By David Swanson

Last August, a group of Congressman Henry Waxman’s constituents met with him and urged him to make use of inherent contempt. They were then obliged to explain to him what inherent contempt is. While the current (110th) Congress has probably seen more requests, subpoenas, and contempt citations ignored than all previous Congresses combined, Waxman has certainly endured more such insult than all other committee chairs read more

By David Swanson

Last week two judges encouraged me to look to courts to help us recover from the damage done by an outlaw executive and a spineless corrupt legislature. The first was Bush-appointed federal Judge John Bates who ruled that people must comply with Congressional subpoenas even if they used to work for the president, and this because – you know – the law requires it. The second was Judge William Price in Iowa who was hearing the case of citizens arrested for trying to read more

I was on Clout on Air America with guest host Christiane Brown and host Richard Greene tonight for over two hours, mostly about impeachment, and Christiane played clips of interviews she’d done with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. The podcast is here:
http://airamerica.com/ondemand/show/6644/0

Christiane Brown from KJFK in Reno is filling in for Richard Greene on Clout on Air America tonight, and I’ll be on with her at 9 p.m. ET: http://airamerica.com/listen

By David Swanson

Almost every time House Speaker Nancy Pelosi explains why she won’t impeach Bush or Cheney she says that the Republicans want impeachment and that therefore she must oppose it.

She originally took impeachment “off the table” in response to a May 2006 Republican National Committee announcement that (contrary to all existing evidence) talk of impeachment would benefit Republicans in the November 2006 elections. (In fact polls showed a majority believing that electing read more

Catch Dave Lindorff, Dave Waldman (Kagro X), and Dave Swanson discussing subpoenas, contempt, inherent contempt, and impeachment, not to mention disgusted contempt, on KPFA on Friday at noon PT, 3 p.m. ET with host Kris Welch: http://www.kpfa.org

By David Swanson, http://ConvictBushCheney.org

Dear Italy, I consider you a second home and some of your citizens a second family. I have spent more days on your beautiful soil than anywhere else in the world other than my home in the United States of America. Many of my fellow Americans will, I am sure, join me in asking you to lend us, your friends, a much needed helping hand. In doing so, I think you will be coming to the aid of yourselves as well, and of the rest of the world.

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