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  • Ignoring the Will of the People and Logic Itself: Democrats Won’t Try To Impeach President
    26 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Some House Democrats, including ranking Judiciary Committee member John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, have called for impeachment hearings into allegations that Bush misled the nation about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction and that he violated federal law by approving warrantless wiretaps on Americans. In an interview with The Washington Post last week, Pelosi said a Democratic-controlled House would launch investigations of the administration on energy policy and other matters. She (…)

  • Bipartisan Support for Iran Freedom and Regime Change: Congress works for AIPAC!
    25 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    At a time when the Republican Party is divided on immigration reform and when the Democrats and the Republicans are positioning themselves for the mid-term elections on such issues as gay marriage, Congress is demonstrating alarming bipartisan unity on Iran.
    On April 27 the House of Representatives passed the Iran Freedom Support Act by a vote of 397 to 21. The bill tightens sanctions imposed on Iran under the Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) of 1996 and tightens sanctions on companies that (…)

  • How the Right Stole the ’60s (And Why We Should Get Them Back)
    22 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Conservatives are winning the battle over how the 1960s are remembered. But their version is far from the truth.
    By Astra Taylor
    It wasn’t until I got to college that I heard that the 1960s had "failed" and that all the Baby Boomers went straight and sold out.
    Yet such sweeping proclamations never quite rung true. Those weren’t the people I knew when I was a kid: the aging organic farmers, the people living on and running a commune founded long before I was born, the self-sacrificing (…)

  • DEMOCRATS AND THE DEFENSE BUDGETS : Just as Ruinous as Republicans
    20 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just as Ruinous as Republicans Democrats and the Defense Budgets
    By WINSLOW T. WHEELER
    All the conditions are ripe for a major debate on America’s defense budget. A Republican White House and Congress have produced, at increased cost, a military establishment that is shrinking, aging and less ready to fight. The ruinous effects have shown up again and again, in the form of over-stretched, poorly supported forces in Iraq.
    There is, however, no debate. The Democratic Party, while happy (…)

  • EL PRESIDENTE BUSH
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The only way we can secure our borders is to pass an enforcement-only bill, and then see to it that it is actually enforced. Our nation’s security cannot be held hostage to the politics of amnesty any longer.
    Fact is, 20 million people have invaded America, and no one, not even President Bush, knows a damn thing about any of them. Except, that is, those illegal aliens who are 29% of the inmate population in federal prisons.
    Bush seems to believe that Hispanic migrants are above the law, (…)

  • Nancy Pelosi forfeits the Constitution
    17 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi telling us that Democrats will not try to impeach Bush now or later, we have an admission that the rule of law is now dead in America. At least it’s dead with Nancy Pelosi. She wants to appease us with legislative perks. Her strategy: It doesn’t matter that we’ve lost the Constitution, we’ll make it up to you with a better drug prescription plan. (She smiles... Applause!)
    I don’t see any real signs of life anywhere else in Congress either. Apparently (…)

  • British Chancellor to call for Blair to step down, warns of "civil war" if he doesn’t. Blair refuses
    8 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Brown’s challenge to battered Blair: Name the day Unprecedented attack by Chancellor, calling on PM to ’set down’ timetable for exit. Secret letter leaked to ’IoS’ reveals plan by rebel Labour MPs to ’ambush’ leader By Marie Woolf and Francis Elliott Published: 07 May 2006 Gordon Brown will today urge Tony Blair to stand aside as Prime Minister, challenging his embattled rival to "set down" a clear timetable for a handover of power.
    In a carefully timed intervention, (…)

  • 36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe
    5 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Cardinale, Atlanta Progressive News
    Atlanta - 36 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned.
    The two latest co-sponsors, as of Friday, were US Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-IL) and US Rep. Chaka Fattah (D- PA).
    "For the House to impeach and the Senate to convict a President, the public must be (…)

  • Iran Freedom Support Act to Pass US Senate with 21 Democratic Cosponsors
    4 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Thank you to the WhatReallyHappened reader who has alerted me to the fact that Rick Santorum has already introduced the “Iran Freedom Support Act” in the US senate and with 58 cosponsors the vote is only a formality. It turns out we have 21 democrats to thank for this act’s easy passage and wouldn’t you know it the AIPAC
    website has the list of cosponsors. The following Democrats COSPONSORED this bogus legislation including the infamous Barbara Boxer, known as the only Democrat in the (…)

  • RALPH NADER : The Bush-Cheney Cabal
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Attention please, good people! Adjust your routines and come to the aid of your country, and your children with your thoughtful patriotism. Don’t just hope for impeachment, demand the resignation now of the mad hatters in the White House - George W. Bush and Richard Cheney.
    Already, a large majority of you do not consider this shifty duo trustworthy. By more than two to one you disapprove of Bush’s war in Iraq. Similar majorities believe this is also a President whose administrative (…)