Impeachment Update
Greetings, fellow blogmates,
I received an email from impeachment guru David Swanson today, and have info to pass on. On November 19, National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance is planning a protest at the U.S. Justice Department. Its members are willing to risk going to jail to urge the indictment of Bush and Cheney for war crimes. David is appealing to all of us to contact the Justice Department to urge Attorney General Mukasey to meet with the NCRC.
Actionist reminder: November 10: phone the DOJ at 202-514-2000 and 202-353-1555.
Best impeachment wishes,
Tish
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Don't hold your breath for impeachment.
November 8, 2008 12:23 AM | Reply | Permalink
Turning blue in the face isn't the plan, but a bluer country does encourage keeping the question open.
November 8, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rule of law and the promise of actual justice keeps the issue open. Constitution and rule of law are not partisan, or politics.
November 8, 2008 5:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Rule of law needs human agancy to administer. The issue is open in principle without it, but in practice tne political environment matters, n'est-ce pas?
November 8, 2008 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
I need glasses and/or typing lessons.
November 8, 2008 11:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Walgreen's has some great mags with clip-on shades.
November 8, 2008 1:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Breathing beautifully, thank you. Right down their necks.
November 8, 2008 9:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bug issue: When I select "Follow" I can no longer get to my dashboard, but always end up at the person I have chosen to follow. Not a Bad Thing, but I can no longer get to my own. So I have to un-follow (sniff).
Likely relates to bugs associated with usernames including a space.
November 8, 2008 1:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just FYI, never had any problem with following you, see all your activities on my dashboard. Also, your user page looks pretty good to me compared to other people who have the space problem--your blog entries are there, and all your recent comments are there--the ones with "the trouble" often seem to have empty pages even though they are active.
(BTW, your comments were just updated, as you just did the secret deed that causes that to occur--you just put up a new blog post--the other method to get an update is to post a comment on one of your own blogs. When one does that, it seems the next few comments and recommends continue to appear immediately on one's list, then it stalls again.)
Have you tried putting more than one person on your follow list? I seem to recall Donal talking about a similar problem soon after the software was installed, I think it was when he was just following one person, he got some strange results; if you're not following anyone you may also get strange results--he saw his own stuff. (Your own stuff is not supposed to come up on your dashboard. This is the reason some of us are bitching about getting comment list updating fixed--you can't follow the threads you've been on when your comments are out of date, the dashboard is only good for following other people's activities.)
November 8, 2008 2:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I can get to my blog page, but not through the front door. As to dashboards, doesn't it say "your dashboard"? I thought it was normal to show what I've been doing, so I can continue conversations like this.
Speaking of bugs, I just had IE explode, when I tried to comment. Occasionally I get expired login that won't show a submit button after re-logging, but this time I tried to back away and got fibrillating tabs, and had to call up the enforcer, Task Manager, to put down the rabid dog.
I'll see if following works with Firefox.
November 8, 2008 2:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think I've found your problem…
November 8, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Nah, I just misunderstood the software regarding dashboard. I can now say I just don't like it. Wish we had internal messaging so I wouldn't end up clogging Ticia's thread.
November 8, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry to hijack your post, Tish. Tried following more than one, and got all those people's posts. Guess that's the idea, but without a collapsed and compact list showing activity, I feel swamped with new comments on posts I may not have even looked at.
Guess we should try another post on software. Monday is DOJ calling day.
November 8, 2008 3:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Camp Tish is open for meta, T.
November 8, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I finally figured out the dashboard thing, so I'm now following properly.
Monday is D-Day.
November 8, 2008 3:20 PM | Reply | Permalink
I finally figured out the dashboard thing, so I'm now following properly.
Certainly looks like it--see, I just saw on my own dashboard that you just started following some people. :-)
BTW, the way you see your own stuff is the "Your Blog" link, sounds like you might have been confused about the two different things? (For someone else who is not on your following list, clicking on their name or putting their name in a user url is the way.) And that's where the lack of updating, a bug they haven't figured out, is the big problem, on user pages. Pseudocyants figured out that either posting a blog post or putting a comment on one of your own blogs updates your data on your page.
But those of us following see the comments, recommends and follows of those we are following immediately on our dashboard, the dashboard updates immediately, works very well, it's only downside is that it scrolls away quickly if you are following a lot of people. It's one's own comments and recommends one can't get immediately, they often run days behind.
(Once again, the secret glitch is that you can update your own data for your page by posting a blog or a comment on your own blog--keep in mind that everyone following you had the chance to those things on their dashboard, and may have replied to some of those comments and you didn't know it because you weren't following them, so then you can click on them and check out whether anyone replied. Also, hen you do the workaround updating, the people following you will see that, so either put some real content in the comment for them, or say "updating my comments; nothing to see.")
The dashboard seems to me to be an ideal tool if you want to catch a post by someone like Tish who posts infrequently, the infrequent commenters that you have interest in. I don't get why people chose to "follow" Josh Marshall, all you end up doing by doing that is recreating the front page of TPM on your dashboard.
November 8, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Your Blog" is non-functional for me. I would think most of us comment more than we post a main blog, so if we want to follow a thread, we have to use the dashboard. I follow the folks on whose blogs I comment, so I get the result if not the name, by leaving my dashboard showing my own activity.
I'll just have to hope I see Ticia when she drops by.
November 8, 2008 5:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hello, Tish? Great pre-birthday present you got, n'est pas?
Good to see you again!
November 8, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hi, Ther! Early b-day present, indeed.
November 8, 2008 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
What does the Attorney General (or the Justice Department, for that matter) have to do with impeachment? Why does your group want to meet with him/them?
November 8, 2008 3:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
Details of the letter sent to the Attorney General in September can be found here:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/37462
November 8, 2008 3:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm sorry, but this is just wrong.
The Republicans made a run at indicting Bill Clinton while he was in office, which would have caused a constitutional crisis. We can't possibly want to be the cause of THAT kind of chaos.
Either wait for them to leave office to go after them as criminals, or ask the Congress to impeach, try, and convict them. This would remove them from office. THEN we can indict, try, and convict in a Federal court. And, of course, say goodbye to any chance of carrying a Democratic majority past 2010.
November 8, 2008 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
If we, the People, do not establish precedent by overturning Bush's legacy, the constitutional crises that he decreed will make your term "democratic majority" perpetually meaningless. I have 137 posts on this blog, the majority on impeachment. Where were you Tank, on all of those? Your attempt at moral equivalence invoking Clinton belies your position. Read: rule of law.
November 8, 2008 5:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Moral equivalence has nothing to do with it.
I agree that the Bush/Cheney cabal deserves nothing less than complete repudiation. Impeachment is the proper way to do this. It's just not gonna happen.
Remember what the 'Pubs did THE VERY FIRST CHANCE THEY GOT after the Nixon near-impeachment? I guaran-fuckin'-tee ya that if the Dems indict B/C, sitting Dem presidents will be fighting grand jury subpoenas somewhere in the US starting inauguration day. Our form of government would fall apart.
The Founders made it illegal to arrest Congress critters on their way to serve or while they were serving. This was wise. Failing to likewise protect the Chief Executive was unwise.
I have 137 posts on this blog, the majority on impeachment. Where were you Tank, on all of those?
Sorry, I didn't realize you were calling the role. I deserve to lose two full grades and receive eight demerits.
Your attempt at moral equivalence invoking Clinton belies your position.
By "belies," did you mean "betrays," "reveals," or "makes a lie of?" Please tell us what your crystal ball tells you about my position. I'm not clear about what position you want me to defend.
November 8, 2008 6:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Like I said, we the People have the responsibility to do the work, or we are not the People. My crystal ball tells me that you agree, but then you won't lift a phone? So make the call.
November 8, 2008 6:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
Lift a phone? To call whom? My representatives in Congress* are all Republicans++, although two of them do carry a (D) in front of their names.
I would call Fred Rogers to confirm how special I am, but he's dead. Do you suggest Barney the Dinosaur?
Nah, I'll keep putting my energy into active ACLU work, where there is an infinitessimal possibility that something can actually happen.
Viz.:
-- HR - Mike Doyle, formerly an avowed Republican, now a crypto- who is a Dixiecrat from Pennsylvania.
-- Sen - Bob Casey, fundamentalist Catholic, supporter of the Iraq war, and believer that the Military Commissions Act is a "vital tool in the WOT."
-- Sen - Arlen Specter, the most progressive of the three, admits to being a 'Pub.
++ The 'Pubs are now consolidating their takeover of The United States of America. They now have an auxilliary organization, to which they off-handedly refer as the "Democrat" Party. This auxilliary is a slightly less virulent conservative party. Good luck getting these folks to vote for impeachment, or in the extremely unlikely event of a successful impeachement to vote for a conviction.
November 9, 2008 7:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
You obviously didn't read the post. The DOJ phone numbers are there, provided as a service to blogging actionists. The time it would have taken you to lift a phone, you have squandered by responding to your own non-reading of the post, along with my cited letter to the attorney general (in response to your question), as well as the site I provided detailing the specific planned political action. Clearly precedent is being set for ongoing action past the inauguration. You are the crystal ball reader, now proclaiming the failure you intend to support.
As you wandered in generalities about what won't work, de facto, you elected non-support of those willing to go to jail to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, as they go forward to redress the historical unprecedented abuses of executive privilege. Make the call.
November 9, 2008 10:54 AM | Reply | Permalink
You make a pretty good point. I do tend to squander my time on sanity. It's a failing I have never been able to shake.
But you have fun trying to convince Bush's AG to indict Bush for being the guy who appointed him.
Please keep in mind that Pres. Nixon was never indicted despite the fact that they had a smoking gun that he was involved in a felony.
You are the crystal ball reader, now proclaiming the failure you intend to support.
I'm pretty sure that if this were subject to rational parsing, it would be untrue. But we'll never know.
November 9, 2008 7:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Do you start history with Bush? The action is part of ongoing process. Nobody is naive about the AG. As far as your sanity, spending time around me isn't a pathway for you. As far as your phone skills, F. There's time, though. MTC
November 10, 2008 8:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
We speak out, heeded or not, because we must speak out, fellow blogmates.
Best, as ever,
Tish
November 11, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink