1. Does anybody really understand their health insurance policy?  If McCain wins and we have to find our own health insurance (I have a pre-existing condition) how in the world can you be sure what kind of policy you end up with?
2. My son is in the military and was part of the "surge".  I trust Obama to be sure that my son will be safe and he will not put us into the spot of invading another country.  I think McCain is very likely to choose military action before diplomacy.
3. The democrats have always stood for providing a safety net for those who need it--that's why I have been a democrat since casting my first vote in 1971.  We need to negotiate drug prices for Medicare.  We need to either fund No Child Left Behind or fix it.  We need to protect the consitutional rights of our citizens.  We need to push for real jobs that provide real products--renewable energy, cars that make sense, and companies that provide jobs for Americans.

 I was wondering if there is any interest amongst residents of Kennebunk, or nearby towns to organize a "Honk-to-Impeach" event, or some kind of comparable function, especially in light of Congressman Kucinich's recent filing of articles of impeachment against President Bush.

 If so, write to me at adammarletta@yahoo.com and let me know. If we do it, and it's a success, perhaps we could make it a regular event.

Anyone who is interested, write to me.

While the Democratic and Republican candidates for president blather on about non-issues like who will be meaner to immigrants, who will use the most water on torture victims, who wanted to be president at the youngest age, who’s the best Christian and other such nonsense, and while Congress and the president dance their meaningless dance of pretend conflict, let’s for a moment ponder something more momentous.

What if the US just packed up and left Iraq and Afghanistan, and brought the troops all home, shut down the 750-odd overseas bases we operate around the globe, and slashed our military budget by 75 percent?

That would be an instant savings of roughly $365 billion per year.

Now, the first thing we need to do is address the criticism that such an action would be abandoning the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, whose countries we have been systematically destroying for the last four to six years.

 Impeachment organizing in Orange county every month we move locations to get new people to see us and expose and educate. I would like to go to campus's in oc and long beach need a driver. I was a public speaker for 30 years. Also a spanish interpetor would be great and someone to volinteer for some computor and office type work. Can you help? My contact info is 949 259 3218  e mail is  info@angelhearttravel.net 

I am coordinating a very active CODEPINK group in Redlands, CA.  Our first action is "Write IT"

Write 1. IMPEACH  or 2. BRING THE TROOPS HOME ALIVE or 3. HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE on the envelope of all your outgoing snail mail in hot pink.  "Write it" on your money, especially $20s because everyone uses ATM machines.   This a visual display to fellow Americans of the level of discontent.

in peace,

Corla

P.S. If you are in the Inland Empire and wish to join this CODEPINK women (and men) for peace pleace contact me at codepinkredlands@gmail.com

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers says he can't impeach Bush or Cheney because he doesn't have 218 votes for impeachment out of the 231 Democrats in the House.

Why do most Congressional Democrats (including Speaker Pelosi) oppose impeachment? Because they say it would interfere with their efforts to solve the nation's problems, starting with Iraq.

So here's a simple two-step solution to both problems.

Step 1. In August, Congress should hand Bush a bill requiring a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops by April 1, 2008.

Step 2. If Bush doesn't (a) sign the bill (without a "signing statement") and (b) bring our troops safely home by next April, Congress should impeach Bush and Cheney and let President Pelosi finish the job.

Cindy Sheehan led 2-300 impeachment activists on a march from Arlington Cemetary to the Congressional office of Rep. John Conyers, whose job as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee puts him in charge of impeachment. AP reports:

"Impeachment is not a fringe movement, it is mandated in our Constitution; Nancy Pelosi had no authority to take it off the table," Sheehan told her group of orange-clad activists Monday. "If Nancy Pelosi doesn't do her constitutionally mandated job by midnight ... I will announce that I'm going to run against her."

Five years ago today, Richard Dearlove, the head of Britain's MI-6, returned to Britain from Washington and reported on his meetings to Tony Blair's cabinet. Here are the minutes of that cabinet meeting by Matthew Rycroft, who (in James Bond fashion) identifies Dearlove as "C":

On July 23, 2002, the head of British intelligence reported that Bush and Cheney were intent on invading Iraq and planned to "fix the intelligence and facts around the policy". Five years later a million people have died in Iraq as a direct result of these lies with no end in sight. Torture has been institutionalized, habeaus corpus eviscerated, and illegal spying made routine. New Orleans lies devastated along with the Constitution and the rule of law. And Bush and Cheney are making a mockery of the Democrats' feeble gestures towards accountability.