At the risk of stepping on someone's ego, my observation is that, with perhaps a handful of exceptions, the only difference between a Republican politician and a Democrat is that one has an "R" after their name and the other has a "D." When push comes to shove, they all act exactly the same way. I think someone tells a junior Senator or Congressman, "Don't rock the boat and you can feather your nest forever. Make waves and you're history."

They all seem to say, "Sir, yes sir!" and the system is perpetuated.

I get the same, computer generated, answers from my alleged representatives for every letter I send them. Senator Murray (D) says impeachment is not important and the thing to do is watch them carefully. Congressman Rick Larsen (D) sends me a similar letter, which also says he is not certain that the President has broken any laws!!

I sent the following to Murray after I got today's do nothing letter. I think it is time for something like this to go into play.
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This is NOT a computer generated response.

Whereas, We the People of the United States, having elected a Democratic majority for the purpose of ending the Cheney/Bush war on Iraq and Afghanistan, returning the Constitution and Bill of Rights, intact and functioning, to the Halls of Government, returning habeas corpus and civil rights to the United States, and impeaching the criminals who have looted our treasury, committed war crimes against humanity, and who have succeeded in trashing our Constitution, which they swore to protect and defend, and

Whereas, We the People of the United States, having run out of patience with a government run by one self serving party with two names, which is only concerned with courting the wealthy to get money for the next election, and

Whereas we have seen that the so called change of power only put self serving, business as usual, bureaucrats with a different letter behind their names into office, doing little for the people or the country, but much for the wealthy and influential, while paying lip service to their real duty to the United States of America and its people.

Therefore be it resolved that We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, do hereby resolve to remove the members of the one party with two names from office, to be replaced by representatives who will put the welfare of the people of the United States, the true needs of the nation and the welfare of the world over the desires of greedy corporations and the powerful wealthy. The search will be hard, but worth it. You timid do nothings are on the way out!

I am sure that, as with all the real concerns of the people, this will never reach you, but the effects will, eventually. Millions of us are fed up. To quote from the old movie "Network,"

We're mad as Hell and we're not going to take it anymore!"
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But, I suppose we will take it, as we have for election after election, subscribing to the theory that there is a difference between the two sides of the one party with two names.

Mr. Libby certainly has a lot more to tell us about the criminal conspiracy that led to the Iraq war and occupation.

What Mr. Bush has so cynically accomplished is silencing Scooter with this faux punishment.

A fine that can be paid in 24 hours couldn't have hurt all that much..

Scooter Libby is another example of high ranking gov. official with dual citizenship.
His loyalty seems to be Israel first, therefore, he could be cited on a number of crimes that put America's safety second to Israel's concerns at best.

I propose changing the law that no more Israeli firsters in any part of the US of A's government.

Just a little common sense along with our common dreams, please,

Perhaps congress should give Scooter broad immunity for anything he did at the direction or request of Mr. Bush or Mr. Cheney or their senior staffs. Then subpoena him. The first questions could cover the issues he perjured himself on before. They could then move on to many other issues. Cheney's energy policy. Iraq. Renditions. Etc. etc. etc.

The immunity would take away the fifth-amendment, and he'd be subject to prosecution if he perjured himself again.

Bush would of course claim executive privilege to keep him out of the witness chair. We could then watch Tony Snow why President Bush was claiming executive privilege to protect a convicted perjurer. What a lovely spectacle.

The pardon of anyone convicted of a serious crime is as bad as the crime itself! Congress should pass legislation to eliminate pardons completely. If one is tried and convicted of a crime ,then they should "do the time" like the ordinary folks. Sorry I ment ordinary criminals.

Almost anyone who would replace those Republicans would be an improvement. I won't join the 'all or nothing crowd'. Just a handful of votes and Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia would not have been put on the court.

More independent or even slightly less corrupt people in Congress and Bu$h the inferior would not have been able to pass his agenda or start the Iraq war. Some Congressional oversight and 9/11 might have been prevented.

Thank you DaveandFrank1!!

Now if we could just find about 25 Paul (or "Paula") Wellstone-like clones to run for those seats as Independents to stop the War and save the Constitution that would cause some pretty serious ripples in the water I think....Don't know much about Al Franken who is running against Norm Coleman in MN. Think he's running as a Demo and is probably an AIPACer (albeit a funny one).

Am I just a Common Dreamer?

Here you go abbybwood:

2008 Republican Senators up for re-election?

Appointed senators

John Barrasso (R) of Wyoming

Retiring senators

Wayne Allard (R) of Colorado

Possible retiring senators

Thad Cochran (R) of Mississippi
Larry Craig (R) of Idaho
Chuck Hagel (R) of Nebraska
John Warner (R) of Virginia

Republican incumbent races

Lamar Alexander of Tennessee
Saxby Chambliss of Georgia
Norm Coleman of Minnesota
Susan Collins of Maine
John Cornyn of Texas
Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina
Pete Domenici of New Mexico
Michael Enzi of Wyoming
Lindsey Graham of South Carolina
Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma
Mitch McConnell of Kentucky
Pat Roberts of Kansas
Jeff Sessions of Alabama
Gordon Smith of Oregon
Ted Stevens of Alaska
John Sununu of New Hampshire

'House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. spoke of "the general impression" that Bush commuted "Scooter" Libby's sentence last week in the CIA case to keep Libby quiet. The White House said Conyers' claim is baseless.'

Would this the the same White House that assured the public that Rove and Libby were, quote "not involved" in the original leak?

CV's got the right idea. We need to start thinking like "they" do.

18 GOP Senators who have had enough. 22 of them are up for re-election in '08.

Who are they CV? I did the research and listed all the members of the House Committee on the Judiciary for everyone to target with phone calls and letters.

Can someone out there do the research and let us know who the 22 Republican Senators are who are up for re-election in 2008?

It's all about the Constitution, baby..... This is now a solidly "American" issue. We need to show the rotten Democrat and Republican "representatives" in D.C. that the American People can all "GET ALONG TO GO ALONG!!!!! better than THEY can, because it seems it's only all of us at this point who understand that it is OUR CONSTITUTION THEY SWORE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THAT THEY ARE NOT PROTECTING AND DEFENDING THAT IS AT STAKE!!!

HELLO???? IS THIS THING ON?????

"Of COURSE he was going to talk if his little pork ass wasn't saved"
And with a name like Scooter?!? Information wouldn't be the only thing leaking out of him.
"by CALLING your congressional reps and telling them to IMPEACH THE WAR CRIMINALS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Bush, Cheney, Rice & Gonzales!!!"
It's Senators that we need to target. Republican Senators. The prerequisite for Impeachment is 18 GOP Senators that have had enough. 22 of them are up for re-election in '08, we need to start targeting their districts NOW. (well, it would have been better if this had started back in 04 or better yet, when we had our first Impeachment rally in 2000, but only a few of US showed up. Now the whole left is on the bandwagon, too little, too late)

Conyers would make a great president!

PLEASE PITCH IN AND HELP HIM/US OUT

by CALLING your congressional reps and telling them to IMPEACH THE WAR CRIMINALS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
Bush, Cheney, Rice & Gonzales!!!

this is as good a time as any for us to turn up the heat!

Nixon, Agnew, Clinton, Reagan,and in the opposite direction Jimmy Carter all prove that you cannot surpress the truth forever. It will come out and the longer it takes, the harder it will hit once it does surface.

Conyers continued and dogged pursuit of this and other matters will be rewarded. Count on it! As Siouxrose would say, "Karma works".

Of COURSE he was going to talk if his little pork ass wasn't saved. That is the reason for the timing of the "commutation"--before he did jail time--and for his not being pardoned outright--so he can invoke the 5th & avoid being forced to testify in the manifold criminal and civil actions which could result from this.

But it's nice to hear it said by someone who can actually be heard...

Wow! Amazing story by Madsen.

*L* Ummmm, isn't Israel like the lynchpin to kicking off the grand apocalypse so greatly desired amongst Christians worldwide?

So worry not, everything is in good hands.

*L*

Rep. Conyers should subpeona Wayne Madsen of The Wayne Madsen Report to testify, under oath, about the following:

Report: Libby a long-time Israeli intelligence agent

By Wayne Madsen

Global Research, July 7, 2007
waynemadsenreport.com

Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby (Leibowitz) has been a long-serving intelligence agent for Israel's Mossad, according to a veteran CIA "official cover" officer who spoke to the Wayne Madsen Report on deep background. The CIA's Clandestine Service has, over the years, gathered a tremendous amount of intelligence on Libby's activities on behalf of Mossad.

Libby served as the lawyer for Switzerland- based American fugitive financier Marc Rich, aka Mark David Reich, who is also known to be an Israeli intelligence asset and someone Israel relies upon for missions that demand "plausible deniability" on the part of the Mossad.

Rich heads up a worldwide empire of dummy corporations, foundations, and numbered bank accounts that have been involved in sanctions busting and weapons smuggling. The nations involved include Israel, United States, United Kingdom, Iran, Panama, Colombia, Russia, Iraq (under Saddam Hussein), Cuba, Spain, Nigeria, Singapore, Bolivia, Jamaica, Bermuda, France, Italy, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Kazakhstan, Philippines, Australia, Argentina, Peru, Ireland, Zambia, Switzerland.

In 1983, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York urged jail time for Rich and his partner Pincus Green for racketeering. The name of that U.S. Attorney is Rudolph Giuliani. Giuliani, who is now running for president, praised Bush's decision to commute Libby's jail sentence. After Clinton 's pardon of Rich, Giuliani said he was "shocked."

Paul Klebnikov, the Moscow editor for Forbes' Russian edition, wrote about the connections of Rich to Russian gangsters like Boris Berezovsky, a business partner of Neil Bush, in his book "Godfather of the Kremlin." Klebnikov was shot to death gangland-style on a Moscow street on July 9, 2004.

Libby not only provided the Mossad with a top agent inside the White House but also an important conduit for the Russian-Israeli Mafia.

Libby arranged for Rich's eleventh hour pardon by outgoing President Bill Clinton in January 2001. The pardon of Rich was urged in a phone call to Clinton by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as well as Shimon Peres and Ehud Olmert.

Well, he won't be talking anytime soon now unless he is rendered and that doesn't happen in America. Impeach for peace or any other reason that comes to mind. All the best to Mr. Conyers and may we see some justice at long last.