I'm so excited right now, I can hardly type!
As very few of you probably know, Dennis Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Vice-President Dick Cheney last month and they passed the House of Representatives. Yes, I typed that correctly. They passed the House of Representatives. Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not want to go immediately into debate, so the Articles of Impeachment moved into the House Judiciary Committee. The House Judiciary Committee is where hearings are to take place if the Chairman, John Conyers, decides to proceed.
Rep. Robert Wexler is a member of the House Judiciary Committee and he is calling for impeachment hearings to begin! But the Democratic leadership is still standing in the way. Robert Wexler and two other members of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Luis Gutierrez and Rep. Tammy Baldwin, have written an op-ed in support of starting hearings which can be found on the website Robert Wexler has set up to show public support for starting hearings. He also filmed a you-tube video that you can watch below.
In a blog post he wrote today for The Huffington Post, Wexler promised, "If we can get 50,000 or even more people to sign up in support of this effort I will report back to each and every Democratic colleague of mine the true power that exists behind this movement." I think we can easily get a million people to sign it by the end of the day.
Here's what you need to do:
1) Go to Wexler's website and sign the petition.
2) Check and see if your Congressional Representative is on the Committee (you only have one representative in the House. If you don't know who that is, go to the top right hand side of this blog, under the previous posts, and type your zip code into the "Contact Congress" box). If he or she is on the House Judiciary Committee, call them and write them emails until they agree to support starting hearings.
3) Call your mom, dad, brothers, sisters, friends, enemies, colleagues, old high school buddies, frat brothers, sorority sisters, cats, dogs - everyone you know - and tell them to sign this petition. Then get on the internet and spread the word as fast as you can type.
We can actually make a difference today, kids!
Ready... set... Go!
UPDATE: I just found out, via Raw Story, that Robert Wexler, Luis Gutierrez, and Tammy Baldwin submitted their op-ed to the largest news outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and Miami Herald and they were denied publication. Can you believe that? Three Congressman write a op-ed together on an issue as vital as impeachment of the Vice President and no one will publish it. Yet Bill Kristol as still has a column in Time Magazine that he used to help lie us into the Iraq occupation and he continues to use to lie us into war with Iran. And Karl Rove now has his own column in Newsweek. I wish it were unbelievable...
UPDATE II: More encouraging news! It looks like at least 9 out of the 23 Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee are already willing to move forward with hearings. As we already know, Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, and Luis Gutierrez want to move forward. In addition, five other members of the Judiciary Committee, Steve Cohen, Keith Ellison, Sheila Jackson Lee, Henry “Hank” Johnson, and Maxine Waters were co-sponsors of HR 333, the resolution to impeach Cheney that was introduced by Dennis Kucinich. Most encouraging is the ninth supporter, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers. As reported by The Nation, “There is no question that Conyers, who voted to keep open the impeachment debate on November 7, has been looking for a way to explore the charges against Cheney. The move by three of his key allies on the committee may provide the chairman with the opening he seeks, although it is likely he will need to hear from more committee members before making any kind of break with Pelosi”. Let’s keep those signatures coming and give John Conyers the back up that he needs...
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