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With Bush getting ready to announce a plan for withdrawal on Wednesday,
it's important that our candidates get out in front on the lies,
militarism and imperialism. It's not enough for the disaster to be over
soon. We must insure it never happens again. The first step should be
simultaneous impeachment proceedings against both Bush and Cheney.
http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson11282005.html
Excerpts:
Today ImpeachPAC announced its first endorsement, that of Tony Trupiano,
Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan's 11th District....
Of the current Congress, Trupiano said, "They have blindly let this man
lead, and he has led us into disaster. It is time we had the truth!"
I told Tony that his words were music to my ears. But, I said, I'd
spoken to some Democratic candidates who said they could not support
impeachment because they need to appeal to moderates. Before I could
suggest my own rather lame response to that position, Tony spoke up with
a better one.
"Let me address that," he said. "What is more moderate than exploring
the truth? Is there really partisanship in truth? Common-sense,
middle-of-the-road people are not ambivalent. That candidates would say
that is an insult to their constituents. We're not after the President,
we're after the truth."
Trupiano expects to win the backing of independents and Republicans as
well as Democrats. Moderates are angry, he says, and some of the
angriest voters are Republican.
"When you help pick the winner and he disappoints, it's very
upsetting. How would you like to be a Republican who voted for this
guy [Bush] and have to wear that now? That's not easy stuff. That's
like when a parent or a spouse disappoints you. You feel like you're
stuck.
"But real conservatives are abandoning this guy. The best estimates
say that 37% is the number for George Bush's base. At a 34 percent
approval rating, there's cannibalism, they're leaderless, there's no
rudder. You've heard that he is not on good terms with the Vice
President, that he's only talking to a handful of people. This
administration is imploding. Mark my word, the people in the White
House will not all be there in 2008. Where does the Valerie Plame
scandal lead? How long will it be before impeachment is something
the media is forced to talk about? What about the Vice President's
secret energy meetings? All of a sudden everybody's waking up and
realizing there's truth to what the Democrats have been saying for a
while.
"We don't need to be afraid to use the word impeachment. It is the
process that was set up. It's not a bad word. It stands for
accountability. It is the system of justice in our political system.
Hey, maybe the guy's innocent just give us a chance to find out.
There's nothing radical in that. That's not a left leaning thing.
"I have a public record that I can't walk away from. For 11 years
I've been on the radio demanding truth. I can't become a candidate
and walk away from the foundation of what I've done. All I'm saying
is don't deny us due process. Stop insulting the American mentality.
We just want the truth. Don't you think we deserve the truth? I'm
tired of losing. I'm tired of losing as a Democrat. I'm tired of
losing as the middle class. I'm tired of losing lives in a part of
the world we have no business being in. I'm going to do whatever it
takes to win this damn thing."
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Bill Rood
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With Bush getting ready to announce a plan for withdrawal on Wednesday,
it's important that our candidates get out in front on the lies,
militarism and imperialism. It's not enough for the disaster to be
over soon. We must insure it never happens again. The first step
should be simultaneous impeachment proceedings against both Bush and
Cheney.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson11282005.html">http://www.counterpunch.org/swanson11282005.html</a><br>
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<font size="-1" face="Verdana">Today ImpeachPAC announced its first
endorsement, that of Tony Trupiano, Democratic candidate for Congress
in Michigan's 11th District....<br>
<br>
</font>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana">Of the current Congress, Trupiano
said, "They have blindly let this man lead, and he has led us into
disaster. It is time we had the truth!"</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana">I told Tony that his words were music
to my ears. But, I said, I'd spoken to some Democratic candidates who
said they could not support impeachment because they need to appeal to
moderates. Before I could suggest my own rather lame response to that
position, Tony spoke up with a better one. </font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana">"Let me address that," he said. "What
is more moderate than exploring the truth? Is there really partisanship
in truth? Common-sense, middle-of-the-road people are not ambivalent.
That candidates would say that is an insult to their constituents.
We're not after the President, we're after the truth."<br>
</font></p>
<font size="-1" face="Verdana">Trupiano expects to win the backing of
independents and Republicans as well as Democrats. Moderates are angry,
he says, and some of the angriest voters are Republican. </font>
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<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana">"When you help pick the winner and
he disappoints, it's very upsetting. How would you like to be a
Republican who voted for this guy [Bush] and have to wear that now?
That's not easy stuff. That's like when a parent or a spouse
disappoints you. You feel like you're stuck. </font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana">"But real conservatives are
abandoning this guy. The best estimates say that 37% is the number for
George Bush's base. At a 34 percent approval rating, there's
cannibalism, they're leaderless, there's no rudder. You've heard that
he is not on good terms with the Vice President, that he's only talking
to a handful of people. This administration is imploding. Mark my word,
the people in the White House will not all be there in 2008. Where does
the Valerie Plame scandal lead? How long will it be before impeachment
is something the media is forced to talk about? What about the Vice
President's secret energy meetings? All of a sudden everybody's waking
up and realizing there's truth to what the Democrats have been saying
for a while.</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana">"We don't need to be afraid to use
the word impeachment. It is the process that was set up. It's not a bad
word. It stands for accountability. It is the system of justice in our
political system. Hey, maybe the guy's innocent just give us a chance
to find out. There's nothing radical in that. That's not a left leaning
thing.</font></p>
<p><font size="-1" face="Verdana">"I have a public record that I
can't walk away from. For 11 years I've been on the radio demanding
truth. I can't become a candidate and walk away from the foundation of
what I've done. All I'm saying is don't deny us due process. Stop
insulting the American mentality. We just want the truth. Don't you
think we deserve the truth? I'm tired of losing. I'm tired of losing as
a Democrat. I'm tired of losing as the middle class. I'm tired of
losing lives in a part of the world we have no business being in. I'm
going to do whatever it takes to win this damn thing."</font></p>
</blockquote>
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Bill Rood</pre>
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