Good Morning you bunch of uneducated, ignorant, dumba _ _ Americans!
I know you are thinking what a strange way to greet my wonderful fellow progressives...right ? Let me tell you of my adventures yesterday and you will understand.
The members of the Central Impeach group had asked me to join them in their presentation to Rush Holt requesting his support of HR 333 for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. And I want to say "Thank You to Mary Ellen and Linda for the invitation !"
Also we had gone prepared to address his bill HR 811 due to come to a vote sometime within the next couple weeks but we didn't get to express our concerns on that one, since Holt was very anxious to get rid of us after it was apparent he was loosing on all fronts his decision not to support Impeachment.
I must say Linda Gochfeld and Mary Ellen Marrino did an excellent job of presenting the reasons for impeachment and even though Holt agreed this administration did numerous high crimes and misdemeanors, he still stood fast on his statement, " The support for Impeachment is not there, the American public is uneducated and do not understand what crimes have been committed. " ( my response to his statement- please give us more credit than that)
Linda explained the reasons for Impeachment as laid out in the Resolution for Impeachment , that was passed by the Princeton Democrats, and Mary Ellen presented poll data and other supportive information as to why it is necessary to impeach Bush and Cheney.
Holt kept repeating we will never see Impeachment because the Bush gang have a way of covering up their dirty deeds. Mary Ellen responded, "on most of the items in the resolution, they have already admitted to committing these crimes" .
Everytime Linda and Mary Ellen countered his statements with facts he went back to " The support for Impeachment is not there, the American public is uneducated and do not understand what crimes have been committed. "
Mary Ellen tried on numerous occasions to make him realize he has a duty to impeach and to negate the precedence set by this administration to stop the hemorrhage of our constitutional rights and liberties.
He said Conyers and Waxman will never go for impeachment and Pelosi wasn't in favor of wasting time on something they couldn't win. Besides there is no support for impeachment, the grassroots need to get out there and educate the public so there is support.
Mary Ellen handed him copies of the petitions her group had collected and said there is support out there but the news media just isn't covering it.
Mary Ellen continued, "we don't need to go to the Senate for impeachment, it can be done in the House and there should be enough votes to impeach, and at least restore checks and balances to our Constitution. "
Upon leaving the meeting, the general consensus amongst the 5 ladies who attended was the only one in that room who was uneducated was Rush Holt.
Today , as in the past the American citizenry, are way ahead of those in the DC beltway and our elected representatives have no idea of what is going on in the real world or for other reasons have chosen not to.
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