Conyers: Pelosi can take impeachment off of her table, but she cannot take it off of my table

Conyers went on to say that they didn't have time to hold impeachment hearings and take up the other important issues.

It seems to me that Conyers would be willing to take up time consuming impeachment, if enough people made it clear that was Our priority.

link: http://www.browardtimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=704&Itemid=45

That's why he needs to be constantly faced with the question "When are you holding hearings on the Impeachment of Cheney?"

I think he can be pushed to do it, if he's overwhelmed with calls and protests for it. He isn't going to do it because its the right thing, but he will if its the most important issue to the voters and his fellow members of the Judiciary Committee. He says things like he wants to be given a reason, and that the desire hasn't reached a critical mass.

He needs a lot of pressure from a lot of Us, but he is willing.

Yes, seems like he's in the appeasement mode.

HOw do we counter THAT?

right, he can say that but the result is still the same, no accountability for Bu$h/Cheney.

It sure doesn't jibe with what he said to impeachment activists in July.

He wants to do it, he just needs overwhelming support. In July he said he didn't see the critical mass.

Then he had a couple dozen people arrested in his office.

Or does he really need support from the media? In an ideal world justice would be blind and the constitutional issues at hand would speak for themselves. This is kind of like the judge at a trial asking for feedback from the audience.

according to the linked article.

process. That was the first step.

The second step is for Conyers to allow hearings to take place. They would be in a subcommittee, and the subcommittee, chaired by Jerry Nadler, is ready, willing and able, with many on the committee calling for hearings soon.

Only Conyers can schedule the hearings. If he can just put it on the calender, it will take off from there. Like a snow ball being rolled down a hill. I don't care if its not successful, if it never makes it through the House, but try.

Chairman of a brokedown House is like being the King of Shit. History will reward you more for being a man of courage.

Great news. Conyers coming through would be awesome. I have always held him in high esteem.

"Conyers reluctantly admitted, however, that there was not enough time to carry out the impeachment process and still tackle pressing issues such as universal healthcare and temporary protective status for Haitians."

They won't make it past chimpy's desk, anyway. He just says their is not time to do it all.

So, choose Impeachment.

The leadership makes the argument that Impeachment Hearings will divide the Congress even more and prevent things from getting done. That doesn't fly. They are already divided. They get little done due to pub-obstructionists and king veto.

AND, if Impeachment Hearings started, I truly think dickie would disappear. The pugs couldn't survive voting to support him after the his war crimes are well publicized.

he is blowing smoke if he think they are going to get a decent Health care bill through in the next 14 months.

The Repugs can and will tie those issues up forever.

Conyers may not get an impeachment, but he can establish a legal record of the wrongdoings of Cheney, *, et al. That's what is missing -- an alternative to the propaganda that the Bushies are putting out. Absent any opposing evidence, their view wins and by default becomes the history of this administration.

Before the 2006 election several Democrats said the most significant thing they'd gain from winning the election would be to have the power to subpoena administration officials. How many hearings do we have going on right now? Are there ANY hearings? Or are the Dems too busy giving * exactly what he wants so he can claim they are a do-nothing congress?

Impeachment is THE issue, and there is plenty of time to make it happen. There has got to be some way to put enough pressure on Conyers to move impeachment to the top of the list.

Can we post his contact info?

Lets flood his office.

http://judiciary.house.gov/contact.aspx


His contact info:

2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

202-225-3951

Thank you for keeping an important discussion going. I think that the grass roots are putting the issue of impeachment back on the table. Last week, I counted over 300 articles in newspapers and on web sites having to do with impeachment. Some were pro-impeachment, and some were anti-impeachment, but the vast majority were simply stating that the issue is being openly debated. That is a big step forward, and it is the grass roots progrerssives who have helped the nation take that step.

It takes a few in power with courage and understanding of the importance.

But, then it will become a self-replicating machine.

Does anyone think Lord Cheney could survive even a Committee Hearing on his Impeachment? His dirty crimes would be in clear view.

I believe the Impeachment Resolution drafted for Gonzo, with support, was what led to his resigning.

from his, 'I have a calculator in one hand and the Constitution in the other' statement. Perhaps the pressure is getting to him. We really need to press forward next week.

Call Conyers' office----request Hearings!

that if Conyers holds impeachment hearings, the "other issues" will come to light and be covered in these impeachment hearings, enough so to further warrant more hearings and the ability to bring these "other issues" the light of day.

I just don't understand this whole "sucking the oxygen out of the room" or having to make a choice between impeachment and other issues. The reality is that they are one and the same!

I feel that we're on the verge of change. Good change.

Impeachment is a cure, not a burden.

Let's be honest, there is time. There is time to not bring the troops home. There is time to pass that FISA resolution. There is time to look good by giving the president more money for his war.

The only thing we don't have time for is keeping our troops in harm's way.

This will only move foward now. There is momentum.

actually achieves all the things!!!

And as you so well point out, this DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS (Capitalized due to the oxymoron) seems to have plenty of time to a) fund this war b) Not bring the troops home c) pass a FISA Resolution and give immunity to the Telcos; -- but time for impeachment??? Oh no, no time for that.... :eyes:

The reality is that impeachment hearings would cover all the investigations into crimes and the issues that ARE IMPORTANT TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!!! And yes, it would all come out that the Iraq War was illegally done too, thus justifying an immediate end to both our troops being there and the funding.

There is always time to do the right thing.

in Miami.

Jesus, how can these guys act like they actually work for a living?? :banghead:

important than impeachment, it's just NOT. IMPEACH CHENEY NOW!

"It seems to me that Conyers would be willing to take up time consuming impeachment, if enough people made it clear that was Our priority."

He needs a ton of support! A ton in order to be forceful.
I saw him on CSPAN about a year ago and he was saying that unless there was enormous pressure from the people, the VOTE STEALING issue would not be won.

For him to make that strong a statement about Impeachment means that he is ready but he needs an overwhelming show of support from masses of people.

Impeachment has the poll numbers however --- he is like a quarterback that is ready to throw the ball but he needs a TEAM behind him. He can not be the LONE RANGER!

bull "there are other important issues."

Nothing is more important than the constitution.
Ask him if he read the op-ed of Sunday's New York Times. It doesn't agree with Bill Clinton either,
"impeachment is off the table"

Who are they taking their orders from ? Certainly not the people . 57% of Americans want Cheney impeached, and 75% of democrats the poll last July.

If they want to win an election in 08, he better get some spine and tell Hoyer and Nancy he'll get contributions from the grass roots, he doesn't need their pac money.

"Americans are clinically depressed because they know their Constitution has been vandalized and it doesn't look like it will be returning anytime soon". Nov 11, 2007 The New York Times

clamoring will make these politicians tend to the publics' demands.

Have you noticed that our *representatives* have been referring to themselves as "leaders" more and more over the years? I think we've got a thoroughly arrogant, Constitutionally illiterate class of would-be nobility in Washington these days. They seem to think the public is both stupid and impotent.