Bush and Cheney on 911
interviewed behind closed doors, refused to take an oath, refused to
allow tape recordings and ensured no transcript be kept but they tell us
(citizens) they can spy on who ever they choose. Tell Congress to do
their job as they pledged to the American people and God to do! Impeach
and Indict this administration for TREASON! Remember any PEOPLE are
responsible for the regime they are willing to put up with!
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States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction
of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE
II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Subject: [APFN] [Fwd: [Media] Wars and Congress: Now What?]
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Wars and Congress: Now What?
By David Swanson
http://warisacrime.org/node/54280
On Tuesday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill
already passed by the Senate that funds a $33 billion, 30,000-troop
escalation in Afghanistan. The vote was 308 to 114. What could the
good news possibly be?
The first good news is that, while we had no more than 35 congress
members who would vote against war funding a year ago, or perhaps 55
when it was an easy vote with no pressure, we've now got 114. That's
serious progress. That's a far more dramatic increase than we've seen
in the number of congress members willing to vote for a non-binding
unspecified timetable for a withdrawal. That number rose from 138 last
year to 162 on July 1st (although the legislation was somewhat stronger
this year). In other words, willingness to express mild interest in
ending the war has reached a plateau. Willingness to take serious
action to end the war is rapidly catching up. Of course, both have to
top 218 before we win.
The really good news is that we finally have an essential ingredient in
any recipe for legislative change: a record of which legislators are
with us, and which against us. Almost any effective campaign to pass,
or -- as in this case -- defeat, legislation requires at least three
stages. First you run a trial to identify who stands where. Then you
reward and punish at the polling booth in the next election. Then you
try again and possibly succeed. Until now, we've been unable to reach
step one. The "leadership" in Congress has packaged war bills in
unrelated measures, or -- as was done four weeks ago -- passed bills
without holding a vote at all. Now we finally know, unambiguously, who
stands where. The question is whether we're willing to act on it.
Additional good news is that over 40 percent of the Democrats voted
No. This compares with 7 percent of Republicans. While the
Republicans are in the minority in the House, more Republicans than
Democrats voted for this bill. The war now belongs first to the
Democratic leadership, second to the Republican caucus, and only third
to the Democratic caucus. Last year we were unable to identify where
Republicans stood, because they all voted No in response to an
unrelated measure packaged into the bill.
Here are the names of who voted yes, who voted no, and who did not
vote.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll474.xml
While not voting is often a dodge, I'm assuming it's an accident or a
typo in the case of Congressman Alan Grayson who lobbied for No votes.
The bad news is that the 308 congress members who defied public opinion
and voted for war funding are not afraid of us. The Republicans think
their supporters are happy to put their grandchildren into debt to
China as long as it funds wars, even if it makes us all less safe and
wrecks our economy. And they're right. The Democrats think their
supporters are outraged and offended by such behavior but will meekly
turn around and vote for them anyway, out of fear that a Republican
would be worse. And they're right.
We need a new approach that not only seeks to keep anti-war
representatives in power, and to replace Republicans with anti-war
Democrats, and to replace pro-war Democrats in primaries with anti-war
Democrats, and to replace pro-war Republicans in primaries with
anti-war Republicans, but also to defeat pro-war incumbents even if
their opponent is pro-war too and even if it means replacing a Democrat
with a Republican. I don't see any other way of making these people
listen to us in the coming months and years. And you can't get much
worse than anyone who keeps funding wars.
Congress members are coming home for August. It is time to punish and
reward, spank and thank, and vote out and reelect in November. It is
also time to push the strongest opponents of war in the House to begin
forming an effective vehicle for victory. The new Out of Afghanistan
Caucus, or the Progressive Caucus, or the group of progressives who
signed an anti-war letter on Tuesday, or some other collection of
leading anti-war voices in Congress needs to establish a caucus with
strict requirements for membership, including a commitment to oppose
all legislation that funds non-defensive wars. Such a caucus should
raise funds and supply election funding to its members, allowing them
some independence from the pressure of the pro-war party "leadership."
We have 114 names to start with. Resources are available at
http://defundwar.org
As the peace movement begins working with labor and civil rights groups
this fall, we need to make sure everyone understands which congress
members are funneling all the money we need into wars and which ones
are not. Maybe, just maybe, we'll be able to build the sort of unified
coalition that will be required this coming winter if we are to pass
cuts to the military budget and prevent cuts to Social Security.
David Swanson
is the author of "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming
a
More Perfect Union"
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