The Three Stooges of the ‘06 campaign (UPDATE)

BEFORE:
“Hear ye, hear ye” they said. “Vote for us and we will be the first Black chairmen of a committee in the history of the U.S.” they crowed. “We will serve your interest” they lied. “And there will be an even bigger, more significant bonus, so step right up folks, step right up and vote for us.”


AFTER:
RIP Charles Rangel, Chairman. Ways and Means Committee
RIP John Conyers, Chairman. House Judiciary Committee
RIP Nancy Pelosi, 1st woman Speaker of the House

-Look Dad, look at those graves!
-Yes I know, son.
-It looks like..it looks like…
-yes son, I know and that won’t no dogs what did that neither. Them was people done that and dey must’a been some kind'a mad at’em. Let's go. Pwew!!
As always,
BB
(Update) The Impeachment Hearing
By DAVE LINDORFF
http://counterpunch.com/lindorff07302008.html
Excerpt:
Conyers also acquiesced in a Republican effort to minimize public monitoring and involvement in the hearing, allowing the minority party to fill most of the available seats in the hearing room with office staffers who showed little interest in the proceedings. Only a few dozen of the hundreds of pro-impeachment activists who had come to the Rayburn Office Building at 7 am in order to get seats in the Judiciary Committee hearing room were allowed in, with the rest having to remain in the hall or go to two remote “overflow” rooms to watch the proceedings on a TV hookup. Conyers also went along with a call by Republican members of the committee to have some of those who did make it into the hearing ejected simply for wearing buttons on their shirts calling for impeachment (the Republican members referred to these as “signs”), though such small personal tokens are routinely allowed in congressional hearing rooms.

And
Now it is up to the public and the impeachment movement to call their bluff and take impeachment to the next level. Noting that even Rep. Conyers ended the hearing by saying, “We are not done yet, and we do not intend to go away until we achieve the accountability that Congress is entitled to and that the American people deserve,” Rep. Kucinich and five other co-sponsors of his articles of impeachment (Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin, Keith Ellison, Maurice Hinchey, Sheila Jackson-Lee, and Hank Johnson) are calling on all Americans to contact their representatives (202-224-3121) and urge them to join in co-sponsoring those articles and in calling for a formal impeachment hearing.