We The People Impeach -- It's Not Too Late!

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• Here's What You Can Do To Impeach Either Bush or Cheney:

1. Call one or more of the 44 pro-impeachment House members listed in the link at the left. Urge them to file an impeachment bill or to co-sponsor a colleague’s bill. Remind them that in 1973, House Democrats banded together in the “Nixon Flooding Plan” and filed nearly 100 separate impeachment bills. (SEE Full explanation in article below: “Nixon Flooding Plan Worked! Apply it to Bush/Cheney—NOW!”

2. If you have a friend or family member across the country who lives in one of their districts, lobby them hard to call their House Representative and file an impeachment bill or to co-sponsor a colleague’s bill.

3. If you want to add more than 1 HIGH CRIME for impeachment, click on the link: “The List of Impeachable Crimes against Bush and Cheney.” The House Judiciary Committee has been collecting extensive evidence ever since 2005 to back every charge.

The 'Nixon Flooding Plan' Worked In 1973!  It Can Still Work NOW on Bush/Cheney

The strategy of the “Nixon Flooding Plan”—House members in 1973 filing nearly 100 separate impeachment bills (two-thirds for investigations only)—worked to convince President Richard Nixon that Republican leaders were right in strongly suggesting he resign or face the House’s impeachment and the Senate’s conviction for his high crimes against the Constitution and American citizens. Nixon resigned August 9, 1974. The House Judiciary Committee unanimously impeached him on 3 charges on August 20. But House Speaker Carl Albert blocked a House vote.

What House members did then can be done by the 44 pro-impeachment House members now. All it takes is one charge of impeachment and the one Bush admitted to—warrantless wiretapping even before 9/11 - violates the 4^th Amendment on privacy. It would take only a day for the House Judiciary committee to impeach and this time force Speaker Nancy Pelosi to ask for a House vote.

Here’s the 2008 strategy:

1. One bill each from, say, 25 members will receive more notice and will have more power in a committee/subcommittee than a single bill with 25 co-sponsors.

2. 25 members—each filing an investigation bill, 1 per week—may encourage the courage of other members to follow suit or to become a co-sponsor (Rep. Bella Abnzug’s 1973 bill had 16).

3. If a member files a bill, s/he does not have to round up a single co-sponsor, as was the situation in the Nixon impeachment bills.
4. The member does not have to co-sponsor a bill authored by someone s/he doesn’t like or respect.
5. The member is obeying the oath of office to support/defend the Constitution—instead of opposing impeachment candidates. It is non-political.

6. The member will have prevented nullification of Congress’ powers via signing statements or precedent-setting “unitary-executive” actions by the President. Doing nothing right now provides precedent for future presidents (e.g., McCain, Clinton, Obama, et al.) to disregard Congress. No President would ever relinquish powers President Bush has seized that are illegal under the U.S. Constitution.

7. Vote-getting: To progressive constituents, filing a bill to investigate whether a President/Vice President have committed high crimes and misdemeanors rising to the Constitutional standards for impeachment.

8. Vote-getting: To undecided/hostile constituents, an investigatory bill can be cited as the means to silence impeachment proponents once and for all. To inform them that a hearing does not automatically result in impeachment in the House Judiciary committee or the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

9. Neither House business nor the time factor will be affected, as was the case inthe Clinton impeachment. Hearings should take no longer than a day or two in that President Bush admitted violations of the Fourth Amendment by warrantless wiretapping even before September 11, 2001.

Vice President Cheney threatened aggression against Iran publicly on an aircraft carrier’s deck off its shores was in direct violation of the Constitution’s adherence to international law governing threats to the United States.

10. The member will have saved time and costs, but more especially will have saved both the Constitution and our democracy from those who intend to destroy both.

2 Impeach groups run ad in Capital Hill's Roll Call to Prod 44 House pro-impeachment members

Courtesy, Roll Call, April 29, 2008

The idea of buying an ad was to get attention from Congress when phone calls and emails were  ignored. John Edwards took out a full-page ad in Roll Call when he opened his presidential campaign last year.  We decided to run it on a Tuesday morning when members were at coffee in the House cafeterias and enjoying a leisurely read of Roll Call ("The Newspaper of Capitol Hill Since 1955").  We designed an ad to make them either sit up or gasp.  The ad above used the  "stopper" that features former President Richard Nixon, as seen by graphic artist Paul Gottlich.

It was placed by our group—and Portland’s South Side DFA Group—for Tuesday morning, April 29, when the House had just returned from Spring recess.  The ad was part of the two groups' campaign to encourage 44 pro-impeachment House members to repeat the “Nixon Flooding Plan” by filing separate bills against President Bush and/or Vice President Cheney. 

Back in 1973, 89 of their predecessors joined forces to oust President Nixon by each filing separate impeachment bills.  They knew that one bill with 89 cosponsors might be ignored by the House Speaker and/or the House Judiciary Committee chair.  But not 89 separate bills (40 were filed in October alone).  Nixon quickly resigned a few days before the HJC voted unanimously to send three articles of impeachment to the Senate for a trial. He knew both houses were poised to quickly oust him, opening the door to a federal trial and possible long prison sentence for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Our two groups gambled we could raise enough money to defray the ad's cost ($3,715). We’re still open for contributions if you want to be part of this landmark lobbying effort. (SEE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW.) 

The next action in the Nixon Flooding Plan will be to point out to those 44 House members that Bush can be impeached on a single charge of theft (Art. II, Sect. 4) which he just secretly committed in the subprime mortgage scandal.  He stole $29 billion from the Treasury to give—via a Federal Reserve bank—to one investment bank (J P Morgan/Chase) to bail-out a major subprime mortgage loan shark (Bear Stearns). 

The U.S. Constitution (Art. I, Sect. 8:2) says only Congress can take such action. But Bush neither asked Congress to "help" Bear Stearns, nor did he ask for competitive bids from other Federal Reserve member banks.  His theft has opened the door to future repeated "bail-outs" to save currently at least four other troubled banks—Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup.

All it takes to oust a public official like a president/vice president—is one article of impeachment. And Bush’s $29 billion-dollar theft for Bear Stearns could be it.  For once, Congress was not complicit in a high crime of Bush and/or Cheney, as too many members have been in the other high crimes. They now have a golden opportunity to restore their powers from a “unitary usurper,” as stipulated in the Constitution’s ultimate weapon against a dictatorship: IMPEACHMENT..

The two groups are now strongly urging  activist groups around the country’s hundreds of websites to make phone calls, to send emails, etc. to the 44 House members asking each to file a separate bill of impeachment and/or to become a cosponsor to another member’s bill. 

You can take action by clicking on the link for a letter to those House members and the Bear Stearns flier designed by the two groups.

The theft is on record so any HJC investigation should be brief.  Moreover, these members will find taking such action would guarantee re-election in November, considering the overall anger of American voters about Bush and Cheney’s impeachable deeds.

Links to the 44 members, a sample impeachment article on theft, and that flier are on this website. 

If you want to be one of the contributors to the Roll Call ad, use Paypal.com  for credit cards/bank transfers to this email address:  DemocracyforOregon@gmail.com.

Or make checks payable to:

Democracy for Oregon

6428 SE 15th Ave,

Portland, OR  97202