I read this on Buzzflash.com about a new Gallup poll. It should be given to all of the Dem politicians to show that we the people want out of Iraq.

What do they have to fear when only 1 in 4 people support the Blood King's policy of staying in Iraq forever?

This is the link to Editor and Publisher article Link .

What does the Salazar and Udall and DeGette think of when they support a failed policy?

Please join Congresswoman Diana DeGette tonight at the Windsor Gardens Auditorium as she gives her constituents a progress report from Washington.

I got this information from her Denver Congressional District Office just a few minutes ago.

Location: Windsor Gardens Auditorium 595 S. Clinton St.

Time: 7 pm Tuesday evening May 29 (TONIGHT) 1 hour only... talk fast!

Directions from Denver: East on Alameda to Clinton and then South on Clinton for 1-2 blks. The Auditoriun is attached to the clubhouse and to the rear of it.

A great time to ask about her saving 1,000 US Soldiers lives by stopping the Iraq War Now, not next year.

And oh yes there is the issue of the Cheney WMD Lies that put our soldiers in harms way in the first place.

Is DeGette going to protect Cheney from accountability for the lies and make him pay a political price for lying.. or let Cheney skate?

Will she become a Co-Sponsor on US Rep. Kucinich's Bill to Impeach Cheney?

Does she think it is important that she vote to uphold and protect the US Constitution?

Does she think someone worse than Bush will every be President?
Could it be a threat to our Constitutional Republic if that happened?

Tell her Presidents will never fear Impeachment or respect Congress if she and the others Never Impeach anyone.

How about Gonzales?

She's your Congresswoman and she works for you.

Tell her (respectfully) what you want her to do.

This is a good opportunity to find common ground with the next generation of evangelicals. MyDD.com's Matt Stoller thinks that this may be a way to find out if the next evangelical's really do believe in "good stewardship of the earth" and in "social justice" issues that have been shunned by the old generation like Falwell and Dobson.

Matt excerpts a part of the book "The Irresistible" by Shane Claiborne:

"We fight terrorism -- the terrorism within each of us, the terrorism of corporate greed, of American consumerism, of war. We are not pacifist hippies but passionate lovers who abhor passivity and violence. We spend our lives actively resisting everything that destroys life, whether that be terrorism or the war on terrorism. "



Read the rest here Link .

You can count me among the people who were Not Very Happy about how the voting went Friday on the Iraq funding bill. I've read quite a few commentaries on the matter now, so it's only fair I subject people to mine.

Picture this. In the middle of a grocery store aisle, a kid who's plenty old enough to know better is on the floor, kicking his heels, pounding his fists, and screaming the place down because he isn't getting something he wants.

That's George.

A mortified mom is standing by, aware everyone is staring. It's a no-win situation. She can't run the little heathen over with the shopping cart and go merrily on her way--she's stuck with him. She's not quite at the point where she's willing to become even MORE of a spectacle by dragging him out by his ear. The only way to end the ugly scene, she thinks, is to cave and give the brat what he wants.

That's our Democratic congressfolks.

And of course, there's a self-righteous know-it-all watching the whole thing and saying, loudly enough for everyone to hear, "I have never SEEN such a horrible example of incompetence! She's just GIVING IN to him -- HE'S the one in control!"

That's the media.

I know my little parable isn't a perfect fit for every Dem who didn't vote the way WE would surely have done, if WE were there as the elected representatives of the people. I'm sure at least some of them did what they always do and voted in the way they thought would be most expedient -- for them. But on the other hand, I am willing to believe others honestly felt torn and were trying to do the best they could in a bad situation.

Because there's a much older tale that applies here too. Remember the story of King Solomon and the two women who claimed the same baby? He suggested the fair way to settle the matter was to cut the baby in half. Of course the REAL mother caved in an instant. She would rather lose her child to the phony than see him killed.

Bush has made it crystal clear that he is fine with cutting any baby in half, any where, any time, if it means that he isn't giving in and "losing" a battle of wills. The tactic of putting withdrawal dates and benchmarks in funding bills was a good idea, well worth an attempt. But sometimes the best way to win a fight is to change up and try something new, not keep bulling forward with the same weapon until all you end up with is a dead and bloody "victory".

To go back to my first parable, what is needed to help the mom deal with the heathen child is straight-forward, caring, intelligent assistance from someone who's a step or two outside the central situation. A very good friend, say, able and willing to suggest something else to try that might work better. Someone to be supportive, and yet honest about how things will get much MUCH worse for everyone involved if SOMETHING isn't done, and soon.

That friend is us.

No matter how upset and disappointed we are, we have to remember we're needed.

Don't give up.

If people are misinformed then look no further then the Washington Post's editorial on Rep. Murtha. It is intellectually dishonest. Talkingpointsmemo.com nailed them on their smear of Rep. Murtha by comparing him to the corrupt Tom DeLay.

Here is the nail:

"But there's a key detail the Post editorial neglected to mention -- Murtha's threat was entirely hollow. As Dana Milbank explained this week, "By tacit agreement between the parties, Murtha controls only the Democratic earmarks and lets the ranking Republican on the committee, Bill Young of Florida, handle GOP earmarks." Murtha wasn't in a position to punish Rogers, even if he wanted to.

When DeLay threatened a House colleague, he or she knew DeLay would follow through. Murtha's threat was largely meaningless."

So their readership at the Washington Post who by and large are ignorant of the workings of the House would think that the Dems are just as corrupt as Tom DeLay's House was.

This is why we have to vigilant and aggressive in attacking dishonesty in the press.

Nut job Washington Post reporter John Solomon writes:

"The dispute over Gupta's bankrolling of the Clintons offers new detail about how successfully Bill Clinton has leveraged the inner circle of donors he cultivated during his tenure in the White House to his personal financial benefit since he left office. In addition, it suggests the degree to which Hillary Clinton's political career is also benefiting from those connections...."

But what is the ending of his "smear":

"The Clintons are not parties to the lawsuit, nor are they accused of any wrongdoing. In fact, the lawsuit refers only to a "former high-ranking government official" and his wife."

John Solomon has written major "hit" pieces on Edwards and McCain.

The Columbia Journalism Review writes:

"Like NFL coaches who always seem to land with another team no matter how many bad decisions they make, some reporters are able to churn out a steady stream of mediocrity, with little consequence.

For whatever reason, Washington Post scribe John Solomon appears to have achieved this status, and has been milking it for years. (We first flagged some of his suspect work when he was with the AP back in 2004.)"

Read the rest here Link .

The 4th estate hard at work to game the election.

Just noticed this. New York Times and CBS released their latest national poll

"Americans now view the war in Iraq more negatively than at any time since the invasion more than four years ago," the Times reports today.

61% say the United States should have stayed out of Iraq

76% say things are going badly there, including 47% who say things are going very badly.

From Editor & Publisher article By E&P Staff Published: May 25, 2007
Link


2008 Democratic campaign planners should pay attention.

In 2008 the voters, once more ignored and blown off... will have an Election Day disappointment waiting for some congressional candidates.

I hope it doesn't come to that

Stoping The Iraq War ASAP
and
Impeaching Cheney (minimum) should be in the Democratic Congress's plans.

Just saw this on Informed Comment by Juan Cole:

"Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Starving the Americans Out

Someone in the Green Zone leaked the following memo, which shows that US personnel are now actually facing difficulties in getting food by convoy up from Kuwait. They avoid local food in the Baghdad region because of the danger guerrillas will poison it.

'Due to a theater-wide delay in food delivery, menu selections will be limited for the near future. While every effort will be made to provide balanced meals, it may not be possible to offer the dishes you are used to seeing at each meal. Fresh fruits and salad bar items will also be severely limited or unavailable.

The informant adds his own comment:

The bottom line is that our troops depend on a ground supply line that runs from Kuwait to the various bases in Iraq. When I was in Iraq last year at the U.S. base in Balad I had the chance to eat four meals a day--breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight rations (midrats). If you like late nights the midrats were great--steak, eggs, pancakes. Pretty good food. Well, based on this memo, it looks like those were the good old days. We don't have enough convoys to give our troops three hot meals a day. '

posted by Juan @ 5/23/2007 11:24:00 AM "

It's simply: The Iraqi government wants the US out. A timeline is demanded by the Iraqi government but that demand is ignored by the Blood King Bush and Blood Queen Cheney- BTW, Cheney is interfering with the choices that Bush "sees" for Iran, specifically Condi's diplomatic overtures.

Support in September that there be no funding bill for the occupation of Iraq. A clean solution. The military must plan now to do with current funds for a withdrawal.

Remember: The lottery of death for the next 300 + American soldiers lives in Iraq has begun (remember in September we will see who has lived).

The following is from an email I just received from "The Pen". I'm not sure who this person is but he/she hits the Cheney Nail on the head.

If you agree with the points raised by 'The Pen':
Email me at protestinthestreet@yahoo.com

Sure we're angry about the failure of the Democrats to stand up for
ending the Iraq occupation.

But what is the root cause of that anger, and where do we productively
DIRECT our anger so that the REAL problem is impacted?

It's not just this latest Iraq supplemental.

This is just the latest example of the failure of the (Democratic) Congress to actually confront the MANY Constitutional Outrages of the Cheney Administration.

That's right, we said

the Cheney Administration.

Bush is nothing more than a stooge . . . a hapless, snickering,
stubborn stooge perhaps, but a stooge nonetheless, who couldn't complete a
logical sentence in the English language without the talking points they
give him to rehearse and read from.

It is Cheney who dragged the country into invading Iraq, who was the
master chef in cooking the intelligence, who pushed for torture as
accepted U.S. foreign policy, who was the driving force behind the illegal
wiretaps, the unprecedented expansion of executive power, the outing of
Valerie Plame, who ordered the stand down of our air defenses on 9/11,
and is even now working overtime to plunge us into an even more
monumental debacle in Iran.

It's been all Cheney, all the time, since day one of this disastrous administration.

So why won't Congress (with the exception of Kucinich and the other 3
sponsors of H.R. 333) even talk about impeaching someone who has
committed every Constitutional high crime in the book?

Have you voted in the National Cheney Impeachment Poll yet? More then
50,000 of your friends and neighbors have,

but what about you?

Maybe there's 'your' complete answer.

Why would we expect Congress to act on what we want them to do unless we TELL them what we want them to do (and often)?

Why should we accuse them of not listening to the people(us), unless we
are actively talking to them.

Why should we be mad at them for not acting, UNLESS we force them to act.

A lot of people are calling their members of Congress right now to yell at them about the Iraq supplemental surrender. And we should join them
in that too.

But it's kinda like trying to put out a fire on one side of a room with someone pouring on more gasoline from the other side.

Unless we confront the REAL problem, Dick Cheney, and remove him from
power soon, the flames may be so high over our heads that we may no
longer be able to do anything about it. We are that close to a military
holocaust right now.

So DO call your members of Congress. at 800-828-0498

And let them know they have ZERO chance of getting elected again
themselves if they continue to vote for funding the Iraq sinkhole without accountability.

But the same time, and most importantly, demand that they step up and confront the Cheney Impeachment Imperative.

As long as Cheney is in the White House, Bush will just continue to arrogantly parrot the words Cheney feeds him, and we are in greater peril each successive day.

It's Cheney, folks. The problem is Cheney.

Please take action NOW

Call everyone in Congress... Call 800-828-0498
starting with your Congressman/woman and Speaker Pelosi

Tell they if they want to be relected and avoid a Primary Challenge they'd
better Stop The Iraq War Now (don't the 1000 extra Dead US Soldiers matter?)
and Impeach VP Cheney

Make Your Vote Count at the

NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL:
(is not Just a Poll... filling out this form allows you to Vote on Impeachment and email your support for Impeachment to your Senators and Congressmen, and your local newspapers as well.
Link

And Call 800-828-0498 Tell Speaker Pelosi and all of the Congressmen to
Stop The Iraq War Now and Impeach Cheney (be a Co-Sponsor on HR-333)

Memorize this Number 800-828-0498 and tell your friends to
Call their congressman Often.

From: "The Pen"


Note: So far there are 3 Weekly Impeachment Rallys in Denver Colorado
Each Week

JOIN US.... Show us you Care About the Constitution and the Rule Of Law

Every Tuesday: Noon-1:00 pm at East 6th & Speer

Every Wednesday: Noon-1:00 pm Lincoln & 14th @ St. Capital

Every Wednesday: 5:00-6:00 pm Colfax & Broadway Denver Post-RM News Building, Denver, Colorado

..

Why consult and pay big bucks for idiots? What are the political affiliations of these pollsters?

This is bad advice:

""Obviously it's a good move," said Democratic pollster Fred Yang. "It gives President Bush and Republicans one less thing to shoot at" during the upcoming recess week."

This is Matt Stoller's take on this abdication of moral responsiblity by the Democratic Party on the Iraq appropriation bill:

"Yang's comments are particularly silly, though I guess I shouldn't be surprised since he accepted Third Way's fraudulent study as 'useful' when it was actually statistical malpractice. There's actually a secret problem in Democratic politics where a lot of our pollsters actually don't know how to do professional polling. But we'll leave that aside.

The key take-away here is that the Democratic Party is degraded and disorganized, and it shows. It's not just that the party is bought off, though some members are. It's that even the ones who want to do the right thing are constantly being told by people like Yang that capitulating to the President is obviously the right move, and that their concession is not actually a concession."

Read the rest here Link .

We, you and I, and the millions of progressive and liberal voters must tell our elected representatives that it is time to listen to us not to the pollsters who are without a moral compass.

This is not rocket science on why Democrats of conscience should not vote for this deeply immoral bill.

It is in our elected representatives power to "let these men live". We must never let them forget that power.

"It is our responsibility to let these men live...."
- Robert F. Kennedy, 3-24-1968

It's not about money or power or gainsmanship.

Let DeGette, Udall, Perlmutter, and the brothers Salazar know that it is upon their heads that a life depends on their "NO" vote for the Iraq funding appropriation.

There's a saying that goes, "Wearing buttons is not enough." That's true, but on the other hand, they can help start conversations that a good grassroots progressive can use to advantage.

I am going to try to share a new button idea, WITH artwork, once a week. You can download it, copy it, use it, send it around, whatever you want. You can even rewrite and redraw it to better suit your own style and needs!

I missed last week, so today I am doing a twofer.



Don't try to print from the above image...it will come out way too small.

The link below will give you one that should print out art the right size for a 2 1/4" button.

Pro Your Own Life Art

Here's one I would particularly like to see IMplemented in real life.



And again, a link to larger size artwork that should print out to the right size for a standard 2 1/4" button.

IM...peach art

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Button making kits are inexpensive (for the small sets, anyway) and easy to use. Feel free to contact me for more details and advice on that topic.

Thanks to a very smart suggestion from Michael Ditto, I checked in on my old Cafe Press account, and I have now set it up so you can get these buttons made there. You can also get the famous "Still A Deanocrat/Still Want My Country Back" shirts I originally set the storefront up to provide, if you are so inclined.... There is a 25 cent markup on the buttons because they won't let you have more than one button unless you are a "Premiere" store, which requires a fee. If I start selling 25 buttons a month, I'll take the extra off again.

Neonnurse's CafePress

Something fun I just sent out in my county party's weekly e-newsletter. Enjoy!

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Here's something I stumbled on that is too good not to share, a parody of the old kids TV cartoon, the Wonder Friends. It seems to be a trailer for a longer web production coming out this summer. Worth a view just to see Hillary in a Wonder Woman style costume!

"Hillary, Obama, Edwards and Gore use their superpowers to thwart the administrations conquest of the universe."

Link

I talked with Greg Diamond today on the appropriation for war. He said that Diane doesn't have a position on the bill because the bill hasn't been written yet.

He thinks there will be a bill on Thurs or Fri of this week.

Go down to DeGette's office (6th & Grant) and let them know what the voters think of this bill which does not have a time table for withdrawal from Iraq.

As I said in a previous post: It is time for the Democratic leadership to face the fact that this is total war, a burnt earth approach because Mr. Bush and his allies in Congress only understand the power of the fist.

Read what is on Dailykos:

"Channel Your Fury
by Meteor Blades
Tue May 22, 2007 at 06:10:11 PM PDT
It would be hard to find a progressive who had a good Tuesday as far as Iraq is concerned. The Senate-House conference committee put together an ugly compromise that would give Mister Bush tens of billions of dollars to continue the catastrophe in Iraq. Call it what you will - a blank check, a sell-out, a surrender - it ultimately amounts to failure, unless victory is defined as getting a signable bill on the President's desk regardless of its contents.

Compromise is when two sides each give up something they want in order to get something they want in return. But from this compromise among themselves, what exactly is it that the Democrats will be getting in return from the White House?

Nothing. Because the President refuses to compromise."

And this:

"In Case There Was Any Doubt
by Devilstower
Tue May 22, 2007 at 03:56:39 PM PDT
Here's how it plays in the media:

Democrats Concede On Iraq

Democrats Retreat in Funding Showdown

Bush Wins Congressional Battle Over Iraq

Democrats Concede. Democrats Retreat. Bush Wins. And that's not even covering the many stories on how the Democrats "caved in" or "blinked." Yes, that's exactly the kind of news everyone was looking for after 2006. I think we were all hoping for headlines just like these.

There are a few stories out there about how Democrats need to explain this position to "liberals," that being the 70% of the public who wants out of Iraq. I can answer that one quickly: don't bother."

I for one have a hard time explained to progressives and liberals as to why they should support the Democratic Party and its elected officials when they wither before a dictator.

I will be going down to DeGette's office on Thursday. Anybody willing to come along at 1 p.m.?

Impeachment Activists will hold 2 Downtown Denver Impeach Cheney events on Wednesday May 23rd.

They will be demonstrating to ask Congress to Impeach Vice President Cheney for lying to Congress about Weapons Of Mass Destruction in Iraq in order to get permission from Congress to Invade Iraq.

The first event will be at the State Capital at Noon-1 pm at Lincoln & 14th.

The second event is at Colfax & Broadway at 5:00 pm in front of the Denver Post-Rocky Mountain News Building.

All are welcome. We have Impeach Signs for You To Carry... Just Show Up
Both event are one hour in duration.

Weather for Wed:
Link


Vote to Impeach VP Cheney First! in the Online MSNBC Impeachment Poll
Link

Send Email to your Congressman/woman and tell them to become a Co-Sponsor of US Rep. Kucinich's Bill to Impeach VP Cheney HR-333
Link

Either the decision-makers at CBS News have totally lost their nerve following the Don Imus scandal; or Karl Rove's bag of tricks includes a direct line to Leslie Moonves, President and CEO of CBS Corporation and Sean McManus, President of CBS News.

Remember when shock-jock Don Imus used racist and misogynistic terms to refer to a women's college basketball team? Well, it took CBS two weeks to fire him for that, but it only took them TWO DAYS to fire a respected General who had served with distinction in Iraq for speaking out against the current occupant of the White House.

General (Retired) John Batiste is one of the deeply courageous few who have joined General (Retired) Wes Clark and VoteVets.Org in speaking the truth about how this nation is being destroyed by the war in Iraq. CBS shouldn't be censoring or firing people for speaking their mind.

A petition urging CBS to re-hire General Batiste is under-way. Reversing the reprisal and intimidation of the original "firing" of General Batiste is a minimal step: I want to see a full-fledged apology -- on the air!

Do what you can to support a distinguished soldier restore some of his honor and reputation.

Link

There's more information on the firing on that page, too.

On May 20, 2006, The Colorado Democratic Party included in its platform a call for Bush and Cheney to be "investigated, censured or if appropriate, impeached.

Source: Link a posting by David Swanson at Democrats.Com Source: Link

Fourteen state Democratic parties have now passed resolutions demanding impeachment, nine of them since Nancy Pelosi ordered the Democratic Party away from impeachment.

The Democratic Party of Colorado, Nevada, Wisconsin, North Carolina, New Mexico, Vermont , Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, New Hampshire, Washington, Oregon, California have all joined the Call For Impeachment Of Bush, Cheney and even Alberto Gonzales. Many others have debated Impeachmentt.

The majority of these resolutions have never been reported in the media. Therefore, this list is almost certainly incomplete.


Impeachment momentum stretches now from one corner of our country to another. On Saturday, the Massachusetts Democratic Party resoundingly passed a resolution to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney - just 20 days after the California Democratic Party passed its impeachment resolution.

With ever more revelations of an out-of-control White House (now with sick-bed coercion), support for impeachment is growing generally and is becoming mainstream inside the Democratic Party. . .except for a few national leaders.

The Mass. charges were as follows:

"Whereas George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have:
• Deliberately misled the nation about the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war;
• Condoned the torture of prisoners in violation of the Geneva Convention & US law;
• Approved illegal electronic surveillance of American citizens without a warrant."

A year ago now, the Republican National Committee made its baseless claim that talk of impeachment would benefit Republicans in the November 2006 elections, and Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi immediately announced that impeachment was off the table.

* Cities and towns that have backed impeachment by resolution, public vote, or both: 79.
* Largest cities:
Detroit, home of the Democratic Chair of the House Judiciary Committee,
Measure was sponsored by the Wife of the above Chair.

San Francisco, home of the Speaker of the US House, Nancy Pelossi

It would appear that Speaker Pelossi is no longer in touch with the voters,
even in her own Congressional District.

One suspects that Democratic Voters want Bush and Cheney held accountable for misleading us into invading Iraq, a four year war in which 3,400/25,000 Americans Soldiers have been killed/wounded because of the WMD lies of these Oil Family Scion/Oil Barrons who played at war.

I'm told that the Congress will Impeach if We tell them to.

This 800 number will allow you to reach the Washington, DC office of Speaker Pelossi,
all of your State's Congressional Representatives
and the members of the US House's Judiciary Committee.

Those wanting Congress to impeach would be well advised to call all of these people (and often) and demand they put Impeachment back on the table.

Call 800-828-0498 and ask for the ofice of each of the following, one by one.

Speaker of the US House Nancy Pelossi
Ask her to allow and support debate on HR-333 the VP Cheney Impeachment Bill by Kucinich

Ask all Democratic Congressmen to become Co-Sponsors on Rep. Kucinich's Bill HR-333.
Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette
Colorado Congressman Mark Udall
Colorado Congressman John Salazar
Colorado Congressman Ed Perlmutter

I have included only the Democratic Congressman for a simple reason. GOP Congressman will not support Impeachment until forced to. The process of Impeachment must start in the US House Of Representatives and the Democrats therein are the only Congressman likely to initially support Impeachment. When the process has moved far enough forward that GOP Congressmen begin to feel the heat, they will then begin to support it.

US House Judiciary Committee Members (who control whether Impeach Bills get debated)
Call them all and ask them to Support Kucinich's HR-333 for debate by the full House

Rep. John Conyers (MI-14th), Committee Chairman
Rep. Howard Berman (CA-28th)
Rep. Rick Boucher (VA-9th)
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (NY-8th)
Rep. Bobby Scott (VA-3rd)
Rep. Melvin Watt (NC-12th)
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (CA-16th)
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18th)
Rep. Maxine Waters (CA-35th)
Rep. Marty Meehan (MA-5th)
Rep. William Delahunt (MA-10th)
Rep. Robert Wexler (FL-19th)
Rep. Linda Sanchez (CA-39th)
Rep. Stephen Cohen (TN-9th)
Rep. Hank Johnson (GA-4th)
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (IL-4th)
Rep. Brad Sherman (CA-27th)
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI-2nd)
Rep. Anthony Weiner (NY-9th)
Rep. Adam Schiff (CA-29th)
Rep. Artur Davis (AL-7th)
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20th)
Rep. Keith Ellison (MN-5th)

US Congressman Kucinich has recently introduced a Bill to Impeach VP Cheney, HR-333.
He has four Co-Sponsors but needs more. Ask all Democratic Congressmen to become Co-Sponsors on Kucinich's Bill HR-333.

You might also consider adding your name to this Petition to get MoveOn.org to Poll their entire Membership on Impeachment Link
MoveOn has curiously avoided allowing internal debate on Impeachment even though many members support it.



List of all known Colorado Impeachment Protests, Vigils, Rallys
(email: protestinthestreet@yahoo.com to get your event on the list)

at E 6th & Speer (near Channel-7 TV, every Tue Noon),
at Lincoln & 14th ( the State Capital, every Wed Noon)
at Denver Post/RM News Building at Colfax & Broadway at 5 pm every Wed.

Sponsors include Impeachment By The People Link , Progressive Democrats Of Colorado http://pdcolorado.org , Colorado Link , Colorado Chapter Of World Cant Wait Link and Weekly Vigils To Impeach Link , a project of this Group Link

Useful Colorado Impeachment websites:

Impeach Blog at Progress Now Action Link
WeeklyVigilsToImpeach Link
Impeachment By The People Link


We are in the midst of a political crisis that goes right to the heart of our constitutional government. Yet, without a depression or civil war on the horizon, we have been slow to respond to this threat to the future of our democracy

Can what Thomas Jefferson called the
"common sense and good judgment of the American people" help us now?
In the past, they have been a critical last resort
when our leaders endangered the constitutional checks and balances that have made us the world's oldest democracy. But first the public must wake up to this constitutional crisis. Gary Hart Link Link

When will you step up and help Impeach Cheney First?

Access to voting, registration for voting, voting machines (DRE), paper ballots...wasn't that solved with HAVA?

What's the big deal about the firing of those eight (or nine) federal prosecutors?

The end game for Rove has been exposed through the politicization of the Department of Justice under the leadership of Ashcroft and Gonzales for the single purpose of having a permanent Republican majority in Congress.

By suppressing a mere 3% of the Democratic vote will be enough to swing the 2008 elections in favor of the Republicans.

For partisan gain Rove is willing to destroy the integrity of the Department of Justice. That is un-American for Rove to act with the blessings of Mr. Bush to undermine the confidence that Americans have in the system of justice that we have abided by since the beginnings of this nation.

McClatchy newspapers has been at the forefront of this scandal:

"U. S. ATTORNEYS
Efforts to stop `voter fraud' may have curbed legitimate voting
By Greg Gordon
McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON - During four years as a Justice Department civil rights lawyer, Hans von Spakovsky went so far in a crusade against voter fraud as to warn of its dangers under a pseudonym in a law journal article.


Writing as "Publius," von Spakovsky contended that every voter should be required to produce a photo-identification card and that there was "no evidence" that such restrictions burden minority voters disproportionately.


Now, amid a scandal over politicization of the Justice Department, Congress is beginning to examine allegations that von Spakovsky was a key player in a Republican campaign to hang onto power in Washington by suppressing the votes of minority voters...

Read the rest here Link .

Readers of BradBlog.com know the dangers that face democracy in America. Even the network television shows are showing the dangers:

"The following compilation of a few scenes from last week's HEROES on NBC demonstrates a very real scenario: the ability of a single person to hack an election via inappropriate access to a voting machine --- the type of access regularly granted to election officials, voting machine company employees, and poll workers allowed to take voting machines home for "sleepovers" prior to elections."

Read the rest here Link .

How secure is voting on electronic voting machines? Think that those companies like Diebold and ESS have secured their machines since 2004?

"Worm attacked voter database in notorious Florida district
Machine in hotly contested 13th Congressional district lain low by Slammer on first day of election
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May 16, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The computer database infrastructure of Sarasota County, Fla., was attacked by a notorious Internet worm on the first day of early voting during the 2006 election, which featured the now-contested U.S. House race between Democrat Christine Jennings and Republican Vern Buchanan in Florida's 13th Congressional district.

In the early afternoon hours on Monday, Oct. 23, 2006, an Internet worm slammed into the county's database system, breaching its firewall and overwriting the system's administrative password. The havoc brought the county's network -- and the electronic voting system which relies on it -- to its knees as Internet access was all but lost at voting locations for two hours that afternoon. Voters in one of the nation's most hotly contested Congressional elections were unable to cast ballots during the outage, since officials were unable to verify registration data...."

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This is all about the next presidential election. There is the very real possiblity that the progressive/liberal wing in the U.S. Supreme Court will retire within the next few years. A Republican will have the chance to place on the Supreme Court that likes of three more Scalia, Roberts and Alito clones that will turn back the clock to a gilded era, free market, pre New Deal society.

This is the choice for 2008: Let the liberal ideals that have made this nation great or let America become the Pottersville of the world.

If you give up your principals for "compromise" and "accomodation" then what do you have left? Political total war should be brought to the Blood King Bush.

The Democratic Party's elected officials did just that but the Blood King Bush's lust for total control spurned the Democrats offer of a "waivable timetable" for the killing fields in Iraq of our American soldiers.

What I say is that the Democratic Party's elected leadership should devote its resources to forcing the Blood King out of Iraq by any and all means necessary. A timetable should be brought onto every bill presented for signing by the Blood King. Every day the flag should be at half staff in Congress. Everyday there should be huge pictures hung in both chambers of Congress of each new dead American soldier. Everyday our elected representatives should be bombarding the press with the facts of the Blood King's war of conquest in human terms. Everyday should the America be reminded that the cost of this war will be for decades to come in financial slavery to those who bought our IOU's for this war for oil. Everyday the cost of this war should be shown in the loss of loved ones. This is war that should be fought for the "hearts and minds" of an America that owes its very existence to the ideals within the Constitution and Bill of Rights which has been summarily aborted by the Blood King.

It is only the fact that the Blood King Bush wants Americans to die in pursuit of his own hidden dry drunk demons of his soul that his minons reject any and all compromise.

We are right and the Blood King will continue to kill until he is brought to justice.

We must speak truth to those that we elected.

Read this:

"Talks Between White House And Congressional Dems Breaking Down
By Greg Sargent | bio

The meeting between Dem Congressional leaders and the White House over how to resolve the Iraq war spending standoff has just ended, and it looks like things are at a serious impasse.

Dem leaders just said at their post-meeting press availability that the White House's negotiators rejected everything that Dems offered. A Dem offer of a war timetable that the President could actually waive -- that is, not follow? Rejected. A Dem offer to get rid of the pork in the supplemental? Also rejected."

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Looks like Colorado needs to create another pair of binoculars (or a microscope) to look into the political agenda of US Attorney Troy Eid. The veil of secrecy has been lifted and it turns out that Eid's appointment may have had much less to do with competency as a prosecutor than his reliability as a partisan political operative in the eyes of Karl Rove (with the almost certain glowing endorsement of Rove's "mini-me" Dick Wadhams).

Today's Rocky Mountain News report, Allard: Nominee's rejection 'strange' Link fills in a picture of the Rove machine rejecting Allard's firm endorsement of William Leone to stay in the job. He was a veteran prosecutor who had earned Allard's praise as "…an effective federal prosecutor."

Eid feigns ignorance as to why he was selected by the Rove - Harriett Miers justice as political theater team. But, that doesn't hold water under the degrees of separation test. Connecting the dots between Eid, Wadhams and Rove provides a "well, duh!" explanation.

Once again, the most radical elements of the GOP have brushed aside Senator Wayne Allard in favor of the scandal of the day scheme that has turned the once venerable US Attorneys into petty political lackeys for the hypocritical and destructive aims of Karl Rove and the neo-con cabal surrounding the current occupant of the White House.

The people of Colorado should be very afraid that Troy Eid is taking his cues for prosecution from Karl Rove, and not from the US Code and Federal law enforcement investigators. Once again it seems that Colorado holds a prominent Republican office-holder (this time an appointee rather than an elected Secretary of State or Jefferson County Commissioner) deserving of a criminal investigation.

Today's report makes it certain that effectiveness as a prosecutor was not on the White House (Rove/Miers - Alberto Gonzales) menu when they placed Troy Eid as US Attorney. Thus every action Eid has taken since being installed in now in question. The integrity of his tenure is now as suspect as the US Attorney General.

Truly Eid can do a lot of damage in the 613 days until the current occupant of the White House leaves and the next Democratic US President must start the long, hard process of un-doing the great debacle of the previous eight years. Action should be taken to quickly minimize the damage that can be done to rule of law and the US Constitution by Troy Eid as the Rove - Gonzales political prosecutor in-chief in Colorado.