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Permalink Reply by Angelina on October 20, 2007 at 6:54pm

Here you go: Pelosi, Public Enemy Number One
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/10/17/4629

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Permalink Reply by the0wl on October 21, 2007 at 3:22am

I wish people would really watch, listen, read and learn about our government! Despite all the hopes, intentions, and beliefs in "the system" policing itself as it aught to, a 51% victory in both houses, with the sitting president still on the opposite side of the aisle, is neither a landslide nor a mandate.

Maybe raw numbers will tell the tale? This particular Democratic Congress was impotent from the start, and will continue being that way unless and until we can achieve between 63 and 75 percent of their total vote going our way. Right now, out best hovers between 53-55%. Put another way; if every Democrat and Independent in both houses voted for impeachment, we'd still need 13-25 Republican Senators, and 120-163 Republican Congressmen on our side to make it fly. Who really thinks that's ever going to happen?

When will we stop whining, wake up, adopt the longer view, and start preparing for the day when we really can make a difference? That's something we can do now, within the bounds of law, but will still require a gargantuan effort to "make it happen." So, who's on the float?

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Permalink Reply by Monique Frugier on October 27, 2007 at 1:50am

To this I will respond with my letter published in the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/26/opinion/l26war.html?_r=1&ref=...

October 26, 2007
Letters
The Weight of War Falls on the Young
To the Editor:

Re “Old Enough Now to Ask How Dad Died at War” (front page, Oct. 21):

Only recently I got the last few memorabilia from my father, who was killed in World War II as he defended his country (France) from the German invasion. My mother had put his medals, condolence letters and the obituary announcement from newspapers in a cookie box, but among all of these is a tin soldier wrapped in tissue paper on which my mother had written “soldier that Alain” (my brother) “put in Daddy’s pocket when he went to war.”

On Nov. 19, 1944, I was 8 months old, not old enough to ask how Dad died at war, leaving a wife and three very young children behind. I asked my mom many questions just like young CamerynLee Orlowski, who lost her father in Iraq and was featured in your article.

I think of my father every day. I do not stare at the sky anymore in search of a cloud that looks like a kepi (French Army headgear) as I used to do as a little girl hoping to connect with my father; instead, when things get rough I hold the tiny tin soldier.

I am 63, and tears from the void in my life are still coming. My heart goes to all the children who lost a parent in the Iraq war. A longtime activist for justice and peace, I continue to speak against this unjust war and do all I can so no more young children will have to attend and/or to learn of a funeral of their loved one.

Monique Frugier

Ardmore, Pa., Oct. 21, 2007

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Permalink Reply by Steve Miller on October 23, 2007 at 4:41pm

Angelina, we all agree with you. Now let's boycott. Let's quit whining. Is a boycott too big an imposition? A boycott on everything except food and fuel would directly attack the corporate crooks who own Pelosi with the entire Congress.

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Permalink Reply by Russ on October 24, 2007 at 12:55am

I have been doing a lot of deep research on zionism power in America. and what i have come up with makes me angry. The Isreal lobby has control over the MSM, congress, the white house, and even Bush. add to the list the bush klan has isreal guarding our nuclear weapons. if we really want to take back our country we need to focus on cutting out isreal's control. nobody in our government wants to go agaisnt isreal because of fear.

I would encourage you to do a search on zionism power in America. I still have a long way to go, but I am getting a picture of who is behind the chickens in congress.

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Permalink Reply by GAchin on October 26, 2007 at 7:02pm

>>We don't elect our leaders to posture, we elect them to represent our interests<<

What a great "phrasing"! It would be a wonderful line to have as a 'signature' at the bottom of each e mail sent out!

I believe an Impeach Pelosi "movement", if not reaching enough of a peak to accomplish her impeachment, would still provide some strong influence just by its existence and its inclusion in protest signs during marches, comments upon articles and in blogs around the web. Bringing it up as a proposed resolution in DemParty meetings would also generate discussion about the subject at the County meetings level before a vote on such a resolution, within the party, and perhaps some would pass and then be presented at the state level....
Why not???!!!!!
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http://www.zianet.com/XLexcel/OHBOY.html

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