GET HIM, HOWARD!!!! YES!

Impeach the Smirking Chimp

HAHAHAHAHA

Smirking Chimp--I LOVE IT
That's F'n FUNNY

The Republican Senators are beginning to defect from their failed President. We must continue to challenge them with bills that show where they stand and how long it took for them to listen to the will of the American people.

SandyH,I agree completely.Finally I feel like all of it is beginning to turn.The repub wall is beginning to crumble.Sooner or later they all get back to it`s every person for themselves!That`s their real mantra!Stay strong Democratic Party and keep the heat up!

howard,

please allow me to add to tell the moron playing the great liberator to stop blaming iraqis ... he alone created this quagmire ... caused this civil war ... has given terrorists a new resolve/place to train. he's the poster child for everything for them to recruit ... and as a diplomat, he'd never be accepted overseas without starting riots. either he is impeached or kept at bay is the only hope left for our country's future. and, while at it, ask him where osama is.

Get 'er done, Howard. YEEEEAHHHHH! Bush speaks forkem' tonguem. He says we just started only 2 weeks ago, but we've BEEN there in Bagdad how long? I think we're dealing with Alice in Wonderland, where's the 'white coats'?

Howard keeps the pressure on perfectly and I'm grateful that he does.

I'm really not comfortable with the Democrats relying on the civil war meme to justify removing U.S. troops from where they shouldn't have been in the first place. As long as Democrats perpetuate fictions, Bush Two will continue to create them.
The truth is the U.S. aimed to set up military bases on Asia's southern edge in order to "contain" the region's natural powers (Russia, China, India) because if we don't rule them, they'll rule us.

Don't need to wait, no. Given that when the war was last funded the agreement met was September, I'd think it would be at least a good idea for Congress to keep their agreements rather than continue to prove that all politicians lie.
I don't like Iraq any more than anyone else, but as far as picking through truths, how about these truths:
Our CIA trained Bin Laden and funded the Mujahadeen to turn away Soviets from the Middle East in the 70's.
Bin Laden broke away and, with the Mujahadeen that we trained and armed, formed Al Qaeda.
We used Al Qaeda in Bosnia and Desert Storm.
Al Qaeda claimed responsibility for 9/11.
We very well know Bin Laden inside and out, considering we've been using his network for decades.
If we haven't caught Bin Laden, there's a reason.

Face facts, here Howard. You cannot call Bush a lying moron and point out his fact picking when you do the same thing. It's easy to say Bush is a figurehead for Al Qaeda recruits, but it would seem he's also a figurehead for our US Military, considering how many soldiers are "re-up"ing with the military every year to go back to Iraq.
By saying this is what the American People want, I can only assume the military isn't included. The men and women on the ground, doing the work, haven't shown a majority of withdrawal requests. Why do you and I know better than they?
-Gen. Common Sense.

Mr. Dean: here is why it is wrong to pull troops out of Iraq right now, as you suggested. If we pull troops out now, we will be leaving the people to the mercy of the Islamofreaks and we will be the instigators of mass gonocide. We are the only people standing in the way of the Sunni and Shiia from killing themselves on a scale more massive than the genocide found in the Balkans. If we pull out now, the Islamofreaks will overrun the country, set up their own Islamic court system and will rule with an iron fist much like the Taliban. Not to mention, they will be loyal to Iran. And that means the Iranians will fund terror groups to set up terror training camps in Iraq. Then what? We will have created more problems for ourselves. Then what? Kuwait, yeman, Oman, and the UAE are all secular arab countries and will bear the wrath of the Islamists and will be extremely vulnerable to large scale terror attacks. Saudi will be prone to attack, Israel, and Jordan will be prone, too. Is that how we will leave the region? In total chaos? Afghanistan will be at risk because the Iranians will fully fund the Taliban in their efforts to take back their land from the US invaders. Syria will receive funding from Iran and so will Hamas and anyother kook Islamofreak organization that wants to take a crack at the west. The UK, Spain, and the US will not be safe any longer from the onslaught of Islamic terrorists that will inevitably come to our shores seeking our destruction. We are a thin green line between a reletively contained civil strife and the all out chaos that will ensue if we pull out too soon. Democrats are led by feelings of idiocracy. You can tell this man is talking from an emotional point of view and has not thought this through to any logical conclution.

One more thing Dean did not tell you. We are not six months into the surge. It's more like two, because...now think about this...we did not get 120,000 troops to arrive there overnight. It took six months to train and deploy these troops. So, we have not had six months of surge activity, according to the plan. We are at two months of full sustained surge operations. Another thing is, when you have more troops on the ground, more troops will be in danger, and more troops will be prone to die. Simple logics. Dean didn't tell you that, did he? Daen also said that the majority of America does not believe the administration is telling the truth. Well, according to the latest Rassmussen poll, 19% of Americans think that the democrat controlled congress is telling the truth and is doing their jobs. Iraq is actually doing better than the congress because Iraq passed 8 benchmarks set by us. How many benchmarks has congress passed? One. That worthless minimum wage bill. Congress has done nothing and the funny part is that it is your congress. One more thing Mr. Dean: how many troops died in Antietam? 22,717. Our 600, while all tragic, pales in comparison to the multitudes lost that day in Maryland in 1862. Mr. Dean, for all of our sakes, and the Iraqis' get off the Hill and let someone else do your job, because I can clearly tell you have done your research on this topic and your emotions are leading you by the nose. Step down befoe there is a major catastrophy, one we will not be able recover from.

GOVERNOR DEAN -- RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008.

WE THE PEOPLE, the 70% General Population, NEED THE DLC OUT OF OUR GOVERNMENT, SO THAT OUR GOVERNMENT WILL WORK FOR WE THE PEOPLE, the 70% General Population. PLEEEEASE.

We are becoming disillusioned with Congressional leadership. Why don't they be more forceful in their resolutions and follow the will of the people? We voted in Democrats last November to take a stand and I am pleased that the freshmen Democrats are doing what they are supposed to. It is the old "good old boy" network of long time inside the beltway Democrats that are so afraid to take a stand. Don't they see their ratings in the polls? Don't they know that they can be replaced with good grassroots Democrats that will carry out the will of the people?

Why George W. Bush and Dick Cheney MUST Be IMPEACHED.

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney MUST Be IMPEACHED NOW.

If the U.S. Congress does not IMPEACH George W. Bush and Dick Cheney together with the Bush administration for their “culture of criminal behavior”, false claims to and use of "unitary power", and violations of the Constitution and laws against the American people as a whole, the U.S. Congress will cede the powers claimed and used by Bush and the Bush administration, not only to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as President and Vice President of the United States, but to ALL other Presidents and Vice Presidents that follow George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

It is of the utmost importance that both George W. Bush and Dick Cheney be IMPEACHED as a remedy for the false power that Bush and Cheney have both claimed and used during the Bush/Cheney Administration, so that the power Bush and Cheney have falsely claimed and used is not 1st ceded to Bush and Cheney, and thereafter to all future presidents and vice presidents that follow Bush and Cheney as a precedent that went UNCHALLANGED by the Congress of the United States.

If the American people allow a “do nothing” U.S. Congress to cede “unitary executive power”, the power of a KING, to George W. Bush by NOT IMPEACHING Bush and Cheney, the American people in allowing the U.S. Congress to do so will also be allowing DEMOCRACY in the United States to go quietly into the night without a fight, and thereby, enable government powers falsely claimed and used by Bush and Cheney as a precedent for RULE by ALL presidents and vice presidents that succeed Bush and Cheney.

By way of the IMPEACHMENT of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the American people MUST set a precedent that “unitary presidential powers” that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have falsely claimed and used are an illegal attempt at usurpation of Democracy in the United States and the U.S. Constitution, in the name of “autocracy” by Bush and Cheney.

The false powers for the President that Bush and Cheney have falsely claimed and used constitute HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS AGAINST THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, and MUST NOT BE PASSED DOWN AS PRECEDENTS FOR FUTURE PRESIDENTS, but rather, as attempted criminal conduct against the citizens of the United States.

WE, ALL of the AMERICAN PEOPLE, must not allow FALSE CLAIMS TO POWER and THE USE OF POWER FALSELY CLAIMED that is NOT CHALLENGED by a “do nothing” U.S. Congress to empower a “unitary executive” as President of the United States, KING GEORGE I.

George W. Bush and Dick Cheney MUST Be IMPEACHED NOW.

Thomas G. Miller

Tough Talk on Impeachment -- PBS
July 13, 2007

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/profile.html

A public opinion poll from the American Research Group recently reported that more than four in ten Americans — 45% — favor impeachment hearings for President Bush and more than half — 54% — favored impeachment for Vice President Cheney.

Unhappiness about the war in Iraq isn't the only cause of the unsettled feelings of the electorate. Recent events like President Bush's pardoning of Scooter Libby, the refusal of Vice President Cheney's office to surrender emails under subpoena to Congress and the President's prohibition of testimony of former White House counsel Harriet E. Miers in front of the House Judiciary Committee have caused unease over claims of "executive privilege."

In addition, many of the White House anti-terror initiatives and procedures — from the status of "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo to warrantless wiretapping — have come under legal scrutiny in Congress and the courts.

Bill Moyers gets perspective on the role of impeachment in American political life from Constitutional scholar Bruce Fein, who wrote the first article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton, and THE NATION's John Nichols, author of THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT.

"The founding fathers expected an executive who tried to overreach and expected the executive would be hampered and curtailed by the legislative branch... They [Congress] have basically renounced — walked away from their responsibility to oversee and check." — Bruce Fein

"On January 20th, 2009, if George Bush and Dick Cheney are not appropriately held to account this Administration will hand off a toolbox with more powers than any President has ever had, more powers than the founders could have imagined. And that box may be handed to Hillary Clinton or it may be handed to Mitt Romney or Barack Obama or someone else. But whoever gets it, one of the things we know about power is that people don't give away the tools." — John Nichols

Bruce Fein - [Republican]

Bruce Fein is a nationally and internationally recognized expert on Constitutional law. Bruce Fein Graduated from Harvard Law School in 1972, Fein became the assistant director of the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice. Shortly after that, Fein became the associate deputy attorney general under former President Ronald Reagan. His political law career would take him to various outlets, including general counsel of the Federal Communications Commission, followed by an appointment as research director for the Joint Congressional Committee on Covert Arms Sales to Iran. Mr. Fein has been an adjunct scholar with the American Enterprise Institute, a resident scholar at the Heritage Foundation, a lecturer at the Bookings Institute, and an adjunct professor at George Washington University.

Fein has also penned a number of volumes on United States Constitution, Supreme Court, and international law, as well as assisted three dozen countries in constitutional revision, including Russia, Spain, South Africa, Iraq, Cyprus, and Mozambique.

Fein currently writes weekly columns for THE WASHINGTON TIMES and CAPITOL LEADER, and a bi-weekly column for the LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER devoted to legal and international affairs.
Recently, Fein has been in the national spotlight after his editorial in the online news magazine SLATE called for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney, in which he outlines the various cases against the Vice President. Fein also testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee on June 27, 2007 about President Bush's use of "signing statement."

According to Fein, Cheney has:

*Asserted Presidential power to create military commissions, which combine the functions of judge, jury, and prosecutor in the trial of war crimes.

* Claimed authority to detain American citizens as enemy combatants indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay on the President's say-so alone.

* Initiated kidnappings, secret detentions, and torture in Eastern European prisons of suspected international terrorists.

* Championed a Presidential power to torture in contravention of federal statutes and treaties.

* Engineered the National Security Agency's warrantless domestic surveillance program targeting American citizens on American soil in contravention of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.

* Orchestrated the invocation of executive privilege to conceal from Congress secret spying programs to gather foreign intelligence, and their legal justifications.

* Summoned the privilege to refuse to disclose his consulting of business executives in conjunction with his Energy Task Force.

* Retaliated against Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame, through chief of staff Scooter Libby, for questioning the administration's evidence of weapons of mass destruction as justification for invading Iraq. (Read Fein's SLATE article)

John Nichols

John Nichols, author and political journalist has been writing the "Online Beat" for THE NATION magazine since 1999. John Nichols also serves as Washington correspondent for THE NATION, as well as the associate editor of the CAPITAL TIMES, the daily newspaper in Madison, Wisconsin and a contributing writer for THE PROGRESSIVE and IN THESE TIMES.

Along with fellow author Robert McChesney, Nichols co-founded the media-reform group Free Press. Nichols has also authored several books, including JEWS FOR BUCHANAN, which analyzed the recount vote of 2000, and DICK: THE MAN WHO IS PRESIDENT, his best-selling biography of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Nichols most recent book, THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT, argues that impeachment is an essential instrument of America's democratic system. Nichols' argument also bases the power of impeachment in the hands of the people, rather than the congress. In his recent article, "In Praise of Impeachment," Nichols argues "While the Constitution handed Congress the power to officially check such despotism, Jefferson and his colleagues fully expected the American people to be the champions of the application of the rule of law to an errant executive."

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07132007/profile.html

Drum roll, please...

TOP TEN REASONS TO LEAVE IRAQ:

Number 1. BECAUSE SENATOR MCCAIN WON’T COME OUT FOR A COMMAND PERFORMANCE TO SING GUNS AND ROSES SONG, ‘I DON’T NEED YOUR CIVIL WAR’.

Number 2. BECAUSE PRESIDENT BUSH WON’T GO TO THE PSYCHIATRIST FOR ‘WAR-PUSH FATIGUE’ INSTEAD OF INSULTING THE AMERICAN PUBLICS PSYCHOLOGY.

Number 3. BECAUSE THE ARAB LEADERS REFUSE TO LEAD THE WORLD WAR AGAINST TERRORISM INSTEAD OF LETTING BUSH.

Number 4. BECAUSE MORE THAN 40% OF THE PEOPLE IN ISLAM'S UN-REPRESENTED PUBLIC ARE ABOUT TO REALIZE THAT ISLAM’S ORIGINAL MEANING OF MARTYRDOM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ONE KILLING ONESELF AND THE EMBARRASSMENT MIGHT BE A KILLER.

Number 5. BECAUSE YOU CAN’T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOME MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERS DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD POLITICAL SPINS ON VIOLENCE ISSUES FROM THE SPINS OF BUSH AND CHENEY’S SPIN-DOCTOR, KARL ROVE.

Number 6. BECAUSE BUSH WILL NOT QUESTION IRAQ’S GOVERNMENT NOT PUSHING MEETING THEIR SECURITY AND POLITICAL BENCHMARKS TO HELP THEM AVOID AND PREPARE FOR THE CIVIL WAR THEY SAY THEY’RE AFRAID OF IF AMERICA LEAVES?

Number 7. BECAUSE SHOT-UP POSTERS IN IRAQ OF THE IRANIAN PRESIDENT WITH BLOOD PAINTED ON HIS FULL TEETH POLITICAL SMILE MAKES OUR SOLDIERS LAUGH SO HARD THEY CAN’T SHOOT STRAIGHT!

Number 8. BECAUSE THE AMERICAN MEDIA SENT AL JAZERRA TV A TAPE OF PROTESTERS SHOUTING IN THE STREETS “DEATH TO THE FRAUDULENT POLITICS MISGUIDING ISLAM AND THE IRAQ WAR!” “HOLD AMERICA’S HEAD UP FOR THE BEHEADED AND AN AMERICAN SOLDIER COMING OUT OF IRAQ”, BUT AL JAZEERA WOULD NOT AIR IT.

Number 9. ALL OF THE SUDDEN MOST OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS CONVERTING TO THE ‘WE DON’T CARE TO BE CHALLENGED BY DIRTY POLITICS ON VIOLENCE AND WANT TO SEE IF THE WORLD CAN BELIEVE WHAT’S NEXT’ RADICAL MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIANITY!

And finally, Number 10. JUST CALL LEAVING IRAQ AND THE AFTERMATH BASED ON ANY OF OUR RELIGIONS IN THE DIVERSE COUNTRY OF AMERICA; WE DON’T LIKE DEATH.

For the record, I am a REGISTERED DEMOCRAT and not some Republican Plant nor troll. So let's get that out of the way here and now. Whether or not you like what I have to say, I do have the Freedom to Speak and will exercise that Freedom. Unless, of course, the Liberals in my party decide to block anything not in agreement with their positions.

“The parallels between the mistakes being made today in Iraq and the behavior of our government during Vietnam are striking. Troops are sent abroad to fight by an Administration that refused to listen to the advice of military leaders.". How very true with one mistake, it was not the "Administration" it was the same type of spineless, gutless, wishy-washy politicians then as We have now who were and, obviously, continue to be the problem. As usual, the loudmouth of the DNC, Mr. Dean, throws out half-truths and lies in his continuing war of propoganda. "We do not need to wait until September"? Does that now imply that my party's demi-gods never had any intention of upholding the very bill THEY SIGNED?
The ink had barely dried and they were already claiming the surge had failed, it wouldn't work.
P R O P O G A N D A!!!!!!! Is my party fearful that the surge just might work and therefore must continue its propoganda war with even more urgency? Exactly what are the demi-gods in Congress fearful of? Perhaps, if the surge works this will be a victory for Our troops and the President? Is that something that must, under no circumstance, be allowed to happen?

Here's what I'm seeing with this crowd of politicians:

Pelosi, Kerry, Kennedy,
Reid, Biden, Murtha, and,
of course, the loudmouth
Mohammed Said Sahhaf = of the DNC, Mr. Dean,
MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NY
Times, LA Times, and
other left leaning
propoganda media.

For those of you unfamiliar, Mohammed Said Sahhaf was Saddam Hussein's Minister of Information (A Propogandist) and was commonly referred to by the media as "Comical Ali". The propoganda put out by your demi-god's and the propoganda arm (MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, etc.) has been for the sole purpose to break the will and determination of the American People. These demi-gods, in my party, in conjunction with their propogandists in the so-called "news" media have done more for the insurgents, terrorists, Iran, and other's than they could ever have hoped to accomplish.

That sham of last night was nothing more than a politcial stunt, a side-show circus for the Moveon.org types and other Liberals in my party.
A side-show circus of Monkey's to get themselves re-elected and continue to do more of the same; NOTHING.

I have come to the conlcusion that the only way for a true change in direction is to vote Independent. Perhaps We, the People, can throw out the garbage and put into office those who will serve Us, the People, and not their Special Interest Groups.

Sorry, I didn't realize the spacing would turn out the way it did. Here's how it should have read, hopefully it will turn out correctly:

Pelosi, Kerry, Kennedy,
Reid, Biden, Murtha, and,
of course, the loudmouth
of the DNC, Mr. Dean, = Mohammed Said Sahhaf
MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NY
Times, LA Times, and
other left leaning
propoganda media.