Letters posted here are associated with the following Salon Premium Member:
Published Letters: 1941
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/
http://www.wexlerforcongress.com/
Time is running out so we must work together to spread the message and apply pressure.First, please encourage your friends and family members to sign up at WexlerWantsHearings.com – as it will allow us to keep in touch with you and speak to a wider audience. If you haven't yet put in your phone and address, please sign up again, as we will be doing telephone town halls in the near future.
Second, call your representative and urge them to support Impeachment hearings.
Finally, contact newspapers, news stations, and your favorite bloggers and urge them to report on this movement. We need to keep Impeachment a significant news story until the Democratic leadership sees the value in it.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/10/165049/461/377/533558
I am asking Glenn. When you have the time of course.
You guys must either live in a dream world or you're batshit crazy. If The House started impeachment hearings today, there would not be enough time to even get a quorum in the Judicial Committee, much less pass Articles of Impeachment in the whole House and then persuade 2/3rds of the Senate to convict. We have a hard enough time getting a simple majority to pass easy, non-political, stuff nevermind getting 2/3rds to pass something like impeachment - especially in an election year.
You can take your practicality and shove it. You have no idea what would/could happen if enough people stopped making excuses and decided to simply act on principle.
Besides, it isn't about "practicality" in the first place. It is about attempting to do the right thing, Period. I think you are lying when you say you want BushCo out. If you did want him out you would support the effort by the "better democrats" we already have in place, such as Kucinich and now Wexler. There is no legitimate reason not to. Especially not the "fear of failure" reasoning. Your practicality concerns are just bullshit and further proof that the "Obama will save us/more and better democrats" meme is a very harmful red herring perpetrated by liars and/or the willfully stupid.
Like I said before, people like you are the reason we will continue to have "leaders" like BushCo every 10-20 years. It certainly isn't because of us "batshit crazy" people who want their elected representatives in congress to use the constitutional provision for removing an obviously lawless executive.
A good and honest U.S. Congressman has started the process. He has facts, evidence and the balls to make something happen. Are you going to back him or hold fast to your fraudulent reasoning and excuse making?
Crooks and Liars: Video clip -- Countdown with guest Jonathan Turley discussing impeachment...
http://tinyurl.com/4v8opo
In the meantime, why are you wasting our time reading your nonsense about impeachment being the only solution?-- Jebbie
Oh yeah and... I never said anything about impeachment being the only solution. There are a least a few other solutions, some of which, on my darker days, I would actually prefer. But neither you nor most others here are willing to do what it would take to make even the most civil of those solutions a reality.
Impeachment is simply the proper, lawful and constitutional solution. You would prefer what? (and please don't even bother us with your reality and history defying fantasies about what "more and better" democrats might do sometime down the road, in the future)
Comcast deeply appreciates citizen concerns regarding alleged wiretapping under the FISA laws. For our part, it is a matter of public record that we have not made our systems available to the government for any customer surveillance without valid legal process, and we have not lobbied on FISA legislation.
What is a matter of public record exactly? That some Concast lawyer put out a public statement claiming that Concast wasn't involved in any illegal surveillance? Is that the extent of the "public record?"
By "without valid legal process" do you mean "without the kings say so"? Because that's my bet. King BushCo told you it was "legal" because, well, he said so and you went with it correct? Oh yeah and need we point out to you that much of the surveillance was done outside of FISA and thus was illegal? BushCo has admitted as much. Are you actually trying to convince us that none of that extralegal activity involved Concast? I don't buy it. I think there should be some legal action taken to find out the truth. Oh wait, that's right, there already is some in the works.
You better get your bought and paid for congresscritters to get you that blanket immunity. Your very existence may depend on it.