An independent group of citizens in suburban MD working to impeach the President and the Vice President
Elizabeth Holtzman is the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, and 33 years ago Monday she voted to impeach President Richard M. Nixon.
Great books by Liz Holtzman* : The Impeachment of George W. Bush and Who Said It Would Be Easy: One Woman’s Life in the Political Arena.
*with Cyntha Cooper.
CNN is congratulating itself profusely for its YouTube debate, and they showed a lot of excellent questions. But they refused to show the #1 video as voted on by visitors to CommunityCounts. The hands-down winning question was on impeachment.
http://www.democrats.com/cnn-censors-impeachment-youtube
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On a conference call with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) supporters today, our Congressman and DCCC chairman Chris Van Hollen said he was against supporting impeachment.
A caller asked about “Congress’s constitutional responsibility to impeach,” adding “How much further abuse will be required for Democratic leadership to take action?”
Representative Van Hollen replied that Democrats have “stepped up from Day 1″ and that they’re now in a “big fight” over the process of how U.S. Attorneys are hired and fired, and are now using subpoena power to try to compel testimony about that matter.
However, he did not want to “consume the entire resources and efforts” of Congress on impeachment. He claimed that impeachment would “would indisputably be the whole [focus] of Congress,” and that with the amount of time remaining before the next election, that would hinder Democrats’ ability to move forward on other things. He closed by reiterating the talking point that he did not want to “consume the entire resources of Congress on impeachment.”
Neither the caller nor Rep. Van Hollen mentioned Monday’s Takoma Park city council vote recommending impeachment.
Watch this space for links to any recordings, transcripts, or corroborating links that become available.
Photo by Seth Grimes
At a Wednesday evening Old Takoma Residents Association (OTRA) meeting, Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin said she would be happy to sponsor an impeachment resolution like the one Takoma Park passed on Monday.
She and her aides will be studying the Takoma Park impeachment resolution (.PDF file), which urges “our elected members of the Montgomery County Council, the Montgomery County Executive, the Maryland legislature and the Governor to consider and adopt similar resolutions.”
The Takoma Park impeachment vote has become emblematic of historically low approval ratings for President Bush, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann said tonight. From the blurb for the segment, titled “Bush approval ratings continue to dwindle”:
A new poll finds that 65 percent of Americans, disapprove of Bush’s performance as president. Many communities are attempting to impeach both the president and vice president.
That would be us. Olbermann:
…so little surprise, perhaps, that Takoma Park, Maryland’s city council this week voted unanimously to impeach both Mr. Bush and of course Mr. Cheney as well. It became the 81st municipality to do so.
Carlson is worried that our resolution is somehow crossing the line between local and federal issues. You remember that passage in the Constitution about “separation of local and federal government,” right??
Tucker: Some years ago, when Takoma Park declared itself a nuclear free zone, there was some concern that Takoma Park was going to create an army or a militia or something and, kind of, strike out on its own. Is that—in the cards?
Mayor Porter. [pause] No.
Watch Video. Read MSNBC intro.
Using the blog search engine Technorati, here’s an annotated chart of the daily number of blog posts containing the word Impeach over the last 360 days:
To track the same thing dynamically for the past 30 days, check the image below from time to time. This image will change each day, adding a new count for “today” on the right, and dropping the oldest column on the left.
Prior to yesterday’s unanimous Takoma Park City Council approval of an impeachment resolution, citizens of Takoma Park and neighboring areas made statements to the City Council during the public comment period. A video of the meeting and these statements is available on the Takoma Park web site.
We’ll use this space to publish all statements we get a go-ahead for from the speaker, who we can identify either by his/her full name or his/her initials. (PS: transcribing is time consuming work, and we’d like to get some help transcribing the statements when there’s no prepared electronic file to work with.) Statements are in the same order as at the hearing, and currently include those by Thomas Nephew, Lisa Moscatiello, Jay Levy, Anita Burkam, and Felicia Eberling.
We’ll also use this space for separately prepared statements, such as those delivered by e-mail to the City Council and shared with us; these will be in the order we receive them. So watch this space… there were a lot of good comments.
As reported in the prior post, the Takoma Park City Council unanimously approved — and improved — a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
Sponsoring councilmember Reuben Snipper was joined by councilmembers Seamens, Barry, Williams, and Mayor Kathy Porter in the 5-0 vote. Councilmembers Austin-Lane and Clay were out of town.*
The original resolution was amended by Councilmember Seamens — without objection — to also recommend that the county council and state legislature pass impeachment resolutions, and to urge Takoma Park residents to write Rep. Chris Van Hollen, Senator Ben Cardin, and Senator Barbara Mikulski asking them to support impeachment. (Link to text of amended resolution forthcoming.)
Continue reading ‘Impeachment resolution approved, improved’
Monday Night the Takoma Park, MD City Council UNANIMOUSLY passed a resolution calling on Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney.
Which is the question you MOST want Presidential candidates to answer in Monday nights YouTube/CNN debate? So far the winner by a long shot is on impeachment. Go VOTE
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