Vote Tuesday April 3!
Democracy starts at home, so make sure you vote in local elections this Tuesday, April 3! More information is available on the following websites:
Good luck and thanks to the activists in Stoughton who successfully added to their ballot two referenda questions: one on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq, and one on impeaching President Bush and Vice-President Cheney. As John Nichols wrote in the Capital Times:
With each new revelation about what Gonzales did at the behest of the Bush White House to politicize prosecutions by U.S. attorneys, the revulsion with the way this president has disregarded the Constitution and the rule of law becomes more intense. And citizens are not cutting their president much slack.
A new USA Today/Gallup Poll conducted over the weekend shows that, by nearly 3 to 1, Americans want Congress to issue subpoenas to force White House officials to testify in the Gonzales case. Sixty-eight percent of those surveyed say the president should drop his claim of executive privilege in this matter, while only 26 percent agree with the reasoning Bush has used to try to block a meaningful inquiry. ...
As [Republican Senator Chuck] Hagel says, "This is not a monarchy. There are ways to deal with (executive excess). And I would hope the president understands that."
If not, perhaps Stoughton, and other communities like it across the country, will remind him -- just as they will remind Congress that it is time to take the "I" issue up.
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