Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) has moved forward his tireless campaign to impeach Bush and Cheney by co-sponsoring Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-OH) 35 new impeachment articles targeting Bush for some overdue justice. I got an email from Rep. Wexler today explaining how we can help. Here's how, with links to YouTube videos of the impeachment articles and contact info for the House Judiciary Committee (which decides whether to impeach).
Lend a hand and help impeach these criminals...
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Update [2008-6-10.17:57]: Rep. Wexler's office has posted today's announcement in its own diary. Please continue this discussion there.
I just got an email from Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), taking richly deserved credit for cosponsoring Rep. Dennis Kucinich's (D-OH) 35 impeachment articles now part of the Congressional Record, awaiting imminent House votes on moving it forward:
Our effort to hold the Bush/Cheney Administration accountable has taken another dramatic step forward. Last night, Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced the first Articles of Impeachment ever to be introduced against President Bush. It includes, in total, thirty-five Articles detailing this Administration's blatant abuse of power. Today, I enthusiastically co-sponsored this vitally important bill.
I am grateful for Dennis' leadership on this issue and for the steadfast support that countless Americans have given to both of our efforts to redeem our government and expose the crimes of Bush and Cheney.
I will now expand my efforts to secure impeachment hearings in the Judiciary Committee for these new Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush.
Many of the charges against President Bush are well known – and would shock the conscience of everyday Americans if only the national media would be willing to report on these stark facts.
The Articles present a stunning narrative of offenses that have go well beyond previous crimes committed by any US chief executive. In fact no President or Vice President in history has done more to undermine our constitution.
These charges are broad, with 35 separate allegations including the deliberate lies regarding WMDs that led us to war and the approval of illegal wiretapping of American citizens. The Articles also include new allegations of high crimes – including the explicit approval for high Administration officials to violate treaties and US law banning the use of torture.
The Democratic Party gained a majority in the House and Senate due in large part to our promises to end the corruption of the Republican majority and to hold the Administration accountable to the law. This courageous bill is a crucial step towards fulfilling this promise, but – like the Articles against Cheney – they require your support to convince Democrats and open-minded Republicans to support this bold but necessary action.
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.
McClellan Agrees to Testify:
I was pleased to inform you yesterday that Judiciary Committee Chairman Conyers met my call to have Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan testify under oath. I am thrilled to inform you that McClellan has agreed to testify on June 20th at 10AM. This will be the first step in what we hope will be ongoing and deepening examinations of the stark evidence and charges against both President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
Thank you for your continued passion and advocacy. Your support means so much to me.
Sincerely,
Congressman Robert Wexler
(Emphasis and links in original, except the link to "inform you yesterday", which I added here linking to a post I submitted yesterday containing that message.)
Indeed, Rep. Wexler has been among the foremost forcing impeachment of each of Bush and Cheney. Yesterday we learned that Scott McClellan, Bush's Iraq War Press Secretary, will testify before Congress to how he helped Bush and Cheney lie us into Iraq, primarily over his covering up their outing CIA covert WMD nonproliferation agent Valerie Plame, because Rep. Wexler pressured the Committee to question him in public. Today Rep. Wexler stands with Rep. Kucinich to actually impeach Bush.
We should stand with them and pressure Congress to continue this impeachment process. Here's a YouTube search for the Kucinich impeachment articles, each in a video clip:
kucinich impeach
And here's a list of the House Judiciary Committee, which is the committee that decides whether to impeach Bush. Please call or email members to demand they do their job protecting justice and the Constitution.
House Judiciary and their ZIP+4 codes when their "email" form requires it:
Capitol Switchboard Toll-Free Numbers
1(800)828-0498
1(800)459-1887
1(800)614-2803
1(866)340-9281
1(866)338-1015
1(877)851-6437
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I'd like to see Rep. Wexler as President Obama's VP. I like Rep. Wexler for VP because he's the hottest to impeach Cheney for abusing the office that Wexler would hold. That work says a lot about a commitment to reforming that office, which should be the next VP's primary job.
And Rep. Wexler could help deliver Florida (and a lot of Jews, but their other states are going to vote Obama anyway). That 27 EVs could mean the difference in the election, as usual.
Rep. Wexler is the same age as Obama, which reinforces the generational turnover, just like Clinton/Gore did in 1992 so effectively.
Rep. Wexler also just led Obama's team on deciding Florida's DNC delegates at the R&B Committee, which completely adopted Wexler's passionately argued position.
He's a winner who's already delivered in Florida for Obama. Who is doing more to take down Cheney than practically anyone, and probably most trustworthy in the office. Who doesn't upstage or diminish Obama.
In the meantime, let's help Rep. Wexler clean the White House of its current criminal occupants.
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Update [2008-6-10.17:57]: Rep. Wexler's office has posted today's announcement in its own diary. Please continue this discussion there.