Last December, when Congressman John Conyers released a huge report documenting the evidence that Bush and Cheney had lied us into a war, he also introduced a bill (H. Res. 635) to start a preliminary investigation of the matter and make recommendations on impeachment.  This showed far more courage, not to mention long hours of work, than any other member of Congress had mustered at that time or since.  But it was disingenuous.  Impeachment is itself an investigation; a preliminary investigation is redundant.  And any investigation is unnecessary when the impeachable offenses are part of the public record.

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney
Remarks Election Night
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 
After Listening to Pink's Dear Mr. President

I wanted you to hear this song because it says so much about why *this* election in Georgia was so important.

In the film American Blackout, you saw that I say that my district needs jobs.  And so, in partnership with faith-based organizations and labor, I put together a program to train my constituents to acquire the skills for jobs that won't be outsourced overseas, and that pay more than a living wage, with health and retirement benefits.  Last month, we took in 500 students.  Who at the end of their training will have transportable skills, internationally-recognized certification, and a chance to live the American dream, supporting their families and our community.

The news media didn't tell you about that because they wanted you to focus on my hair!  

Tonight my mother was hurt by someone in this room, a member of the press.  My staff assistant was hurt by someone in this room, a member of the press.

Reporting from the Veterans For Peace convention in Seattle last weekend, Dahr Jamail reprints a speech by Lt. Ehren Watada, the first commissioned U.S. Army officer to publicly refuse orders to Iraq, stating on June 22, “As the order to take part in an illegal act is ultimately unlawful as well, I must refuse that order.”

In his speech to the VFP members, Watada lays down the most critical challenge to the antiwar movement yet: will we show soldiers that if they quit fighting this insane, criminal war and go to jail that we will provide for their families as long as necessary? 

Watada’s challenge should be placed on the agenda of every peace group in the land – from national coalitions to grassroots groups in every city and village.  Adopt a soldier's family, plan how to do it, and announce that decision publicly to create growing list of those ready to cease business as usual and end this war. 

WASHINGTON: One of the nation's most aggressive organic watchdogs filed a formal legal complaint today (8/10/06) against the country's leading organic brand, Horizon, alleging a well-financed campaign to greenwash milk produced at factory farms that fail to meet USDA regulatory standards. The complaint and call for a thorough investigation was filed with the USDA’s Office of Compliance.

The crux of the controversy, which has smoldered within the organic industry for over six years, stems from a small handful of industrial-scale dairies, managing 2000-10,000 cows, that are allegedly producing milk in feedlot conditions without adequately grazing their cattle as required by law.

If the GOP should lose the House and/or the Senate on Election Day, they will pick out a handful of the "closest" races--as many as they need to hang on to majority control--and start to scream like hell about ELECTION FRAUD.

That's right: the major perpetrators of such fraud will cast themselves as victims of the very crime that put them where they are, and charge the Democrats with having used the very tactics that the Bush Republicans have now perfected: legal/bureaucratic disenfranchisement, e-voting manipulation, hostile challenges to would-be voters, covert efforts at disinformation, countless ballots thrown away, and so on.

This is what we'll hear non-stop from Rush, O'Reilly, Hannity and Coulter; Hastert, Boehner, Sensenbrenner, Graham and Coburn; even Bush and Cheney and Karl Rove himself. This, of course, is how the Busheviks routinely operate; and yet I'm basing this prediction not just on their history as war-propagandists, but on the blunt admission of a certain high-placed GOP insider, who recently told Thom Hartmann that this is the party's plan, if they should lose control of either side of Congress.

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