IMPEACHMENT POSTCARDS to send Pelosi and other Congresspersons

Both are 4 x 6.

I made a separate one for Pelosi because I thought I could put her address on the other side, but they don't let you customize that.

If you got the generic ones, you could send one to Pelosi, your congressperson, your senators, and give another set to someone else to do the same.

Get 'em here:

http://www.cafepress.com/fascart/2097421

The back of both is a generic postcard format with layout for stamp, address, return address, and room for additional comments.

To Pelosi:

Send to:

Nancy Pelosi
2371 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515

District Office:

450 Golden Gate Ave.
14th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102


It would be nice if she had a half million or more of these waiting for her the first day she's Speaker of the House.

No name specified:

Find your senator or representative & their addresses:

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/11/find-your-senator-or-representative.html



If you want to use or modify the content in a letter of your own, you can find the text to copy here:

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/11/send-500000-impeachment-letters-to.html

And just for the hell of it, vote in this poll to let other Duers know where we stand:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2702725&mesg_id=2702725

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2707461

"John Dean On Impeachment: TruthDig Interview 9/12/06

http://www.truthdig.com/interview/print/20060912_john_d... /

He has some good points:

A prolific author, most recently of the New York Times bestsellers “Worse Than Watergate” and “Conservatives Without Conscience,” Dean discussed with Truthdig managing editor Blair Golson (via e-mail) his view that the Democrats should not initiate impeachment hearings unless they have strong reason to believe the Senate would then vote to remove Bush from office – or else risk the kind of “sham” proceedings that characterized the Clinton impeachment saga."

People were falling all over what Dean had to say earlier in the campaign, so what about now?

It is appropriate for us to let Congress and the public know how serious we think Bush's offenses are.

There is a fly in the ointment with education by hearing though--what if we have hearings and the MSM doesn't cover it or simply ridicules it?

I would also add a different parallel to that era. It took much longer for anti-war sentiment to build for Vietnam than it has for Iraq, and in this case, a significant percentage of the public is aware of Bush's offenses which are far more severe, flagrant, unambiguous, and numerous than Nixon's.

We don't detract from the decorum that Pelosi and Conyers may need to maintain. If anything, we will serve as the 'bad cop' to their 'good cop.' If the Bushies ever don't cooperate they can say, "Look, guys, I'm in a bad way here. If you don't cooperate so I can get this all on the record, those people screaming for impeachment are going to say we might as well get to it."

Show the country the truth about the Repugs, shine the bright lights on them, and trust the voters to shun them for years and years to come.

Democrats in congress are like rape victims who won't report the crime because they don't want to embarrass or inconvenience the rapist.

Thanks for the postcards. Great work and a help!

I'd rather see Pelosi, et al. just get to it, and forget the clever tactics. We've had enough b.s. and we elected the Dems to take our America back. It remains to be seen whether they realize that or not.

what is already in the public record.

While investigating at all will probably eventually lead impeachment and/or criminal charges, there would be nothing wrong with reminding people of a few of the things they have done publicly that merit impeachment, even if you don't say the word impeachment like,

and they'd be in the mail, immediately!

the Parable of the Dry Powder

During the American Revolution, Colonel Harry Reid was sent to gaurd a key mountain pass. He had twenty men, the high ground, and a good view of all possible routes of attack, but just one small keg of gunpowder to defend the pass.

Each soldier would have powder to let just ten bullets fly. General Washington was thinking of this when he bid them good-bye. He said, "Take care boys, and keep your powder dry!" He would regret those words for they led good men to die.

One night as Reid and his boys were sitting around the campfire at their post up in the pass, a grizzly bear got scent of them and into their camp crashed. Johnny grabbed his musket and aimed at the charging bear. But before he could squeeze the trigger, Col. Reid jumped up and said, "Stand fast! Our bullets are for Redcoats, save our powder for them instead!" Johnny held his fire and the bear tore out his throat.

As the bear began to eat him, the other soldiers grabbed their guns, but Reid said, "Fight him if you must, but no bullets should let fly. Washington has ordered we must keep our powder dry."

So they turned their muskets round and swatted with the butts, they pulled their Bowie knives and they tried to slash his guts. The bear just took the beating, but he would stand the cuts. He turned on his attackers clawing flesh and chewing heads. By the time that he was finished, half Reid's men were lying dead.

Reid thought it a victory for that keg was tight and dry. Every bit of powder meant a Redcoat boy would die.

When the dead were buried, and the night lightened to day,
The watch saw Indians approaching with warpaint and sharpened blades. Bob whispered to Reid, "They are fighting for the crown." "That may be so," said Reid, "but when Redcoats come around, we need every bit of powder to shoot each soldier down."

Bob was going to answer when a bullet hit his lung.
The Indians weren't as stingy with their own powder drum.
Harry took the powder and he began to run.
Half his men were killed again,
just five left from when he had begun.

"Now we can fight," he said.
"We have plenty for each gun."

As the day was fading and they lay up there in wait, a half dozen Redcoats approached them, lined up perfect in their sights.

Tom pulled back his hammer and almost fired a shot,
but Harry grabbed his barrel and said this squad need not be fought. "A bigger army's coming, and no powder can be lost."

"But if we all are dead, then who will fire the shot?" Tom tried to wrest rifle, but in the struggle it went off. The Redcoats were upon them, and then all five were caught.


While he tied their hands, the British sargeant asked why they hadn't fired a shot. Harry Reid said nice and loudly, "I cannot tell a lie, Gen. Washington himself told me to keep my powder dry."

"But if you shot the bear, your men would have lived to fight. And if you shot the Indians, and put a bullet in my eye, you could have stole our powder and have more to be kept dry."


The soldier took his bayonet, and Harry had to die. But he cut loose the others and told them all to fly, and he even gave them the powder keg with Reid's head in it to keep the powder dry.

...and I hope you'll send it to Ms. Pelosi, et al.

or maybe replace slayer with bipartisan consensus builder.

...the jury is out on Nancy Pelosi. If "bipartisan concensus builder" translates to failing to stand up for the values we Dems claim to uphold, if she plays too nice to keep the lid on things, I'll have no respect for her. Bipartisanship is sometime just a cover for backroom dealmaking!

It is interesting to speculate that one reason some people in D.C. want impeachment off the table, and hearings that they can control, is that once Pandora's Box is opened, there might be some Democrats who merit criminal investigations, also.

I *didn't* say "Pelosi's Box," by the way. I want to let things develop and give her a chance.

like the oil company execs at those energy task force meetings.

It's easy for us to forget since we are peons looking up at Washington, but Bush, Cheney, and even most Democrats are someone's servant, but not ours.

If you read THE PRIZE, the history of oil by Daniel Yergin, it's depressing to see who was the boss between the oil companies and the executive branch.

...we might not be able to get out of bed in the morning.

It's hard to accept that we're all pawns in a deceitful scheme, but it's getting easier for me to understand.

I'll read that book soon.

tell you something.

If the Democrats manage any substantial draw down in Iraq before 2008, I'll be pleasantly surprised.

I have a slightly sick feeling that this might be like when Nixon took over from Johnson, and his "secret plan" to end the war turned out to be fighting for five more years then taking the deal the Vietnamese offered LBJ.

Nominated.

which means made of nagahyde.