Dear Chairman:

It is time to stand up to the outrageous conempt for the consitution. You know it is so, Just reread your own comments and follow your mind and your heart.

History will record you as a man of honor and courage.

Dear Chairman Conyers: You've been a hero to millions of us over the years, starting with your action as a young coungressman in 1974 getting your peers to inundate the Judiciary Committee with so many bills they thought they'd best start impeachment of Nixon -- who then had the decency (unlike the current "president") to resign.

We are desperately in need of that bravery again, now -- without another moment lost. The only question you and others in Congress need to ask is: IS THIS A NATION OF LAWS OR NOT? Very simple question, to which there can only be one answer.

Think of our prisons, crammed with non-violent inmates, or worse, juveniles, who are behind bars for the slightest offense, caged like animals, in the name of "justice" and the name of the "law."

Yet here is the person holding the highest office in the country, controlling enough nuclear weapons to blow up the world 10 times over, who lied to the citizens and Congress to pursue an illegal war, has illegally spied on citizens and wiretapped them without cause, has blocked the most precious of our freedoms, the right to know what crime we're accused and the right to defend ourselves, and the most blatant power grab in history with the hundreds of "signing statements," giving Bush many more powers than the Constitution allows, a "president" who has blatantly stated: "Stop throwing the Constitution in my face. It's just a goddamn piece of paper!" -

If this is not enough cause for impeachment, Chairman Conyers ....WHAT IS? (oh, playing hanky-panky with an intern in the back room, then lying to cover it up???) It's too much to bear. I doubt if Beltway politicians have any idea how much anger and frustration exists out here.

This is long overdue. It should have been done YEARS ago. Instead, you sat on your collective asses and let these fascist thugs trash our country, our military, our reputation, and our economy. Why don't you just once do the job you were elected to do, which is to represent We, the People, and our wishes. Quit playing politics and do what's right for a change, for the country, for all Americans, and for the World; they, too, need to know that this is only an aberration, not the new American way.

Stupidity Should Be Painful To The Stupid, Too!!!

Dear Congressman Conyers -

As a former Michigan resident, I've followed your career and had the utmost respect for you for many years.

This is a time to step into history. Impeachment is the last guarantee of our Constitution against tyranny and fascism. By any standard this current Vice President, and President, have undertaken a destruction of the Constitution that has been egregious.

It must be met by official action, or the country - not to mention the democratic party and the democratic process - will go undefended, and will wither away.

You are squarely in the eye of history, now. Please take the steps we all know are right: the Republicans rejuvenated impeachment as a political weapon, now it's up to you to elevate it to where it belongs - as a last line of defense of the constitution.

sincerely, garby francis leon phd

Please hold the administration accountable for their actions. Our children and all future generations need us to do this.

I urge the impeachment of Vice President Cheney based on the facts. We cannot begin to heal this great nation or repair the damage that has been done to our reputation overseas until we confront the crimes of this Administration. Impeachment is well justified also once political considerations are dialed in. Force John McCain either to come to the defense of Dick Cheney or to defend the constitution, or perhaps to take a position in which he clearly stands for neither.

Hello,

America is in crisis. If we don't start Cheney impeachment hearings, and Bush impeachment hearings for that matter, we are doing our country and constitution a great disservice! If we don't investigate what has happened with this administration, aren't we just opening the door for future administrations to do the same thing? ie: lie, take away our rights, set their own laws, go against the constitution, etc.

It is imperative that we start these hearings to protect our Constitution and to protect our citizens from this ever happening again!!

I am truly frustrated and disappointed with the continued arrogance of this administration and the blind eyes of congress. Open your eyes and do what is right for the nation and not just think of yourselves or your party. Do not protect someone who knowingly lied to the American citizens and who continues to lie for the sake of his agenda and legacy.

It is high time we finally turn around this country and to protect this country!!

As I respect you, Congressman, as my representative in Washington, please respect not only me and all your voting constituents, but the integrity of the American Constitution upon which our beloved country stands or falls. This is a time in history where you hold our fate in your competent, courageous, and morally confident hands. Don't disappoint us, please.

Sincerely,

Deborah L. Finn

The soul of this country is at stake. Whatever the Democrats fear they are risking by taking this step is less important than demonstrating the meaning of 'the rule of law'. The citizens of this country need to know that their representatives will do what they are elected to do even when it's hard. We are counting on you to do what needs to be done or history will show that this Congress was the beginning of the end of this 'democracy'. The walls have begun to tumble. Please...

I understand everyone's frustrations, here. But, it's all very much unhinged. This is all a cry in the wilderness. There were 25 Senate Democrats today that voted for telco immunity. We are a nation of laws and a democratic nation. These thugs are out the door. Focus on the future, not the past. Work to elect better Democrats. Work to increase majorities in the House and Senate. There will be no vote on impeachment. This is political reality. History will be the judge, let it be so. Keep the sanctimony for blogs.

As long as there are people out there defending Bush, Cheney and the administration because they were led to believe this war is Moral and the troups are there defending us here in America and is tied to 9/11, our activism goes unheard and continually challenged, and bringing Impeachment hearings against these two people will show, for the world to see and know, they are liars and have betrayed the American people and have dismantled our Democracy!

I would like to see the entire Bush Administration personnel who either lied or tried to interfere with hearing on the truth be impeached along with President Bush. His entire cronies were a fiasco and I know that ex-President Nixon is turning over in his grave for the little corruption that occured on his watch and this Republican Administration has set a differnt pace for the American people to accept which is corrupt so many lies from practically all of his staff who are backing President Bush. Why did Colen Powell resign his post? He knew that he was being used by the George Bush to lie to the people about the WMD in Iraq. Let's go get them all who have played a deceitful role in all important matter concerning this current administration. Thank You.

we need to hold the vicepresident and everyone involved accountable.

ON POETRY POLITICS, AND BARACK OBAMA

by DJF

One of the more astute pundits, reflecting upon the state of American politics over the last several years, recently remarked in a throw-away line that the poetry had all gone out of it. That may appear to be a strange metaphor, but it is, in fact, very apt. To understand why, it is necessary to understand the nature of poetry and the effect it has on the human spirit.
Unlike prose, which more often than not merely describes and relates, a poem – a real poem – means. It cuts through the mundane to the essence of things. It reaches into where we live, jolting into acute awareness a sudden recognition of our own inner being. “Yes!” we say to the poet. “Yes, that is exactly how I feel too! You have found me out and opened this bond between us that validates who I am, and who I am is no longer alone in the universe!” Put another way, poetry is a spark that lights a candle within us, illuminating the darkness that was isolation, revealing assets and potentials of which we had previously been ignorant and connecting us to kindred souls.
Following the deaths of Martin Luther King, of John and Bobby Kennedy and the defeat of Eugene McCarthy, those of us who had been summoned by them to greater heights of personal endeavor by the vision of loftier goals than had previously been set for our generation were thrust back by the forces of prosaic business as usual. That is not to say progress wasn’t subsequently made in some areas, but it came without a sense of triumph and pride, for it rode in on the coattails of sheer expediency and pragmatism, achieved not as an expression of right prevailing over wrong, but as a means to what often became selfish and even nefarious ends.
Jesus is alleged to have said that perfect love casts out all fear. Who has not witnessed the truth of this? Men have faced the most daunting obstacles and dangers for the women they love, mothers for their children. Such displays of courage are by no means limited to these commonplace examples. When people speak of being inspired, as many among the young are now inspired by Barack Obama, what they’re expressing is his capacity for casting out of them their fear to act, their fear of failing, their fear of censure, their fear of revealing who they are. This is the “romance” of politics that has been missing for so long: that unspoken but powerful attraction between a leader who is loved and those eager to prove themselves worthy of implementing the causes he promotes.
In the cause lies the nitty-gritty, and it is, of course, essential. But there is nothing to suggest that Obama does not have a firm grasp of all that involves. What he lends to the mundane details of forging policies and putting them into action with what may well be painful effort is the difference between doing a job grudgingly merely to earn a living and doing it joyfully with a sense of fulfillment and pride.
I am happy for our nation’s youth, happy that they have been given this opportunity to identify themselves with something nobler than partisanship and narrow self-interest. The truly great leader is the one who leaves us with smiles on our faces, not with our fists in the air; who stirs us to jubilation, not anger; and who defeats his enemies by treating them like friends.

There is an old Russian saying that a young woman is like champagne, an old one like borscht (beet soup). That is precisely the immediate and most palpable distinction in general between the appeal of Obama versus the appeal of McCain: the former is like champagne and the latter like borscht.

With all the violations of our Constitution it becomes imperative to impeach, or Congress will look like wimps. This will cause blowback when November rolls around.

this administration has done enough damage if they walk away from all that has gone down then all i can say is there goes democracy down the drain because we all know that this administration doesn't reflect a true democracy.there should be a trial w/ most likely sentencing to war crimes against the american people and that just the beginning.i think you get the picture so if these so-called corrupt elected officials walk where's our democracy headed? down the road of complete failure is not where we the american people want to go impeachment now or never.

Excerpt from Civil Mayhem
CopyrightÓ 1987, 1997 Lori Valentine
‘Everyone should be treated Equal, and no one should be deprived of their autonomy.
Greed, treachery, fuses their hypocrisy, dovetails their bigotry, disappointments distressing the balance of our lives. Sheer tyranny taking a devastating toll, our world was about to change, forever!

We believed in a system that is supposed to be fair, and just. In verity our system is Corrupt, and there are some extremely wealthy “powerful men” who are the Oppressors, which dominate it.
Our Society has yet to realize the palpable malice, and the full ramifications of this Debacle.’ I choose freedom.

I didn't remove your comments, but I wonder if you've reviewed our rules? I'm not sure you understand them. Are you a Democrat?