If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the website Wexler Wants Hearings, where Judiciary Committee members Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) call for impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney. If you’re the kind of weirdo who thinks the rule of law is a good thing, I strongly encourage you to sign the petition supporting them and then tell everyone you know about it. They have 56,000 people already in just two days, and the more clamor they hear from us here in Lilliput, the more willing they’ll be to go further.
Three New Democrats in Impeachment Effort
Robert Wexler (D-FL), Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), all members of the House Judiciary Committee, have created a website calling for impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney:
This is particularly significant because Wexler isn’t a member of the progressive caucus, which indicates the center of gravity on the issue is shifting. The site has additional information, including their new op-ed and ways to support them.
Junk Media Makes Us Sick
From Stop Big Media and the talented Matt Thompson. (See some of Thompson’s previous work here.) You may notice how both videos make use of the work of a certain progressive cartoonist.
Gotcher war on Christmas right here
I think this tops anything we secularists could do to Christmas. (Painful as it is, I do recommend watching it all the way through — it’s bad on so many levels, it approaches an Ed Wood level of unintentional genius.)
Huckabee …
… seems to be the GOP version of Howard Dean for this caucus season — the candidate who becomes popular with the base in direct contradiction to the wishes of the party bosses. I don’t know if a memo literally goes out or if people just understand these things intuitively, but the piling on from the loyal party soldiers is pretty blatant. Sean Hannity insists he’s just “vetting” charges to “help” the candidate when he talks at great length about how Huckabee released a convicted rapist who went out and raped and killed another woman (the Wayne DuMond case was a cause celebre among the Clinton haters — i.e., Hannity’s core audience, ironically enough — who believed that Bill Clinton had framed an innocent man). Oddly, I have not heard Sean Hannity “vetting” charges against the other Republican candidates in such excruciating detail.
In other right wing crazy news: Bill O’Reilly has apparently realized that the War on Christmas has become his Vietnam, because he has declared victory and withdrawn. Apparently we secularists are crushed by this devastating defeat. I’d write more about this but I have to get my Christmas presents off to the Post Office before I am socked in by the imminent snowstorm …