Rutland Herald — Members of Vermont’s grassroots impeachment movement will meet with Vermont’s top two Democrats on Wednesday in a final effort to push along legislation calling for President Bush’s removal from office.
Supporters hope to convince House Speaker Gaye Symington, D-Jericho, and Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin, D-Windham, to put their political support behind a resolution asking the U.S. Congress to begin impeachment hearings against Bush.
A House bill has languished in committee since early in the year and supporters now are hoping a state senator will introduce a resolution in the final few weeks of the session. … The grassroots movement reached another high Monday as a character in Garry Trudeau’s popular newspaper comic strip, “Doonesbury,” traveled to Vermont to cover the pro-impeachment town meeting votes.
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What can WE do?
Contact Speaker of the VT House Gaye Symington and Senate President Pro Tem Peter Shumlin, and tell them they’re failing to fulfill her oath to defend/protect the Constitution.
Peter Shumlin ““ (Home) 802-387-4447
Gaye Symington (Home) 802-899-3324
115 State Street
Montpelier, Vermont 05633-530
(Work) 802-828-2231
[email protected]
Dear All,
Matt D. writes,
“. . . the large majority of American do not support impeachment.”
Incorrect. Approximately half of Americans—or slightly more than half—support impeachment, particularly if the question is conditioned on whether Bush lied to get us into the Iraq war. The 2005 Ipsos Public Affairs poll results are discussed at
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=2871
and a 2006 Newsweek poll showing a majority for impeachment (ranking it as either a “higher” or “lower” priority)—including 20% of Republicans!—is discussed at
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/14897
The claim that impeachment is a fringe idea unsupported by “a large majority of Americans” is factually false.
Matt D. asks, “How is trying to impeach the guy you didn’t vote for ‘defending the Constitution’?”
There seems to be some connection implied here between voting for somebody or not voting for them and then later impeaching them or not impeaching them. I cannot imagine what that connection might be. It is of course our Constitutional right to demand (or oppose) the impeachment of any President, _based on their actions in office_, whether we voted for that person or not. One “defends the Constitution” by impeaching any President who has threatened the Constitution: that’s straightforward, isn’t it? Whether Bush is such a President can be discussed on evidential grounds, but the idea that he should be impeached _if_ he has threatened the Constitution is simple and should, I think, be uncontroversial.
Larry (VT resident and supportive of the recent VT Senate resolution urging impeachment)
Mikael,
How is trying to impeach the guy you didn’t vote for “defending the Constitution”? Bush will not be impeached…the Democrats were voted into office to for a fresh view on the war, not to impeach the President…this impeachment nonsense will be what keeps the Dems out of the White House in 2008, since the large majority of American do not support impeachment.
June,
What state are you in? Would you like to officially become an organizer for us?
Matt,
Regardless of the passing of Jessica’s Law or not or any other legislation, since when is defending the Constitution “wasting their time”?
Maybe Vermont should be more worried about the pedophile’s runnig wild in their state, since the anti-American, anti-law Liberals there do not want to pass Jessica’s Law. Shulmin and Symington need to stop wasting their time on this garbage and start looking at the problems in their state.
Vermonters please do not think that you are alone in this or that your efforts to uphold the right are not noticed and greatly appreciated beyond your fair state.
Here is the email I just sent to [email protected]
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/benchconference/2007/04/even_without_the_polls_gonzale.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Reason demands and Jeffersons successors should know there are hierarchies of principle. No law between countries and men can outrank the law (the US-ratified UN charter) against launching aggressive wars against other countries. Without such laws there can be no international laws at all. No promise between Americans (or indeed between the citizens of any democracy) can be more solemn than the Presidential Oath to those citizens to uphold the Constitution and the law to those citizens. Allow that promise to be broken or uttered parrot fashion by an imbecile and all promises are void.
As a non-American, as a former pro-American, I must tell you that the US law includes the treaties that you have made in order to receive from the rest of us that are not a part of your 300 millions a quid for your pro.
If you, the current generation of voting American can’t get that, if you can’t see that you have a duty not just to yourselves but to the rest of us in a would-be civilized world to remove the blight on your country and the blight on your honor then one wonders if you will ever have the wit and perception to see that behind the brown avenging eyes fixed upon you lies a resolve that could have been planted by the ghost of Patrick Henry.
You must impeach George W Bush, you must be as good as your promises when the promises are so serious, because without the rule of law, logically there can only be war. If you don’t then in 2007 it will be lazy, complacent, compromising, selfish and parochial Americans that are the real enemies of the rest of humanity and ultimately of themselves.
On September 11, 2001 a Frenchman said “we are all Americans now”. And we other non-Americans knew what he meant.
But so far has George W Bush reduced America, so far have you the citizens and the Congresses of the US let your honor be reduced and your promises broken, that inside and outside America, we are all terrorists now.
Brett Paatsch
Hallelujah…..I happened on your site while perusing Huffington Post. THANK GOD! It has finally started! I have printed a number of sets of this Petition and cover letter and work my butt off to see how many people will join in! I do not see the State of Georgia or Florida listed…no one involved yet? I know both states voted bush in…..Funny thing, isn’t it? The audacious, outrageous contempt that crowd has poured all over the world is shameful. I do not consider Bush/Cheney/Rice/et al Patriots or Americans.