Houses votes 238 to 180, including 9 Republicans voting yea, to move forward an impeachment resolution
Jul 17 at 7:07am by Jagwire X
House of Representatives
Yesterday the House voted 238 yea to 180 nay to move forward with impeachment hearings against President Bush. 9 Republicans broke ranks the party to put country first, voting to send Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary, where Chairman John Conyers will hold a hearings on abuses of power by the Bush administration. Ten Republicans abstained in this crucial juncture, while only 5 Democrats did.
Those Republicans are:
Congressman Kevin Brady (TX)
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest (MD)
Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC)
Representative Don Manzullo (IL)
U.S. Congressman Tim Murphy(PA)
Congressman Ron Paul (TX)
Congressman Dave Reichert (WA)
Congressman Christopher Shays (CT)
Representative Mike Turner (OH)
Of those Republican, Walter Jones, represents Camp LeJeune in North Carolina, which is one of the largest Marine bases in the country. It also happens to be one that has made great sacrifices in the Iraq War.
Chairman John Conyers Jr. said he will hold a broad hearing on the general topic of abuses of power by the Bush administration.
“There’s never been one [hearing] that accumulated all the things that constitute an imperial presidency,” Conyers said, explaining that the anticipated hearing would review over a year of committee inquiry into such matters as the firing of U.S. attorneys, the leak of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame and the information provided to Congress in the run-up to the Iraq War.
There was little or no mention of this in mainstream media so here is a way to easily send a letter to the editor of you local paper.
Election Year
Jan 28 at 3:03pm by Jagwire X
Ballot Box
Well it’s that time again folks. That’s right I speak of election year - two thousand eight. And once again we are presented with such a limited bunch of self-serving ego maniacs that I continue to wonder how this country keeps together at all. Really, my biggest complaint is the party system. We have a two party system, Democrats and Republicans. We allegedly have a multi-party system, with Greens, Socialist, Libertarians and other, but they are never in contention. It sort reduces the choice from an array of candidates to, well, two. The National Football League has a better selection process for how teams get to the Super Bowl. I don’t buy all the crap about uncommon and unconventional ideas remain non-influential and so a two party system flourishes. It’s a strategy to keep any other parties from gaining traction. It’s not like various Socialist ideals don’t overlap with Democrat ideals, or Libertarian ideals don’t have companion ideals that find traction in with Republicans.
Actually are some interesting candidates, Barack Obama (D, IL), Ron Paul (R TX), Mike Gravel (D AK) and Dennis Kucinich (D OH) for example, less self serving that most I’d say, but still full of sound and fury and a bit of demagoguery, you don’t run for president without a formidable ego at very least, even if you aren’t maniacal. You’d go home in tears every night.
Of course we’ve been dropped into an economic, social, political, and diplomatic mire, for which mitigation will be difficult at best, by the current Republican administration, so I shouldn’t hold too high hopes for the next CEO of the USA. Which is the problem, this is a government of the people, for the people and by the people - not a corporation to be run as so. We, citizens all, are stockholders in this nation and it is up to us to decide what we want. Or are we to lazy to make decisions for ourselves?
But I do hold out hope that things will get better. In any event this being an election year should provided plenty of fodder for blogging. We don’t intend to be another DailyKOS or Crooks and Liars (you should read them too) but we do hope to provide a skeptical (or perhaps cynical) view of the political landscape.
Rove’s True November 2nd Surprise
Oct 23 at 3:03pm by Anonymous
Karl Rove
It wasn’t Bill Clinton and it wasn’t Nader. It wasn’t Hillary Clinton nor Howard Dean. Neither Kucinich nor Al Gore. It was Karl Rove who awoke the sleeping giant of the American Left. Ironically, he doesn’t see this, which underscores why he’s not a genius—evil or otherwise. Rather, he’s a tragic fool who will be blamed for helping marginalize the GOP for the next 30 years. It’s amazing what Rove, an ardent student of history, cannot see. But bigger mistakes have been made in Western political history..
The Soviets for too much of the 1930s welcomed the rise of Nazi Germany. The Communists’ radicalized worldview told them their way would thrive even better in an industrialized Germany once Nazism – a mere symptom of capitalism – failed. The tragic punch line, of course, is that by the time Nazism really got itself going, the Russians couldn’t stop it without paying the price in millions of lives.
The lesson of this factoid isn’t about Communism nor Nazism as much as it is about human nature when blinded by ideology. It was a stunning miscalculation, as we’re seeing now with Rove’s assertion that he’s going to transform the Republicans into the majority party for the next 30 years. He’s not; he’s going to assure the GOP a minority status for a generation to come. Read the rest of this entry »
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