www.wethepeopleimpeach.org
Image from Roll Call, April 29, 2008
To get attention from Congress when phone calls and emails are ignored, seek it on Tuesday mornings when they're at coffee in the House cafeterias and enjoying a leisurely read of Roll Call ("The Newspaper of Capitol Hill Since 1955"). Take out an ad that will make them either sit up or gasp. John Edwards took out a full-page ad in Roll Call when he opened his presidential campaign last year. The ad above used the "stopper" that features former President Richard Nixon, as seen by graphic artist Paul Gottlich.
It was placed by our group—plus a Portland (OR) organization—for Tuesday morning, April 29, when the House had just returned to work. It's part of the joint campaign to encourage 44 pro-impeachment House members to repeat the “Nixon Flooding Plan” by filing separate bills against President Bush and/or Vice President Cheney. Back in 1973, 89 of their predecessors joined forces to oust President Nixon by each filing separate impeachment bills. They knew that one bill with 89 cosponsors might be ignored by the House Speaker and/or the House Judiciary Committee chair. But not 89 separate bills (40 were filed in October alone). Nixon quickly resigned a few days before the HJC voted unanimously to impeach him. He knew both houses were poised to quickly oust him, opening the door to a federal trial and possible long imprisonment for high crimes and misdemeanors.
The two groups gambled they could raise enough money to defray the ad's cost ($3,715). They’re still open for contributions if you want to be part of this landmark lobbying effort. (SEE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW.)
The day after the ad appeared (April 30), DC members of CodePink hand-delivered tearsheets of it to those 44 targeted House members.
The next action in the Nixon Flooding Plan will be to point out to those 44 House members that Bush can be impeached on a single charge of bribery (Art. II, Sect. 4) which he just secretly committed in the subprime mortgage scandal. He took $29 billion of taxpayer dollars to bribe one investment bank (J P Morgan/Chase) to bail-out a major subprime mortgage loan shark (Bear Stearns). Bush neither asked Congress for permission to "help" Morgan/Chase, nor did he ask for competitive bids. His bribe opened the door to repeated "bail-outs" of other lenders to save four other troubled banks—Wachovia, Washington Mutual, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup.
All it takes to oust—is one article of impeachment. And the “Bear Stearns Bribe” could be it. The two groups are now strongly urging activist groups and angry taxpayers to make phone calls, to send emails, etc. to—the 44 House members to each file such a bill. The bribe is on record so any HJC investigation should be brief. Moreover, these members will find taking such action would guarantee re-election in November, considering the overall anger of American voters about Bush and Cheney’s impeachable deeds.
Links to the 44 members, a sample impeachment article on bribery, and a flier on the Bear Stearns scandal are on this website.
If you want to be one of the contributors to the Roll Call ad, use Paypal.com for credit cards/bank transfersto this email address: DemocracyforOregon@gmail.com [1]. Or make checks payable to Democracy for Oregon at 6428 SE 15th Ave, Portland, OR 97202.
For more information, contact: www.wethepeopleimpeach.org [2]
Marcia Meyers, We the People National Coalition for Impeachment
Joan Coates, South Side DFA MeetUp Group of Portland OR