To Impeach: Pelosi wants "10,000" hand written snail-mails from public

November 13, 2007 at 12:21:37

5 Easy Steps to Impeachment
by Rainbow Law
http://www.opednews.com

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Here is an action you can take that actually might -- for once -- make a difference!

The issue of impeaching Bush and/or Cheney was famously taken "off the table" by Nancy Pelosi over a year ago. She made this announcement prior to the 2006 mid-term elections hoping the statement would appease "centrists" and help Democrats win a majority in Congress.

Coincidentally, a 2006 win for Democrats also meant Pelosi was destined to be named the first woman Speaker of the House. So, we are guessing she may have had a bit of self-interest when she made such an untenable promise NOT to carry out her sworn duty to uphold the Constitution.

Pelosi may also be reluctant to initiate impeachment for fear she will be accused of doing so because she is third in line to be President. And right-wing critics are ready to pounce on Pelosi for that very reason. If so, rather than stand in the way of impeachment, she should recuse herself from the decision-making process.

Today “there’s rumors on the Internets” -- here, here and here (and lost of other places) -- that Pelosi will reconsider her no-impeachment stance – IF – she receives 10,000 HAND WRITTEN letters supporting the impeachment of Dick Cheney.

So, if you really want to see Congress – especially the Democrats – start acting like the co-equal branch of Government that they were intended to be – PLEASE write to Pelosi today.

For those of you unaccustomed to the snail mail process, here are 5 easy steps:

1. Find a pen and a piece of paper;
2. Write your letter;
3. Find an envelope and write Pelosi's address on it;
4. Put the letter in the envelop and attach a stamp to it;
5. Put it in a mailbox.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rainbow__071113_5_easy_steps_to_impe.htm

i can certainly do this. it might be tough to keep the tone cordial though... not due to pelosi but due to the administration.

I have three great-nieces who live in her district, and told her to change her position for their sakes.

is rofl. Who woulda thunk that folks really need instructions...but they do...so thank you for giving them.

:thumbsup:

sorry i forgot to paste in Pelosi's address .. duh..

here it is if you don't have it.

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
United States House of Representatives
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0508

I posted it downthread.

Which one to use?

I doubt it will hurt but I really don't believe Pelosi is asking for these letters.

actually there are several links inside the article where is sez "here and here"
that are available if you open the article link, so you can check the sources.

btw here's her address in case you want it.

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
United States House of Representatives
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0508

:shrug:

Pelosi took impeachment off the table.

:shrug:

Bill Gates will give each of us $10,000.

Kindly tell her it is her job to Impeach this President and VP and you don't need 10,000 write-in's to do your job and if you do, maybe you should resign your roll as Speaker!

i forgot to post her freaking addresss .. duh .. so here it is in
case you want to pass that message along .. remember now HAND written (LOL)

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
United States House of Representatives
235 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-0508

and do so if you know how. thanks for the suggestion.

you're on! Good to have you here! :hi:

Yea, I'm kinda on a tear with the impeachment thang, since so much depends on it.

thanks again for the welcome too.

for those who don't follow the link:

Nancy Pelosi
450 Golden Gate Avenue 14th Floor
San Francisco CA 94102

I belatedly noticed the article didn't have her addy in it after posting..

duh.

the world would find out how complicit she is in lots of the bullshit. :evilfrown:

With a copy to Cindy!

She's no more interested in impeaching the criminals in the executive branch than the criminals are interested in resigning.

She's a fucking traitor, history will remember her as such, and rightly so.

now can it? If she gets enough "cover" she may still go for it.. Conyers sez he's up for it ..
can handle both FISA and Impeachment, "but is under lots of pressure" to kill the impeachment bill.

Primarily because I know that Pelosi could get 10 million letters, and still look down her nose at we peons and laugh derisively at our sincere desire to preserve what remains of America.

Fuck her. I'll be waiting to shit on her grave when she dies.

I've done absolutely everything I can to wake her the fuck up, to shake her out of her stupor.

peace,
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Hell, I have to pay bills in a week or so anyway, so what's an extra stamped envelope?

I still think it's an utter waste of time, but as you point out, at least I can be secure in the knowledge that I did my part.

ONLY green M&M's now. :eyes:

The first M&M of any other color that she receives puts impeachment back OFF the table that it potentially WOULD have been on, if she had only received green M&M's. Really. So don't fuck this up. It's all on you, people.

She probably wants them to have a Notary Public certify them too. ooops.. just kidding.

You might be right!

:rofl:

-Hoot

maybe 2 months ago.
I'll get started with another one now.

They will count the umber of letters delivered and have them all delivered to Pelosi's San Francisco office:
I just wrote mine. It took all of 7 minutes. IF this is not true, it is still worthwhile. Becuase COnyers will know the number of pro-impeachment letters delivered if you send via Cindy. If it is really over 10,000 therre is a good chance the MSM may also take note. SO DO IT.


House Resolution 333 for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney
is off the House floor, and has instead been sent to the Judiciary
Committee for "further study." This maneuver, organized by Pelosi and
the Democratic leadership, is consistent with their mantra that
impeachment is "off the table." But, we are told Nancy Pelosi is
reported to have replied to the question of impeachment that if she
received 10,000 hand written letters she would proceed with it. What
are we waiting for?

Cindy Sheehan wrote this:

Dear Friends

Instead of sending your impeachment letters for Dick Cheney to Nancy
Pelosi's office, send them to my office so we can get an official
count.

Please send them to:
Cindy for Congress
RE: Impeach Dick Cheney
1260 Mission Blvd
San Francisco, Ca 94103

Please pass this around and have them sent by Friday, November 16th
and we will have them delivered to her office in San Francisco before
Thanksgiving.

Spread this far and wide so we can take sacks of letters to her.

but no photocopies .. both originals hand written.

peace out,

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you, IM.

Dear Speaker Pelosi,

The American people elected a Democratic majority to restore checks and balances, the rule of law, and our reputation as a law-abiding country in the world community. It is long past time to
impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney and save our US Constitution.

Pick one or many of these charges:

Lying to the American people, Congress, and the world about the threat from Iraq & need for war.

War of aggression against Iraq, which posed no threat to US.

Exploiting 9/11 for political gain and for war to benefit oil companies and other cronies.

Authorizing the use of torture in violation of the Geneva Convention and US law and against the advice of the uniformed military.

Failure to fully cooperate with 9/11 Commission and joint congressional inquiry, and refusal to comply with Freedom of Information Act .

Warrantless wiretapping of American citizens.

Issuing signing statements that contradict the plain meaning of legislation, including on issues of torture.

Denying Americans and others habeas corpus rights even after Supreme Court ruled against it.

Coercing government employees to lie to Congress and the American people about the cost of Medicare drug benefit, global warning, and toxic hazard of NYC after 9/11.

Failure to provide timely aid to Hurricane Katrina victims and appointing someone with no experience to run FEMA.

Please do your constitutional duty immediately.

Signed,
____________________________



OR PRINT THIS:

I agree with some who've replied that this is overkill and picky of her, but apparently
she (or someone) feels she needs the "cover" of bonified personal letters... 10,000 of them.

whatever. every bit helps. I posted your jpg on Craigslist World Politics forum.

Nancy Pelosi never has set off my bs detector. Never.

And I always assumed impeachment was something she wanted to see from the roots on up. Not the top down.

Thanks for posting this. It's crucial

totally written her off. Who knows why she's being such an obstructionist on this issue, i suspect
sometimes that the Bushies may have "something on her" from illegally tapping her phone, or whatever.

Yeah, let's see where things go. I'm quite a pessimist. But I feel pretty good about things right now.

Me too re: impeachment. I'd love to see this move forward, since the Rethugs so arrogantly "asked for it" during
the recent House vote.

supporters.

Will do! :patriot:

As long as the intent is clear, as they're not going to actually READ anything longer than
post card size messages anyway. thanks for the suggestion.

peace,
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Pelosi will reconsider. I'm in. Time for a mail message from the mods to every DUer.

Dear Nancy,

Impeach Cheney

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME.

DO IT. (And, a reconsideration doesn't mean she will decide differently, but it's worth a shot.)

This will take approximate FIVE MINUTES OF YOUR TIME.

DO IT. Mine is on the way!!

Has there been the slightest verification of this? I don't think so. And I doubt there will be. Because of security concerns,the use of snail mail to contact members of Congress is actively discouraged. The notion that Pelosi would invite a lot of snail mail is pretty absurd on it face.

That's not to say that people shouldn't try to contact Pelosi and/or their own members in Congress via any and all means (email, snail mail, calls). They absolutely should. But the idea that Nancy is conducting a mail in impeachment "constest" is not believable imho.

That said, I will do it because it should be done. She needs to be inundated in every medium. She needs to understand that we will not be hushed, nor bought off.

not that it was BS necessarily, but that it certainly couldn't hurt to flood her with hand written letters she
couldn't rationalize away as being "junk mail". Thanks for doing it.

Used a Red pen....May it be so.
(edit, I also stuffed it with deceptiondollars and a conceptiondollar http://www.deceptiondollar.com/ )

their own mail anymore, if they ever did.

But seriously, thanks for taking the time and putting some flare to it .. lol.

So much so, that Pelosi has made disparaging comments about people on the lower social class than her.

unless I missed something.

I'm all for Code Pink AND I'm all for people registering their outrage continuously, fervently,
in all manner of ways, including sending handwritten "Please Impeach The Dick" letters...
.. hopefully more than 10,000. why the hell not?

Has the Speaker taken any action to move impeachment forward?

These people won't listen to us no matter what we do. Millions marched against the war in 2002, yet Congress ignored them. Tens of thousands of letters, e-mails, phone calls, telegrams, and constituent visits took place in 2002 to dissuade Congress from voting for war, yet Congress disregarded them all.

The only weapon we have left is to make their lives as miserable as possible.

Dear Speaker Pelosi --

Quit messing around and impeach the criminals who have hijacked our government and trashed our Constitution already!

Please.

You're in a position to literally save the democratic republic and restore the rule of law.

Stop dithering about Democratic electability and how things look in the polls and get on with it.

Please.

Thank you for your leadership. If you show it.

Impatiently,
Bright
(name & address)

There. I feel better now, even if it has no effect at all.

sedately,
Bright

I'm afraid mine was much too long, but it'll still end up in the same column.

Ya I felt a little tingle when i sent mine too.

peace,

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But I welcome you to DU, Impeachment_Monkey.:hi:

Although, I completely agree with the idea of impeaching the assholes in the WH, the story from OpEd also suggests that one mail a letter to Cindy Sheehan so that she can verify the count.:silly:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_rainbow__071113_5_easy_steps_to_impe.htm



Cindy Sheehan is running a campaign against Nancy Pelosi, and no matter what we may think about the issue of "tabling impeachment", this site is NOT to be used to attack a Democrat in office (or something to that effect). Cindy, could very well take the letters and use them against Pelosi in her campaign to unseat the incumbent. Besides, Nancy has not spoken about this whole "10,000 letters" plan. She should impeach the bastards because it is the correct thing to do. Why should the electorate, beg and jump through hoops to get her to act? Something about it smells fishy to me.

Impeachment_Monkey, I realize that your OP does not advocate sending a letter to Cindy, but the article you linked to does do that. So, I am not calling "bullshit" on you, but on the link.

I really do appreciate your heads up though about possible "exploitation" (?) of this as a campaign stragety;
I'd hate to see that happen too, as it might cheapen the impeachment effort. Worth considering for sure, however
I've already sent my letters as have many others... most I think to both places, not just to Cindy.

Also, I agree Nancy shouldn't need 10,000 more letters to "get it" about impeachment, but apparently she needs something
more than she's gotten. I'm following up on every thread of hope for keeping the impeachment issue alive and kicking
in House Judiciary, and if that means flooding Pelosi's desk with personal hand-written letters. Why the hell not?

That said..thanks again for your cordial welcome. I appreciate it.

peace out,

Your attitude will probably make you some good friends here on DU. I am a newcomer as well, and I find most people here to be quite nice, with the occasional worm in the apple...but, of course, that is to be expected.

I will send out a letter to Nancy Pelosi, what the heck, it can't hurt!

Peace to you too.:hi:

:P

to send a - shall we say - unimpeachable letter to her or anyone else in Congress:

Make it SO abundantly clear that your letter poses no threat to anyone. You do that thusly:

1) Follow the rule of putting your return address on it. Anything not traceable back to the sender is automatically suspect.
2) Don't bother with an envelope. Write the letter on an 8x11 piece of paper. Message on one side. Fold it in threes and tape it shut in one spot only, in the middle - leaving both ends open so they can easily be peeked into. That way it's clear that there's nothing evil being smuggled inside that could pose any threat of any sort. Write the address on the outside, put your return address on it, stamp it, and mail it.
3) Along the same lines - send a postcard. There, again, it's very clear, nothing evil is hidden therein. There IS no "in."

I also know of campaigns to send paper plates, properly stamped and addressed, to Mme. Speaker: "Nancy, SET THE TABLE!!! IMPEACHMENT NOW!!!!" The post office will deliver anything that's properly stamped. Something like this would be gimmicky and get lots of attention, generating lots of talk!

they were saying postcards get through faster, but didn't mention the single-sheet or paper plate options .. LOL..

I love it... a very creative use of a paper plate.

thanks to for the welcome. take care.

Nice idea, but let's wait until we hear it directly from her.

:headbang:
rocknation

Kind of like Harry Truman not being able to make a phone call with the dial phones when he retired from the White House.

What a joke this Congress has become. History will shake a collective head at these times.

I've had similary responses to this .. who the f*ck knows what it's going to take to
get Nancy off the dime. My feeling is WHATEVER it takes, including flooding her desk
with personal handwritten letters, then so be it.

ONe guy suggested sending a paper plate, with stamp and appropriately addressed with
return address and all, which he said the Post Office WOULD deliver .. with the message
"Set the Table Nancy. Impeach now!" or some such.

The homepage should have this thread. These 10,000 Impeachment letters would happen in one day.

Colorful envelopes are more fun to open.

Part of what I wrote:

"I am one of many Americans who feel that have good reason to believe that Bush #43 is THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY, and that Cheney properly belongs in prison. At the very least, both G.W. Bush and Cheney need to be impeached."

I just wrote the letter and it's in the envelope.

Politically, it may be too late for impeachment, but I want the leadership to do its job.