LockUpBush.com - Los Angeles Area Impeachment Center

Educate yourself, neighbors, friends, and family about the reasons for Impeachment, the history of Impeachment, and the Impeachment process.

Talking Points for Impeachment

The record is clear!  This President, Vice President and other officials of the administration have committed many impeachable offenses; see among other sources, Representative Kucinich's (D-OH) 35 articles of impeachment for the President (HR 1258) and for the Vice President (HR333) and former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark's lists of 20 articles of impeachment.

• The armed forces take an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." We still take that oath seriously and we call on you to execute your duties as Congressmen to impeach.
  
• This lawless administration has taken us into an illegal war that is costing us 720 million dollars a day. Congress can stop that financial blood letting by impeaching.
  
• This administration has taken on unheard of presidential powers. The unprecedented encroachment by the presidency on the powers of congress will become a precedent and continue with future presidents of both parties. Congress must stop this aggregation of power by impeaching.
  
• It is the law. Congress is charged with the obligation of impeaching in the case of "high crimes or misdemeanors." The crimes are obvious; to willfully ignore them is lawlessness and in itself criminal.

Suggested Reading

• Bill Moyers Journal - July 13, 2007 with John Nichols and Bruce Fein
• Let's Try Democracy Writings by David Swanson.

Learn about the charges against Cheney in House Resolution 333.

• Official Tracking of HR333 - govtrack.us
• Kucinich Supporting Documents for HR333

Simple Steps

• Study the History of Impeachment
• Google "Arguments against Impeachment" - study the rebuttals
• Google "Do It Yourself Impeachment"

Statements by Republican's

• Statements of Seven Republican House Judiciary Committee members

Key Resources:

• The Constitution in Crisis: The High Crimes of the Bush Administration and a Blueprint for Impeachment by John Conyers, Jr. and Elizabeth Holtzman. Skyhorse Publishing, April 1, 2007
• George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, Cover ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying by John Conyers Jr., Anita Miller, and Joseph C. Wilson. Academy Chicago Publishers, Sep 1, 2006
• Intelligence Matters: The CIA, The FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America's War on Terror by Bob Graham (former Presidential candidate and former Congressman: D-FL) with Jeff Nussbaum. New York: Random House, 2004.
• Also: ( http://www.motherjones.com/news/qa/2004/11/11_401.html)
• The Impeachment of George W. Bush: by Elizabeth Holtzman and Cynthia L. Cooper. New York: Nation Books, 2006.
• The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office by Dave Lindorff and Barbara
• Olshansky (Human Rights professor at Stanford Law). New York: Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press, 2006.
• Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush And Cheney, edited by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips. Seven Stories Press, 2006.
• Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush by the Center For Constitutional Rights. Melville House Publishing, 2006.
• The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism and Why It Must Be Applied to George W. Bush by John Nichols. New Press, 2006.
• Wil S. Hylton, "The People v. Richard Cheney", GQ Magazine, March 2007
• Carl Bernstein, "Senate Hearings on Bush, Now", Vanity Fair (VF.com), April 17, 2006
• Lewis Lapham, "Impeach Him", Harper's Magazine, March 2006