If you live in or around D.C., or if you can get to D.C. tomorrow, here's where you should be:
Candlelight call to action to support the Levin-Reed amendment to bring our troops home
Where: Upper Senate Park across from the U.S. Capitol
Constitution Ave NW, between New Jersey Ave and Delaware Ave
Washington, DC 20001
When: Tuesday, July 17th at 8:30 p.m.
From MoveOn's announcement:
It's pretty outrageous: Senate Republicans are blocking key votes to stop the war this week because they know they'll lose. With the Democratic majority, plus three key Republicans ready to vote for an exit strategy in Iraq, the Senate has enough votes to pass legislation that would force President Bush to bring most troops home by April. But the Republicans are trying to stop that vote.
We're fighting back—the voters aren't going to tolerate political games in Washington while our troops are dying in Iraq. There's going to be a big event in DC on Tuesday night and we could really use your help. A bunch of us—including Iraq war veterans, military families and several members of Congress—are going to join Senator Reid to call on Republicans to stop the stonewall on Iraq and start voting to bring our troops home.
All of the nation's media will be focused on Congress and on what the Republicans do Tuesday night—we need to show them that Americans want an end to these stalling tactics. Can you join us on Tuesday night to turn up the heat on Republicans for siding with President Bush over the people?
I don't live near enough to DC to be there, but the other day, after I watched the video of the Bill Moyers Journal with John Nichols and Bruce Fein, I wrote the following email, followed up with a hardcopy, to Pelosi, Conyers, Leahy, and my congressman. (Lieberman is my senator--it would have been a waste of bandwidth and postage).
ReplyDelete================
It's long past time for impeachment hearings to begin against
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. This White
House has overreached its Constitutional authority in matters both
foreign and domestic. You and I, and all the Congress and all the
American people, know full well the extent of their high crimes and
misdemeanors, and I will not enumerate them in this letter. They took
an oath, as did you, to the Constitution. No one has taken an oath to
George W. Bush, contrary to the slip of the tongue uttered by former
aide Sara Taylor in her appearance this week.
You took an oath to the Constitution, and if you do not begin
impeachment hearings, you will be violating that oath just as surely
as have Bush and Cheney. The Founding Fathers included the tool of
impeachment because they knew from first hand experience the
inevitable result of unchecked executive power. We are in the midst of
a constitutional crisis. Impeachment hearings are the cure.
Do your duty. Put the Constitution before Party, before winning the
next election, and before personal ambition. Begin impeachment
hearings.