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30 US Reps for Bush Impeachment Inquiry
Atlanta Progressive News ^
| 3/10/06
| Matthew Cardinale
Posted on 03/12/2006 2:36:34 PM PST by Blackirish
APN) ATLANTA 30 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bushs impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
There has been massive support for House Resolution 635 from a very vigorous network of grassroots activists and people committed to holding the Bush Administration accountable for its widespread abuses of power, US Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said in a statement prepared for Atlanta Progressive News.
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) also released a book, Articles of Impeachment Against President Bush. The Center is extremely influential in high-profile court fights over issues such as wiretapping, the treatment of detainees by the US, and felon voting rights.
We have the book, we are calling for the impeachment of the President, and were supporting Conyerss resolution, Bill Goodman, CCR Legal Director, told Atlanta Progressive News.
The fraudulent basis on which the President got us into the war in Iraq; the obvious criminality of the warrantless wiretapping; indefinite detention in violation of the Constitution; torture as a part of indefinite detention and other ways; special rendition and torture, which is the outsourcing of torture... All of these violate various laws of the US, and they also violate his oath office which he swears to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, and hes doing just the opposite, hes undermining the Constitution and attempting to destroy certain parts of it, Goodman said.
Meanwhile, at least eight (8) US cities, including Arcata, Santa Cruz, and San Francisco, each in California; and Brookfield, Dummerston, Marlboro, Newfane, and Putney, each in Vermont, have passed resolutions calling for Bushs impeachment.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 109th; cbc; conyers; impeachment; sillydems
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To: Verginius Rufus
Yes it will paralyze the administration. ...But it would be a public relations disaster guaranteeing a win for the GOP.
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posted on
03/12/2006 7:22:29 PM PST
by
Blackirish
(What kind of name is Plame anyway?)
To: harpu
How about FACTS a$$hole...that's what's necessary to impeach a president.Sorry to have tripped your trigger and have you resort to profanity. It does not bade well for you prevailing in the discussion. Congress determines what is an impeachable offense, factual or otherwise. high Crimes and misdemeanors are actually broader than many think.
http://www.c-span.org/questions/week119.htm
"High crimes and misdemeanors" entered the text of the Constitution due to George Mason and James Madison. Mason had argued that the reasons given for impeachment -- treason and bribery -- were not enough. He worried that other "great and dangerous offenses" might not be covered, and suggested adding the word "maladministration." Madison argued that term was too vague, so Mason then proposed "high crimes and misdemeanors," a phrase well-known in English common law. In 18th century language, a "misdemeanor" meant "mis-demeanor,"or bad behavior (neglect of duty and corruption were given as examples), while "high crimes" was roughly equivalent to "great offenses."
Lawyers and historians are still arguing about the exact meaning of "high crimes and misdemeanors," dividing into three schools of thought about the appropriate definition: (1) serious criminality evidenced by breaking existing law; (2) an abuse of office, and (3) the Alexander Hamilton standard (Federalist 65) of "violation of public trust."
To: freema
- Talking about White House draperies...
- Designs on designs...
- Although a reliable source had previously warned me about the wife's designs on the people's designs -- she had apparently acquired the nasty habit of pilfering from the White House drapery fund -- when I created the following metaphoric musing a year before the clintons "moved," I never imagined that she would -- that they would -- in real life -- in real time -- actually swipe the sofa.
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- Smaller objects neatly tuck-able in nuncupative deals & unnumbered Swiss accounts, without question...
BUT THE SOFA??
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- Jan. 1, 2000
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- hillary's "interior" design scheme
- (an animated how-to)
- by Mia T
copyright Mia T 2000 |
- The White House Booty
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- Letters .. thanked Lee and Joy Ficks for their 1993 donation of a kitchen set to the White House. Joy Ficks said she was surprised to hear the Clintons are keeping the kitchen set as a personal gift.
White House Gifts List |
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- $19,900 two sofas, an easy chair and an ottoman from Steve Mittman,
- New York.
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- $3,650 kitchen table and four chairs from Lee Ficks, Cincinnati.
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- $2,843 sofa from Brad Noe, High Point, N.C.
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- $1,170 lamps from Stuart Schiller, Hialeah, Fla.
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- $1,000 needlepoint rug from David Martinous, Little Rock.
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- Following are gifts the Clintons received in 2000 and are paying for:
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- $9,433 china cabinet, chandelier and a copy of President Lincoln's
- Cooper Union speech from Walter and Selma Kaye, New York.
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- $7,375 two coffee tables and two chairs from Denise Rich, New York.
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- $7,000 dining room table, server and golf club from Mr. and Mrs. Ron
- Dozoretz, Washington.
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- $6,282 two carpets from Glen Eden Carpets, Calhoun, Ga.
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- $5,000 rug from Martin Patrick Evans, Chicago.
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- $5,000 china from Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brandt, Winnetka, Ill.
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- $4,994 flatware from Ghada Irani, Los Angeles.
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- $4,992 china from Iris Cantor, New York.
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- $4,967 flatware, Edith Wasserman, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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- $4,967 flatware, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Pynoos, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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- $4,787 china from Mary Steenburgen and Ted Danson, Los Angeles.
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- $4,920 china from Mr. and Mrs. Steven Spielberg, Universal City,
- Calif.
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- $3,000 painting from Joan Tumpson, Miami.
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- $2,993 televisions and DVD player from Paul Goldenberg, La Habra,
- Calif.
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- $2,400 dining room chairs from Arthur Athis, Los Angeles.
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- $2,110 china and jacket from Jill and Ken Iscol, Pound Ridge, N.Y.
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- $1,588 flatware from Myra Greenspun, Green Valley, Nev.
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- $595 pantsuit and sweater, Margaret O'Leary, San Francisco.
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- $524 golf driver and golf balls from Richard Helmstetter, Carlsbad,
- Calif.
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- $500 antique book on George Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Yorkin, Los
- Angeles.
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- $499 golf driver from Ely Callaway, Carlsbad, Calif.
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- $450 leather jacket from Vin Gupta, Omaha.
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- $350 golf driver, Jack Nicholson, Beverly Hills, Calif.
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- $350 framed tapestry, Mr. and Mrs. Vo Viet Thanh, Vietnam.
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- $340 two sweaters from Robin Carnahan and Nina Canci, St. Louis.
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- $300 flatware from Colette D'Etremont, New Brunswick, Canada.
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- $300 painting of Buddy, Brian B. Ready, Chappaqua, N.Y.
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- Chair Lift
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- Among the gifts that former president Bill Clinton says he is keeping as
- personal presents he accepted last year are $28,000 worth of furnishings
- that documents and interviews indicate were given to the National Park
- Service in 1993 as part of the permanent White House collection...
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- Two of the furniture makers whose donations Clinton took with him on
- leaving the White House last month say they gave them to the White House
- as part of a widely publicized, $396,000 redecoration of the executive
- mansion and not to Clinton personally.
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- "When we've been asked to donate, it was always hyphenated with the
- words, " 'White House,' " New York manufacturer Steve Mittman said of
- his family-owned business, which gave two sofas, an easy chair and an
- ottoman, worth $19,900 and listed by Clinton as part of the gifts he
- took with him. "To us, it was not a donation to a particular person."
Gifts Were Not Meant for Clintons, Some Donors Say |
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Sen. Clinton made another assertion - one that is equally misleading.She contends she was not obliged to report the first Leiber bag she received "because it was received before the Clintons entered the White House." But this bag, valued at $3,500, was received after the election and during the transition and therefore obviously was related to the Clinton presidency.
- HILLARY'S STORY ON HER WHITE HOUSE GIFTS IS FULL OF (LOOP)HOLES, Dick Morris
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- But he said the Socks purse was given to Clinton during the transition in late 1992, before her husband took office...
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HILLARY: I RETURNED GIFTS TO THE NATIONAL ARCHIVE
TRANSLATION: An earlier example of the clinton post-election/pre-swearing-in klepto-bribery scheme... |
MORE:
DICK MORRIS:
CLINTON IS A PAID AGENT OF THE CROWN PRINCE OF DUBAI
DUBAI-ITIES:
HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON STRIKES AGAIN
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY:
HOW DECADES OF CLINTON DOUBLE-DEALING COMPROMISED OUR NATIONAL SECURITY
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posted on
03/13/2006 4:02:08 AM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: goldstategop
It seems almost beyong comprehension that an imcompetent buffoon like Conyers could become Chairman of an important committee like the Judiciary. However I suppose if the Democrats are a majority it is unlikely he will not.
There is no way the Demopcrats can choose anyone else. His race and his seniority will be the criteria and cannot cancel out the fact he is a half wit.
He may bring up the charges of impeachment , but I cannot see him getting the numbers required to put it over. The best thing is it would tie up the Congress for two years so they couldnt get anything worse thru, and perhaps that would be best.
To: sgtbono2002; rolling_stone
BUT, when you even have moronic FReepers like the Kalifornia's "rolling_stone" feeding the fire, why wouldn't Conyers [and his band of idiots] play any cards they hold to the end?!?
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posted on
03/13/2006 5:19:46 AM PST
by
harpu
( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
To: BigSkyFreeper
Thanks, Big Sky! Love your tagline, BTW. Sad, but true!
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posted on
03/13/2006 6:12:24 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Past Your Eyes
I will vote for anyone not socialist, communist, or untrustworthy. This means NO BURNIE, NO LEAHY, and NO JEFFORDS. Strange...I feel so much better now.;)
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posted on
03/14/2006 4:53:16 PM PST
by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
To: Past Your Eyes
I will vote for anyone not socialist, communist, or untrustworthy. This means NO BURNIE, NO LEAHY, and NO JEFFORDS. Strange...I feel so much better now.;)
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posted on
03/14/2006 4:53:22 PM PST
by
Nuc1
(NUC1 Sub pusher SSN 668 (Liberals Aren't Patriots))
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