Impeachment Resolution Gains Co-sponsor: Rep. Wexler

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Stalwart liberal Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) became the first member of Congress to co-sponsor Rep. Dennis Kucinich's resolution calling for President Bush's impeachment.

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Nick Ford

Good.

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13 votes

#1 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:11 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935420,"authorDomain":"walketim"}

TBone

How can Pelosi ignore this?

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9 votes

#1.1 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:48 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935561,"authorDomain":"cyregray"}

cyregray

How can Pelosi ignore this?

Easy, she's on the take.

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12 votes

#1.2 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:14 PM EDT

{"commentId":1936245,"authorDomain":"walketim"}

TBone

Ruling out impeachment without hearing the facts makes her equally culpable in my view. It's in her court but it would seem she's as guilty of war crimes as the shrub and dick and rummy and the rest of the traitorous bastards. FIrst woman speaker to be tried for treason?

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10 votes

#1.3 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:29 PM EDT

{"commentId":1937140,"authorDomain":"SepticSkeptic"}

SepticSkeptic

TBone, read the Constitution. It holds the definition of exactly one crime: Treason. She'd have to be holding tea parties to raise money for Al Qaeda. As much as I detest her politics, she's pretty smart. She knew imeachment was never going to happen anyway. Ruling out her support for it was an olive branch to the other side, convincing a lot of Republicans that she's not the shrill, unreasonable were@!$%# that she often comes off as. Gotta give her props for scoring brownie points with the opposition by "giving" them something meaningless.

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2 votes

#1.4 - Wed Jun 11, 2008 2:56 AM EDT

{"commentId":1938152,"authorDomain":"snowfallen"}

Snowflake-Seven

I was surprised when I came across it, and still do not know what to make of it, but their is a petition to remove Rep. Nancy Pelosi from the position of Speaker of the House.

It explains the mechanism by which this could be done. What surprised me the most is that it is not an impeachment or treason trial, it is more like demoting her back to regular Representative status and appointing someone else in her place.

It sounds pretty simple, I am sure it is anything but, and would cause a heck of a lot of chaos.

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5 votes

#1.5 - Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:35 AM EDT

{"commentId":1939465,"authorDomain":"walketim"}

TBone

Matt - extenuating circumstances. Accomplice. Conspiring to attack our own country. Call it what you want, I call it treason...

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3 votes

#1.6 - Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:59 PM EDT

{"commentId":1934371,"authorDomain":"jjp"}

JJP

I'll second that motion. Good.

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15 votes

#2 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 4:47 PM EDT

{"commentId":1934903,"authorDomain":"Wheel"}

Wheel

Wexler is heading the investigation into the Plame affair. He is intimately acquainted with Bush's crimes and attempts to conceal his crimes. I want the see both Bush and Cheney Impeached.

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19 votes

#3 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:14 PM EDT

{"commentId":1934925,"authorDomain":"snowfallen"}

Snowflake-Seven

But how aggressively will Rep. Wexler act?

He sends out great emails to supporters, and I am sure he has seen somewhat of an uptick in campaign contributions, but he has not be very successful to persuade his peers in the House, nor has he effected much change in the Judiciary committee.

I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but I am frustrated.

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8 votes

#3.1 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:18 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935468,"authorDomain":"electricblanket"}

electricblanket

I'm pretty sure that the efforts are for not---seems pretty likely Pelosi made a back-room deal with Bush to get impeachment off the table some months ago...

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6 votes

#3.2 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:56 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935061,"authorDomain":"sevenup628"}

Puerto Rico's Caribbean Star

GET THEM ALL OUT AND REVOKE THEIR RETIREMENT FOR A DISGRACEFUL JOB!!!!

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10 votes

#4 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:44 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935112,"authorDomain":"snowfallen"}

Snowflake-Seven

Now that the all-caps yelling is out of the way. Would you mind sharing who it is you want out? There a few different groups of people involved here (the Republican party, The Democratic party, theBush/Cheney administration, Rep. Wexler, Rep. Kucinich, etc.). Who exactly are you talking about?

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3 votes

#4.1 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:51 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935177,"authorDomain":"sevenup628"}

Puerto Rico's Caribbean Star

BUSH AND CHENEY, GET THEM OUT, THEY CAUSE ENOUGH TROUBLE!!!! OH BY THE WAY, HELLO "SNOWFLAKE-SEVEN"!!!!!

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10 votes

#4.2 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:04 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935111,"authorDomain":"sevenup628"}

Puerto Rico's Caribbean Star

If the Investigating Committee has the GUTS to do what they are suppose to do, MAYBE WE WILL SEE SOME BETTER RESULTS INSTEAD OF INCREASE GAS PRICES, BAD FOOD, NO ECONOMICAL SUPPORT, NO GOVERNMENTAL EMERGENCY RESPONSE, NO VETERAN BENEFITS-JUST A WAR ASSET REPRESENTATIVE, NO HEALTH PROGRAM, NO IMPROVEMENT TO INFRASTRUCTURE, UNSECURED BORDERS (EVEN ALIENATED COCKROACHES ARE COMING ACROSS), NO FOSSIL FUEL AND ENERGY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM,,,,, JUST THE SO CALL WMD-WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION THAT BUSH KEEPS REITERATING AND ASKING FOR MORE MONEY!!!!!! Get rid of the ignorant non-caring what ever his name is, starts with a B.......

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5 votes

#5 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:51 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935258,"authorDomain":"cyberbum"}

one pissed off human being

As long as the MSM continues to marginalize Mr. Kucinich (by orders of their Corporate Handlers), the People of this great country will continue to believe the same lies and smear tactics used against him in the Primary process.

Name calling, belittling the man's physical stature and looks, all part of the plan to ensure no one listens to the man with the method, means and fortitude to turn this country around.

McSame and Obama are nothing more than pre-approved (by the corporation) candidates who will do nothing to help the citizenry of this nation as long as their master holds the leash.

Vote for either of them, if you can stomach it, and you are doing the Corporate Masters bidding also.

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7 votes

#6 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:19 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935414,"authorDomain":"walketim"}

TBone

Will someone please craft a good letter to Ms. Pelosi I can email her?

http://speaker.house.gov/contact/

Thanks.

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5 votes

#7 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:47 PM EDT

{"commentId":1935572,"authorDomain":"cyregray"}

cyregray

You'd have much more affect emailing your senators and representatives asking them to endorse, cosponsor and support the move to impeach.

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7 votes

#7.1 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:16 PM EDT

{"commentId":1936254,"authorDomain":"walketim"}

TBone

I just want to ask her why she's reached a conclusion without allowing the facts. I want to ask her why she let down her country. I want to ask her if it was her intent to drive the last remnants of the democratic party into a pile of horse@!$%# behind the Crawford spread.

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4 votes

#7.2 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:32 PM EDT

{"commentId":1936219,"authorDomain":"Billman"}

Billman

Interesting that this is getting news coverage. Kucinich sponsored something similar concerning Dick Cheney in April of last year and I never heard word one about it. (of course I was in Iraq at the time, "fighting for freedom" (sarcasm btw).

Here is a link that I found very interesting concerning House Resolution 333 introduced last year.

http://kucinich.house.gov/SpotlightIssues/documents.htm

Let's hope that the people of the US will respond to this wake up call and take a good look at the desecration of the Constitution that has been leading us away from a free democratic society and toward tyranny.

My 2 scents

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6 votes

#8 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:25 PM EDT

{"commentId":1936275,"authorDomain":"snowfallen"}

Snowflake-Seven

Thanks for your two cents, Billman.

H.Res. 333 and H.Res. 799 where both covered in the media. H.Res. 333 was actually covered in the mainstream press more than the current resolution in its first 24-hours.

Unfortunately, in both cases, the Democratic Party broadly and Speaker Nancy Pelosi specifically have "shelved" the resolutions at every opportunity.

If you would like to read more about these resolutions, I would refer you to the Newsvine Impeachment group were many seeds from various news sources have been collected since 2006.

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6 votes

#8.1 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:35 PM EDT

{"commentId":1936321,"authorDomain":"nihilozero"}

NihiloZero

I, for one, will not let this issue doe or the topic get out of the news. I will encourage others to impeach Bush until his last day in office. Call your congressman, talk to you friends, call in to talk radio. IMPEACH BUSH!!!

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4 votes

#9 - Tue Jun 10, 2008 10:49 PM EDT

{"commentId":1937358,"authorDomain":"SepticSkeptic"}

SepticSkeptic

I'd bet my retirement savings that this doesn't go anywhere. But it'll give the Bush-bashing crowd something to talk about for a while, so at least it's good for something.

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#10 - Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:27 AM EDT

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