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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 Bush’s 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 we’re supporting Conyers’s 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 he’s doing just the opposite, he’s 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 Bush’s impeachment.

(Excerpt) Read more at atlantaprogressivenews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 109th; cbc; conyers; impeachment; sillydems
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To: Blackirish
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 Bush’s impeachment.

Well there you go... this makes it very simple as to where to NEVER, EVER, move to.

61 posted on 03/12/2006 3:53:24 PM PST by AmericaUnited
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To: mombonn

62 posted on 03/12/2006 3:56:47 PM PST by Howlin ("Quick, he's bleeding! Is there a <strike>doctor</strike> reporter in the house?")
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To: Howlin

LOL - I forgot about that one! Maybe we can incorporate it into the '08 campaign.


63 posted on 03/12/2006 4:00:32 PM PST by mombonn (¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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To: deport
As I said before, it's more talk about trying to force Bush and Cheney to resign but I did hear that at least a couple Republicans have used that word and it would be wise for them to stop it or Bush will hand their a*s to them on a silver platter.
64 posted on 03/12/2006 4:07:39 PM PST by Wasanother (Terrorist come in many forms but all are RATS.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
No offense, but aren't most of them black?
65 posted on 03/12/2006 4:13:37 PM PST by buck61 (luv6060)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thank you retired Army for you service and duty to United States of America. God bless you.


66 posted on 03/12/2006 4:16:31 PM PST by buck61 (luv6060)
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To: 91B

Actually, they would need 67 votes for conviction if all senators are present: see Article I, Sec. 3 of the Constitution ("And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.").


67 posted on 03/12/2006 4:17:10 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus
I don't think there's a chance in hell they could impeach but even if the House did like you said removal won't fly with the Senate. The intent the congress would hope for with such an act is to get Bush and Cheney to resign.
68 posted on 03/12/2006 4:27:28 PM PST by Wasanother (Terrorist come in many forms but all are RATS.)
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To: Verginius Rufus

I was replying to post 31 where another poster was saying that a Dhimmicrat simple majority in the senate was enough to remove. Either way-not going to happen.


69 posted on 03/12/2006 4:28:36 PM PST by 91B (God made man, Sam Colt made men equal.)
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To: buck61
Wonder how many from the GOP has signed on?

And how many so-called Freepers will watch with glee?

70 posted on 03/12/2006 4:36:28 PM PST by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71)
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To: Capt. Tom
"They have a case against Bush for not securing our border with Mexico..."

Your 'feelings are bleeding through' what is lawfully required to impeach a president. Kind of make you sound just like a demonRAT.

Sorry - but it sounds like what it is.

71 posted on 03/12/2006 4:53:42 PM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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To: chesty_puller
Chesty_Puller
Thank you for your military service, for the sacrifice
you made to your country.
God bless you and your family.
72 posted on 03/12/2006 4:59:42 PM PST by buck61 (luv6060)
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To: deport

Didn't Conyers draft articles of impeachment against President Reagan also? I predict the same result here.


73 posted on 03/12/2006 5:03:49 PM PST by NCLaw441
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To: buck61
Thank you for your military service, for the sacrifice

Not a sacrifice at all, an honor. Thanks

74 posted on 03/12/2006 5:06:38 PM PST by chesty_puller (USMC 70-73 3MAF VN 70-71)
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To: plain talk
Anyone who thinks President Bush should be impeached for anything is a nut case.

Well I didn't say the President should be impeached, but there may well be some causes that fit. Neglect of duty and breach of the public trust with immigration comes to mind. It may be a reach, but treason could also mean helping a foreign goverment (Its people) do harm to the United States. He has not stopped the invasion from Mexico and apparently will not. Clearly the United States and it citizens have been harmed. Taxpayers footing the bills, anchor babies, proposed amnesty for lawbreakers, all are hurting the USA.

Who is the nut case, those calling for our laws to be enforced or those encouraging them to be broken?

75 posted on 03/12/2006 5:07:34 PM PST by rolling_stone (Question Authority!)
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To: dubyaismypresident


Censured and Impeached.
What's next?
Tarred and feathered, stripped of US citizenship?


76 posted on 03/12/2006 5:09:25 PM PST by onyx (IF ONLY 10% of Muslims are radical, that's still 120 MILLION who want to kill us.)
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To: Blackirish

Arcata, Santa Cruz and San Francisco- yeah, these are California cities that inspire staggering fear in the GOP. Much the same, as the pandering signatories. Well, I guess even chicken littles get their cheeep azz say about nothing- even in a Free Republic.


77 posted on 03/12/2006 5:09:38 PM PST by Treader
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To: harpu
Your 'feelings are bleeding through' what is lawfully required to impeach a president. Kind of make you sound just like a demonRAT.

Sorry - but it sounds like what it is.

My point is that impeaching him on the Iraq war is wrong. We knew what the situation was at the time. We couldn't take a chance on Saddam not having WMD when Sadaams actions indicated that he did have WMDs.

My point is; if you are going to try to impeach the president do it on an issue that will go across party lines.

Americans don't like that border with Mexico left open. And they don't like people who are trying to close it being called vigilantes by the President. They don't like amnesty programs for trespassers either.

That failure to secure our border with Mexico would be a better tack for the Socialists(Dems) to take rather than the Iraq War approach.

But as I mentioned in an earlier post; along with the Bushies, both the Republicans and the Socialists(dems) want the border porous, so they are not inclined to take that tack on the President. - Tom

78 posted on 03/12/2006 5:10:32 PM PST by Capt. Tom (Don't confuse the Bushies with the dumb Republicans - Capt. Tom)
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To: harpu
Your 'feelings are bleeding through' what is lawfully required to impeach a president. Kind of make you sound just like a demonRAT

What is lawfully required to impeach a president? How about Article x against Johnson?

79 posted on 03/12/2006 5:12:43 PM PST by rolling_stone (Question Authority!)
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To: MNJohnnie; rodguy911; Txsleuth; Bahbah; Cboldt; Morgan in Denver; varmintxer; RasterMaster

PUKE PING!


80 posted on 03/12/2006 5:14:53 PM PST by eeevil conservative (beware of MR GRIM!)
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