What do you think of this impeach Cheney business?
I don’t know if y’all have been following the whole “Impeach Cheney” train. It’s slowly been picking up steam (at least on my political radar).
You can read more about it over at Wexler Wants Hearings. There is even a petition(!) you can sign.
I dunno, what are your thoughts, dear internets?
didn’t really think this had much momentum. i think it’s a little silly to think cheney singlehandedly brought us into the iraq war. i guess you can’t just ignore injustice, but don’t these guys have something more important to do with their time? you know, like the baseball steroids problem.
— Wolf | @
I signed the petition. My reasoning: Bush and Cheney both suck. I did it more as a “fuck you” to the man; I don’t expect him to actually be impeached.
— chewy | @
do these people have more important things to do with their time than reinforce the checks and balances instituted when our government was founded…to investigate whether there was an abuse of power by the administration? Congress didn’t seem to think it was a waste of time impeach over the definition of “is” and a hummer a few years back. I think a perpetual war entered ender shady pretenses (Kucinich can quote all those for you), wobbly civil liberties, and the broadest definition of “executive priveledge” definitely warrants investigations.
— robinitaface | @
It has no momentum. It’s been around since the administration came into office and certainly after Sep. 11th and the Iraq War. All the talk of impeachment of either Cheney or Bush has been around but meaningless as no one can really make a valid argument for it.
— Jason | @
Hey, what do you think of this Mel Gibson being anti-semetic thing? Oh, wait. That news is YEARS OLD. Multiple members of congress have tried to get impeachment off the ground. Nearly every ranking member of the Bush administration has been implicated in numerous scandals, unpatriotic misdeeds, lies and fabrications, and general abuses of power. The only reason the proceedings haven’t been initiated is because the hearings would take down half of the Republican officials in Washington and some of the Dems too. Well, that and because our gov has gotten unconstitutional leeway since 9/11 because “we’re under attack.” (no conspiracy theory here)
— RVA Foodie | @
it’s not worth the trouble, there’s only a year left anyways. it’d take that long to get out of committee (which it wouldn’t do).
no point in impeaching someone who would be leaving office 2 months after you finish anyways. plus the dems don’t want to take the spotlight off of the prez race.
— midas | @
Mel Gibson hates Jews? But, he made a movie about the king of the Jews …
— Ross | @
Bush and Cheney are criminals. Impeach now.
— Scott Burger | @
Friday, Jan. 04, 2008
Nurses Launch National ‘CheneyCare’ Campaign
New Print, Online Ads Jumpstart Petition Drive for Guaranteed Health Care
The California Nurses Association
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 — The California Nurses Association (CNA)/National Nurses
Organizing Committee (NNOC) launched a national campaign today in favor of
what the group has dubbed “CheneyCare” — guaranteed, publicly-funded health
care for all Americans.
The campaign was inspired by the success of the group’s Iowa ads declaring
that Vice President Dick Cheney “would be dead” if he did not have
publicly-funded health care. A new version of the Iowa ad asking Americans to sign a
petition for “CheneyCare” will run today in eight New Hampshire papers before
going national in the New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today, as well
as leading political blogs, on Monday.
“All Americans have the right to the quality of care that our
Vice-President, President, and Congress already have,” said Rose Ann DeMoro, Executive
Director of CNA/NNOC and a vice-president of the AFL-CIO. “All the leading
Democratic proposals fall well short of “CheneyCare,” keeping insurance companies
at the apex of power and allowing them to deny care that can save lives. The
Republican proposals are even worse.”
The ad uses recent headlines about Vice-President Dick Cheney’s latest heart
procedure to point out the difference between the government-funded health
care that the nation’s leading politicians enjoy and the precarious health
care situation in which most Americans find themselves.
A news article about Cheney’s recent treatment for heartbeat irregularities
provides the context with the headline: “If he were anyone else, he’d
probably be dead by now.” The text highlights that factors such as the patient’s
history and prognosis would likely lead to a denial of private insurance claims
for most Americans, assuming that they had coverage in the first place.
The ad asks readers to go to http://www.CheneyCare.org and sign a petition
in support of CheneyCare for all Americans. The blog ads cut to the chase,
with the tagline “CheneyCare for all.”
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The campaign plans to continue running ads in all the early primary states.
Once the presidential candidates are chosen, the petition will be delivered
to the both the Democratic and Republican nominees’ state campaign offices
around the country.
CNA/NNOC has been critical of “universal health care” proposals by top
Democratic presidential hopefuls Senator Hillary Clinton, Senator Barack Obama and
John Edwards, which continue to rely upon the wasteful inclusion of private
insurance companies.
Earlier in the campaign season, CNA/NNOC teamed up with Physicians for a
National Health Program (PNHP) to air television ads during Democratic
presidential debates in Iowa and New Hampshire. The three “Speechless” ads featured
regular Americans describing the costs, burdens and financial pressures that
the current health care system is putting on them to one of the leading
democratic candidates. They then ask the candidate what she or he is doing about
it. The camera then cut to a cardboard cut-out of candidates Clinton, Obama or
Edwards, with a voice-over that says, “The longer nobody
talks about single payer, guaranteed health care for everyone, the longer we
are going to wait to get it.”
CNA/NNOC is part of the Leadership Conference for Guaranteed Health Care, a
new umbrella group for labor, advocacy and health care professionals
committed to working to pass legislation that will guarantee access to health care
for all Americans.
About California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee:
Founded in 1903, the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing
Committee today represents over 75,000 members nationwide. It is the largest
and fastest-growing organization of direct care Registered Nurses in the
country and is dedicated to providing a voice for nurses and a vision for
healthcare.
— Scott Burger | @
Impeachment and investigation have been a political tactic going back to Roman times. No reason to stop now.
There is actually a permantent committee for the impeach of the next president.
http://www.impeachme.com
— Paul Hammond | @