Impeachment was picked up off the floor and put on stage in New York City Sunday and Monday nights, in the first two of a series of nights scheduled over the coming weeks. You can follow along with this blog: http://cultureprojectnyc.blogspot.com and this video channel: http://aquestionofimpeachm.blip.tv
Impeachment Put on Stage in New York Read More »
By David Swanson
Remarks at Denver, Col., impeachment forum November 17, 2007, organized by “Be the Change.”
For the past year or so, every month the moon gets full, and I suddenly get a couple of hundred emails telling me that Nancy Pelosi has announced that she will allow impeachment hearings if she gets enough emails or phone calls or handwritten letters.
And a lot of the emails I get are along the lines of: “Is it true? Because if it’s true my group can send 5,000 letters.”
Pelosi, Cheney, and the Fertilized Eggs Read More »
By David Swanson
That does it. It’s time for the Democratic Party to stage its own debate, ask its own questions, and offer the video to networks as a completed package. Allowing CNN to not just air a debate but to ask the questions proved on Thursday night (even more dramatically than in the past) to be a soul sickening disaster.
A serious debate would begin by asking each candidate (including Mike Gravel, who was locked out of the room) what he or she would do if elected president.
Wolf Blitzer Loses Democratic Debate Read More »
By David Swanson
It sounds silly, but for a long time it just didn’t occur to me what the implications would be. Thus spake a college student who agreed to ask Senator Clinton a planted question. And thus, alas, must I speak as well.
Senator Clinton asked me to impersonate a citizen of the United States, and I was tempted to play along. The assignment she had marked “(citizen)” on the script on her clipboard, read:
“A citizen is a member of an electorate. A citizen’s
Another Clinton Campaign Fraud Read More »
By David Swanson
Here’s the Iraq bill the U.S. House of Representatives will vote on, on Wednesday:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/bridgebullbill.pdf
Here are the actual talking points the Democratic misleadership thinks will coat this pig with lipstick:
“Iraq Redeployment Bill
1. “Requires the redeployment of US troops from Iraq to begin within 30 days of enactment, with a target for completion of December 15, 2008;”
No, the counter-recruitment movement and the
House Dem. Talking Points on New Iraq Bill Read More »
By David Swanson
I wonder what would happen if the people and their representatives were to shock the powerful and their funders for a change? What if on November 16th, the Iraq Moratorium day, everybody together took major actions? What if everyone with a job took the day off work? What if everyone wore orange? What if everyone with a tax bill wrote to the IRS to say not to expect another dollar of that portion of taxes that goes to war? What if everyone who gives money to Democrats wrote
The Reverse Shock Doctrine Read More »
By David Swanson
If I were a member of Congress, I would make this pledge:
I pledge to vote No on any bill, and to vote No on bringing to the floor for a vote any bill, that includes any funding to extend the occupation of Iraq. This pledge does not prevent me from voting for funding for a withdrawal, although such funding is clearly not needed by the Pentagon. It does not prevent me from voting for funding for veterans’ services or for the reconstruction of Iraq by Iraqis, or for relief for
Understanding the Next War Money Vote Read More »
By David Swanson
I’ve often seen Bush compared to a child and Cheney to a monster, which I think is incredibly unfair to children and monsters. The following is a commentary on a blog posting by Digby that compares the Bush-Cheney crime gang to postmodernists and “relativists”, which I think is entirely unfair to postmodernists and “relativists”. In fact, I think the Bush-Cheney gang’s defense of cruel and criminal actions fits seamlessly with their opposition to “postmodern
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