An Update On Shirley Golub (from The Pen)

Thanks to the outpouring of your support, Shirley
Golub, who is
challenging Nancy Pelosi for the Democratic primary
nomination in San
Francisco in June, was number two all weekend long
among all hot
candidates and committees in ActBlue fund raising.
Thanks to you she
is now empowered to run a prominent display ad in the
very next
Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle, calling out the
majority speaker on
the issues and challenging her to a serious debate on
them.

And Shirley is at this moment winging her way to the
Take Back
America conference in Washington, DC, where she cannot
be missed in
her orange "IMPEACH BOTH!!!" cap and the first of the
bright blue
"I'm On The Table" baseball award jackets off the
embroidery line.

Let's make Shirley Golub number one this week for the
Take Back
America Conference. Yes, there's something big
happening in San
Francisco. Let's show them that when the people get
totally ignored
between elections, we have a way to fight back, by
supporting
opposing candidates who we can put over the top.

Make Shirley Number One:
http://www.shirley08.com/donations.php

Absolutely the most productive thing we can do to
compel real policy
change right now is to throw everything we have behind
Shirley Golub.
A serious primary change against the speaker herself
is the most
powerful message we can send that the people are
demanding action on
impeachment now. We could send millions of email (and
we have), and
still not have the impact of Pelosi seeing own seat
starting to slip
away from her.

Let's pour it on this week, just as we did to give
Kucinich his
magnificent comeback victory in his district in
Cleveland, when all
the pundits were saying he was in trouble from a
corporate financed
out-of-district challenger. And we beat them . . . big
time.

Make Shirley Number One:
http://www.shirley08.com/donations.php

Please chip in anything you can. But if you can make a
contribution
of $100 or more, Shirley will give you one of the new
bright orange
"IMPEACH BOTH!!!" baseball caps, embroidered in two
colors of blue.
And if you want to be a big time hero, and you can
donate $1,000 to
this cause, Shirley will send you one of her brand
new, custom
embroidered baseball award jackets, with the "I'm On
The Table"
message, AND one of the baseball caps too, a perfectly
coordinated
set!

In case you missed the last alert, here is the planned
text for the
ad Shirley Golub will be running because you made it
all possible:

Exactly what we had feared most, and had predicted,
has happened.
Admiral Fallon, the man who famously said that an
attack on Iran
would "not happen on my watch" was just "retired".
Now, he is no
longer on the watch. And they are absolutely planning
to start a war
with Iran and World War 3, against all strategic
wisdom. And they are
absolutely planning on doing it before the next
general election.
Indeed, they will mostly likely do it for the PURPOSE
of tilting that
election, unless they are stopped first by
impeachment.

We have one and only one hope.

Congress must immediately commence impeachment
proceedings against
both Dick Cheney and George Bush, the shadow emperor
and his
ventriloquist dummy.

And only one dynamic can force Congress to stand up
for itself, the
impeachment based primary challenges now ongoing, and
in particular
Shirley Golub's challenge to the speaker of the house
herself, the
primary impediment to enforcing the Constitution, who
has perversely
declared that impeachment will never happen on HER
watch, Nancy
Pelosi.

There is an ominous parallel between what is going on
now and what
happened in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq.
General Zinni
opposed that invasion. He said, "I had grave
reservations about this
whole undertaking and I expressed those". And he was
forced out.

General Shinseki predicted that it would take at least
a couple
hundred thousand troops to stabilize a post invasion
Iraq. He
assessment was ridiculed as "wildly off the mark" by
Donald Rumsfeld
and Paul Wolfowitz. And he was undercut even before
his already
scheduled retirement.

Every time a top military commander who actually knows
what they are
doing gets the ax, something very bad happens. And now
they are doing
the same thing again, purging the last dissenting
voice to an even
more lunatic plan.

Now, Admiral Fallon is the epitome of a good soldier.
And he will
always protect his commander in chief, no matter how
misguided or
wildly off the mark they are. He will tell you that
nobody forced him
out and that this was his decision alone. But anybody
capable of
reading between the lines of his painstakingly
diplomatic resignation
statement will know that he will be gone because he
was standing in
the way of another premeditated strategic disaster,
one that again
they are perhaps too blinded by power to foresee, or
maybe they do.

But the chain of command at the White House does not
extend to the
U.S. Congress, at least it's not supposed to, not
according to our
Constitution. So when exactly is Congress going to
stand up for
itself, and for us, and put an end to the hideous
debacle in the
Middle East and in the White House?

After nearly a year of chattering their knees, the
House finally
worked up the nerve to vote to hold Harriet Miers and
Josh Bolton in
contempt for refusing, under direct orders from the
White House, to
testify in response to congressional subpoenas. If
Congress had any
spine at all, even one vertebrae, they would have
invoked the power
of inherent contempt and had the two of them arrested
on the spot.

Instead, after nearly a year of irresolute
vacillation, they
pretended to expect contempt citations would be
enforced by the new
attorney general, who the Senate was so ill-advised to
confirm in the
first place, who had plainly suggested in his own
confirmation that
the president's constitutional powers could override
federal law. Fat
chance of getting any redress there.

And now they tell us they are going to file a law
suit. Oh, please,
what a sad pathetic joke of a publicity stunt. In the
first place,
there is zero chance that such a law suit would even
be finally
decided in less than three to five years. It
absolutely would go to
the Supreme Court. And what would be the chances
there? Take a look
at some of the appointments the Democrats in the
Senate have so
gullibly waved through in the last couple years and
you can answer
that question yourself.

And in the second place, to even contemplate taking on
such a
struggle by way of the courts, they better have the
top notch
constitutional litigation experts at the helm. Instead
they just
filed something knocked off by a couple of staffers.
Our intelligence
can hardly stand any more such insults.

Let us be clear. The president and vice president of
the United
States have at least committed treason. The Scooter
Libby trial
revealed that the White House was directly involved in
leaking the
identity of Valerie Plame, an undisputed undercover
CIA agent, which
destroyed perhaps the most effective operation they
had to deal with
the proliferation of the very weapons of mass
destruction we were
supposed to be so afraid of in the Middle East. And it
was done for
political retribution purposes.

The first president Bush said it all, when he said "I
have nothing
but contempt and anger for those who expose the names
of our sources.
They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors".
And what does
the Democratic majority in Congress do about it?

Nothing.

There is hardly a federal law passed anymore that does
not suffer
crippling by a so-called "signing statement" to negate
it, signing
statements concocted by Cheney staffers, brazenly
defying the
authority of Congress to do anything, referring to
that authority as
"purported" compared to the presumed imperial largess
of the White
House. And what does the Democratic majority in
Congress do about it?

Nothing.

We have traded a rubber stamp Congress for a rubber
spine Congress.
What's the difference? Now finally empowered to hold
hearings on the
endless constitutional crimes of the Cheney/Bush White
House, the
lies that took us to war in the first place, the
rampant illegal
wiretaps, the firing of U.S. Attorneys for partisan
reasons, an
official policy of torture and all the rest, and what
does Congress
do?

Nothing.

Instead they fritter away their hearing time harassing
baseball
players, threatening them with long years in prison
for not telling
the immaculate truth about using performance
enhancers. Well, maybe
Congress needs a performance enhancer, and big dose of
it.

A year ago we were promised a "new direction", and we
have been
waiting for even a glimpse of it ever since. It is now
too late even
for inherent contempt. Congress must impeach. And if
you support me
as your representative in the 8th Congressional
district, we can put
impeachment back on the table no later that June 3,
the day of the
Democratic primary here, by showing Nancy Pelosi
herself a new
direction . . . out the door.

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So please make a contribution if you can, using the
contribution form
below. There also you can see the very video she is
running right now
on MSNBC in heavy rotation, talking about making
impeachment happen
for real, and rallying her local constituents to come
out and
demonstrate with her in front of Pelosi's district
office to demand
it. Your contributions are what is making it possible
for Shirley to
have a competitive media presence, and let everyone
know this a
serious candidacy, and that the impeachment movement
is gathering
speed.

Make Shirley Number One:
http://www.shirley08.com/donations.php

Or if you would, just send this email to other people
you know, to
encourage them to visit Shirley's site, you can help
her to spread
the impeachment now message, and inspire other
candidates to step
forward and do the same thing in their own districts.
For if the
speaker of the House can be successfully challenged,
why not any
member of Congress who still cannot find their spine
with both hands?

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