[Peacectr_list] Congressman Wexler Seeks Signatures for Impeachment

Wed Dec 19 18:53:33 UTC 2007

As of today, there were 98,659 signers....

Spurned By Major Papers On Impeachment, Congressman Gets 54,000 
Signatures In 1 Day

As the House Judiciary Committee has refused to take any action on 
proposals to begin impeachment hearings on Vice President Dick 
Cheney, three of that panel's members tried to take their case to 
influential op-ed pages of the nation's largest newspapers. Since the 
Constitution isn't a "brand" that advertises with them they 
apparently decided to skip the whole discussion.

The Congressional committee members were turned down by every one -- 
including the New York Times, Washington Post and Miami Herald -- so 
now one of the lawmakers has taken his campaign to the Internet.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) on Friday launched a new Web site, 
http://www.WexlerWantsHearings.com to advance his call to impeach 
Cheney. In a single day more than 50,000 Americans signed on lending 
strength to the evidence that there is a media blackout concerning 
impeachment. The site hosts an op-ed article rejected by the nation's 
major newspapers and outlines the case for impeaching Cheney.

"The truth is the mainstream media have no interest in this issue," 
Wexler said Friday.

"They have bought into the notion that impeachment hearings are 
outside the bounds of what the congress ought to be doing," the 
six-term Congressman elaborated during a conference call Friday.

The House Judiciary Committee has before it a resolution introduced 
by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) calling for Cheney's impeachment and 
accusing the vice president of a raft of high crimes, including 
manipulating intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, obstructing 
federal investigations and conspiring to expose the identity of 
covert CIA agent Valerie Plame. Curiously Treason, probably the 
strongest potential charge has not been included so far although 
there is evidence for that charge as well.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said impeachment in strictly off the 
table, and the Judiciary Committee seems unlikely to move forward 
with any hearings. Wexler encouraged impeachment supporters to sign a 
petition on his new site to allay the notions of Democratic leaders 
that impeachment supporters are little more than "a fringe, marginal 
group of people."

Wexler said the House has the constitutional obligation to begin 
impeachment hearings to investigate malfeasance within the Bush 
administration, and he blamed the lack of enthusiasm thus far on the 
"bad taste" left by the GOP's last impeachment crusade.

More than 50,000 people responded in just one day to Rep. Wexler's 
call for people to sign his on-line petition supporting an immediate 
start to hearings on Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Cheney Impeachment bill.

As of Sunday morning, 54,000 people had signed the petition at 
WexlerWantsHearings.com calling for action now. And names are being 
added at a rate of one every one or two seconds!

Sources include Raw Story and an OpEd by Dave Lindorff

read the rest at:
  http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Spurned_by_major_newspapers_Dem_Congressman_1214.html

  http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_lin_071216_we_did_it_21_50_2c000_si.htm

  http://news.google.com/nwshp?tab=wn&ncl=1124945664&hl=en
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