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<div><b>As of today, there were 98,659 signers....</b></div>
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<div><b>Spurned By Major Papers On Impeachment, Congressman Gets
54,000 Signatures In 1 Day<br>
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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.<br>
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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
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<div><font size="-1">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.<br>
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"The truth is the mainstream media have no interest in this
issue," Wexler said Friday.<br>
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"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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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."<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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!<br>
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Sources include Raw Story and an OpEd by Dave Lindorff<br>
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