Impeach Bush

Screw Nancy Pelousi's taking impeachment off the table! Are you tired of Bush's policies & lying? If the government is not doing it's duties, we have the right to change it!

Compel the new (more friendly) Congress to start IMPEACHMENT proceedings using a little known method called an "Impeachment Memorial". What is an Impeachment Memorial you ask? It's a letter or petition that uses a little known and rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives ("Jefferson's Manual") which empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves. Normally, members of the House must pass a resolution to initiate the impeachment procedure. A Minnesota-based group called Impeach for Peace has researched this method and is asking fellow citizens to join them in sending Impeachment Memorials to Congress en masse on January 15th, 2007 when the new Congress convenes.

It's easy. Go to the Impeach for Peace website & download & print the petition. Then mail it.

The basis for this method is found in Jefferson's Manual which is a sort of interpretive guide to parliamentary procedure, and is included (along with the Constitution) in the bound volumes of the Rules of the House of Representatives. It is ratified by each congress (including the current one), and has been updated continuously through the history of our democracy. Within the Manual itself, the section covering impeachment is designated Section LIII. Section 603 refers to the section of the entire volume (including the Constitution and Rules) in which you'll find the listing of acceptable vehicles for bringing impeachment motions to the floor, the second vehicle being of most interest. It reads:

"In the House of Representatives there are various methods of setting an impeachment in motion: by charges made on the floor on the responsibility of a Member or Delegate (II, 1303; III, 2342, 2400, 2469; VI, 525, 526, 528, 535, 536); by charges preferred by a memorial, which is usually referred to a committee for examination (III, 2364, 2491, 2494, 2496, 2499, 2515; VI, 552); or by a resolution dropped in the hopper by a Member and referred to a committee (April 15, 1970, p. 11941-2); by a message from the President (III, 2294, 2319; VI, 498); by charges transmitted from the legislature of a State (III, 2469) or Territory (III, 2487) or from a grand jury (III, 2488); or from facts developed and reported by an investigating committee of the House (III, 2399, 2444)." --Source: U.S. Government Printing Office

CNN exit polls have indicated the top issues that voters are concerned about most is corruption and ethics in government (42 percent) and the handling of the Iraq war (40 percent). Although the election results show that a majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction our country is going, I believe we must send an unmistakable message to Congress that corruption, lies, constitutional abuses and overreaching executive power can no longer be tolerated in a free and democratic society. Join me and over 300,000 others who have downloaded a copy of the memorial letter from Impeach for Peace's website in mailing our representatives this January to hold the administration accountable for it's actions.

Feel free to pass this information to other concerned citizens.

Have an opinion, go to jail

Bloggers & all who believe in Freedom of Speech, beware!

THE US GOVERNMENT is planning to force bloggers who criticise Congress and organise grassroot causes to register themselves or face jail time. {Aren't grassroots causes & criticizing the government what this country was based on?!}

According to GrassrootsFreedom.com, under Section 220 of S. 1, the lobbying reform bill currently before the Senate, bloggers who have more than 500 readers will have to register and report quarterly to Congress just like lobbiests or go to jail. {How will they figure out who has 500+readers?}

GrassrootsFreedom.com chairman Richard Viguerie said the new law would create the most expansive intrusion on First Amendment rights ever.

The amendment was introduced by Senator David Vitter and is currently on hold as it seems to have got bogged down in the legislative process.

Find out more at PR Newswire or Grassroots Freedom.

Call or write your congressperson! We can't allow them to take our rights away.

State of the Union address

It’s that time of year. Time for our grand poobah to give his state of the union address. The actual speech will be broadcast on Tuesday, January 23 at 9 p.m. EST. There’s even a drinking game for my friends who like myself believe that beer (or insert your drink of choice) makes everything better: http://www.drinkinggame.us/

Here’s my facetious take on Bush’s 2007 State of the Union address, or what I would write if I had been hired as his speechwriter. With apologies to Shakespeare (Julius Caesar) & writers of satire.

State of the Union 2007

Friends, Republicrats, Countrymen,
Lend me your ears.

First of all, I’d like to thank democrat Nancy Pelousi for taking impeachment off the table. I’d also like to make her an honorary Republican.

I don’t look forward & I don’t look back. But today I come to talk about the state of our union. Ours is a grand future!

Since 2001 we have proven that we will not roll over & play dead. To paraphrase Toby Keith, if you mess with us, you get a boot in your ass. One terrorist supporter, Saddam Hussein, has been brought to justice. We are safer now than ever! But make no mistake: new enemies are being manufactured as I speak. Ain't American ingenuity grand?

America has a duty to the world. We must carry on the fight of taking capitalocracy & the freedom to shop to the rest of the world.

I believe that God & the people have given me a mandate to stay the course. To that end I have committed 21,000 more of our young men & women into Iraq to stem the civil war that we started. My military advisors assure me this won’t create any new terrorists, so I think we can look forward to an end of this War on Terror in our lifetime. If not, I know the American people are willing to sacrifice an entire generation, just as Europe did in that noble battle we call World War I.

We continue to seek out Osama Bin Laden and others who would harm our nation. Including those inside our borders. Recently I added a “signing statement” to a bill that allows me to look into American citizens’ mail sent through the US Postal service without a warrant. Critics say that this is contrary to existing law & the law I was signing. I say to them, CONSTITUTION SMONSTITUTION! Sometimes you have to make sacrifices. Would you have us live in fear of terrorists or live the American dream of life, liberty & the pursuit? Liberals, radicals, peaceniks, dissenters, any people of color or with Islamic sounding names, the media & Hillary Clinton, we will be monitoring your mail! Oh, and we’ll keep monitoring your phone calls too. {Homey smile, wink & laugh here.} I just wish the liberal media would stop letting let the cat out of the bag: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003508676_mail04.html

My next goal is to figure out how we can monitor the Internet & those radical bloggers too! I’ve got a conservative think tank working on that.

Closer to home, as I’ve said in every State of the Union address since my selection, I promise to decrease America’s independence on foreign oil. We don’t need to face our addiction to oil. All we have to do is drill in ANWAR & add more off-shore sites to our coastlines. This will have the added benefit of speeding up the economic recovery of the Gulf Coast in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Speaking of the Gulf Coast, the gentrification of New Orleans is proceeding slower than anticipated but I have full confidence in my corporate masters to capitalize on this historic opportunity.

As April 15th approaches, I say now is not the time to tax our citizens, they deserve to keep what they’ve worked hard for. Halliburton, Microsoft, Monsanto, General Motors, all you multinational corporations - Read my lips: no new taxes.

In closing, blah, blah, blah, wubba, wubba, wubba - same old crap I've been saying for the last 7 years.

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Okay… I’ve run out of steam. What would you add?

Keith Olbermann video

This is a great piece on the two-headedness of our President. I don't really have anything else to say because he pretty much sums it all up. I hope that more people are waking up.