http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:45:59 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:45:59 From the PDF flyer [b][link:http://january6th.org/talking-impeachment-customize.pdf|Talking Impeachment is a Foreign Land] (the DC beltway)[/b]

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[font face="Times"][b]Impeachment is Best for Democrats:[/b][/font][ul][li][font face="Times"][i]The party’s historical "wea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/26 Fri, 08 Feb 2008 02:13:21 As long as they oppose impeachment, they will continue to sound like blithering idiots at best, immoral and cowardly hypocrites at worst. And they will continue to prove their [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2768947&mesg_id=2772515|impot... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/27 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:25:36 We have at least a half dozen smoking guns -- have had them for years. Like squatters, Bush and Cheney are laying claim to unconstitutional power through openly hostile possession. They do something unequivocally forbidden under our Constitution, publicly declare it is not forbidden, and dare Member... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/25 Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:39:56 Like squatters, Bush and Cheney are laying claim to unconstitutional power through openly hostile possession. Members of Congress, who we empowered and charged with the duty of evicting (impeaching) such trespassers, are refusing to act.

By refusing to stand up for We the People, the true owners ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/23 Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:59:39 [b]. . .through openly hostile possession. (With the emphasis on "open.")[/b]

When squatters move in, it is the property owner's responsibility to commence eviction proceedings. If the property owner fails to serve notice for long enough, squatters claim title, and Poof! -- the property owner i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/22 Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:54:15 [font color="MidnightBlue"]"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing
over and over and expecting different results."
--[i] Unknown[/i][/font]

[div class="excerpt"]NY Times
November 27, [strike]1986[/strike] [font color="Crimson"]2006[/font]
[link:http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abs... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/24 Thu, 22 Feb 2007 18:09:40 Bush and Cheney are waging war on the Constitution. They put torture on the table and made it "fair game" for opposing forces to torture Americans.

Impeachment is our ONLY defense, but the Chicken Littles on the Hill believe the sky will fall if they even utter the word. It's going to take good k... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/20 Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:37:17 [b][font color="DarkBlue"]The Election was about One Thing[/font][/b]

That one thing is a Person.

Bush.

He wasn't on the ballot, but had he been, voters would have sent Bush Co. packing with a resounding vote of "No Confidence." At least that's what the real excerpts tell us:

[div class=... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/19 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:32:47 [div class="excerpt"][b][link:http://www.atlantaprogressivenews.com/news/0111.html|News Brief: McKinney Was Ready to Impeach Bush in 2001][/b]

(APN) ATLANTA -- US Rep. McKinney (D-GA) told a recent audience of the film American Blackout that she had written up Articles of Impeachment for Presiden... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/18 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:49:15 Bush and Cheney have usurped our will, committed war crimes, and violated our law in plain sight. The public record is clear. An irrefutable case for impeachment is easy to convey -- in fact Feingold did a fine job of covering one of the [link:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/13 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 02:14:47 [i][font color="DarkBlue"]If the impeachment provision in the Constitution of the United States
will not reach the offenses charged here, then perhaps that 18th-century
Constitution should be abandoned to a 20th-century paper shredder. [/i]
-- Barbara Jordan[/font]

[div class="excerpt"][b][... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/17 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:14:04 The Dems just need to [u]make sure the public knows that it is up to Bush and Cheney to "spare the nation[/u]" from the disruption of impeachment by doing the following:
[blockquote][ol][li]Cheney resigns, Bush nominates new VP.

The VP must be confirmed by both the House and Senate. Since we el... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/12 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 15:59:01 When the Constitution is under attack, Members of Congress are sworn to defend it. Impeachment is the weapon we gave them to defend against threats that come from within the halls of power. The question before each and every Member of Congress in the current crisis is this: "Is there a legitimate ca... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/11 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:22:54 Searching for "middle ground" can be productive in many contexts, but in this case, the differences between the "pro-impeachment" and the "anti-impeachment" people [b]are irreconcilable[/b].

This assertion is based on the following assumptions and definitions.

[b][font color="DarkBlue"]Definit... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/16 Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:55:59 There are variations on the theme,[sup](1)[/sup] but the crux of the establishment's message to Democrats is this: "Americans will turn against you if you don't play nice" (read "you're doomed if you impeach").

The DC Dems are buying this pig in a poke.

[font color="MidnightBlue"]"The definiti... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/8 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:50:38 . . . desperately need to learn (the sake of the nation and for the sake of future of the Party).

The position that the person who gives voice to our outrage holds makes a big difference in the effect.

When Keith gives voice to our anger, people come out of the woodwork because he gives them ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/14 Sun, 12 Nov 2006 20:39:26 Job 1 -- Vote Democratic candidates IN.
Job 2 -- Confront the "Impeachment is Off Limits" Dems head on with the Hard Truths. Recruit citizen lobbyists to challenge their rationalizations for Dereliction of Duty In Person.

[font size="+1"][b]Notifying [u]us[/u] that there is a threat is the First... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/10 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 19:05:25 Challenging another promoter of the Self-Defeating Prophecy. A response to:

[center][link:http://www.motherjones.com/arts/books/2006/11/you_think_you_want_to_impeach.html|So, You Think You Want to Impeach?]
Book Review By Tim Dickinson
Mother Jones, November/December 2006
(Tim Dickinson write... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/9 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 22:28:00 Here's something I posted [link:january6th.org/post_of_the_week.html|on Salon] about a year ago. Some have found it to be a useful model -- a shift in perspective that can make it easier to deal with/dismiss "them."

[div class="excerpt"]I have a theory that some people operate on belief, others o... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/4 Thu, 15 Jun 2006 22:14:58 I've had it with the propaganda that defending our constitutional democracy is "[u]going negative[/u]."

I've had it with the propaganda that we cannot afford to defend our constitutional democracy because it would be [u]too disruptive[/u]. (Don't you realize we're at war?)

What about the devas... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/5 Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:14:12 To me, rather than seeking to define new "frames" for our "messages," it is more healing to see our task as seeking to identify simple truths and moral positions that cut through the distortions that are so often inherent in the accepted terms of a given debate.

Lakeoff's insights into how our t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/6 Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:31:49 . . .All a member of Congress needs to do is stand up and accuse Bush and Cheney of their crimes.

Every day, every member of Congress faces an inescapable choice:

[center][b]Remain an accomplice for another day[/b]
OR
[b]Open their mouths, accuse Bush and Cheney of their crimes, and demand... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/7 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:43:18 As far as I can tell, a vast majority of the people who identify themselves as "pro-life" have staked out a belief system that begins and ends with the following:[blockquote]It's bad.
It shouldn't happen.
I want it to stop.
People who don't think it is bad are evil.[/blockquote]
Although man... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/1 Fri, 17 Mar 2006 23:35:53 [b]THE MEMO[/b], by JANE MAYER
How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
New Yorker 27-Feb-06 Issue
http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060227fa_fact

Jane Mayer reports on a twenty-two-page memo written by Alberto Mora, outgoing general counsel of the ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/15 Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:05:21 I've HAD IT with the way the mythical "divide" in the Democratic party is being characterized -- you know, the talk about the "left-leaning" blogs" vs. party centrists; liberals/progressives v. DLC, or some such crap.

The labels -- liberal, conservative, progressive, right, left -- have become ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/pat_k/3 Thu, 16 Feb 2006 04:32:30