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Guess Who's Coming to the Impeachment: How They'll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail
by David Swanson In response to public demand for impeachment hearings and pressure from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Congressman Robert Wexler, and others, as well as electoral challenges by pro-impeachment candidates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally caved and proposed to allow Kucinich to present impeachment in a Judiciary Committee hearing.
The hearing was then scheduled for a Friday (July 25) and scheduled to last a full two-hours (10 a.m. to noon). Then the topic was altered. Rather than being about impeachment, the hearing will be about impeachment and other supposed remedies to a lawless presidency, with the bulk of the time devoted to those other remedies. Most of those other remedies will involve, believe it or not, legislative proposals.
Thus, the dererrence to future presidents who follow the Bush-Cheney tradition of violating all laws and checks on power will be the knowledge that during the administration following Bush-Cheney some bills were passed criminalizing what had always been criminal activity.
How They'll Try to Bury Impeachment and Fail
Rumor has it there are two panels being planned for the hearing,
one consisting of Kucinich and four other members of Congress (Jane
Harman, Walter Jones, Brad Miller, and Maurice Hinchey), and the other
consisting of five non-Congress Members (Elizabeth Holtzman, Bruce
Fein, Frederick Schwartz, John Dean, and Bob Barr). Each of these
speakers will likely have 5 minutes for opening remarks. So, Kucinich's
presentation of the impeachable offenses of 7.5 years will be limited
to 5 minutes. The hope of those planning this afair will be to bury
impeachment.
Here's why they'll fail. Holtzman and Fein -- and
Kucinich -- are among the most persuasive advocates for impeachment
alive. At least those three speakers, it is safe to assume, will be
standing up for our Constitution. Another you can add to that list is
commmittee member Robert Wexler. Others are committee members Shiela
Jackson-Lee and Tammy Baldwin. It is safe to assume that these members
will direct their questioning to the need for impeachment and the
advocates of beginning it. Plus Hinchey favors impeachment too.
Other
supporters of impeachment on the committee are Keith Ellison, Steve
Cohen, Hank Johnson, and Maxine Waters, as well as Luis Gutierrez and
Anthony Weiner. Zoe Lofgren is also likely to speak up for impeachment.
And those in the room as audience will be overwhelmingly defenders of
our Constitution. But you can help defend it without coming to
Washington. Here's how:
contact the members of the Judiciary
Committee and insist that they be there on Friday the 25th and that
they speak up for impeachment:
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