TODAY'S GUESTS on ARTICLES of IMPEACHMENT

- Hour 1: Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL)

- Hour 2: John Dean & Jonathan Turley

What if the President was impeached and no one reported it?

Last night for almost 4 hours, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) introduced 35 Articles of Impeachment against President Bush. Included were the charges of running a Propaganda machine out of the White House, Failure to act on warnings about 9/11, Failure to act on warnings of a catastrophic hurricane, failure to supply proper body amour and Humvees to soldiers in a war zone, failure to ensure the laws were faithfully executed on torture, rendition and warrant less wiretapping of American citizens. It was a sad thing to hear all of the Bush Crimes in one presentation. It’s even sadder to know that IMPEACHMENT is OFF THE TABLE according to Nancy Pelosi.

You might remember that in November of 2007 Congressman Kucinich introduced articles of Impeachment for Vice President Dick. There was a vote to TABLE (KILL) Resolution 333 but the Republicans played games with that vote and instead of killing it, referred the Resolution to The House Judiciary Committee. Congressman Robert Wexler put up a website to take America’s temperature on Impeaching VP Dick and over 280,000 people signed up almost immediately in favor. Now Scott McClellan verifies that WE WERE RIGHT. There was an organized effort in the WH to OUT VALERIE PLAME. We await Mr. McClellan’s voluntary testimony to be given to the House Judiciary Committee on June 20th.

The Economy is just getting worse, and Grandpa McCain gave a ‘SPEECH’ this morning calling for more tax cuts for the wealthy and more CORPORATE tax cuts.

Obama’s economic plan includes a return to PAY AS YOU GO government.

Oil prices are UP again today.

Below is an article about an amputee who max’d out her health insurance benefits and had to take a loan to pay for her prosthetic limb? THIS IS AMERICA?


HOMEWORK

35 ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT INTRODUCED
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/09/...in4167427.shtml

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8060902427.html

In November of 2007 Kucinich introduced Articles of Impeachment against Cheney. Gaining many co-sponsors and Congressional support the articles were introduced and an effort to kill the Resolution failed. Res 333 was referred to the Juciciary Committee were no action has been taken.
http://impeachbush.meetup.com/boards/thread/3764217

WEXLER WANTS HEARINGS
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

Vincent Bugliosi
http://www.alternet.org/rights/86232/

Scott McClellan WILL TESTIFY VOLUNTARILY ON JUNE 20TH BEFORE THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8060902586.html

GRANDPA MCCAIN

McCain’s Evangelical Problem
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8060801689.html

McCain calls for Corporate Tax Cuts and Tax Cuts for the Wealthy
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121302021272457261.html

McCain proposes A GAS TAX HOLIDAY??
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2...in_returns.html

McCain attacks Obama advisor for something that happened at Fannie Mae 8 YEARS AFTER HE LEFT FANNIE MAE
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/polit...ama_on_adv.html

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na...0,1579782.story

OBAMA

OBAMA’S SPEECH ON THE ECONOMY
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/us/polit...ript-obama.html

http://www.iht.com/bin/printfriendly.php?id=13603265

Obama’s economic plan includes a return to PAY AS YOU GO!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...R4&refer=us

Obama prepares for Republican mud-slinging:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle4100170.ece

HERE’S AN EXAMPLE OF THE WAR ROOM

MARK HALPERIN AT TIME HAS OBAMA CAMPAIGN TALKING POINTS ON JIM JOHNSON AND COUNTRYWIDE
http://thepage.time.com/obama-camp-talking...nd-countrywide/

THE ECONOMY

Rising gas prices could hurt McCain:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10953.html

Oil rises again:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080610/oil_prices.html?.v=7

They like us, they really like us - Saudis increase oil output:
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNew...=23&sp=true

Inflation worries ripple through Global markets:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/business...ess/11stox.html

Interest rates to rise? Bernanke speaks:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...refer=worldwide

HEALTH CARE in AMERICA?

We pay the most and get the LEAST

First let your heart break a little, then get MAD AS HELL!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25062948/

FUNDRAISING

The dust has settled, and Obama's people look at a lucrative fund raising situation:
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/barack...2008-06-09.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...8060902441.html

Hillary's new challenge - paying her massive campaign bills:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/us/politics/10clinton.html

OP EDS

NYTimes Op-Ed - Rich on "...an epic showdown between two wildly different visions of the country, from the ground up." :
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/opinion/08rich.html

NYtimes Op-Ed - Krugman on de-racialisation of US Politics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/us/politics/10clinton.html

COULD THE SOUTH TURN BLUE?

http://www.chron.com/commons/persona.html?...42-fcf619b8fca7

SIDEBAR

McCain and Obama to speak at NAACP
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archiv..._mccain_the.php

Yup, someone was up late watching Dennis Kucinich

Kucinich was great last night. I don't think anything will come of it.
I hope I'm wrong about that. I just heard on the Hartmann show that John Conyers is asking people to refute his top five arguments against impeachment.

A catagory 5 hurricane blew the roof off Randi's house, and she didn't even notice.

Well I'm glad she watched, 'cause I sure as hell don't like staying up late.

From the homework:



Finally, someone is seriously considering a_blue_georgia. It's about time. (I'm betting that Barr will get 12%.)

So they buried the Cheney Impeachment.... what will they do with this one.

I watched Kucinich and emailed my friends to tell them.
I'm just another CSPAN nerd-- for which I thank Randi!

The funny thing is that we knew this in May when they denied Bush another increase. At that point, they had already boosted production by 300,000 bbl/day in May alone. It's insane for this to have had any effect on oil prices, which shows you how insane the whole system is.

I found this... LINK

Last night, for roughly four hours on the floor of the House of Representatives, something historic happened. Dennis Kucinich introduced formal Articles of Impeachemnt against President Bush.

Speaking only for myself--NPI has not met formally to discuss this--I can only offer a huge Halleluja! to Dennis Kucinich for finally doing what should have been done years ago.

The Articles include 35 specific points, covering everything from lying about the reasons for war with Iraq to gross negligence on Katrina to spying on Americans in violation of the Fourth Amendment to establishing secret laws via the executive Office of Legal Council to suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus. It's quite the list.

Oddly, John Conyers' response to the near immediate call that his committee--Conyers is the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee--take up the articles and hold hearings was to demand that those who would see justice done here first provide compelling rebuttals to five excuses reasons why he shouldn't do so. I say "oddly" because it was Conyers himself who extensively documented the very abuses of power in question in a 2006 book he wrote called The Constitution in Crisis. DailyKos has a lovely thread taking up many quite valid rebuttals to Conyers' objections, which I won't repeat here.

I hope that one of those articles of impeachment was the failure and refusal to apply regulations, and directing agencies not to follow regulations. The first example would be the Commodities Futures Trading Commision(CFTC). This agency is supposed to be regulating futures trading has ceased doing its job under direction of the Bush administration...

Dear Friend:

Under circumstances that can best be described as "suspicious," the www.kucinich.us website was crippled early this morning a few hours after Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced 35 extensively documented Articles of Impeachment against President George W. Bush.

Until we can restore the website and implement additional security measures, you can find the full list and detailed Articles at
http://www.democrats.com/files/amomentoftruth.pdf
and http://chun.afterdowningstreet.org/amomentoftruth.pdf

If you would like to show your support for the Congressman's efforts, please go to myinfo.kucinich.us to offer your comments and provide us with contact information so that we can continue to keep you informed.

Thank you
Committee to Re-Elect Congressman Kucinich

The CFTC, the FDA, the EPA, the CPSC, ... they stifled enforcement by appointing industry insiders, inept leaders, or nobody at all. The also worked counter to their missions in many ways through improper regulatory rulings (legislating from the chair).