Wexler Urges Hearings on Cheney Impeachment

[davidswanson]

By GEORGE BENNETT, Palm Beach Post


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What do higher fuel-efficiency standards, expanded children's health care and improved relations with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono have in common?

According to U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, those are just a few of the benefits America can reap if Congress holds hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Wexler, who represents an ultra-Democratic Palm Beach-Broward district, recently took an e-mail poll of about 3,000 constituents and found 61 percent in favor of impeaching Cheney and removing him from office. Wexler insists he hasn't prejudged the matter but wants hearings to probe whether Cheney manipulated intelligence to bamboozle the U.S. into war with Iraq, which Wexler voted to authorize in 2002.

At last week's Palm Beach County Democratic Executive Committee meeting, Wexler took issue with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's declaration that impeachment should be "off the table." And Wexler disputed the notion that impeachment hearings would be a distraction, asserting instead that they would help the Democrats' domestic agenda and lift America's status abroad.

"The way we pass stem-cell research, the way we get implemented a children's health care plan, the way we get higher CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards to bring our energy debacle into a better condition for generations to come is to have impeachment hearings," Wexler said. "Because that'll get the president's eye. That'll get the vice president's eye. That for the first time will show that the Democratic majority is here and that in fact we have the courage of our convictions."

In addition, Wexler continued, hearings would strengthen America's hand in dealings with Iran, China and others. Every day the House Judiciary Committee isn't grilling Cheney is a day world leaders such as Indonesia's Yudhoyono keep their distance, he said. He described Yudhoyono as someone who "wants to be closer to America, but he can't because we are so negatively viewed. Well, let me tell you one more thing those impeachment hearings will do. They will make America more popular."

[H2O Man]

1. Impeach Dick Cheney.

Nominated.

[fascisthunter]

2. Impeach! (nt)

[shraby]

3. Take both Cheney and Bush out for the count.

They're both rotten to the core and have committed enough crimes to fill a set of encyclopedias called "Crimes Of This Administration A-Z"

[polichick]

4. So glad someone is still sane! nt

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I'm not in his district,

but I agree with the 61% there. Impeach Cheney. Should have been done years ago, in fact.

[tkmorris]

6. I am in his district

He's a good man. This is certainly no political grandstanding on his part, he seems to act on conviction. Best Rep I have ever had.

[balantz]

7. Impeach them

[ClassWarrior]

8. Fix your link please, David? I want to forward this on...

...to my local IMPEACHMENT group.

NGU.

[davidswanson]

19. i was too slow

and it won't let me edit it

no idea how to make links work on this site other than to just post the URL with no code

just go to Palm Beach Post

[DemReadingDU]

26. Here is the link

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/search/content/local_news/epaper/2007/12/10/s1b_geo_1210.html

[pberq]

9. Kick & Nominated

[cali]

10. excellent reasoning on Wexler's part n/t

[pleah]

11. Gee, what a great idea,

I wonder if Nanners is listening.

[southerncrone]

12. Wexler is exactly correct ! Stuff we've said at DU for a long time.

Impeachment of Cheney is the only way out of this entangled, entrapped mess. It is step one.
Then Bush. Step 2.
Now I'm even wondering about Pelosi & Reid.

We just need to clean out the entire place!

[Sam Ervin jret]

13. As my kids say "Like, Dah, Ya. What have I been tellin' ya?"

[Danger Mouse]

14. Is Queen Nancy listening from her room in her ivory tower?

[K Gardner]

15. OK, but can or will he actually DO anything? We hear the words a lot.. but have

yet to see any action. Wexler is right, but can he get something initiated?

[leftcoastie]

16. Pardons

Impeach Cheney first or at the same time as Bush - but BEWARE we don't want any presidential pardons!
Then go after Rice, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. Then impeach Pelosi for not upholding the Constitution.

[paparush]

17. HELL F#CK YES!!!! Impeach that Evil Sumbitch!!!

[burrowowl]

18. K&R!

[bobthedrummer]

20. NOW! eom

[Usrename]

21. Wexler for President!

:applause:

[Dr Fate]

22. Finally some good sense for a change. How hard was that? n/t

n/t

[sss1977]

23. IMPEACH!!!!

[German1972]

24. the world is waiting

for the us to take actions on their leaders, "if" they did something wrong. But to investigate this the first step would require impeachment hearings. Or at last a general discussion.

Can´t imagine the u.s. outcry if something like is (manipulated elections (twice?), a war on false information (Iraq), violation of international treaties (torture, gitmo...) had happened elsewhere in the world.
You may read some u.s. newspapers of the 30s, when "some things" in Germany wend wrong.
This outcry, a national stand up ... or just a national debate about it - This is what I´m missing today in the us. Because I have grown up in a time, where the u.s. was simply the "good" one during the cold war. - Now you represent (in the eyes of the world) more the bad (War for oil, environment...).

[paparush]

25. Yes..and the world can't wait!

[quiethm75]

27. Impeach them NOW

[L. Coyote]

28. K&R - The Junta's end is near, we are in the spin cycle

[oasis]

29. kick

[alllyingwhores]

30. "wants hearings to probe whether Cheney manipulated intelligence..."

"wants hearings to probe whether Cheney manipulated intelligence to bamboozle the U.S. into war with Iraq"

Are you fucking kidding me? The f__king asshole is on videotape time after time lying about Iraq leading up to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. There's no investigation needed--the evidence is in plain sight.

Is Wexler already on Kucinich's signing list?

[bdamomma]

31. it is never too late for impeachment

or will they wait for cheney to cause more damage.

[bobthedrummer]

32. k

[FlyingSquirrel]

33. DECEMBER 15 2007 .COM

Even if you have a different favorite candidate, please read this.

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Thanks for your attention.