Dear Baron:
Congratulations on your rightful return to Congress! I campaigned and voted for you and I thank God you’re back -- as a competent, good, and honorable man, and as a reasoning opponent to this wrongheaded regime now in control of the executive branch.
I am enclosing the latest column by Molly Ivins, who warned us before November 2000 of what we would have on our hands as a nation if we elected George W. Bush. Her assessment of what kind of president he would be, based on what kind of governor, businessman, and student he had been, has proven to be dead on. I ask you to take a few minutes to read her column.
I can’t say it better than Molly has, but I will say how I feel: Mr. Bush and his little gang are holding all of us hostage by “staying the course” (although Tony Snow doesn’t dare call it that anymore!), hell-bent on “victory” in this immoral, insane war. “Victory” for him means self-destruction for us.
Because we are surely being destroyed
* soldier by soldier in this Iraq madness;
* dollar by dollar in out-of control spending and favors for the ultra-rich;
* our honor among nations and among ourselves with the closed-minded arrogance and militancy of the Bush gang;
* our civil liberties and privacy, supposedly because we are “in a war on terror.”
The list, I wish I could say, ends there, but of course it doesn’t. I’ve already said too much in this one letter without mentioning our need for
* universal health care;
* campaign finance reform; and
* reversal of destruction of the environment.
For starters.
I love this country and tried to serve it with honor as a reserve soldier and as a member of the Peace Corps. A true patriot wants what is best for his country. Patriotism and fighting a war—any war, including the wrong one—are not one and the same.
* As a patriot, I say: End the madness.
* As a patriot, I say: Get our brave, loyal, honorable, patriotic soldiers out of that shooting gallery, that killing field. For the love of God, please don’t send more in!
* As a patriot, I say: Let George W. Bush and his flock of chicken-hawks go fight their own war for the sake of their own egos.
I no longer want to be a hostage in my own country. This is supposedly a representative democracy, and my one recourse was to vote for you and support you. I want you to tell the president for me that this war is an outrage against humanity, reason, sanity, morality.
Let us oppose this president at every turn. Let us get him out of power. Let us impeach him. One president was impeached for a lot less. The articles of impeachment for George W. Bush would fill a book.
Please help us, sir. You are our honorable man in Washington.
Your constituent,
2 comments:
Amen! Right on! Go get 'em!
Well, it only takes a moment to help convince Nancy Pelosi to Impeach Bush/Cheney..
Pelosi most likely said impeachment was "off the table" to remove any appearance of conflict-of-interest that would arise if she were thrust into the presidency as a result of the coming impeachment.
What we need to do is to pressure Pelosi not to interfere with impeachment maneuverings within her party. Sending her Do-It-Yourself impeachments legitimizes her when she is forced to join the impeachment movement in the future.
Sacks and sacks of mail are about to arrive in Nancy Pelosi's office initiating impeachment via the House of Representative's own rules this Monday January 15th. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the impeachment resolution (H.R. 635).
There's a little known and rarely used clause of the "Jefferson Manual" in the rules for the House of Representatives which sets forth the various ways in which a president can be impeached. Only the House Judiciary Committee puts together the Articles of Impeachment, but before that happens, someone has to initiate the process.That's where we come in. In addition to a House Resolution (635), or the State-by-State method, one of the ways to get impeachment going is for individual citizens like you and me to submit a memorial. ImpeachforPeace.org has created a new memorial based on one which was successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on their website as a PDF.
You can initiate the impeachment process and simultaneously help to convince Pelosi to follow through with the process. Do-It-Yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in. Be a part of history.
http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html
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