Tampa World Can't Wait

Nat'l movement to Impeach Bush and Cheney

2006-11-11T15:50:00.000-05:00

Coalition of Antiwar, Veteran Groups Launching National Movement to Impeach Bush and Cheney Friday, November 10th, 2006

A coalition of groups are meeting near Independence Hall in Philadelphia on Saturday to announce plans to mobilize a national movement to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. We speak with former New York Congressmember Elizabeth Holtzman, who played a key role in the committee investigating Watergate, and we speak with Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. [includes rush transcript] On Saturday, a coalition of groups are meeting near Independence Hall in Philadelphia to announce plans to mobilize a national movement to impeach President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Groups backing the effort include Progressive Democrats of America, CodePink, Gold Star Families for Peace and Veterans for Peace.

While the pro-impeachment movement has received little media attention, polls show growing numbers support for Congress to take such action.

A recent Newsweek poll found 51 percent of all Americans - including 20 percent of Republicans - feel impeachment should be on the table.

But it appears the new Democrat-led Congress will not take up the issue. Nancy Pelosi, who is set to become House Speaker, was asked about it on Wednesday during her first press conference since the mid-term election.

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We are not alone!!

2006-11-05T23:28:00.000-05:00

Here in the Tampa Bay area, it often feels like we're in the minority. Is it because of all the Charlie Crist signs? Or is it because of the SUVs with Bush/Cheney stickers on them?

I think it's because of the media, which has been nothing but a tool of the right wing for the last 6 years. If you only watch MSNBC, CNN, or God forbid---FOX news, then you have been force-fed a jaundiced, slanted view of the world.

Please know that there is a whole world of media out there that actually broadcasts the truth. There is Amy Goodman/Democracy Now (PBS), there is BBCNews (on cable). And best of all, there is Internet Radio--AirAmerica Radio (airamericaradio.com), Head On Radio Network (headonradionetowrk.com), and Nova M Radio (novamradio.com) where you can hear Mike Malloy.

My personal favorites are Randi Rhodes, Sam Seder and Mike Malloy. These people are patriots in every sense of the word. They are fighting the good fight, speaking truth to power at great personal and financial risk. If you aren't listening to these people, you are missing out on some of the most important words and news of our times.

Also, check out the blogs if you aren't already: dailykos, Atrios.blogspot.com, liberaloasis.com, democraticunderground.com and many, many more!

We are not alone and we are not in the minority! They just want us to think that we are!

Make them steal it!

2006-11-05T23:25:00.000-05:00

Some people have become discouraged at the tactics being used by the Republicans to hack the vote in a variety of ways.

Remember...they can't steal the election is there is a massive turnout from our side!

Like Al Sharpton said..."make them steal it!"

A well-stated encourgaement to vote this Tuesday

2006-11-05T23:23:00.000-05:00

President Bush isn’t on the ballot tomorrow. But this election is, nonetheless, all about him. The question is whether voters will pry his fingers loose from at least some of the levers of power, thereby limiting the damage he can inflict in his two remaining years in office.There are still some people urging Mr. Bush to change course. For example, a scathing editorial published today by The Military Times, which calls on Mr. Bush to fire Donald Rumsfeld, declares that “this is not about the midterm elections.” But the editorial’s authors surely know better than that. Mr. Bush won’t fire Mr. Rumsfeld; he won’t change strategy in Iraq; he won’t change course at all, unless Congress forces him to.At this point, nobody should have any illusions about Mr. Bush’s character. To put it bluntly, he’s an insecure bully who believes that owning up to a mistake, any mistake, would undermine his manhood — and who therefore lives in a dream world in which all of his policies are succeeding and all his officials are doing a heckuva job. Just last week he declared himself “pleased with the progress we’re making” in Iraq.In other words, he’s the sort of man who should never have been put in a position of authority, let alone been given the kind of unquestioned power, free from normal checks and balances, that he was granted after 9/11. But he was, alas, given that power, as well as a prolonged free ride from much of the news media.

(reposted from Atrios.blogspot.com)

Coulter at USF

2006-10-18T02:55:00.000-04:00

Can anyone believe that an institute of "higher learning" would pay for and/or allow an appearance of a hate-spewing anti-American like Ann Coulter?

What is USF thinking? It's not like she's providing any sort of thoughtful discourse or intellectual debate. She's not even entertaining or funny!!!

As far as I'm concerned this would be on a par with inviting the local grand dragon (or poobah or whatever the title is) of the KKK to speak.

I suppose one might argue that you don't want to hinder the exercise of free speech, but I would posit that having Coulter speak is comparable to yelling "FIRE!" in a theater. It is downright dangerous and threatens our democracy because her words incite a basic violent stupidity that lives in the souls of many people in our country.

If at all possible, be sure to participate in the Tampa World Can't Wait silent protest of this hate-monger's appearance Oct. 19

corrected link

2006-10-16T10:20:00.000-04:00

I just discovered that the link that I had created from the Tampa World Can't Wait website to this blog was faulty. I have corrected this, so there should be more action now. Sorry! Thanks for creating the blog. I know it will allow people to communicate more effectively. Joan

Tuesday Oct. 17 - No Torture!

2006-10-16T01:21:00.000-04:00

To the World Can’t Wait Community:

On Tuesday, October 17 at 9:35 a.m., President Bush will sign the Military Commissions Act (S. 3930) at the White House. In response, Tuesday is No Torture In Our Name! Day.

WEAR ORANGE

Wear orange armbands with "NO TORTURE" written on them.
T-shirts at our online store (call 866-973-4463 for bulk rates).
Banner on freeways “No Torture! Drive Out the Bush Regime!”

Watch out for this October surprise

2006-10-15T01:58:00.000-04:00

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/1530

BREAKING NEWS: Eisenhower Carrier Group Sails for Iran Theater
by Dave Lindorff Oct 9 2006 - 5:10pm

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Eisenhower and its accompanying strike force of cruiser, destroyer and attack submarine slipped their moorings and headed off for the Persian Gulf region on Oct. 2, as I had predicted in a piece in The Nation magazine a few weeks back.
The Eisenhower strike force, according to my sources, is scheduled to arrive in the vicinity of Iran around October 21, at the same time as a second flotilla of minesweepers and other ships.
This build-up of naval power around the coast of Iran, according to some military sources, is in preparation for an air attack on Iran that would target not just Iran's nuclear enrichment facilities, but its entire military command and control system.

While such an attack could be expected to unleash a wave of military violence all over Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and elsewhere against American forces and interests and against oil wells, pipelines and loading vacilities, as well as a mining of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, with a resulting skyrocketing of global oil prices, the real goal of this new war by the U.S. would be ensuring Republican control of the House and Senate.

Will Our Votes Be Counted?

2006-10-14T20:40:00.000-04:00

When I voted during the primaries, I did so on a touch-screen machine. I had the distinct feeling that my vote was going off into a void of nothingness, never to be seen again. For the November election, I plan to send in an absentee ballot. I'm sure that they can just as easily drop my ballot into the circular file, but I plan to make them work for it. I'm going to have a copy notarized and mail it to myself without opening it. I'm also going to send the ballot via certified mail with a return receipt requested.

Does anybody else have any suggestions for how to make sure our votes are counted in Hillsborough County?

Did You Participate on Oct. 5?

2006-10-14T20:38:00.000-04:00

What was it like? Share your stories here....

Did the US provoke N. Korea?

2006-10-14T20:34:00.000-04:00

North Korea: A Nuclear Threat Is Kim Jong Il ready to provoke a regional crisis? An exclusive account of what Pyongyang really wants. By Selig S. Harrison Newsweek International Oct. 16, 2006 issue - On Sept. 19, 2005, North Korea signed a widely heralded denuclearization agreement with the United States, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea. Pyongyang pledged to "abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs." In return, Washington agreed that the United States and North Korea would "respect each other's sovereignty, exist peacefully together and take steps to normalize their relations." Story continues below ? advertisement Four days later, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sweeping financial sanctions against North Korea designed to cut off the country's access to the international banking system, branding it a "criminal state" guilty of counterfeiting, money laundering and trafficking in weapons of mass destruction. The Bush administration says that this sequence of events was a coincidence. Whatever the truth, I found on a recent trip to Pyongyang that North Korean leaders view the financial sanctions as the cutting edge of a calculated effort by dominant elements in the administration to undercut the Sept. 19 accord, squeeze the Kim Jong Il regime and eventually force its collapse. My conversations made clear that North Korea's missile tests in July and its threat last week to conduct a nuclear test explosion at an unspecified date "in the future" were directly provoked by the U.S. sanctions. In North Korean eyes, pressure must be met with pressure to maintain national honor and, hopefully, to jump-start new bilateral negotiations with Washington that could ease the financial squeeze. When I warned against a nuclear test, saying that it would only strengthen opponents of negotiations in Washington, several top officials replied that "soft" tactics had not worked and they had nothing to lose.

full story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15175633/site/newsweek/

Welcome

2006-10-14T20:05:00.000-04:00

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