Sign this Weekend, Stand for the Constitution, Impeach Bush
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http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition/
We Want Bush Impeached, We Support the Kucinich Resolution. See video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kiIn3ytaUjI&feature=PlayList&p=78D7AD665B2B029D&index=0&playnext=1
Excerpts come from a June 11, 2008 Countdown with Keith Olbermann show:
http://representativepress.blogspot.com/2008/07/sign-this-weekend-stand-for.html
OLBERMANN: Time now to call in George Washington University law professor and constitutional law expert: Jonathan Turley.
Good evening, Jon.
JONATHAN TURLEY, CONSTITUTIONAL LAW EXPERT: Hi, Keith.
OLBERMANN: I've often argued here that even if you think the words aren't going to lead to any action, say the words anyway, simply to get them on the record for history, and simply because nothing has ever changed from bad to good in this country without somebody first saying—this is bad. Assess the importance of what Dennis Kucinich did last night.
TURLEY: You know, it is very important. The fact is that this is not supposed to happen the way it happened in the last seven years. The framers, I think, would have been astonished by the absolute passivity if not collusion of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment. I mean, they created a system that was essentially idiot-proof and God knows we put that to a test in the past years.
But, I don't think they ever anticipated that so many members of the opposition would stand quietly in the face of clear presidential crimes. It has many of us who study the Constitution quite worried that we have a real crisis here. This is not something that really was supposed to happen. It was not something that one would predict.
OLBERMANN: This is the list that he presented last night—a remarkably lengthy and thorough record of the high crimes and misdemeanors. It's just a cascade really. Did Kucinich successfully make his case?
TURLEY: I think he's made his case. I mean, frankly, some of these claims are not really impeachable offenses. Like for example, it's not impeachable to be negligent. If that was the case, we'd lose half that people that sat in the Oval Office. But there are plenty of crimes there. This is a target-rich environment.
What's really disturbing for many of us is that it takes a real effort for Democrats to walk from the floor to their offices and not trip over crimes. I mean, they are all over the record, from destruction of evidence, to illegal surveillance, to unlawful torture programs. They're all over the place.
And what's amazing is that the president is hiding in plain view. He hasn't really denied the elements of these offenses. So, all that is lacking is political will.
But that doesn't mean that suddenly the Democrats are going to get principled and say—my God, we took an oath, and we need to fulfill it regardless of the outcome. But it does mean one member, and they're actually more than one, are really calling their colleagues to the floor and saying—it's time to pony up. It's time to answer the public of whether you stand for the Constitution and against its abridgement.
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See "Will Congress listen? IMPEACH NOW! Bush is a Threat to Peace" Bush has lied 3x about the very reason he attacked Iraq!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOV78w2MPT0&feature=PlayList&p=7B8A32981B52DBD5&index=0&playnext=1
