On Monday, June 9th 2008, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made history on the
floor of the House by reading 35 Articles of Impeachment against President
George W. Bush. I highly respect his courage and integrity which has exceeded
what most members of Congress have shown lately.
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) has his own impeachment in the works against Dick
Cheney and has joined with Dennis in support of the proceeding against Bush.
Kudos to Rep. Wexler as well.
As more comes to light on an almost daily basis about lies, deceit and outright
illegal activity on the part of the Bush administration, it is ever more
apparent that Congress must take this action on behalf of all Americans and
in particular, on behalf of the thousands of dead and injured soldiers who
died in a war started with lies.
The million plus dead Iraqi citizens also need vindication from America's
deadly blunders. The world is watching us and you, our Congress.
Now it appears the move to impeach is stalled, in part because of Speaker
Pelosi's siding with the Bush administration against American's reputation
and best interest.
Congress has this one chance to clear it's own name. For seven plus years
Congress has aided and abetted a rogue, lawless administration by handing
him bill after bill to undermine the Constitution. Each time the Supreme
Court declared Bush's actions to be unconstitutional, he came to you and
you handed him more unconstitutional laws.
Bush is not above the law. You cannot be so ignorant that you ( Congress
) did not know what you were doing. I will excuse the early years when Bush
had a Republican Congress who let him work them like puppets to do his bidding.
Democrats are now in the majority, yet I see little sign that anything has
really changed at all.
While I would not expect you to impeach yourselves, though many of you do
not deserve the office you hold, I would expect you to hold the present
administration responsible for it's actions and to do so quickly before you
throw away the only chance you have to do so.
Any member standing in the way of impeachment hearings is obstructing justice
and is forgetful of their own oath of office to uphold the constitution.
Some of you have the same blood on your hands as does the President, with
well over a million humans dead in Iraq and hundreds in illegal detention.
Bush will never wash his own hands. He is arrogant and thumbs his nose at
Congress, the law, the Supreme Court and the Constitution and you have helped
him do this for far too long. Time to say "enough is enough" on behalf of
the We, the people.
America is watching you. America wants impeachment. Many of you are due for
reelection this fall. Few of you deserve another term, however, you can start
to atone for your own failures to protect our nation from the illegal actions
of the administration by moving forward with impeachment, finally showing
some courage of your own.
Will you stand up and say YEA! to impeachment or will you site silently by,
letting the lawlessness continue hoping it will just "go away"? Will you
allow bad precedents already set by this administration to remain for future
presidents to follow or will you finally do YOUR DUTY? Send a clear signal
into the future that no president is above the law....that NO PRESIDENT shall
thumb his/her nose at Congress our Constitution and the Supreme Court as
Bush and Cheney have been allowed to do for too long.
If you truly believe in your oath of office, that you are the protectors
of the Constitution and of your country you cannot allow lawlessness to continue
in the executive branch.
The ball is in your court, Congress. Are you going to play or sit on the
bench?
This letter was sent to AP, Numerous news papers
and is posted in a number of political forums on line. I encourage everyone
to copy and send to their representatives in Washington. You can find their
addresses and fax numbers on line. www.house.gov and www.senate.gov.
Do it before we lose our freedoms.
Ref: Open Letter to Congress: A Call for Impeachment
On Monday, June 9th 2008, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) made history on
the floor of the House by reading 35 Articles of Impeachment against President
George W. Bush. I highly respect his courage and integrity which has exceeded
what most members of Congress have shown lately.
If you truly believe in your oath of office, that you are the protectors
of the Constitution and of your country you cannot allow lawlessness to continue
in the executive branch.
The ball is in your court, Congress. Are you going to play or sit on the
bench?
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Supreme Court says habeas cannot be suspended. Bush says, "I don't agree
with them"
Further proof of how dangerous Bush is to American law and values. He continues
to thumb his nose at anything the Constitution says if it does not meet with
his personal approval.
Perhaps Congress needs some education into why it was given the power to
impeach in the first place. No, it was not to politically punish a President
because he messed around behind his wife's back and got caught. That was
a blatant miss-use of impeachment for political purposes because nothing
that president did put our country or it's Constitution in harms way as Bush
has done almost from day one.
Now you are faced with a president who clearly has no respect for the word
of law or our Constitution. He has expressed his contempt of Congress and
the people of America by lying and cheating his way into war and more. Hon.
Mr. Kucinich provided 35 sound reasons to impeach. I bet if Congress is able
to obtain testimony from Rove, more will be added. ( assuming Congress
has the guts to have him arrested to appear )
Congress cannot let his crimes go unpunished because to do so sends a clear
message to future presidents that they can pretty much do what they will
because no one has the guts or integrity to stand up to them. America counts
on these checks and balances to keep us free. If Congress fails to hold a
rogue president accountable, it has lost its credibility and needs to be
voted out of office.
No one but Congress can hold Bush and Cheney accountable. If you refuse to
do so it is the same as condoning everything he has done and makes Congress
equally culpable for the disasters he is bringing to American.
He can't be allowed to leave, knowing he bested Congress in a war of wits.
What would that really say about the intellect of Congress !?
I invite you to view this poll online where 98% say impeach them both. True
it is a small sample so far but I would bet the bank this is the results
you would obtain in any similar poll.
Will you stand up to him or will you continue to bury your collective heads
in the sand? Are you going to continue to protect Bush or will you protect
the American people and our Constitution?
Paul Kruger
Interlachen Fl 32148
June 14, 2008
======/ Comments from Congress /=======
"When someone is elected president, they receive the greatest gift possible
from the American people, their trust. To violate that trust is to raise
questions about fitness for office. My constituents often remind me that
if anyone else in a position of authority - for example, a business executive,
a military officer or a professional educator - had acted as the evidence
indicates the president did, their career would be over. The rules under
which President Nixon would have been tried for impeachment had he not resigned
contain this statement: "The office of the president is such that it calls
for a higher level of conduct than the average citizen in the United States."
Hon. Lamar Smith (R-TX) ( voted for immunity )
…being a poor example isn't grounds for impeachment; undermining the
rule of law is.
Hon. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) ( voted for immunity )
I believe profoundly that the behavior of this president is unacceptable
because I agree with John Jay, one of our Founding Fathers, who said, "When
oaths cease to be sacred, our dearest and most valuable rights become insecure.
I submit that in the spirit of our Founding Fathers and John F. Kennedy,
that our first duty is to provide for the security of the fundamental rights
of Americans.
To properly perform that duty, we must vote to impeach the president. Thank
you."
Hon. Chris Cannon (R-UT) ( did not vote on subject of
immunity )
More to come...
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any part of the Constitution he chooses?
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