Conyers' Impeachment Two- Step (and why tomorrow is just a lame fuckaround)

[NightWatcher]

Conyers has pretended that he wants to hold Bush accountable for his actions, but he has yet to do anything except attempt to pacify progressives by doing his impeachment two-step. So Conyers is going to allow Bush and his criminal administration to run out the clock while Conyers tries to appear like he is doing something.

He's been backstepping since May 2006

No Rush to Impeachment

By John Conyers Jr.
Thursday, May 18, 2006; Page A23
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/17/AR2006051701880.html

As Republicans have become increasingly nervous about whether they will be able to maintain control of the House in the midterm elections, they have resorted to the straw-man strategy of identifying a parade of horrors to come if Democrats gain the majority. Among these is the assertion that I, as the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, would immediately begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

I will not do that. I readily admit that I have been quite vigorous, if not relentless, in questioning the administration. The allegations I have raised are grave, serious, well known, and based on reliable media reports and the accounts of former administration officials

<snip>

So, rather than seeking impeachment, I have chosen to propose comprehensive oversight of these alleged abuses. The oversight I have suggested would be performed by a select committee made up equally of Democrats and Republicans and chosen by the House speaker and the minority leader.

The committee's job would be to obtain answers -- finally. At the end of the process, if -- and only if -- the select committee, acting on a bipartisan basis, finds evidence of potentially impeachable offenses, it would forward that information to the Judiciary Committee. This threshold of bipartisanship is appropriate, I believe, when dealing with an issue of this magnitude.

Then in 2006 he took "impeachment off the table". And now as he has taken Kucinich's 35 articles of impeachment down to 1 and aggreeing to hold "hearings", he says that they will not lead to anything.

Conyers said he wants a public discussion of the issues being raised by Kucinich, but does not plan to take any action on the resolution. “We’re not doing impeachment, but he can talk about it,” the chairman said. http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002916681

So, tomorrow we are getting an "impeachment substitute"?????

But the Michigan Democrat also left little doubt that the committee’s review was meant to fend off demands from Rep. Kucinich that Conyers initiate impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

With impeachment ruled out, it’s unclear how much the Judiciary Committee’s inquiry can accomplish, given Bush’s broad assertion of executive privilege when his subordinates are faced with congressional questions about criminal and other wrongdoing.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/07/23/10557/

So, please tell me that I am wrong about Conyers and that he will do something that leads to Bush getting thrown out more than five seconds before his term ends in January. Then back it up with actions that Conyers has undertaken. All I see is him saying one thing while doing another and attempting to jerk off the only representative who appears to give a damn about holding this criminal administration responsible.

[redirish28]

1. You aren't wrong. I think tomorrow I will cry because it will basically allow

The crime family to get away scot free AND the constitution will be used as a wipe rag for the crime family Pelosi and everyone else before it is thrown on the fire.

[behave]

2. Conyers' and other Congressional "progressives'" true roles have always

been to "voice" nominal opposition to fascist legislation and executive edicts, when there is actually no opposition at all. And I don't want to hear how Conyers or any other holdovers from Watergate wanted to impeach Nixon. The order to get him out came from the usual consortium of corporate and organized crimefigures and was relayed to their fuckfaces in Congress and editorial boardrooms, because Nixon was getting a little too squirrely for comfort's sake.

Proof? Well, just look how far we've come.

[msongs]

3. john conyers, he's funny lol nt

[H2O Man]

4. I'll always respect

the John Conyers who was a Young Lion. And I think that the John Conyers who is an Old Lion is a pleasant man. But I do not mistake them for each other.

[wildbilln864]

5. pleasantries aside....

he's sworn to uphold and defend the constitution. Constitutional Crisis!? Where's Conyer's defending the Constitution at? No fucking where! All talk, no walk!

[NightWatcher]

6. kicking to remind people of Conyer's actions on this day of hearing

[blues90]

7. I tried watching some of it

What a joke and what a sleeper. They pick this day when so many people are out there keeping their eye's glued to the Obama man of the world tour.

We don't have a government for the people but one paid for by the people , we don't have a constitution and we don't have any business pretending we are the leaders of the world when we can't even get our own shit straight.