The tremendous response to my call for impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney confirms that the Bush Administration and Vice President Cheney must be held accountable. I have been overwhelmed by the netroots support for my call for impeachment hearings and for my website - WexlerWantsHearings.com. As of Monday afternoon - after only four days - over 80,000 people have signed up to show their support for impeachment hearings.
It is the constitutional duty of Congress to investigate the serious charges that have been leveled against Vice President Cheney, and I am using my position as a member of the House Judiciary Committee to see that hearings are held. Unfortunately, Congress and the national media ignore this serious issue. The outpouring of support documented at WexlerWantsHearings.com has been driven and supported entirely through the power of blogs, the Internet, and word of mouth. Websites like Crooks and Liars have taken on this important cause and have stepped up to fill the void left by the main stream media who still somehow believe that impeachment is a fringe idea and not worth coverage. In this case, the American people are way ahead of Congress and the media.
I was shocked when no newspaper would publish the op-ed I wrote with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). It is not every day that three members of the House Judiciary Committee set out a substantive case for impeachment hearings against the sitting Vice President. Yet, the national media yawned. No matter. The people have responded. Americans from all fifty states have signed up to support my call for hearings.
Originally, my goal was to gain 50,000 online signatures on behalf of impeachment hearings. Today, our goal is 250,000 supporters.
The charges against Vice President Cheney are too serious dismiss without hearings. If we band together, we can make focus the nation’s attention on this critical issue. Let’s continue to make our voices heard.
Congressman Robert Wexler
I’ve been in communication with Rep. Wexler’s office and they are genuinely stunned by both the volume and the quality of the response they’ve received from the blogosphere. Look at these past posts on Wexler’s petition (h/t FOIA) I think we’re starting to pierce through the Beltway bubble and really showing the power of the netroots to come together and support those who are supporting our values.
If you haven’t done so already, please forward WexlerWantsHearings.com to your email list. Let’s show Rep. Wexler that he can get 250,000 signatures as easily as we got him 50,000.
Filed Under: Dick Cheney, Impeachment, Progressive Politics Action
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Wexler/Dodd/Kucinich ‘08.
250,000 signatories in a week…
And the Democrats want to avoid impeachment hearings… WHY????
Time is running out. Only about 11 Months before Bush says,
Thanks Suckers. Have fun cause it ain’t my problem no more.
AlphaFactor @ 2:
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Thank YOU Rep. Wexler. There are few things that prompt me to sign my own name to but this was a no-brainer.
I live in Wexler’s district, he’s the real deal. I met with his District Director last Thursday with a petition asking him to sign on to HJ 64, a resolution stating that Bush does not have the right to invade Iran. His DD told us that Wexler is completely behind both impeachment and keeping us out of Iran. If you haven’t signed this petition, what are you waiting for???
well, it’s now over 85 thousand signatures…..including mine.
70% of the country is on the far left margins of the political spectrum. It’s quite the bell-curve.
We should prosecute Neocon Nancy for conspiracy to commit treason. She’s a big reason the Dems haven’t moved forward on this. I am completely, irreversibly convinced she she is a crook just like Darth and W. “Praying with the President” indeed.
Leave that petition up for another week, and you will see 2 million signatures, easy. Cheney will just see it as confirmation that the impeachment movement is in it’s last throes, if you will.
The tide is finally turning. Next year is going to be hell for the Republicans.
An election is coming and Americans are waking up, looking back, and thoroughly rejecting the banana republican government we have been subjected to under Bush.
Questionable metrics indicates possible GOP interference with Wexler’s Congressional Records.
Isn’t that a FEDERAL OFFENSE and a Felony?
http://www.afterdowningstreet......er_page=50
Metrics are now being monitored on a 10 minute basis, but today there were visibly two drastic reductions in the vote tally, giving the appearance of outside manipulation or tampering. Given the serious nature of the allegations against Vice President Cheney, I have no doubt that the GOP would consider this cover-up, to go in conjunction with the Main Stream Media News Blackout about Cheney’s impeachment.
Source
http://wexlerwantshearings.com/
the other crooks and liars threads on this subject also track the metrics, it surpassed 112,000 today, the the tally was altered/hacked? back down to 83,000….somethings fishy here!
karl, get off that damn computer and go ’spend more time with your family’!
FreedomOfInformationAct @ 11:
Wow. for a second there, I thought you were off-line
:lol:
well, thanks, i suppose, for doing your job, congressman wexler.
you still don’t deserve a pay raise until you actually pry him from his fortress, though.
I hope that the democrats are prosecuted someday for NOT protecting and defending the constitution.
hey, can the C&L sitemonitor please link the other threads so newbies to this thread can see and learn about the discussions and reference articles already posted related to this subject?
THANKS
Bill Clinton says if Hillary is elected President, he and President HW Bush will travel the world repairing the damage caused politically by W.
http://politicalticker.blogs.c.....t-hillary/
this is excellent news!
if you haven’t signed, do so now.
miss_kitty @ 13:
just resting,
This is a huge issue, I needed to break away for a while. And the nature of the threads being temporary just isn’t the best place to aggregate information about a given subject making it easier for discoveries to be lost and therefore some of the more complex parts of the subject (e.g. signature tally issues) may be more difficult to pinpoint.
Let’s push the bar up to one million signatures. You can probably get that much by next week and those Republocrats are going to have to take notice.
he oughta send the results to harry reid.
they have almost 86,000 already…..I’d sign…but I already did………..c’mon people now……
He shouldn’t be, the Corporate Media have a vested financial interest in perpetuating the Bush regime. Their man at the FCC, Republican Kevin Martin, is ramming through new regulations allowing newspaper conglomerates to also own the radio and TV channels in your hometown thereby monopolizing all media outlets in local areas. We will be allowed to hear one voice, one opinion: That of elite and corporate interests.
purvis ames @ 20:
That would be tough with no media coverage…………….well………KO…what are ya gonna do?
[Deleted. Don’t post in ALL CAPS-Sitemonitor]
Signed. I guess this means the NSA will get to listen to me order Chinese now.
All right people let’s get behind him and DO this!
Just look at these two other C&L threads, they indicate that we reached 80,000 almost 12 hours ago. How can it possibly only be at 85,000 now when they were adding 1-2 per second?
Do the math people, and don’t use Karl’s Calculator!
1st thread
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....t-hearings
2nd thread
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....n-24-hours
Current thread
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....ur-support
I live in florida, wexler is my rep. I’ve emailed him about this about 3 years ago. Better late then never, I guess. But I have this little itch in the back of my head that this is just a relection scheme.
I hope Wexler runs against Mel Martinez for FL senate when Mel’s term is up
L.A. Confidential @ 3:
Let us all pray he does NOT engage NSPD 51 before those 11 months are up
http://www.informationclearing.....e18591.htm
Truth B Told @ 17:
there isn’t a single republican in america who will cross over and vote for hillary clinton. the mere thought of addressing slick willie as “first gentleman” will be enough to mobilize the entire army of orcs, come november ‘08.
i strongly suspect this is why rupert murdoch threw a fundraiser for hill.
The public is speaking and our elected officials are finally doing something…speaking out. This is just the beginning. Together we CAN make a difference.
Randi Rhodes radio talk show discussed it for two hours on Friday, you will find the link on one of the other two threads where i posted it earlier. Enjoy!
I think we easily already have over 115,000 but something is screwing up the metrics on Wexler’s website. I hope the are monitoring the input coming in and if the numbers don’t match, investigating for possible fraudulent activity.
The stakes could not be higher, merely the fate of this once great Democratic Republic!
No-one is above the law, and that includes Cheney and Bush. Hold them accountable for their crimes and malfeasance..
FRED P @ 25:
Last month there was that “rumor” that Pelosi would put Impeachment back on the table if she got 10,000 hand written letters. I sent mine.
Wexler asked for 50,000 signatures, we gave him 85,000-Now he wants 250,000?
F__K-IT, Lets give them 350,000 or 500,000!
Let’s get rid of Dick-I am SO tired of Dick-And that’s something else coming from a gay guy!
DailyKos Covers Impeachment Signatures Surpassing 90,000 over four hours ago!
Action: 90K Signed Impeach Cheney Petition; Will You?
by ammasdarling
Mon Dec 17, 2007 at 04:07:26 PM PST
On Friday, Representatives Wexler, Gutierrez, and Baldwin issued a joint call for hearings in the House Judiciary Committee about impeaching Vice President Cheney. All three sit on the committee. They wrote an op-ed column, but so far the MSM has ignored their call and not published the op-ed. It is important to note that the few polls that have been taken about impeaching Cheney have shown a majority for it.
Rep. Wexler posted an online petition to show support for the hearings. In just three days, 90,000 people have signed it. You can sign the petition (and read the op-ed) here.
With enough support, we will reach 100,000 signatures before noon tomorrow!
Sign here!
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/.....606/423501
Best of luck to you, Rep. Wexler. Take these odious bastards to school.
I have a great fear that in actuality Cheney and Bush ARE above the law. So far my fear has been proven right over and over again for the last six years. NOBODY has been able to stop their train. Heroes like Dodd, Kennedy, Feingold, and Wexler fill me with hope.
THANK YOU.
I am signer 46,007. I think.
No, thank you congressman Wexler. Helping get this career asshole Chaney is our pleasure. Don’t worry Dick, you’ll get a fair trial, you evil fuck!
An impeachment of Bush/Cheney is a total non-starter as long as the United States Justice Department has been STACKED with Loyal Bushies who have no intention of prosecuting witnesses or agencies who refuse to testify or produce documentaion to support the charges. And it HAS BEEN STACKED with Loyal Bushies in this way. It would be a HUGE waste of time going into the next election year. I know all the arguments about how it’s the bedrock of our democracy and all that. But there is simply no time for it.
The case for the impeachment of Bill Clinton began in earnest among the Republicans in Congress the day he announced his run for president in 1992. Two years is not enough time to impeach Bush/Cheney and still get other things done so they can show how much more effective a Democratic Congress is than a Republican Congress.
If you hate Repubicans so much, stop bashing the Democrats in Congress and the Democratic presidential candidates and vote for them against every Republican on the ballot next November. You want to really piss off the Bushies? Vote for Hillary Clinton and put her in the White House.
Why does Wexler need the media or our signatures in order for him to do his job and hold hearings into the obvious crimes of the Vice President? Just investigate him. The attention of the nation will come as the investigations commence. True story?
www.WexlerWantsHearings.com Pass it on.
Why not use a full-page newspaper ad for the op-ed?
It worked well for moveOn.org.
TheNextDylan @ 39:
i was number 59
Are the dems beginning to come out of their coma? Just when I was about to pull the plug on my support. There must be a mistake. GO KUCINICH! GO DODD! GO WEXLER!
FORCE REID FROM “LEADERSHIP” POST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Corporate Media Means No Real News
by Dave Lindorff (excerpt and link)
Monday Dec 17th, 2007 5:39 PM
Americans DEMAND impeachment hearings… where is the establishment media on this?
Photograph of Article Included!
(Readers of Indybay.org know what is happening!)
http://www.indybay.org/search/.....h=Lindorff
http://www.indybay.org/newsite.....467567.php