Thursday, July 19, 2007

Impeachment May Be At Hand

"Impeachment is off the table."
- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Inauguration Speech

A movement to impeach the president and vice president has swept the country in recent years. But particularly this last year. Several impeachment petitions have garnered 100,000 signatures and have been sent to Congress, which has systematically refused to even debate any of them. In response, movements have risen up at the city and state levels to get municipalities and state governments to declare their support for impeachment. The results have been impressive, with numerous ones making such declarations. Mine this year became the first state government to call for the impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. While these developments have been ignored by national politicians, Americans at the grassroots level support them. But all of these powerful actions by the grassroots impeachment movement may well be for naught if impeachment proceedings are not carried out by the end of this year, as, by next year, this duty will be much more likely to succumb to political pressure in light of it being Bush's last year in office.

The above fact was recently brought to the attention of Vote to Impeach's audience, which has responded forcefully. Their impeachment petition, which aims at forcing Congressional debate on the subject of impeachment by attempting to garner one million signatures, has, as of this writing, obtained 919,660 signatures. Only six days ago, it had 906,000. That is, in less than a week, it has obtained 15,000 additional signatures! That's a rate of 2,500 additional signatures per day! At that pace, the Vote to Impeach petition could reach its goal and be capable of forcing Congress to take up the issue of impeachment in just 33 days; barely over a month from now! In that consideration, I am most pleased to announce that impeachment proceedings may now be at hand! But we need to keep the momentum going. Tell as many people as you can about the Vote to Impeach petition and encourage them to sign. We can do this thing! We're on the home stretch, and we are winning!!

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