January 2007

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/nadlerbill
By David Swanson

Senator Feingold held a hearing on the topic yesterday and plans to introduce a bill today to end the war by denying the President the money to continue it. Congress Members Lynn Woolsey, Jim McGovern, and Jerrold Nadler have bills in the House to do the same. But the bills are not all the same.

Congressman Nadler’s bill, introduced with Congressman Maurice Hinchey, is the newest, and he was the slowest coming to the issue. There read more

An Audio Series: 60-Minute Interviews by Doreen Key, KPFK 90.7 fm, Los Angeles
David Swanson
Gore Vidal
Randi Rhodes
William Rodriguez
Coming soon: Cindy Sheehan, John Bonifaz, Ann Wright, Ray McGovern, Cynthia McKinney, Howard Zinn, Helen Caldicott, Pete Seeger, and more.
See also: http://www.profilesinpeace.com

By David Swanson

This country has learned to be afraid… of Dick Cheney. The number one reason a significant minority of Americans still hesitates to get behind impeachment of Bush is fear of Dick Cheney. This will remain the case even should Cheney die, I am convinced. Certainly it remains the case no matter how many times I explain the following six reasons why it’s INSANE, but I’m going to try one more time.

1.-If you impeach and remove a president from office, that president’s read more

By David Swanson

HELP EXPOSE THESE AND OTHER LIES AT
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org

and

http://www.impeachbush.tv

President Bush claimed in his State of the Union speech to have prevented four terrorist plots. Phew! It’s a good thing to know that we tossed out our Bill of Rights for some actual REASON – I mean other than turning Iraq into a training ground for terrorism.

Except that we didn’t.

1.-“We stopped an al Qaeda plot to fly a hijacked airplane into the tallest read more

HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE Oversight Hearing on: “Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A Threat to Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law?”

10:15 a.m., Wednesday, January 31, 2007, Room 2141 Rayburn House Office Building

THANK Congressman John Conyers: (202) 225-5126, John.Conyers@mail.house.gov

By David Swanson, TomPaine.com

David Swanson is co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Washington director of Democrats.com and a board member of Progressive Democrats of America.

It was disturbing to see so many members of Congress in both parties clamoring to get Bush’s autograph on their copies of his State of the Union—not because it was such a dishonest speech that did such a disservice to this country, and not because they should have been handing him subpoenas instead. Rather, my concern read more

PDA has learned that this week, our friend and ally Rep. Jim McGovern will introduce new legislation, which replaces HR 4232 “End the War in Iraq Act of 2005