The weakest links are running the asylum

November 13th, 2007

Aren’t you tired of all the pussyfooting around? Of hearing “careful rhetoric?” And that’s from the party we call our own — now we’ve got us a candidates race where the only plain talk from the top-tier is coming from Edwards, running third and hampered by his finances; the Big Money went to those who fall in line with the status quo. Biden [whom Musharraf and Bhutto BOTH contacted prior to informing the President of the United States that there was a crisis] and Dodd [who is the candidate speaking loudest for the restoration of the Constitution] can only be heard through the dense fog from time to time — voices like Kucinich and Gravel, truth speakers both, are marginalized as jokes.

And in the Congress, the San Francisco contingent [Pelosi and Feinstein] combine with those like Clueless Joe Lieberman to make the Blue party as ducky to the Bush administration as a Rush Limbaugh telethon. Joe has been embraced as a possible Red-party VP candidate … perhaps they could counter the Hillary-as-goddess energy with DiFi as VP. If they’ll take cross-dressing, pro-choice, womanizing Rudy as their hero of moment … acceptable to even bat-shit crazy Pat Robertson … what difference to add a pro-war, big money faux-Liberal like DiFi to sweeten the pot?

What the hell does it mean when we stand quietly, watching the Congress bob and weave around the actual opportunities to do something? How is it possible that in this day and age, after all the blood and bile that’s been slopped across the face of the Constitution, the Republicans can feel confident that pushing for Kucinich’s Cheney impeachment bill will wound the Dem’s down to their toes? With his numbers so off the charts they’re no longer reported, and a Vast Majority of Americans thinking that Darth is really Uncle Dick’s first name … it would be an error to EXAMINE THAT? In what Universe”?

Cuckoo’s Nest, that’s where we are now, for sure — and Diane Feinstein is happy playing Nurse Ratchet, her guts and glory days well behind her. Are the brave ones — Kennedy, Edwards, Feingold, Kucinich, Dodd and a handful of others — due a labotomy? And will only a few of us break through the window and escape into the night, like the Chief?

Or … is there an insurrection in our future?

Note: all the links above are well worth opening, today.

Jude

Dianne Feinstein — Bush’s key ally in the Senate — to support telecom amnesty
Glenn Greenwald, Salon
Saturday, 11/10

(updated below)

Two months ago, Dianne Feinstein used her position on the Senate Intelligence Committee to enable passage of Bush’s FISA amendments, granting the President vast new warrantless surveillance powers.

Last month, Feinstein used her position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to ensure confirmation of Bush’s highly controversial judicial nominee Leslie Southwick, by being the only Committee Democrat to vote for the nomination (The Politico: “Sen. Dianne Feinstein had emerged as a linchpin in the controversial nomination”).

This week, Feinstein used her position on the Senate Judiciary Committee to enable confirmation of Bush’s Attorney General nominee by ensuring that the frightened Chuck Schumer didn’t have to stand alone (Fox News: “Schumer’s and Feinstein’s support for Mukasey virtually guarantees that a majority of the committee will recommend his confirmation”).

And now, Feinstein is using her position on the Senate Judiciary Committee and Senate Intelligence Committee — simultaneously — to single-handedly ensure fulfillment of Bush’s telecom amnesty demands, as her hometown newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, reports:

Feinstein backs legal immunity for telecom firms in wiretap cases

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Thursday that she favors legal immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly shared millions of customers’ telephone and e-mail messages and records with the government, a position that could lead to the dismissal of numerous lawsuits pending in San Francisco.

In a statement at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering legislation to extend the Bush administration’s electronic surveillance program, Feinstein said the companies should not be “held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about administration activities” . . .

Feinstein, D-Calif., plays a pivotal role on the Judiciary Committee, which has a 10-9 Democratic majority. If she joins committee Republicans in voting next Thursday to protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits for their roles in the surveillance program, the proposal — a top priority of President Bush — will become part of legislation that reaches the Senate floor.

There is nothing worth critiquing in what Feinstein specifically said, since she just recited the administration’s standard pro-amnesty talking points, leading with its most deceitful ones. As but one example, Feinstein — echoing John Aschroft’s NYT Op-Ed from this week — said in her statement that “suits are unfair to the companies, which are ‘unable to defend themselves in court’ because the government has insisted that their activities be kept secret.” That is just false. As the Chronicle reported:

“…federal law allows such defendants to present secret evidence in private to the judge, a practice [EFF's Cindy Cohn] said has been carried out for decades without any leaks.”

Oddly (or not), the Chronicle article quotes Feinstein as saying that telecoms “should not be ‘held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about administration activities’” — the same exact phrase, verbatim, featured in Fred Hiatt’s Editorial two weeks ago urging telecom amnesty (Hiatt: “we do not believe that these companies should be held hostage to costly litigation in what is essentially a complaint about administration activities”).

I wrote about Feinstein at length a month ago here, including all the ways her administration-coddling and courting of intelligence officials benefits her defense-contractor-husband. But still, this recent behavior is really amazing.

Feinstein is not merely voting reliably for the most extremist Bush policies, though she is doing that. Far more than that, she has become, time and again, the linchpin of Bush’s ability to have his most radical policies approved by the Senate.

Could the universe be any larger between what Feinstein’s constituents want and what she is doing in the Senate? Here are the latest views of California voters of the President to whose agenda Feinstein is displaying such ferocious fidelity:

Do you approve or disapprove of the job George W. Bush is doing as President?

Approve — 28%

Disapprove — 70%

Among California Democrats, a grand total of 9% approve of Feinstein’s beloved President; 90% disapprove. Obviously, nothing could be less relevant to Feinstein than the views of her constituents, but still, the disparity between what they believe and what she is doing is just striking, even for the Beltway.

Let us close with the very emotional and undeniably moving scene that took place after Feinstein stood up for Bush’s judicial nominee, Leslie Southwick of Mississippi:

She even showed up at the press conference, where Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) asked her to speak before the Mississippi senators who lined up the votes for Southwick.

“This may be out of precedent,” Specter said, “but if I may, with the concurrence of the home-state senators, yield to the hero — the lady — of the day, Sen. Feinstein.”

“I don’t know about this heroine business,” Feinstein demurred.

Moments later, Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) got choked up talking about her.

“She took a tough stand and showed a lot of courage,” Lott said, tears collecting in his eyes and his voice quivering. “It is emotional for me because this is a good man, and he will make a great judge on behalf of my state, which I feel has been maligned in this and other instances.”

He later accepted a congratulatory call from President Bush.

Fred Hiatt concurs wholeheartedly: “It is reassuring when not one but two lawmakers show the moral fortitude to defy party politics to take a stand on principle. Democratic Sens. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.) and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) showed such courage Friday when they announced their support for attorney-general nominee Michael B. Mukasey.”

Dianne Feinstein may be betraying the overwhelming majority of her constituents. But as a result of her “heroic” work in the Senate, her husband sure is getting richer. And she is beloved — just beloved — by Arlen Specter, Trent Lott, Fred Hiatt and George W. Bush. And in Beltway World, that is far, far more important.

UPDATE: Feinstein herself spent inordinate sums of money from corporate donors in 2006 to ensure she was re-elected, so she is not up for re-election until 2012 (when she’ll be 80). Hopefully, though, the ethics process relating to her highly questionable behavior in directing multi-billion-dollar defense contracts to her husband’s companies will proceed in earnest.

While Feinstein is not up for re-election, there are many Bush-enabling Democrats who are. And as this rather good Washington Post article this morning details, liberal blogs are doing what is, in my view, the most important thing they can be doing — targeting for defeat those incumbent Democrats who deserve it by supporting and funding primary challengers.

The article details the highly successful campaign by bloggers such as Jane Hamsher, Matt Stoller, Duncan Black, Digby and others to counteract fundraising efforts by Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic establishment for any Democratic incumbents — including those who continuously support the Bush agenda — by raising equal amounts (and, in many cases, more) for the primary challengers. The article documents how bloggers raised more than $100,000 over the last week for Donna Edwards, the primary challenger to the pro-war, pro-Bush Democratic Rep. Al Wynn (and you can aid their effort by donating to Edwards here). That is exactly what is needed — incumbent Democrats knowing that they will be targeted and will face credible primary challenges for following in Joe Lieberman and Dianne Feinstein’s Bush-enabling footsteps.

Feinstein Faces Dem Censure After Backing Mukasey
Max Follmer, HuffPo
November 12, 2007

One day after voting to elevate a divisive conservative judge to the federal appeals court in New Orleans, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein was the president’s guest aboard Air Force One. She had been invited to survey the damage from the recent spate of Southern California wildfires.

The senator later remarked privately that she found her conversation with Bush aboard Air Force One “illuminating,” a source close to Feinstein told the Huffington Post.

Two weeks later, Feinstein was one of two Democrats on the Senate judiciary committee to vote to send Michael Mukasey’s nomination to be the new attorney general to the full Senate. Her support helped turn the tide in favor of a nomination that faced an uncertain future after Mukasey refused to say whether waterboarding was torture.

When the full Senate voted, Feinstein was one of only six Democrats to vote in favor of confirming Mukasey.

Now, a coalition of progressive Democrats upset with Feinstein’s controversial votes will ask the California Democratic Party to censure her at its executive board meeting this weekend, the Huffington Post has learned.

The move comes as Feinstein again finds herself under fire for saying Thursday that she now supports granting legal immunity to telecom companies that shared customer email and phone messages with the federal government as part of the warrantless surveillance program.

“Dianne Feinstein does not listen to the people of California,” said Rick Jacobs, president of the Courage Campaign, a progressive organization in California. “She supports George Bush’s agenda time after time.”

Feinstein’s office did not respond to messages seeking comment.

East Bay For Democracy, a chartered Democratic Club outside San Francisco, will introduce the censure motion on Saturday at the state party’s executive board meeting in Anaheim. The Governing Board of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party and the Progressive Democrats of America are also backing the measure.

In addition to her move to back Mukasey, critics have lashed out at her decision last month to vote to confirm Judge Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Southwick’s opponents charged that his record on the bench in Mississippi demonstrated that he was both racist and homophobic. The Congressional Black Caucus, Human Rights Campaign and People for the American Way opposed his nomination.

The censure resolution faces an uphill battle. In order to be considered by the full executive board, it must first make it through the party’s resolutions committee, which must approve the text unanimously.

The text of the resolution is below:

Whereas Senator Dianne Feinstein voted to support the nomination of Judge Michael Mukasey as United States Attorney General, thereby elevating to the highest position in law enforcement a man who refused to renounce the right of the President to resort to torture and who refused to recognize waterboarding as a form of torture, and by this action Senator Feinstein failed to oppose President Bush and failed to stand for the ideals of the Democratic Party, which abhors torture and stands firmly against its use by the United States at all times and places; and

Whereas Senator Feinstein voted to confirm Judge Leslie Southwick for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit despite his clear record of racism and gender discrimination, thus failing to stand firmly with the Democratic Party, which supports gender equality and opposes racism in any of its manifestations; and

Whereas these examples are far from the only instances where Senator Feinstein, after seeking and securing the support and endorsement of the California Democratic Party, has failed to support the policies and principles of our party

Therefore be it resolved that the California Democratic Party expresses its disappointment at, and censure of, Senator Feinstein for ignoring Democratic principles and falling so far below the standard of what we expect of our elected officials.

PELOSI, FEINSTEIN BETRAYING DEMS
Bill Gallagher, Niagra Falls Reporter
November 13

DETROIT — The “San Francisco Democrats” are the handmaidens for President George W. Bush: feckless, short-sighted and cynical. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., both wealthy San Franciscans, are leading voices in the congressional chorus that chooses convenience over principle and perceived political advantage over certain political truth.

Pelosi wants no talk of impeachment for Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other war criminals. She has done nothing to block funding for the war in Iraq, the only way to end the occupation, save Iraqi and American lives and let the Iraqi people determine their own destiny.

Feinstein made sure we now have as our nation’s chief law enforcement officer a man who refuses to condemn drowning torture and believes the president has unlimited authority and need not respect the laws of the land.

The late Jeane Kirkpatrick — once a faux Democrat and belligerent bully who went on to be Ronald Reagan’s ambassador to the United Nations — first coined the “San Francisco Democrat” appellation in 1984. That year the Democrats held their convention in San Francisco and nominated former vice president Walter Mondale for president. Kirkpatrick gave the keynote address at the GOP convention in Dallas. The scorching heat outside rivaled the oppressive rhetoric inside the Reunion Arena, a miserable event I had to endure.

That was the year the Republican Party re-coronated Ronald Reagan and plunged deeper into the abyss of intolerance. Rev. Jerry Falwell rode a bull at a barbecue as the party faithful bowed to him and Christian fundamentalism became the Republican state religion.

Young George W. Bush was there for his daddy’s renomination for vice president, spending most of his time in Dallas bars sucking up Jack Daniels and acting like a first-class flippant jerk. Billy Graham and Jesus may have helped wean Dubya from the hooch, but otherwise little in him has changed.

Kirkpatrick, the godmother of the neoconservative movement, blasted the San Francisco Democrats for being weak in opposing the Soviet Union and claimed “they always blame America first.”

The combative Kirkpatrick was also slurring San Francisco’s large gay population, to the delight of Falwell and the frothy-mouthed haters then seizing the Republican Party.

Kirkpatrick went on to support selling arms to Iran and using the proceeds to illegally fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. She embraced the right-wing dictatorship in El Salvador that slaughtered tens of thousands, including Archbishop Oscar Romero.

Kirkpatrick argued it was in America’s interests to support “authoritarian” dictatorships in Argentina, Chile and South Africa. She saw the U.S. invasion of Grenada as a great triumph.

In the Middle East, Kirkpatrick endorsed anything the Israelis wanted to do and advocated the disastrous deployment of U.S. Marines to Lebanon. Her crowning glory was providing weapons and support for a band of insurgents in Afghanistan, especially a rich young man named Osama bin Laden and the band of brothers he called al-Qaeda.

That’s one hell of a foreign policy resume, but as we’ll see, Jujitsu Jeane finally saw the light and learned — unlike her neocon progeny — that America the omnipotent can fail and foster violence.

As wrong as Kirkpatrick was, she was forthright and bold — traits not found in our new San Francisco Democrats. Pelosi and Feinstein see themselves as finesse politicians, tip-toeing through the crunch issues, thinking they are so clever as Bush tramples on their flowerbed of phoniness nourished by the manure of Democratic consultants.

From the time she took over as House speaker, Pelosi has insisted impeachment would not be on the table. Even as evidence of wholesale criminality and assaults on the Constitution grew, Pelosi wouldn’t hear any talk about doing what is required to hold the crooks accountable.

But Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, a presidential hopeful, had the guts to buck the Democratic leadership and pressed to get his bill to impeach Cheney to the floor. Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny “The Hack” Hoyer, D-Md., were furious.

Kucinich forced a vote of the full House, as Pelosi and Hoyer thought they could have the resolution quickly tabled and buried. But their gutless move failed when Republicans, intent on embarrassing the shameless Democratic leadership, joined Kucinich and his supporters in opposing the tabling motion.

Caught flat-footed, the hapless Pelosi then got enough support to send the impeachment resolution to the House Judiciary Committee. She hopes her ridiculous “impeachment is off the table” stance will prevail, but numbskull Nancy may get another surprise, and committee chair Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., may yet hold hearings on Cheney’s serial crimes and impeachable offenses.

Pelosi demonstrably is out of stride with the American people, and especially Democrats, in protecting the Busheviks from the heat of the impeachments they richly deserve. The latest USA Today/Gallup survey shows Bush’s approval rating is 31 percent, with 50 percent saying they “strongly disapprove” of the president, an all-time high.

Bush has finally unseated Richard Nixon as the most unpopular president in the history of the poll. Even though Bush’s crimes are far more serious and have done more harm than Nixon’s, Pelosi insists on sparing him from the constitutionally prescribed remedy.

Politics be damned! More importantly, it is a matter of justice and principle. Bush and Cheney deserve the stain of impeachment as a message to their successors that such egregious behavior and disregard for the Constitution, treaties and statutes will not be tolerated. To do otherwise — as Pelosi wants — sends the opposite message.

Over in the Senate, the other San Francisco Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, feigned noble purpose as she wallowed in depravity, helping to grease the skids for Michael Mukasey to win confirmation as attorney general.

Feinstein joined with her pal on the Senate Judiciary Committee, the loathsome grandstander Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., as the only two Democrats on the panel to recommend Mukasey to the full Senate, thus assuring his confirmation.

Schumer helped orchestrate Mukasey’s nomination, and even when this “distinguished jurist” refused to condemn water-boarding as the torture it clearly is, Schumer was going to stick with him because he made his deal with the devil — Bush.

Feinstein then proceeded to give some cover for Schumer so he wouldn’t have to stand alone. During the Senate debate last Thursday night, Feinstein made one of the most nauseating, illogical and unprincipled speeches I have ever heard.

“Judge Mukasey is not Alberto Gonzales,” Feinstein assured us. Oh, I get it. Mukasey is not a smiling, lying son of a bitch, and so we should embrace him because he is not the most corrupt attorney general we have ever had.

And if you don’t buy that crap, try this from Feinstein’s book of low expectations: We could do worse.

“I believe Judge Mukasey is the best nominee we are going to get from this administration,” Feinstein argued, “and that voting him down would only perpetuate acting and recess appointments, allowing the White House to avoid the transparency that confirmation hearings provide and to diminish effective oversight by Congress.”

Mukasey refuses to condemn water-boarding, because he knows that would leave Bush, Cheney and their henchmen wide open to civil suits and criminal prosecutions. He chose to protect the torturers and patrons, and Feinstein and Schumer made that possible.

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., a man who understands principle and decency, voted against Mukasey on the Judiciary Committee and with the full Senate. He sees Mukasey as an enabler of those who threaten the rule of law.

“Democrats can no longer be part of the savaging of the U.S. Constitution.” Feingold told a crowd in Madison before the vote on the nominee. The Senate’s most ardent defender of basic liberties would not compromise and demanded an attorney general who “must be able to stand up to a chief executive who thinks he is above the law.”

Feingold wanted an attorney general “who will tell the president that he cannot ignore laws passed by Congress. Unfortunately, Judge Mukasey was unwilling to reject the extreme and dangerous theories of executive power that this administration has put forward.”

Don’t expect such admirable standards from the San Francisco Democrats. They’re too busy dancing, dodging, waffling and triangulating to get bogged down with principled positions.

The party leaders are lagging far behind the people, especially on the war in Iraq. According to a CNN/Opinion Research poll, a record 68 percent of Americans now oppose the war. Already 2007 is the deadliest year for U.S. troops since the war began, with at least 852 American military personnel killed. But, stubbornly trying to avoid the slur of “not supporting the troops,” the San Francisco Democrats keep funding the futile war. Even Jeane Kirkpatrick, who initially supported the war, came to her senses in her dying days.

In her last book — “Making War to Keep Peace,” published after her death — Kirkpatrick recognized what was happening: “Unfortunately, what we face in Iraq today is a vacuum of power, a lack of stable institutions needed to govern and the problem that the promise of democracy for which our nation stands may be lost in the essential scramble for safety and stability in the streets.”

Kirkpatrick slammed the Bush war-planners who “did not seem to have methodically completed the due diligence required for reasoned policy-making because they failed to address the aftermath of the invasion.”

This new generation of San Francisco Democrats could learn from Kirkpatrick’s crisp candor. Wake up, shrug off careful calculations and stand for something.

The Courage of Kucinich in Pelosi’s House of Wacks
Linda Milazzo, Smirking Chimp
Nov 12 2007

Was it retaliation by the the Democratic Leadership that exempted Dennis Kucinich from appearing with fellow Presidential candidates at Friday’s Jefferson Jackson Day fundraiser in Iowa?

Was it Speaker Pelosi’s vindictive payback to Kucinich for his impudent dismissal of her “impeachment is off the table” dictum that kept Kucinich out of the Jefferson Jackson Day party? After all, hadn’t Kucinich introduced HR 333 on the House Floor just that week, calling for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney, in defiance of the prescripted cowardice in Pelosi’s House of Wacks?
(http://kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/int2.pdf)

Until that moment when Congressman Kucinich introduced impeachment resolution HR 333 on to the House Floor, members of Pelosi’s Democratic majority had fallen spinelessly in line, kowtowing to Pelosi’s disavowal of Article I Section 2 of the Constitution, which grants the House the authority to impeach. (http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h231.html).

Speaker Pelosi’s wanton subversion of the Constitution, which has subjected this nation and the world to the continued atrocities of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, will be far more relevant in the annals of history than her singular honor as the nation’s first woman Speaker of the House. Pelosi’s legacy (thus far), as the most powerful woman in the history of this land, has been shamefully tarnished by catastrophic failures in leadership and courage - predicated principally on her refusal to hold President Bush and Vice President Cheney accountable for their crimes.

On the heels of September 11, 2001, George W. Bush squandered his chance to capitalize on the support of the world by not taking the appropriate multilateral actions against the rogues who’d assaulted our nation from without.

On the heels of January 4, 2007, after becoming Speaker, Nancy Pelosi squandered her chance to capitalize on the support of the world by not taking the appropriate multilateral actions against the rogues who’d assaulted our nation from within - namely George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Pelosi’s failure to form the necessary coalitions to pursue Bush and Cheney for their crimes against America is as damaging as George Bush’s failure to form the necessary coalitions to pursue Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri for theirs. As Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri plot further assaults from without against America, Bush and Cheney plot further assaults from within. Some may argue the difference between the two-evil-duos is that Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri knowingly harmed America, while Bush and Cheney’s harm is unwitting. Unwitting or not, Bush and Cheney have done more long-term damage to the safety and stability of America than Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri had ever hoped to achieve.

It’s this failure on the part of Pelosi to use her authority to thwart Bush and Cheney that has incensed Democrats, and growing numbers of Republicans, all across this land. It’s Pelosi’s suppression of the members of her House, and their willingness to be suppressed, that has incensed Americans all across this land. Sadly, to the lawmakers ensconced inside the Washington bubble, the intensity of Americans’ anger is likely not known - which makes the need to intensify the levels of activism, including outreach to their offices, that much more necessary. Constant contact is critical to make them understand.

If only both Houses of Wacks would empty in 2008 - to follow the Great White. If only we could replenish them all with real leaders.

During the dozen years the Republicans held the majorities in the U.S. Senate and House, there was ample sympathy from the frustrated constituents of the long suffering Democratic minority. It was believed, and certainly hoped, that if given control, the Democrats would summon the courage and moral authority to end the war and reinstate America’s Constitutional principles and respectability in the world. Now, a full year has passed since November of 2006 and nothing of the sort has happened. In retrospect, it was sheer whimsy.

Instead, over the past year, Congress members, under the leadership of the well-mannered, genteel Speaker Pelosi, and Senators, under the leadership of the well-mannered, genteel Senator Reid, are fodder for brawling Republicans. Instead of backbone, Democrats govern by courtesy. How does one quantify how many American lives have been lost in Iraq due to courtesy? Or how many limbs have been lost? Or how many Iraqis have been murdered, maimed and displaced? How many Iraqi children have been orphaned? How many emergency rooms in America would still be open? How many Americans would have health care? How many homes would be rebuilt in New Orleans? How many fire-fighting planes would have flown over California? How many? How many? We will never know.

In different times - less urgent times - there is much to be said for courtesy. BUT THESE ARE NOT THOSE TIMES!!!

Then there is Dennis Kucinich - the diminutive giant in the House of Representatives. The American Congressman from the 10th District of Ohio who refuses to be silenced.

The Democratic candidate for President who passionately upholds his oath to protect the people and Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies both foreign and domestic. Not as an oral exercise when sworn into office - but as a moral exercise every day in office.

For Dennis Kucinich, NOTHING and NO ONE will suppress his allegiance to his country and to his abiding principle of “strength through peace.”

So when Speaker Pelosi tells the cowards in her House that “impeachment is off the table” because the fight to impeach is too hard, Kucinich doesn’t believe her. No one ever told him being a Congressman would be easy. No one ever told him maintaining democracy was a cinch. When the President and Vice President commit acts as egregious as lying the nation into illegal war, illegally surveilling their own citizens, endorsing and allowing torture, AND MORE, the strong don’t stay quiet. It’s the weak, like Pelosi, Hoyer, Emanuel, Clyburne, Boehner, Murtha, Blunt, and over 400 others in Pelosi’s House of Wacks - Democrats and Republicans alike - who do. As do Reid, Durbin, Lott, McConnell, Feinstein and around 93 more in the Senate House of Wacks - absent Boxer and Feingold who have earned our respect.

At the October 31st Democratic candidates’ debate in Philadelphia, NBC’s Tim Russert tried to discredit Dennis Kucinich by questioning him about a UFO. Kucinich, accustomed to being blind-sided by agenda-minded practitioners like Russert, fielded the question with resilience and cool.

Working in tandem, the networks and Democratic Leadership were trying to force Kucinich out of the running. It’s amazing how much pressure the honest must endure, while the compliant seem to get a free ride.

At Friday’s Jefferson Jackson Day Democratic fundraiser in De Moines, Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel weren’t invited. Gravel, in all likelihood, was persona non grata to the Democratic Leadership for challenging his “fellows” on their lies, deceits and inadequacies. Gravel never seemed to “get” that his “fellows” CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!

Iowa Democrats, when challenged on Kucinich and Gravel’s absence from the Jefferson Jackson Day event, stated that Kucinich and Gravel were ineligible to attend because they didn’t have an office or staff in Iowa.
(http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/10/outside-the-jefferson-jackson-day-dinner/)

Point of fact, Kucinich had garnered more than enough popularity amongst Democrats to warrant his inclusion. He’s been polling quite high over the past two months, often running 4th in the field of eight. (http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/28227)

For those who understand the politics of Pelosi’s House of Wacks, it’s clear Kucinich’s dismissal of her no impeachment bray, ensured his own dismissal from her Jefferson Jackson Day. Particularly since, Pelosi, herself, was emcee.

As of now, Kucinich’s House Resolution 333 to impeach Vice President Cheney has been sent to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by former progressive hero, John Conyers. Hopefully, Congressman Conyers will be the fortunate recipient of COUNTLESS letters, phone calls, faxes and emails asking him to give HR 333 SERIOUS consideration when it comes to his committee. He can change the House of Wacks to a House of Facts - and restore his nation to sanity.

Et tu John Conyers? Will you remain silent, as you have, since winning re-election on November 7, 2006? Or will you remember Article I Section 2 of the Constitution and the oath you swore to uphold it?

Support Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s House Resolution 333 to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.

Contact Congressman Conyers at:

Email:
John.Conyers@mail.house.gov
IN WASHINGTON, DC:
2426 Rayburn Building, Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5126
Fax: (202) 225-0072

IN MICHIGAN:
2615 West Jefferson, Trenton, MI 48183
Phone: (734) 675-4084
Fax: (734) 675-4218

IN MICHIGAN:
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Phone: (313) 961-5670
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