I SUPPORT the Resolution Calling for the Impeachment of President Bush

[jillithian]

People need to read this: Articles of Impeachment

I've written my Congresswoman using Congress.org. I recommend you do the same.

I'm not sure how well my view will be represented as I live in a largely conservative Catholic district (my Congresswoman is Republican), but I wrote her anyway:

June 12, 2008

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[recipient name was inserted here],

I am concerned about the current integrity of the United States of
America's good name in the world. We are allowing our own President to
side-step our laws, our Congress, our Constitution and our fore-fathers
without accountability for his actions. To let him leave office without
even a slap on the wrist for declaring war without Congressional approval,
for his inability to sufficiently protect and serve his citizens after
Hurricane Katrina, for condoning and encouraging spying, imprisoning and
torturing his own citizens, is unacceptable. To allow this to be a
precedent for future leaders of our country is unconscionable.

I urge you to please support the resolution to impeach President Bush. If
not for me, for our country's future.

Sincerely,


Jill DeLong

Comments

[thetim.livejournal.com]

You have Michelle Bachmann as your Congresswoman, don't you? Oh, you poor thing. When I was helping put together the voting page at the White Bear Press, her biography was included because part of her district covers that area (this was when she was still running for state office). All candidates were asked the same questions, with one of them being "if you could only pass one law this session, which would it be?" She answered with a 500-word dissertation about how we have to have an amendment banning gay marriage. That was the single most important piece of legislation in her mind - nothing about roads or rising gas prices or anything else. Gay marriage. She's a freak. I feel bad for you that she is representing you. (But it's funny that your district is largely Catholic, as she belongs to a religion that believes the pope is the Antichrist).

I say this because while your letter has good intentions, you have the one representative who will completely and utterly ignore it. The first time she met Bush, she made headlines by giving him two giant hugs, then leaving her hand on his shoulder with a gigantic grin on her face for, like, five minutes. Seriously, look up her profile, then be ready to vomit.

Anyway, I agree Bush should be impeached - there are a hell of a lot more reasons to do so than there were for Clinton - but he won't be. Everybody just wants him to fuck off back to Texas, so they won't want to waste their time with an impeachment.

[jillithian.livejournal.com]

I know it's pretty hopeless with my representative, but at least I can say that I tried. I also tried to write it so that it was not very party specific and more patriotic than anything else.

I love Saint Cloud. I just wish my neighbors had better taste in politics. ;-)

[jillithian.livejournal.com]

Also, I find it funny (although I probably shouldn't) that the two main versions of the Lutheran religion are the ELCA and then, basically the nutjob conservative crazies.

I'm glad my parents chose the ELCA for me and my brother. It's funny, too, because they both grew up Catholic (my dad even went to Catholic school), but apparently in Richfield/Bloomington, everyone they talked to who was Catholic brought their kids to that particular Lutheran church instead because they said it was so much better. *shrug*

But, I guess that's not really any different from any other religion - Christian or otherwise. There's always got to be the crazies.

[superna.livejournal.com]

When I was about 11 or 12, the Lutheran church I grew up in switched from ELCA to AFLC and went through several pastors in quick succession. Ack! In a few short years we went from acoustic guitar worship music and love your neighbor as yourself to a rambling sermon (at my great aunt's funeral,no less) about how heathens were going to hell , especially the ones in India because they sacrificed their children to "the river god Ganges"*

* direct paraphrase and quote, unfortunately I am not exaggerating

[thetim.livejournal.com]

I don't want to make it look like I'm trying to dissuade you from political activitism. It's just that your particular congresswoman will want nothing to do with it. I'd spend your energy doing whatever you can to make sure she doesn't get reelected so she do no more damage to this country.

[jillithian.livejournal.com]

I vote. Every single year. And I vote liberal!