Impeachment

Make McCain Choose

By David Swanson

What if Senator John McCain were forced to choose an extremely and increasingly unpopular position and stand by it for months as it became less and less popular?

No, I don’t mean his support for a permanent occupation of Iraq. Nobody forced him to take that position, and Senator Barack Obama is not exactly taking optimal advantage of it. Were Obama opposing the occupation, committing to filibuster further funding, promising to prosecute the architects of the war, devoting read more

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US Senate Candidate to Discuss Impeachment and Indictment on Radio

US Senate candidate from Maine Laurie Dobson will be my guest for an hour and we’ll be taking your calls. Dobson is working to indict Bush and Cheney in Kennebunkport, Maine. She’s made restoration of the Constitution central to her senate campaign. Join us Wednesday March 12th 8-9 p.m. ET at http://thepeoplespeakradio.net

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Video Indictment and Audio Impeachment

VIDEO: Rally Preceding Vote in Vermont to Indict Bush and Cheney

Watch this video: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/31652

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AUDIO: Liz Holtzman, David Swanson, Marjorie Cohn, and Callers on Impeachment

“All About Impeachment” — Two hours on The Mark Weaver Show on Florida Progressive internet Radio

Special guests are:

Hon. Elizabeth Holtzman of the House Judiciary committee that impeached Nixon, talking about how the charges and politics are different this time around

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Vermont Towns Vote to Indict Bush and Cheney

By David Swanson

Brattleboro, Vt., voted today in support of a measure calling on the town’s police force to arrest and indict Bush and Cheney. The vote was 2012-1795.

Marlboro, Vt., passed a similar measure at its town meeting today at which the vote to indict Bush and Cheney was 43-25-3. That’s 43 in favor and 3 abstaining. Thus Marlboro beat Brattleboro to it by a few hours. In Brattleboro, the indictment question was on the primary ballots for both parties.

Here’s a kit for read more

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New Hampshire Has Impeachment Fever

By David Swanson

New Hampshire State Representative Betty Hall is the chief sponsor of a resolution to be voted on this week in the state legislature, a resolution to petition Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. Hall asked people to Email her their thoughts, and she is receiving more than one Email per minute, almost all of them from New Hampshire, but some from other states and countries, and every single one of them supportive of impeachment. Here’s a sampling:

Hi Betty,
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Nixon, Cheney, and Le Deluge

By David Swanson

Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney now has more cosponsors signed onto it than any resolution to impeach President Richard Nixon ever had. But separate resolutions to impeach Nixon, some with a handful of cosponsors, many with no cosponsors at all, were filed by the dozens. Today, Kucinich’s resolution stands alone.

“Back in 1973,” Barbara Ellis wrote in a recent paper that has inspired a new strategy among advocates read more

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The Top 10 Reasons Not To Impeach Dick Cheney

10. If we just wait one more year, only a couple of more hundred thousand Iraqis and some hundreds of US troops will die – nothing to get excited about.

9. In the next year we’ll probably only launch at most one more foreign war beyond the ones we’re running now.

8. Our actions might not provoke an attack in this country, and we can worry about that after it happens.

7. Even starting in 2009 we’ll still have several years left in which we can try to reverse global warming read more

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