It's Time for Moveon to Support Impeachment

Bob Fertik May 04, 2007
Petition

We, the members of Moveon, call upon Moveon to join the grassroots movement for the impeachment of George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Polls show a majority of Americans support impeachment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took impeachment "off the table" during the 2006 campaign, but Congress is not her table - it belongs to the American people.

And Moveon does not belong to the Democratic leadership in Congress - it belongs to its 3 million members. As MoveOn likes to say, "every member has a voice."

Grassroots organizations like Democrats.com, Progressive Democrats of America, World Can't Wait, Gold Star Families for Peace, Code Pink, and ImpeachBush have been organizing for impeachment since the publication of the Downing Street Memos in May 2005, which proved the Bush administration "fix[ed] the intelligence and facts around the policy" of invading Iraq. We organized hearings with Rep. John Conyers, petition drives, letter-writing campaigns, lobbying meetings, hundreds of town hall meetings, and local and state resolutions.

In 2007, these grassroots groups came together as Impeach07.org and organized Washington marches and over 125 I-M-P-E-A-C-H spellings across the country.

Our efforts helped persuade Rep. Dennis Kucinich to introduce three Articles of Impeachment for Vice President Cheney (H.Res. 333), which now has two co-sponsors, Rep. Lacy Clay (D-MO) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL). We continue to lobby for Articles of Impeachment for George W. Bush.

It is time for Moveon to put its enormous financial and human resources behind this grassroots movement.

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2,740 of 100,000
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Background

Moveon's leaders have refused to support impeachment because they said Moveon members don't support impeachment.

But this is unfair because they have never asked Moveon members about impeachment, and actually prohibited discussion of impeachment at its last agenda-setting house parties.

Due to increasing pressure from its members, Moveon recently conducted a very limited member poll on impeachment. But we believe Moveon should listen to all of its members, not a selected few.

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Comments

Not Progressive

  • Alec Scott's picture
    Alec Scott
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03/25/08
1:43am

MoveOn is not progressive. They are no better than the DNC.

There was only one progressive running for the Democratic nomination: Dennis Kucinich. MoveOn ought to have spoken out in favor of his nomination.

Instead, they are ga-ga over Obama. Anyone who thinks Obama really stands for change needs to go back and check out his voting record - prior to his candidacy, of course.

MoveOn needs to do just that: move on with advocating progressive causes and candidates or just move on, period.

And what of the rest who rejected Kucinich?

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03/25/08
1:51am

Are they unwashed as well?

The sum token of YOUR effort and mine, to date, is that Obama, Hillary, or McCain will become President.

It is never about who is the most progressive.

It is about who WILL produce the greatest progress.

When we point to who the country should have voted for, when they are not even on the radar of the vast majority of Americans, we miss our own failings.

We prep the system.

MoveOn to join impeachment movement

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11/28/07
1:31pm

MoveOn's name reflects progress and forward mobility. Progress and forward mobility will be undermined for future generations to come if it is not reflected in our history books that the most criminal administration since the birth of our great nation, has been impeached for its numerous offenses to the American people. With the Bush Administration, we have not made progress in any shape or form as a nation (no longer great), we've been transported back to the dark ages before the Constitution was ever created and ultimately signed.

'We The People' need MoveOn (a powerful democratic voice) to think critically and with foresight of the inevitable fallout of things to come as repercussions of the assaults and damage being bestowed on us now in the present by Bush and Cheney. Impeach Bush and Cheney NOW!

impeach

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05/16/07
5:46am

to bad i don't like peaches
cheney's head looks like a peach
bush's is the pit