Democracy for New Hampshire - Accountability

All the President's Nazis

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:03:31 -0400

All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined):An Open Letter to Bush

Posted May 15, 2008 | 07:48 PM (EST)

By Larisa Alexandrovna

Dear Mr. Bush,

Your speech on the Knesset floor today was not only a disgrace; it was nothing short of treachery. Worse still, your exploitation of the Holocaust in a country carved out of the wounds of that very crime, in order to strike a low blow at American citizens whose politics differs from your own is unforgivable and unpardonable. Let me remind you, Mr. Bush, of your words today:

McCain Dodges Phone Jamming Connections in NH Speech

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:54:06 -0400

SOURCE: Democrats.com

McCain Dodges Phone Jamming Connections in NH Speech
May 22, 2006

This morning, Arizona Republican Senator John McCain returned to New Hampshire, but failed to explain why his New Hampshire State Director filed a letter with the court urging leniency on convicted phone-jammer James Tobin. Senator McCain failed to even mention the criminal campaign to disenfranchise New Hampshire voters in his remarks, despite the fact that one of his senior strategists was Tobin's supervisor at the time of the conspiracy.

Last week, Republican lobbyist Mike Dennehy, Senator McCain's New Hampshire State Director, sent a letter to Judge Steven McAuliffe that asked the judge for a lenient sentence and called Tobin the "the most ethical man I know" despite the fact that Tobin was convicted of multiple felonies over his role in the 2002 phone-jamming crime. The letter was the only such letter from any Granite Stater.

Wexler: Rove is in inherent contempt

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:49:21 -0400

The following message is from Congressman Robert Wexler

Last night, I appeared on MSNBC's Verdict with Dan Abrams to discuss Karl Rove's outrageous refusal to appear before Congress regarding serious allegations that he used the US Justice Department to take down a prominent Democratic politician. It is alleged that Mr. Rove personally instigated the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegleman. The case has been criticized by legal experts, and 52 former state attorney generals – both Republicans and Democrats – have criticized the case and called for an investigation. (You may view the clip here.)

If Rove refuses to testify voluntarily and ignores the subpoenas that will certainly be issued, he should be held in Inherent Contempt of the House of Representatives.

No American is above the law. None of us should be able to ignore Congress without consequence. If Mr. Rove ignores a subpoena from the Judiciary Committee, then the House of Representatives should pass an Inherent Contempt citation and exercise our right to send the House Sergeant-of-Arms to gather Mr. Rove and bring him before Congress to testify.

Bush, McCain, the Supremes, and totalitarianism

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:16:12 -0400

SOURCE: consortiumnews.com

McCain and the 'Unitary Executive'

By Robert Parry
May 13, 2008

If John McCain wins the presidency – and gets to appoint one or more U.S. Supreme Court justices – America’s 220-year experiment as a democratic Republic living under the principle that “no man is above the law” may come to an end.

To put the matter differently, if a President McCain replaces one of the moderate justices with another Samuel Alito – as McCain has vowed to do – then Justice Department lawyer John Yoo’s extreme vision of an all-powerful Executive could well become the new law of the land.

On May 6 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, during a speech aimed at appeasing conservatives, McCain promised to appoint justices in the mold of George W. Bush’s selections, Justice Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts, expanding the court’s right-wing faction that also includes Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas.

New Hampshire Democratic State Convention

Sun, 11 May 2008 08:14:21 -0400

Speakers/Schedule

Gov. John Lynch

Former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen

Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter

Congressman Paul Hodes

Senate President Sylvia Larsen

House Speaker Terie Norelli

Schedule:

Exact times TBA

Speakers:

Breakfast and Lunch served

Breakouts

Greening Up: How can we go green in our daily lives?
NH's Green Policy: Leading New England Towards Sustainability
New Media & Social Change: Growing the Digital Grassroots
Beyond the Green Zone: The Way Forward in Iraq
Achieving Educational Excellence in NH
Check-up on Healthcare in NH
Working Families and the NH Economy: How we will maintain our
standard of living

http://www.nhdemconvention.org/

Air Force--A Service in Search of a Mission?

Mon, 05 May 2008 15:32:06 -0400

It was a rather peculiar diatribe by the Secretary of Defense, especially considering that, oh so many ages ago, he'd been a member of the Air Force himself. Even more puzzling, considering that the Air Force is running at least four mega bases in Iraq, including the Balad Air Field, which rivals O'Hare in traffic, was Robert Gates' assertion that the Air Force is not pulling its weight in the Iraq and Afghanistan endeavors.

What was he thinking?

Shaheen on National Security

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:34 -0400

Let me start with the observation that I did not invite the missive from the Jeanne Shaheen campaign to be dropped in my in-box, nor did I forward my address in anticipation of getting either policy missives or requests for donations. So, in a sense, this is the internet version of the robo call and the extension of the opt-out policy to this medium of communication is not welcome, since it's the strategy spammers rely on to validate that the addresses they have purchased are active.

Analysis of the communication follows after the break.

Seacoast Anti-Pollution League--Annual Meeting

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:25:43 -0400

We at SAPL have been making a concerted effort to raise the issues we all care about to a new, younger generation of New Hampshire seacoast residents, and to engage the area press in these issues:

Independent, offsite monitoring of the man-made-radiation environment
Containment and treatment of toxic waste sites
A push for energy conservation and sustainable energy alternatives
A physically and biologically healthy NH seacoast environment

Our annual meeting, May 29th 7PM at the Urban Forestry Center in Portsmouth, will feature the nationally recognized President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, Arjun Makhijani as the main speaker. His seminal work, “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free, A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy”, gives us a glimpse at a hopeful American energy future.
His bio: http://www.nuclearabolition.research.umich.edu/makhijani.html

Et Tu, Gates?

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:22:08 -0400

There's a reason why witnesses called to testify in a court of law are required to pledge to

Tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Things left out or embellishments stuck in pervert the truth and turn it into a lie. We recently saw that happen with Hillary Clinton's sniper fire in Tuzla and it's also been apparent in the stories told by the twenty-two dirty pensioners--perjurers in the court of public opinion--who spread half-truths and snippets of mis-information about the invasion/occupation of Iraq to deceive the American people and enrich themselves.

And yesterday Secretary Robert Gates joined them. Or maybe he just decided to do his own dirty work. Because the dirty pensioners were a Department of Defense operation.

Gov. Lynch Statement Regarding The Resignation of Judge Coffey

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 06:54:45 -0400

For Immediate Release

Gov. John Lynch today received a letter of resignation from Superior Court Judge Patricia Coffey, who was recently suspended by the state Supreme Court for three years without pay.

"Judge Coffey's resignation was the right thing to do for the people of New Hampshire and the judiciary. To ensure the continued faith of the people in our judicial system, its judges must meet the highest standards of ethics and integrity, and follow the law at all times."

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Read Judge Coffey's resignation letter (PDF)

Perjury in the Court of Public Opinion

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:05:54 -0400

This past Sunday, the venerable New York Times published a lengthy screed in which it was revealed that some twenty-two high ranking retired military men and one still on active duty in the Pentagon had been suborned to give false evidence, about the conduct and progress of the aggression against Iraq, to the electronic and print media.

NH House tables the revolution

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:28:38 -0400

SOURCE: Press Release

Deb Gibbons

Concord, New Hampshire ----- HR24, the Petition to Commence Impeachment Procedures in the United States Congress submitted by NH Representative Betty Hall, was tabled by the New Hampshire House on Wednesday, April 16. The vote was 227 to 95 to table the petition. Before the tabling motion was made, there was limited debate, during which most Republicans left the House floor.

Four Amendments & a Funeral -- A month inside the house of horrors that is Congress

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:49:51 -0400

SOURCE: Rolling Stone

Four Amendments & a Funeral -- A month inside the house of horrors that is Congress BY MATT TAIBBI

Posted Aug 10, 2005 12:00 AM

It was a fairy-tale political season for George W. Bush, and it seemed like no one in the world noticed. Amid bombs in London, bloodshed in Iraq, a missing blonde in Aruba and a scandal curling up on the doorstep of Karl Rove, Bush's Republican Party quietly celebrated a massacre on Capitol Hill. Two of the most long-awaited legislative wet dreams of the Washington Insiders Club -- an energy bill and a much-delayed highway bill -- breezed into law. One mildly nervous evening was all it took to pass through the House the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), for years now a primary strategic focus of the battle-in-Seattle activist scene. And accompanied by scarcely a whimper from the Democratic opposition, a second version of the notorious USA Patriot Act passed triumphantly through both houses of Congress, with most of the law being made permanent this time.

Certifiably insane: Zubaydah, Bush and the Bureaucracy of Torture

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:55:03 -0400

SOURCE: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0804/S00239.htm

Zubaydah, Bush and the Bureaucracy of Torture, Wednesday, 16 April 2008, 1:18 pm, BY Michael Collins

"certifiable, insane"

"The United States does not torture." - Pres. Bush, Sept. 6, 2006

The devastating attack of 9/11 conferred unprecedented popularity on the Bush administration. This was more a reflection of the strong desire for national unity in the wake of a tragedy than an endorsement of Bush policies.

After the attack, there was a frantic effort inside the administration to show a major success in their newly proclaimed war on terror. The administration knew what the public didn't: Far from being surprised by airplanes used as weapons, they'd had a series of warnings from intelligence sources that commercial airplanes were indeed the next weapon of choice by terrorists. Once that information became public, the Bush administration would need something more to boost its image.

Concord Monitor - 200 flock to rally for impeachment

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:16:42 -0400

SOURCE: Concord Monitor
State representatives to vote on resolution

By LAUREN R. DORGAN, Monitor staff, April 15, 2008

Calling President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "domestic enemies," Pentagon Papers icon Daniel Ellsberg headlined a rally in Concord last night calling for their impeachment.

The rally, which drew more than 200 people to the Capitol Center for the Arts, was aimed at the New Hampshire House, which is considering a resolution that would call on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney. The resolution may come to a vote on the House floor tomorrow.

A pre-rally reception for the House members who will vote on the resolution drew a couple of dozen, among them a few who said they were on the fence about the resolution. Rep. Betty Hall, the 87-year-old Brookline Democrat who is the measure's lone sponsor, was bullish, pumping her arms at a press conference and saying: "I think it's gonna pass."