MESSAGE FROM CONGRESSMAN JOHN CONYERS REGARDING - Impeachment Forum
Is There a Case for Impeachment? I appeared last week at a Harper's Magazine forum which addressed the conduct of the Bush Administration and whether it has committed crimes that rise to the level of impeachment. A crowd of 1,500 enthusiastically heard from several experts and me as we discussed the tyranny of a President acting to commit a fraud against the United States.

Become a Citizen Co-sponsor of House Resolution 635

I need your help to build the case for an impeachment investigation. I have conducted an exhaustive study on this subject and believe that we must begin the process to investigate this administration for possible impeachable offenses. As former congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman noted at the forum, a groundswell of public support is necessary for impeachment proceedings to succeed. There was overwhelming public support for pursuing a case against Richard Nixon, while these same conditions did not exist when the Republicans tried to impeach President Clinton. Public opinion is on our side and now is the time to make a difference. Become a Citizen Co-sponsor & help introduced House Resolution 635 to create a special committee to investigate whether the president's misconduct rises to the level of impeachment. 29 Members of Congress have already joined me as cosponsors. Lend your support. Help build momentum to enact this legislation by joining the more than 42,000 concerned Americans who have already signed on as Citizen Cosponsors at:

http://johnconyers.com/citizencosponsors

[Duchess Note: I've already signed on as a Citizen Co-sponsor]

Read the Report ... Read the Constitution in Crisis, A 182-page report with over 1,000 footnotes covering the entire spectrum of deception, manipulation, torture, retribution and cover-ups by the Bush Administration. It can be found online here:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5769

FEINGOLD ASSAILS DEMS ON BUSH CENSURE
The Associated Press
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/031506Z.shtml

QUOTE OF THE DAY ... Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal

MESSAGE FROM JESSICA FLAGG [running for Congress in NYC] REGARDING SENATOR FEINGOLD & HIS CALLING FOR CENSURE
I say "Thank You" a hundred times to Senator Feingold for standing up to this criminal regime and for calling for Censure before the Republicans get away with rewriting the law! Bush must not be given a "Get Out Of Jail Card" by the monopoly board players holding the most chips without a huge public outcry! I encourage everyone to contact his office with a 'Thank you" message and maybe a little dough toward his progressive patriots fund at:

http://www.progressivepatriotsfund.com

Senator Feingold's Offices
Washington, DC
506 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4904
(202) 224-5323
TDD (202) 224-1280
Fax (202) 224-2725

Milwaukee
517 East Wisconsin Ave., Room 408
Milwaukee, WI 53202-4504
(414) 276-7282
Fax (414) 276-7284

MESSAGE FROM HARRY REID - Dangerous Incompetence
This past weekend I continued my "Give 'Em Hell Harry Red State Tour" heading to Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. The Americans I met repeatedly expressed to me their frustration with the Bush Administration and the Republican-controlled Congress for their dangerous incompetence that has made ALL Americans less secure and less safe. Like American across the country, Gulf Coast residents are frustrated with a President who has repeatedly pursued flawed policies that fail to protect America and a rubber stamp Republican Congress that refuses to do its job and hold the President accountable. Today I want to tell you what I saw in Arkansas.

At the Hope Airport there is a sea of 11,000 mobile homes set up for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. These dwellings are costing FEMA hundreds of millions of dollars; yet they remain empty even as thousands remain homeless. FEMA has been unable to use the trailers because regulations prohibit placing them in flood plains. Seeing those trailers I was mystified, disappointed and appalled. And this is just one example of dangerous mismanagement and costly incompetence.

Last week, I wrote to President Bush urging him to sign an executive order for a temporary exemption from the flood-plain regulations. With the stroke of his pen, he could give flood victims homes, yet he chooses to do nothing. In fact right now in Pass Christian, Mississippi, more than 100 hurricane victims are living in tents. Are they better off?

For the past two weeks I have written about the lack of oversight that Republicans in Congress conduct on this administration. The shocking situation in Arkansas is yet another example of this unmet need. Last week people wrote more than 13,000 letters to the editor. Let’s bring that number up to 20,000. Write a letter to the editor demanding that the Republican Congress conduct more oversight of the administration by visiting:

http://giveemhellharry.com/page/speakout/NSA

Good Congressional oversight protects America and it is long past time that the Republican Congress, in particular the House and Senate Intelligence Committee stop protecting the Administration at the expense of the security of the American people. On matters of national security, Americans expect their government to have a record of accomplishment, but today, sadly, our government is known more for its consistent misleading dangerous incompetence and leaders who have fallen asleep at the switch. We saw it with Katrina, where warnings about the storm's potential devastation were ignored at the highest levels. We saw it in the Dubai ports deal, where such an important national security decision was left to underlings and bureaucrats. And we see it in the decisions made in Washington about Iraq, where our troops are bravely fulfilling their mission but their civilian leaders are letting them down.

These mistakes have had severe consequences for our nation. Incompetence has made our country less safe and less secure. It has stretched our military too thin and taken a great toll on our troops, active as well as guard and reserve, and their families. It has weakened our homeland defense, and along the Gulf Coast, uprooted millions of lives and devastated the economy.