Gates Confirmation on Fast-Track? Not So Fast ...
"'... 'This is not a guy who’s ever been accused of speaking truth to power. If you’re looking for somebody who’s going to change Iraq policy, he’s hardly the guy to do it. The only policy he’s going to consider is what is acceptable to the White House ...' Gates, as deputy CIA director, consistently politicized intelligence-community reports about Iran, Nicaragua and Afghanistan in order to cater to the hard-line anti-Soviet policies of the Reagan White House. Gates’s role as deputy CIA director 'was to corrupt the process and the ethics of intelligence on all of these issues ... It was the same kind of manufacturing of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war...'"

"You Have To Hold The President Responsible"
Even the Dark Lord agrees: "The levels of brutality that we've seen are truly horrifying ... total defeat - an American withdrawal that leaves Iraq as an anarchic 'failed state' - is not yet inevitable but is becoming more likely ... this unfolding catastrophe has a central cause: devastating dysfunction within the administration of President George W. Bush ... 'The decisions did not get made that should have been. They didn't get made in a timely fashion, and the differences were argued out endlessly.… At the end of the day, you have to hold the president responsible'.…"

Building a National Impeachment Movement Begins NOW
When: Saturday, November 11 at 1:00PM
Where: National Constitution Center
525 Arch St. - Philadelphia PA 19106 - 215-409-6600
Event Description:
Speakers (1-2 pm)

• Elizabeth Holtzman, former Congress Member
• Cindy Sheehan, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for Peace
• David Swanson, Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Washington Director of Democrats.com
• Tim Carpenter, Director of Progressive Democrats of America
• Jodie Evans, Co-Founder of CODE PINK Women for Peace
• Bill Perry, Delaware Valley Veterans For America
• Bob Fertik, President of Democrats.com (moderator)

Blogger Panel (2-3 pm) with prominent Philadelphia bloggers.

• Sally Hemings (Sally Hemings in Paris)
• Rob Kall (OpEdNews.com)
• Dave Lindorff (ThisCantBeHappening.net)
• Martin Longman (BoomanTribune.com)
• Susie Madrak (Suburban Guerilla)
• Liza Sabater (Culture Kitchen)
• Bob Fertik (Democrats.com) moderator

All press and bloggers are welcome! Email david@davidswanson.org with subject "11/11 press" Event fee: $10.00 per person See who's coming or update your RSVP: http://impeachbush.meetup.com/16/calendar/5235193/t/cr1_c

Elections Over ... But It's STILL The Corruption, Stupid!
All the warm fuzzy chitchat about bipartisanship is something we will have to deal with for a while, but all you Dems that rode the netroots-driven anti-corruption drive into your fancy senate and house offices need to remember something. THIS REMAINS THE MOST CORRUPT ADMINISTRATION SINCE NIXON (and probably beyond).
It is time to start issuing subpoenas and get to the bottom of the host of election dirty tricks, wiretapping, secret prisons, torture, secret industry advisory groups, lobbyist bribes, and so on and so on ad nauseum. America's voters made a HUGE statement yesterday about the fact that they are fed up with the corruption and want to see heads roll. Pelosi et al had better not make the mistake of thinking that with Rumsfeld, Cunningham, Delay, Foley, Ney, Santorum, et al out of office that there is no more rottenness to be found through congressional investigations. You had better believe more rottenness is there, and you had better believe it is your responsibility to shine the light of day on it.
So, after the nice lunch with the preznit, and after the parties, and the victory lap, and all that pleasantness, please-o-please just get down to business. America expects you to finish the job that the voters started on November 7: throwing the corrupt bums out on the street. FIND THEM. ROOT THEM OUT. EXPOSE THEM. After all, it's STILL the corruption, stupid.

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The Impeachment of GWB: Holtzman Revisited
"Finally ... People have begun to speak of impeaching President George W. Bush ... As a former member of Congress who sat on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment proceedings against President Richard Nixon, I believe they are right to do so ... I have been deeply troubled by Bush's breathtaking scorn for our international treaty obligations ... by the torture scandals and the violations of US criminal laws ... by growing evidence that the President deliberately misled the country into the war in Iraq ... (by) revelations that President Bush directed the wiretapping of hundreds, possibly thousands, of Americans, in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)... As a matter of constitutional law, these and other misdeeds constitute grounds for the impeachment of President Bush.
... Mobilizing the nation and Congress in support of investigations and the impeachment of President Bush is a critical task that has already begun, but it must intensify and grow.
... Finally, if this pressure fails to produce results, attention must be focused on changing the political composition of the House and Senate in the upcoming 2006 elections. If a Republican Congress is unwilling to investigate and take appropriate action against a Republican President, then a Democratic Congress should replace it.
... As awful as Watergate was, after the vote on impeachment and the resignation of President Nixon, the nation felt a huge sense of relief. Impeachment is a tortuous process, but now that President Bush has thrown down the gauntlet and virtually dared Congress to stop him from violating the law, nothing less is necessary to protect our constitutional system and preserve our democracy."