You may, perhaps, be asking yourself about the significance of that nice, bright, colorful orange banner we currently run at the top of the site, and its pleasing slogan.
Here's the backstory. Our friends over at Democrats.com, as you may be aware, have been beating the drums for impeachment of George Bush and his malevolent cohort, Dick Cheney, for quite some time. In this, they were prescient. Now, they're taking their activism on behalf of the Republic a step further.
On July 23, 2002, the head of British intelligence reported that Bush and Cheney were intent on invading Iraq and planned to "fix the intelligence and facts around the policy". Five years later a million people have died in Iraq as a direct result of these lies with no end in sight. Torture has been institutionalized, habeaus corpus eviscerated, and illegal spying made routine. New Orleans lies devastated along with the Constitution and the rule of law. And Bush and Cheney are making a mockery of the Democrats' feeble gestures towards accountability.
Enough is enough and this July 23rd, we will launch a new phase in the movement for peace and justice. We call it the Orange Revolution because starting that day wearing orange will signify that you want Congress to START IMPEACHMENT and STOP THE WAR. The majority of Americans want to see Bush and Cheney impeached and want an immediate end to this war are made effectively invisible by a complicit media. Wearing orange will be our signal to each other--and to the world--about where we stand.
The nation is in a constitutional crisis. George Bush is defying the just powers of Congress. He has set himself beyond all oversight; he will brook no constraints on his powers, under law or beyond the law. He demands power without limits. He will accept no constraints on his claimed powers to wage war without end. This is an Imperial Presidency, the very foetus of monarchy that the founders warned against.
Chairman Conyers is presently considering an impeachment resolution. Call his office, (202) 225-5126, and let him know how you feel.
Me, I'll be wearing orange today - and so will this blog.
