New Year's Resolution: Impeach Bush and Cheney

Let's Make our New Year's Resolution: To Impeach Bush and Cheney
http://democrats.com/2006-resolution

On December 15, the New York Times revealed George Bush secretly ordered
the National Security Agency to spy on American citizens without warrants.

Bush's actions deliberately violated the strict FISA law and subverted the
Constitution - both of which are IMPEACHABLE offenses.

Yet on December 17, Bush used his weekly radio address to brag that he
broke the law repeatedly - "more than 30 times."

Shortly afterwards, Richard Nixon's White House Counsel John Dean (of
Watergate fame) was on a radio show with Senator Barbara Boxer. Dean
pointed out that George Bush was the first president in history to confess
to an impeachable crime.

So why is a confessed criminal still in the White House - and not in
jail???

Because George Bush believes he is above the law. He believes he is a
dictator - even a king or an emperor.

Bush claims his dictatorial powers derive from 9-11. But where was Bush
after August 6, 2001 when he read the CIA memo entitled "Bin Laden
Determined to Attack Inside the United States"? He was on vacation - the
longest presidential vacation in history.

And where was Bush on 9-11 itself after four commercial airliners were
hijacked? He sat in a Florida classroom reading "My Pet Goat" - even after
learning that two of the planes turned the Twin Towers into towering
infernos. Then he flew west to get as far from Washington as possible.

When American really needed a President to stop a heinous terrorist
attack, George Bush went AWOL - just as he did to the National Guard in
1972.

George Bush should have resigned on 9-11 for his gross failures of
leadership before and during the terrorist attack. Instead, he used 9-11
to claim a mandate for dictatorship - first to shred the Constitution, and
then to launch an illegal and disastrous war in Iraq.

It is time to revoke Bush's self-proclaimed mandate for dictatorship.

It is time for a change.

My New Year's Resolution for 2006 is simple: to do everything in my power
to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney.

I have shared my Resolution with my Representative and Senators. Will you
join me?
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/17

I believe impeachment is possible - perhaps even inevitable - if we all
resolve to do our part.

Even before the NSA wiretapping scandal broke, a Zogby poll found 53% of
Americans thought Bush should be impeached if he lied about Iraq - and 57%
believe Bush lied.

After the wiretapping scandal, even libertarians and conservatives started
suggesting impeachment. The list includes former Reagan official Bruce
Fein, Norm Ornstein of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute, law
professors Jonathan Turley and Geoffrey Stone, and even the editor of
Barron's, Thomas Donlan.

When Americans across the ideological spectrum support impeachment, all we
need is a few Members of Congress to lead the way.

Recently, prominent Democrats like Senator Barbara Boxer, Rep. John Lewis,
and Rep. John Conyers began talking seriously about impeachment. Conyers
compiled Bush's impeachable offenses in a must-read book, "The
Constitution in Crisis." He introduced two bills (H.Res.636 and H.Res.637)
to censure Bush and Cheney for withholding evidence from Congress. And
Conyers wrote a third bill - H.Res.635 - to create a select committee to
investigate the Administration's intent to go to war before congressional
authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and
countenancing torture, and retaliating against critics, and to make
recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment.

Impeachment is becoming a campaign issue as well. With your support,
ImpeachPAC.org has raised $46,261.70 to support pro-impeachment
candidates. Our first endorsed candidate, Tony Trupiano of Michigan, is
proudly campaigning on his support for impeachment, despite repeated
attacks by the Washington Establishment. We hope to endorse many more pro-
impeachment candidates - both incumbents and challengers, in the weeks to
come. You can help by sending Democratic Congressional candidates here:
http://impeachpac.org/candidates

We are also forming a powerful Citizens Impeachment Commission of
prominent Americans who are willing to lead the fight in the year ahead.
Our commission already includes activists Medea Benjamin, Gene Bruskin,
Tim Carpenter, David Cline, Steve Cobble, Karen Dolan, Jodie Evans, Mike
Ferner, Bob Fertik, Kim Gandy, Doris "Granny D" Haddock, Tom Hayden, Doug
Kreeger, Bill Mitchell, Bill Moyer, Michael Rectenwald, Cindy Sheehan,
David Swanson, Jonathan Tasini, and Kevin Zeese; former government
officials Elizabeth de la Vega, Larry Johnson, and Ann Wright, Historians
and Legal Scholars John Bonifaz, Marcus Raskin, Lawrence R. Velvel, and
Howard Zinn, and Talk Show Hosts/Editors/Bloggers/Pundits/Authors David
Allen, Dave Allsopp, The Bulldog Manifesto, Tom Engelhardt, Thom Hartmann,
Laura Flanders, Justin A. Frank, MD, Doug Ireland, Rob Kall, Susie Madrak,
Mark Crispin Miller, Brad Newsham, Liza Sabater, and Jeff Tiedrich. And
we're just getting started! Please encourage prominent citizens you know
to sign up here:
http://impeachpac.org/citizens

Until recently, the idea of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney was a
distant dream. But now Democrats are taking the first steps towards making
impeachment a reality. And if we devote our efforts to this cause in 2006,
I believe we will ultimately succeed.

So please join me in resolving to make 2006 the Year of Impeachment - and
sharing this New Year's Resolution with our Representatives:
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/17

Let's have a VERY Happy New Year!

Bob Fertik



Bob Fertik, President
Democrats.com
bob@democrats.com
718-424-7772


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