Rep. Weiner Joins Call for Cheney Impeachment Hearings

[davidswanson]

On Thursday, Congressman Anthony Weiner told Bob Fertik of Democrats.com that he would sign onto Congressman Robert Wexler's letter to Chairman John Conyers urging the commencement of impeachment hearings for Dick Cheney. Wexler, together with Congress Members Luis Gutierrez and Tammy Baldwin, hopes to have a majority of Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee sign the letter.

Of the four committee members named above, only Baldwin is among the six committee members and 25 total congress members backing Congressman Dennis Kucinich's resolution for the impeachment of Cheney. The other five Judiciary Committee members are Hank Johnson, Maxine Waters, Keith Ellison, Steve Cohen, and Sheila Jackson Lee. If these nine committee members sign the letter to Conyers that Wexler hopes to deliver early in January, another 12 Democrats, not counting Conyers, will still not have joined the position of 80 to 90 percent of Democratic voters.

On November 6th, Conyers himself voted against tabling impeachment. So did Congress Members Brad Sherman, Mel Watt, Bobby Scott, and Artur Davis. If those members heed the call of their constituents, Wexler will have a clear majority of 13-8. The other 8 include the relevant subcommittee chair Jerrold Nadler, plus Congress Members Delahunt, Berman, Boucher, Lofgren, Sanchez, Schiff, Wasserman-Schultz. Of these, only Nadler signed on, during the previous Congress, to then ranking member John Conyers' resolution calling for a preliminary impeachment investigation.

All of these committee members can be contacted and thanked or encouraged to sign on at http://www.impeachcheney.org

Wexler's ability to influence his colleagues is increased as the number of signatures on his petition rises. You can sign here: http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com

Then, please start what Wexler has called a Chain-E letter. Email everyone you know, asking them to Email everyone they know, asking them to sign the petition to start the Cheney impeachment hearings.

Need to see the evidence against Dick? Here it is: http://afterdowningstreet.org/cheney2

[LaStrega]

1. c'mon Congress just do it already

Amber = not holding my breath

[Senator]

2. Only Impeachment Can Unify Our Once-Great Nation

Can we really live with not even trying?

Failure to impeach is complicity — approval — exoneration for the regime.

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[pacalo]

3. During the Clinton impeachment hearings, Wexler is the one who inspired me to call my reps.

"Wake up, America! This is your president! Call your Congresspeople!"

Was America on the verge of fascism? No!

More than ever before, it's one of those wake-up-America situations where Wexler may inspire thousands more angry, fed-up Americans to learn how to use the computer.