The Huffington Post William E. Jackson Jr. The Vices of Cheney: Where Impeachment Must Begin […] Thus, as a senior Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee recently argued to me, “we are holding what otherwise would be impeachment hearings under the heading of oversight” and publicly “embarrassing” the Bush-Cheney White House. He went on to…
OpEdNews By David Swanson In May of 2005 the Downing Street Memos came out, and some of us started a website and coalition called After Downing Street. And for many months we worked closely with Congressman John Conyers and many other Democrats in Congress, holding unofficial hearings, trying to pass resolutions of inquiry, and educating…
David Edwards and Muriel Kane, Raw Story Stephen Colbert commented Wednesday on the 4th Circuit Court’s recent ruling that President Bush cannot “indefinitely detain civilians, even if he calls them ‘enemy combatants.’” “I can agree with this ruling and support the president,” Colbert commented, “because I support his ability to ignore this ruling. He has…
by Michael Winship, Common Dreams …You’d think that with such a shambles in his wake and his popularity at an all-time low, George Bush would at least partially have relinquished his pride of ownership. Not so. Here he is the other day, responding to the aborted attempt in the Senate to legislatively declare “no confidence”…
