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Impeachment Momentum Grows in Public & House of Representatives

July 7, 2007

by JOE MILLER

Impeachment momentum is building!

A telephone survey of 1,100 Americans on July 3-5 by the American Research Group (1) found that 54 percent favor beginning impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney, and 45 percent favor initiating impeachment proceedings against President Bush. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points, 95 percent of the time.

  1. http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/

Commenting upon the ARG survey, Dave Lindorff in a July 7 blog post (2) notes that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership have been opposed to impeachment, in part, because it would "turn off" independent voters. Lindorff notes that the ARG survey doesn't support this conclusion, because 51 percent of independents favored initiating impeachment against Cheney, and 50 percent favored impeachment against Bush. If the Democrats initiated impeachment they might even pick up some Republicans, because 17 percent of Republicans favored initiating proceedings against Cheney, and 13 percent favored proceedings against Bush.

  1. http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/

On another front, because of daily revelations about the past and present crimes of Bush and Cheney, and the fear of new and continued crimes in the future, THE NUMBER OF CO-SPONSORS FOR REP. DENNIS KUCINICH'S BILL OF IMPEACHMENT (H.R. 333) AGAINST VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY HAS NOW INCREASED TO FOURTEEN! These and other developments are described in articles and posts by Ray McGovern (3), John Nichols (4), Dave Lindorff (5), and David Swanson (6).

  1. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/07/02/2233/
  2. http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?pid=210566
  3. http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/
  4. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

In other positive developments, a powerful new Brave New Films "Impeach Cheney" video and petition (7) is available on the Impeach Cheney (7) site as well as other sites. More than 36,000 individuals have signed the petition as of July 7. A collection of impeach Cheney YouTube videos is also available on the Brave New Films site (8).

  1. http://impeachcheney.org/
  2. http://bravenewfilms.org/videos/topic/dick-cheney

For a powerful set of articles on why Cheney should be impeached, and to send a message to your senators, representative, and Nancy Pelosi reflecting your thoughts and vote about whether Cheney should be impeached, click on the following link (9). More than 86,000 individuals have voted to impeach Cheney as of today.

  1. http://www.usalone.com/cheney_impeachment.php

To send your thoughts and vote to your senators, representative, and Nancy Pelosi about whether impeachment proceedings should be initiated against BOTH Bush and Cheney, click on the following link (10). More than 17,500 individuals have acted as of July 7.

  1. http://www.usalone.com/impeach_both.php

For the welfare of present and future generations here and abroad, impeachment proceedings against Cheney, or both Bush and Cheney, cannot begin too quickly.

Joseph Miller
Department of Psychology
51 Madeleva
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556

St. Joe Valley Greens, South Bend, IN