist.

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Rep. Kucinich and five other co-sponsors of his articles of impeachment (Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, Keith Ellison, Maurice Hinchey, Sheila Jackson Lee, and Hank Johnson) are calling on all Americans to contact their representatives (202-224-3121) and urge them to join in co-sponsoring those articles and in calling for a formal impeachment hearing.

This phone number is staffed 24 hours, seven days a week and 365 days per year. You can call after normal business hours and leave a message urging your Congressman to join in co-sponsoring those articles and in calling for a formal impeachment hearing.
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And if you have time on Saturday around Noon-1:00 pm

Our group holds an Impeachment Protest at East 6th & Speer in Denver every Saturday. We have lots of Impeach Signs so just show up and help. OR JUST DRIVE BY REPEATEDLY and HONK TO IMPEACH.

John H Kennedy, organizer
Impeach Colorado Coalition ImpeachCO.com

( other groups around Colorado do similar events and are listed on our Calendar at ImpeachCO.com )

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"The Democrats are trying very hard to show ... that they're not going to re-open these issues and that the Bush crimes will remain buried for all time," Turley told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday. "It would start a new administration on the same level that George Bush left it. And that's a very sad thing."

"Turley was particularly concerned about a recent statement by law professor Cass Sunstein, an Obama adviser, that only "egregious" crimes by Bush officials should be prosecuted by an Obama administration."

"There are very few obligations that a president has to do under the Constitution, but one of them is not to violate the laws that he is supposed to enforce," explained Turley.

Turley further pointed to Speaker Nancy Pelosi's refusal to initiate impeachment proceedings against the president, saying, "I don't understand why some Democrats can't just simply accept a very straightforward proposition, that we'll prosecute any crimes committed by this administration, an Obama administration, a McCain administration. Because they're crimes. They're all egregious."

From an article by
RawStory.com

John H Kennedy, 43 yr Democratic voter, Obama delegate to the Denver County Convention and organizer of the
Impeach Colorado Coalition ImpeachCO.com

Join our Impeachment Protests, see the Calendar on the website

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From http://justanothercoverup.com/?p=494

If attempting to impeach the President of the United States isn't "Breaking News", then what is?

"If CNN would have covered this important event, Americans could have tuned into C-Span and understood the many crimes that the Bush administration has perpetrated against the American public.

It is the lack of knowledge of the general public that has allowed President Bush to break our laws with impunity!

It is the enabling of news sources such as CNN that are partially responsible for this criminal administration, and they share in the blame of the many crimes that President Bush is guilty of."

And of course there is ProgressNowAction.org

On Tuesday I sent an email to ProgressNow asking to have my posting about the AOL.com Impeachment Poll placed on the Front Page so that members would have the best chance of knowing about the new legislation to Impeach President Bush, and would have the opportunity to vote in the AOL.com Impeachment Poll while it was still news. We were ignored, but the very next posting was placed on the Front Page, though not near as important as an Impeachment.

If an impeachment resolution isn't something that should get on the Front Page I cannot imagine what would be. How much do these people Hate Our Constitution that they will suppress important political event news. I do not think the word Hate is inappropriate. They have made it very plain that impeachment advocates should just shut up and go away.

Is ProgressNow attempting to dumb-down their members? Keep them in the dark about Bush's crimes? Do they provide this website so Progressives can discuss issues or so they can manipulate the members?

It would have been nice to at least get a reply to our email message.

Impeachment may not occur but it will not fail because of the Republicans but because of the corruption within the Democratic Party and organizations such as this one.

John H Kennedy 43 yr Democratic voter,Obama delegate,organizer
Impeach Colorado Corporation http://ImpeachCO.com

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All Colorado voters who believe that Cheney and/or Bush lied about the reasons to invade and occupy Iraq should immediately
go to the following links and vote in these two AOL.com
IMPEACHMENT POLLS

AOL Polls on Impeachment

AOL Polls on Impeachment-Alternate link

RESULTS SO FAR Today:

In answer to the question:
What do you think of Rep. Kucinich's bid to impeach President Bush?

57% answered "Thumbs Up" (Favor Impeachment)

In answer to the question:
Do you believe President Bush deliberately misled the nation into going to war against Iraq?

61% said "YES" ( Bush lied about WMD)

Appears to us that the Voters Want The Democrats
To Hold IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS Now!

John H Kennedy, 43 yr Democratic voter, Obama delegate,
Impeach Colorado Coalition ImpeachCO.com

Please try to attend our Impeachment Rally next Saturday at East 6th & Speer in Denver at noon-1:00 pm

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Per Dave Sawnson at AfterDownStreet.org

Impeachment Happening in Congress Right Now!

Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Yes, 35. He'll be reading for a while.

Watch C-Span Now!

If you don't have cable, go to a bar and tell them to put it on C-Span 1!

Or watch at the Video/Audio tab at
c-span.or

Take your laptop outside and turn the volume up!

More details coming later tonight!

Action in the House coming later this week!

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Broken down by party, 85% of Democrats want our troops home within 6 months, as do 78% of Independents. Why won't Udall listen to his Party's voters?

Oh golly.

Does that mean Udall may have to stop funding
more war?

And save 1,000 US Soldiers from death? Perish the thought.

Does that mean Voters Want Impeachment Hearings too
before the Election as well? ( OK, I'm reaching, but you know they do. We just can't get an honest poll done.)

Perhaps the RMPJC was right to pressure Udall so vigorously to Stop Funding The War? Didn't Udall have some of those old folks arrested for wanting the funding stopped. Nice Guy.

According to an article on Democrats.com by Bob Fertik 68% of Americans want U.S. troops home within 6 months ( Before The Election). This while Congress ( and Udall) considers President Bush's request for another $100 billion for Iraq.

The poll marks a 14% increase from 54% in September.

Only 32% of Republicans want our troops home soon.

Democratic support grew by 15% since September, and Independent support grew by 20%. By contrast, Republican support was unchanged.

The new poll differs slightly from last September's poll because Congressional Democrats ( including Udall?) have proposed giving President Bush $70 billion more than he requested in order to avoid another unpopular funding vote before the November election.

? The Congressional Democrats ( and Udall) want to give Bush $70 Billion additional for more War, more than Bush asked for, just so they (including Udall) can avoid another embarrassing vote for another War Spending Bill just before the election?

Go here for the entire article.

Congress (and Udall) fiddle while Soldiers die. Disgusting.

I agree with Udall on a great deal but stopping the funding for the Iraq War and holding Impeachment Hearings prior to the Election are non-negotiable.

The only way we Democratic Voters will get our Democratic Congressmen to do what we want is to ruthlessly Hold Them Accountable.

I think Udall has a sworn duty (by Oath of Office) to protect the Constitution and call for immediate Impeachment Hearings prior to the Election. Call it his Congressional report card.

If he doesn't stop the funding for the war and doesn't Call For impeachment Hearings prior to Nov. 4,
he doesn't get to be Senator. Simple!

If he loves the troops and respects our Constitution he will do both.

John H Kennedy, organizer
Impeach Colorado Coalition ImpeachCO.com

Weekly Impeach Rallys Every Saturday at East 6th and Speer in Denver from Noon to 1:00 pm. We have lots of Impeach Signs. Just show up and help us carry them. Its Fun!!!

Enough of you helped helped with donations to make sure that the Nixon Flooding Plan-Impeachment ad got into Roll Call the Capitol Hill Newspaper this week. You really came through. We really appreciate it. Here is a link to a downloadable copy of 04-29-08 Roll Call, with the Impeach Ad on page 8. The Nixon flooding Plan is being advocated by the
"We The People" National Coalition For Impeachment: Information is available here

and Barbara Ellis' White Paper on the Nixon Flooding
Plan.

and this brief (1 page) document listing the reasons to follow this Flooding Plan prior to the November Election is: here


PS: We have lots of Impeach Signs for you to carry every Saturday at Noon-1:00pm at East 6th and Speer in Denver
where we do our weekly Impeach Cheney Protest in front of two TV Stations and Rep. DeGette's Office.

Join us, the honking is tremendous and it is a lot of fun. Help us persuade Congressman Udall to honor his oath to protect the Constitution by calling for Impeachment Hearings prior to the Democratic National Convention. ..

I have started a discussion on the Denver Post website about the Iraq War and how it relates to the current very serious economic downturn.

I believe that the pre-war WMD lies of Cheney and Bush are the root cause of the looming economic disaster we all face. Yes, there are other reasons, but this is the key cause.

The war disrupted oil supplies and that has caused the cost of food and fuel to rise tremendously, severely impacting family budgets and causing damaging high inflation.

I think our Congressmen need to act now to put the blame squarely on the two dangerous politicians who caused the misery, Cheney and Bush.

You can read the article and the comments here: Entitled: 4 in 5: U.S. steering off map.

This Denver Post article will be read by many in Colorado this week and I think you should include your comments on the Denver Post website as to whether or not our Congressmen should immediately call for Impeachment Hearings.

I believe Impeachment Hearings need to be held prior to the November election or the opportunity to repudiate all that Cheney and Bush have done to our Country, our Constitution and the Separation of Powers will be lost forever. Our House Democrats will want to move on with their careers after the election and will ignore the disastrous and unconstitutional actions of Cheney and Bush.

Please try to stay on topic and keep your comment short and to the point.

Should Congress start holding them accountable by holding Impeachment hearings on Vice President Cheney?

Yes or No! Make that the point of your comment

Your support by commenting on this article will make a difference.

John H Kennedy, organizer
Impeach Colorado Coalition ImpeachCO.com


Failure to hold impeachment hearings will mean that the Bush/Cheney crimes against our Constitution and Separation Of Powers will become precedent and more likely to be used by rogue future Presidents.

The next few months before the election may be our last chance to have any meaningful accountability brought against the Bush/Cheney Administration.

I posted a brief note here stating that Udall was supporting impeachment which linked to a page on our website
that just said "April Fool".

It was censored and deleted. This is not the first time the PNA staff has deleted postings which made comments about Udall that they did not like.

Is PNA's staff losing it's sense of humor or is only their version of progressive speech allowable on this website?

Is this organization really progressive if they censor opposing views?

What do you think?

During the week of November 5, Dennis J. Kucinich will introduce on the floor of the House of Representatives a bill to impeach Vice President Cheney(H Res 333). Exercising his right of personal privilege, his courageous act will put members of the House on record. Are they going to fulfill their oath of office to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic or just look the other way?

Our nation and our Constitution are in crisis!

You and your neighbors can make a difference!

Call all of our Colorado Congressmen/women TODAY!

Find a list of phone and fax numbers and staff names here.

TELL COLORADO's CONGRESSMEN/WOMEN
to Vote to debate Impeaching Cheney
Tell them "No Campaign Donations, Votes or Volunteering until after they vote to debate Impeachment on the floor of the full House". They were elected to Stop The Iraq War and get accountability for Bush and Cheney. They haven't delivered on their promises. That they do not have the Votes IS A LIE. It only takes a simple majority in the House to Impeach. Cheney will resign before it leaves the House.

Pelosi's plan to pass a few popular bills and embarass Bush is only wasting time and getting soldiers killed and maimed.

Impeachment is the Only bill that Bush by law cannot veto and the Supreme Court cannot overturn.

CLICK HERE TO SEE The Latest Info on this patriotic cause.

The Colorado Impeachment Coalition at http://ImpeachCO.com is doing everything it can to ensure that at least Vice President Cheney will be held accountable by Impeachment.
JOIN US-Email: protestinthestreet@yahoo.com

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Candidate Kucinich is pretty strong in this DFA poll.

His poll numbers are climbing steadily.... so are the mainstream media's polls Cooked? Or What?



Total Votes: 134055 as of Mon, 05 Nov 2007 12:05:17 -0500
Candidate Votes %
Dennis Kucinich 41625 31.05%
Al Gore (write in) 36427 27.17%
Barack Obama 19409 14.48%
John Edwards 17822 13.29%
Bill Richardson 5978 4.46%
Hillary Clinton 5184 3.87%
Other 2938 2.19%
Christopher Dodd 2354 1.76%
Joe Biden 1260 0.94%
Mike Gravel 1058 0.79%
VOTING IS STILL OPEN!! Polls close at midnight on November 5th, 2007. Cast your vote now at

Will Senator Clinton pass up Congressman Kucinich and move into the top three? Is there a consensus candidate that can get more then 66% of your vote and earn the DFA endorsement?

DFA


Apparently there are voters who appreciate candidates who fight to protect the Constitution and the Separation Of Powers

Kucinich sponsored H Res 333, a bill in the US House which proposes to Impeach Vice President Cheney. None of the other presidential candidates has discussed such a measure.



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This post expresses my feelings on the Constitution and the urgent necessity for Impeachment. By rateyes @ Democratic Underground via David Swanson Afterdowningstreet.org Link=
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1527641

If I want impeachment, I am a bad Democrat, a bad progressive, a member of the looney left... a checker player instead of a chess player... yada yada yada... I really don't give a damn. And, here's why:

1. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans give me freedom of speech. The Constitution does.   Read More »

All of you who are outraged at the un-Constitutional actions of Libby, Cheney, and Bush should show up at Colorado's longest running Impeachment Rally on July 4th at 5 pm at Colfax & Broadway in Denver.

This event is part of a Colorado Impeachment effort that has been quietly taking place twice a week since Jan 23rd. We have held at least two impeachment events each week in Denver. Join us. Link

We will have signs. You may bring you own. Just show up to show your love of Country. Now is the time to come to the defense of your Constitution and Laws. Cheney, Libby and Bush's Neocons will literally get away with murdering 3,500 US soldiers over Cheney's WMD lies. Don't let them get away with it. Show your outrage. Show up.

Perhaps we may yet prove to Denver's Corporate Media that the Voters Last Resort "Impeachment" is not off the table. Cheney is very vulnerable to Impeachment.

Call 800-828-0498 and tell all of Colorado's Congressmen to become a Co-Sponsor on US Rep Kucinich's Impeach Cheney Bill H Res 333.and if you can find the time, Call All Of the Country's Congessmen to do the Same.

This last week Kucinich's Impeach Bill picked up more Co-Sponsors... It Will Happen.

The Democrats will not be able to ignore Impeachment because of the revelations of un-Constitutional actions by Cheney will come out. They will look like fools if they don't Impeach, and lose in November 2008.

Please Vote to Impeach in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll at
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In Just eight days four more Democrats have decided to back Impeachment of Vice President Cheney.

The support is steadily building for repudiating all that Cheney and his Neocons have done to the reputation and security of America.

To my knowledge thus far no Colorado Congressman or woman has offered any support for US Rep. Kucinich's Impeach Cheney Bill H Res 333.

Congressman Diana DeGette recently emphatically stated that she will not become a Co-Sponsor on Kucinich's bill.

This just in from David Swanson's blog on AfterDowningStreet.org Link

Congresswoman Maxine Waters, Chair of the Out of Iraq Caucus, has joined Congresswomen Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, the two Co-Chairs of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, as well as Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the Steering and Policy Committee, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333).
For details, see http://impeachcheney.org/

On Wednesday, June 13, Waters and Kucinich plan to hold a press conference in Washington, D.C., to discuss "Renewed Efforts in the House of Representatives to Impeach Vice President Cheney." The event is planned for 9:30 a.m. at the Cannon Terrace (on the outside of the Cannon House Office Building).

The reference to "renewed" efforts may be related to this discussion of impeaching Cheney in which Congresswoman Waters engaged in April 2006: Link

Congreswoman Waters is also a US House Judiciary Committee Member.

Congresswoman Waters has spoken out strongly on this issue since June 16, 2005:



Earlier Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, joined Lynn Woolsey, the other Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, and Congress Members Yvette Clarke, Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in cosponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333).

Say Thank You to Barbara Lee here: http://tinyurl.com/yqt9hw
Say Thank You to Lynn Woolsey here: http://tinyurl.com/28nxpo

Ask Lee and Woolsey to please encourage other Progressive Caucus Members to sign on.

Ask other Progressive Caucus Members to please sign on. See the Congressional Progressive Caucus website: http://cpc.lee.house.gov

The list of state Democratic Parties that have passed resolutions urging impeachment of Bush and Cheney has just grown to 15.

Meanwhile, 11 state legislatures have introduced such resolutions

Many True Conservatives hate what Cheney has done to the GOP and would support impeaching him if the Democrats would lead the way.

Unfortunately Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelosi is the major obstructionist to impeaching Cheney. Pelosi took impeachment off the table one year ago and before the 2006 election. Everyone should be aware of that by now. I'm still not convinced that the Democratic Leadership is aggressively pushing investigations in the WMD lies that got us into Iraq. ( Thats my opion and I'm sticking with it Ralph).

You can reach the members of the House Progressive Caucus by calling 800-828-0498 ( just ask for each of their offices in turn, including Pelosi's)

See the list of members here: Link

You might also call the Washington Office of Colorado's US Reps and
Ask them to Co-Sponsor Rep. Kucinich's Impeach Cheney Bill:

It is a Free Call to Colorado Representatives Diana DeGette, John Salazar, Ed Perlmutter, and Mark Udall in Washington DC at 800-828-0498


You could also join us in one of our three weekly
Denver Impeach Cheney events.

Our PNA group 1stProtestInTheStreet (at ProgressNowAction.org )
does three Impeachment Protest events per week.... Join us!

Tuesday at E 6th & Speer at Noon

Wednesday at Lincoln & 14th (State Capital) at Noon

Wednesday at Broadway & Colfax, Denver Post & RM News Building, 5 pm

We have Signs... just show up

In PNA's Calendar look for the Event Listings like these...

Weekly Impeachment Rally at Denver Post-RM News Building, Denver Link
and

Effort to Impeach Cheney growing in Congress, Will grow faster if you call 800-828-0498 & Tell your Rep. to Co-Sponsor H Res 333 Kucinich's Impeach Bill Link

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The Cheney Impeachment effort in the US House is moving forward.

Congresswoman Yvette Clark (D., NY) has joined Congress Members Jan Schakowsky, William Lacy Clay, Albert Wynn, and Dennis Kucinich in Co-Sponsoring Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney (H. Res. 333).

We now have 5 US Representatives backing Impeachment, Kucinich and 4 Co-Sponsors.

Kucinich will need more Co-Sponsors. If You care about the US Constitution and the US Soldiers who are dying and being maimed for Cheney's WMD lies You Should call Your Congressmen/women (at 800-828-0498) and demand that they become a Co-Sponsor on Kucinich's Impeach Cheney Bill.

Since Speaker Pelosi uttered her now infamous edict that 'impeachment is off the table' the movement toward impeaching any of the liars in the Bush Administration has grown slowly but it is growing. Recently Rep. Kucinich filed a Bill to impeach VP Cheney and it has taken off.

If Clinton can be impeached for a lie about sex, Cheney 'must be impeached' for lying about the reason for the Iraq Invasion and the 25,000 plus US Soldiers mained and the over 3,400 dead because of the lie.

None of the Colorado Democrats in Congress has offered support for impeaching Cheney.

They all deflect impeachment questions by saying things like: If we impeach Bush then Cheney will be president or we can't impeach because then Congress won't get anything else done.

Golly, if our state's representatives impeach Cheney then Cheney will never be president.

And not impeaching Bush gives them Bush to run against in Nov. '08. It is the best of all possible strategy for Democrats.

Show the international community we as a people repudiate Cheney and all he and his neocons stand for and coast into victory in '08 running
against Bush, the worst president American ever had.

Remember it is Bush's Iraq War but Cheney's manipulation of intelligence and WMD lies that gave Bush the opportunity to get Congress to vote for the invasion of Iraq.

The trial of Scooter Libby has produced overwhelming evidence that Vice President Cheney personally led the campaign to attack Joe Wilson through the media.

This "get Wilson" campaign included telling numerous reporters that Wilson was sent to Niger by his wife Valerie Plame, a CIA operative. Cheney was told by the CIA that Valerie Plame worked as a covert agent in the CIA's Nonproliferation Division, which is the critical division of the CIA responsible for stopping the spread of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Is exposing a CIA agent a treasonable offence?

Cheney's efforts to expose Plame actually exposed her entire covert network, at tremendous cost to the CIA's secret war against terrorism. If Plame's work had been exposed by a double-agent in our government like Aldrich Ames or Robert Hanssen, that person would face prosecution for espionage and treason.

The evidence of Cheney's role is more than enough to start an impeachment investigation.

Real investigation will not start until Kucinich's Impeachment Bill is seriously considered by the House Judiciary Committee. Kucinich needs more Co-Sponsors to make that happen.

Now that Cheney's former Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby has been convicted and sentenced to 30 months in Federal Prison it is time to turn to his boss, Vice President Cheney. Is there a point where a Vice President who manipulates intelligence and facts about going to war commits treason?


WHAT YOU CAN DO TO GET CONGRESS TO IMPEACH CHENEY.

Call the Congressional 800 Number: 800-828-0498

Ask for Speaker Of The House Pelosi's office,
Ask for your Congressman/woman's office.

Tell the staff member who you are and where you live.

Then tell them to say to your Representative..

Impeach Cheney for lying about WMD and exposing a CIA agent.

Tell them to Co-Sponsor Kucinich's Bill to Impeach Cheney.

Call them each week.

Call as many of the US Congressmen/women as you can with the same message.

See US Rep. Kucinich's Bill here:
Link

The bill is 'H Res 333' (and not HR 333).

Plenty of info about Impeaching Cheney at: Link

The following sources were used: Link Link



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The following is from an email I just received from "The Pen". I'm not sure who this person is but he/she hits the Cheney Nail on the head.

If you agree with the points raised by 'The Pen':
Email me at protestinthestreet@yahoo.com

Sure we're angry about the failure of the Democrats to stand up for
ending the Iraq occupation.

But what is the root cause of that anger, and where do we productively
DIRECT our anger so that the REAL problem is impacted?

It's not just this latest Iraq supplemental.

This is just the latest example of the failure of the (Democratic) Congress to actually confront the MANY Constitutional Outrages of the Cheney Administration.

That's right, we said

the Cheney Administration.

Bush is nothing more than a stooge . . . a hapless, snickering,
stubborn stooge perhaps, but a stooge nonetheless, who couldn't complete a
logical sentence in the English language without the talking points they
give him to rehearse and read from.

It is Cheney who dragged the country into invading Iraq, who was the
master chef in cooking the intelligence, who pushed for torture as
accepted U.S. foreign policy, who was the driving force behind the illegal
wiretaps, the unprecedented expansion of executive power, the outing of
Valerie Plame, who ordered the stand down of our air defenses on 9/11,
and is even now working overtime to plunge us into an even more
monumental debacle in Iran.

It's been all Cheney, all the time, since day one of this disastrous administration.

So why won't Congress (with the exception of Kucinich and the other 3
sponsors of H.R. 333) even talk about impeaching someone who has
committed every Constitutional high crime in the book?

Have you voted in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll yet? More then
50,000 of your friends and neighbors have,

but what about you?

Maybe there's 'your' complete answer.

Why would we expect Congress to act on what we want them to do unless we TELL them what we want them to do (and often)?

Why should we accuse them of not listening to the people(us), unless we
are actively talking to them.

Why should we be mad at them for not acting, UNLESS we force them to act.

A lot of people are calling their members of Congress right now to yell at them about the Iraq supplemental surrender. And we should join them
in that too.

But it's kinda like trying to put out a fire on one side of a room with someone pouring on more gasoline from the other side.

Unless we confront the REAL problem, Dick Cheney, and remove him from
power soon, the flames may be so high over our heads that we may no
longer be able to do anything about it. We are that close to a military
holocaust right now.

So DO call your members of Congress. at 800-828-0498

And let them know they have ZERO chance of getting elected again
themselves if they continue to vote for funding the Iraq sinkhole without accountability.

But the same time, and most importantly, demand that they step up and confront the Cheney Impeachment Imperative.

As long as Cheney is in the White House, Bush will just continue to arrogantly parrot the words Cheney feeds him, and we are in greater peril each successive day.

It's Cheney, folks. The problem is Cheney.

Please take action NOW

Call everyone in Congress... Call 800-828-0498
starting with your Congressman/woman and Speaker Pelosi

Tell they if they want to be relected and avoid a Primary Challenge they'd
better Stop The Iraq War Now (don't the 1000 extra Dead US Soldiers matter?)
and Impeach VP Cheney

Make Your Vote Count at the

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL:
(is not Just a Poll... filling out this form allows you to Vote on Impeachment and email your support for Impeachment to your Senators and Congressmen, and your local newspapers as well.
Link

And Call 800-828-0498 Tell Speaker Pelosi and all of the Congressmen to
Stop The Iraq War Now and Impeach Cheney (be a Co-Sponsor on HR-333)

Memorize this Number 800-828-0498 and tell your friends to
Call their congressman Often.

From: "The Pen"


Note: So far there are 3 Weekly Impeachment Rallys in Denver Colorado
Each Week

JOIN US.... Show us you Care About the Constitution and the Rule Of Law

Every Tuesday: Noon-1:00 pm at East 6th & Speer

Every Wednesday: Noon-1:00 pm Lincoln & 14th @ St. Capital

Every Wednesday: 5:00-6:00 pm Colfax & Broadway Denver Post-RM News Building, Denver, Colorado

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Rep.Alice Borodkin emailed the good news a few minutes ago.

"We passed the Senate version(SMJ07-002). Actually, I was glad we did.
It had much stronger wording in it. If we did not pass that,
the entire resolution would have been lost."

See... all those emails we asked you to send to legislators really paid off.

The effort to influence the Senate to adhere to their version and the House Democrats to adopt the Senate version was enthusiastically supported by our 1StProtestInTheStreet.Org PNA group, the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center of Boulder, CO and members of many other peace and justice and anti-war groups across Colorado.

More later... Ritter will surely sign it. Yes?