width=”250″ height=”178″ align=”right” alt=”” Answer Conyers’ Impeachment Request!

From the NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT NETWORK:

On June 5, John Conyers agreed to a meeting with a group of CodePinkers. He challenged them to explain how to he should overcome the five reasons why impeachment is not possible.

His reasons are below, with my suggested or possible rebuttals in parens. Please use your own wording to rebut his objections, but no accusations, no emotion, no rants — as respectful as can be.

Then mail or fax them to Chairman Conyers, with the notation that here are rebuttals to his objections to impeachment. Ask him to please consider these rebuttals carefully. (EVEN if you’ve done it a million times before, we must keep chipping away at it, and now is the perfect time — maybe the only time — to do it!)

The 5 reasons Mr. Conyers gives for not impeaching (I have paraphrased):

1. While the majority of people in this country want Bush gone, they don’t want impeachment. (Rebuttal: What facts or polls do you use to support your contention that people don’t want impeachment? Our interactions with the public for years now indicates otherwise.)

2. The corporate media will slay us. (Rebuttal: Isn’t the object to carry out justice? If the media tries to slay the Dems for that, then it seems the Dems have plenty of reason to slay that corporate media! The Dems should have more faith in the people, and should understand the people know the truth when they hear it.)

3. No time. (We all know the answer to that one. Clinton and Nixon, both in a matter of months. Besides, all we’re asking for now is hearings, to begin exposure of this administration. The rest will take care of itself.)

4. No votes. (Again, Besides, all we’re asking for now is hearings, to begin exposure of this administration. The rest will take care of itself, and the votes will be there once the people begin to overrule political motivation.)

5. Election defeat. (We know this one too: Historically, the impeaching party has won in a landslide. His staffer’s suggestion that while the Republicans won the presidential election after Clinton, they lost seats in Congress. We can easily argue that there is likely no or little correlation at all — or, that even Republican voters were disgusted with that “impeachment.)

Chairman Conyers indicated he would welcome our individual Congressional reps onto the (I believe Wexler?) letter that currently has 15 signers, five of whom are on the Judiciary Committee.

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