[Editor’s note: This is based upon a single blogger having heard a single D.J. on a Berkeley, CA radio station. We hope it is true, but cannot get confirmation until the morning]
AT LAST we seem to be getting some movement here. AS of an hour or so 3 to 4 pm this afternoon, the announcer at KPFA in Berkeley declares that Barbara Boxer has publicly announced her support of Impeachment. NOW is the time to give Barbara a call and thank, congradulate, encourage, and (maybe chastise her tardiness, ) but cettainly EMPHASISE the urgency of the Impeachment BEFORE the dub pulls off his NEXT heinous scheme and declares Martial Law, which would freeze him as Dick Tater indefinitely. There is STILL NO TIME to lose here. !!!
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None of the Senators have to wait for the House to send a bill of impeachment on Cheney to the Senate. Cheney claims he is the President of the Senate. Article I, section 3 of the Constitution confirms that he is. And, Article I, section 5 allows a two-thirds concurrence of Senators to expel any member – in this case the Vice President – from office. That’s only 66 votes, not the 290 needed in the House.
Come on Senators Akaka, Baucus, Bayh, Biden, Bingaman, Boxer, Brown, Byrd, Cantwell, Cardin, Casey, Clinton, Conrad, Dodd, Dorgan, Durban, Feingold, Feinstein, Harkin, Inouye, Johnson, Kennedy, Kerry, Klobuchar, Kohl, Landrieu, Leahy, Levin, Leiberman, Lincoln, McCaskill, Menendez, Mikulski, Murray, Nelson, Nelson, Obama, Pryor, Reed, Reid, Rockefeller, Salazar, Sanders, Schumer, Stabenow, Testor, Webb, Whitehouse, and Wyden. 49 of you are Democrats or Independents. Surely you can pick up some Republicans like Warner and vote when Lott and Brownback aren’t present. 66 votes will be a heck of a lot easier than 290.