Report Exclusive: Impeachment Proposed by Congress
Day 478, 13:42
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by Jewitt
The Exclusive
12 March, 2009 (Day 478 of the New World, The Report has found evidence of a growing population of the eUSA asking for a formal declaration of impeachment on the President, Mr. Uncle Sam.
Congressman Dobo (IA - AAP) formally submitted a request for approval for the Impeachment of Uncle Sam. Congressional precedent calls for five approvals via the forums before passing into an in-game proposal. The proposal by Congressman Dobo failed into a "flamewar." Speaker of the House Kyle321n (ID - NP) commented, saying that it also almost caused, "many tempbans."
Soon after, Citizen Dru, not affiliated with any public office, posted a thread on the eUS forums titled "On a No-Confidence Vote for Uncle Sam" in which he calls for a formal public discussion. The poll, being extremely unreliable in that anyone registered could vote, currently holds a recording of 33-31-4 (For, Against, Undecided) as of 13:00 eRepublik Standard Time.
UPDATE: Congress Calls for Impeachment
A proposal by Frmr. Speaker of the House ProggyPop (DC - USWP) has formally called for the impeachment of Uncle Sam. Due to the seriousness of the issue, ProggyPop has asked the thread be made public to allow for public opinion.
It appears that nothing stands in the way of an impeachment bill to be given to Congress now, but the question remains: eAmerica, will your Congress impeach this man and disrupt the union further or shoot it down and wait for another day?
The bill has been proposed in-game, and can be found here.
Communication Break-down
Many congressmen have accused President Sam of allowing a "communication" break-down where, based on "secrecy," little information is given to Congressional leadership. This can be understandable, and even our very own and well opinionated Chief Editor Jewitt does not have an issue with this. What is troublesome is some disgruntled feelings amongst the Armed Forces.
A commanding officer, whom wished to remain anonymous, spoke with The Report. "His army is in shambles and hes worried about tanking. To be honest, the reason why we lost [the war in Mexico] is because of lack of army support." He was asked more thoroughly about the communication issue and said that "you'll notice that for the first half of the war, we did well. I can not say the same for the second half." Our interviewer asked if this was due to a communication problem and the officer said, "sometimes he listens - lately, not so much."
Negotiations with PEACE, Failure?
According to IRC conversations, Uncle Sam and company was speaking with Mexico and PEACE GC members in general about a peace-fire agreement. During this conversation, Mexico attacked Baja. Soon afterward, Uncle Sam was caught saying, "they're going completely against the [explicit] peace treaty we're negotiating." *
Obviously, PEACE is not in a negotiating mood now that it sees the eUS is not up to par militarily.
Atlantis - To Leave or not to Leave
Tactically, figuring in the security of our borders, the eUSA should not leave Atlantis. We have Portugal and Mexico reclaiming southern territory and France still holds an open war with us, loaded with their Alliances and has two eastern borders. Portugal and Mexico also have loaded Alliances and are moving on Texas, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Quite frankly, eAmerica, our hour may be coming to prove ourselves. For the first time since the release of V1, our home states are being threatened. Why, then, is Congress motioning to disrupt our very stable government by issuing an impeachment of our President?
At this time, we must remain united and supportive of our government. Our homeland is at stake, eAmerica, and yet you sit there and say "leave Atlantis!" and ask for the impeachment of our President who knows exactly what is going on and has more than a month's experience. His actions are supported by every legitimate former President since the release of V1, so he must be doing something right.
"With all of his mistakes, Sam is doing the best job he can. Most of the time, he only has only five or so minutes to make his decision or be accused of being too late to act or be decisive. I may say he sucks at talking to his generals, but at least he is doing the best damn job in the country."
Jewitt could say no better, except, "No offense to Mr. Scrabman, [whom would become president if President Sam is to be impeached], but I can think of no other candidate that can handle this tricky situation better than Sam himself."
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To Do List
Write your congressman and ask them about their views on impeach and the war. Do not accept "I support it." Ask for details. If they fail to reply to your message, they are not doing their job. They should be the ones ousted from office.
Get involved on the IRC. For more information, see this thread.
Get more involved on the eUS Forums, it is where a lot of the country's action and politics happen. Click here for a direct link.
-Jewitt, Chief Editor
*Since Mr. Sam speaks in bold on IRC, we figured it would not be an appropriate quotation without it.
12 March, 2009 (Day 478 of the New World, The Report has found evidence of a growing population of the eUSA asking for a formal declaration of impeachment on the President, Mr. Uncle Sam.
Congressman Dobo (IA - AAP) formally submitted a request for approval for the Impeachment of Uncle Sam. Congressional precedent calls for five approvals via the forums before passing into an in-game proposal. The proposal by Congressman Dobo failed into a "flamewar." Speaker of the House Kyle321n (ID - NP) commented, saying that it also almost caused, "many tempbans."
Soon after, Citizen Dru, not affiliated with any public office, posted a thread on the eUS forums titled "On a No-Confidence Vote for Uncle Sam" in which he calls for a formal public discussion. The poll, being extremely unreliable in that anyone registered could vote, currently holds a recording of 33-31-4 (For, Against, Undecided) as of 13:00 eRepublik Standard Time.
UPDATE: Congress Calls for Impeachment
A proposal by Frmr. Speaker of the House ProggyPop (DC - USWP) has formally called for the impeachment of Uncle Sam. Due to the seriousness of the issue, ProggyPop has asked the thread be made public to allow for public opinion.
It appears that nothing stands in the way of an impeachment bill to be given to Congress now, but the question remains: eAmerica, will your Congress impeach this man and disrupt the union further or shoot it down and wait for another day?
The bill has been proposed in-game, and can be found here.
Communication Break-down
Many congressmen have accused President Sam of allowing a "communication" break-down where, based on "secrecy," little information is given to Congressional leadership. This can be understandable, and even our very own and well opinionated Chief Editor Jewitt does not have an issue with this. What is troublesome is some disgruntled feelings amongst the Armed Forces.
A commanding officer, whom wished to remain anonymous, spoke with The Report. "His army is in shambles and hes worried about tanking. To be honest, the reason why we lost [the war in Mexico] is because of lack of army support." He was asked more thoroughly about the communication issue and said that "you'll notice that for the first half of the war, we did well. I can not say the same for the second half." Our interviewer asked if this was due to a communication problem and the officer said, "sometimes he listens - lately, not so much."
Negotiations with PEACE, Failure?
According to IRC conversations, Uncle Sam and company was speaking with Mexico and PEACE GC members in general about a peace-fire agreement. During this conversation, Mexico attacked Baja. Soon afterward, Uncle Sam was caught saying, "they're going completely against the [explicit] peace treaty we're negotiating." *
Obviously, PEACE is not in a negotiating mood now that it sees the eUS is not up to par militarily.
Atlantis - To Leave or not to Leave
Tactically, figuring in the security of our borders, the eUSA should not leave Atlantis. We have Portugal and Mexico reclaiming southern territory and France still holds an open war with us, loaded with their Alliances and has two eastern borders. Portugal and Mexico also have loaded Alliances and are moving on Texas, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Quite frankly, eAmerica, our hour may be coming to prove ourselves. For the first time since the release of V1, our home states are being threatened. Why, then, is Congress motioning to disrupt our very stable government by issuing an impeachment of our President?
At this time, we must remain united and supportive of our government. Our homeland is at stake, eAmerica, and yet you sit there and say "leave Atlantis!" and ask for the impeachment of our President who knows exactly what is going on and has more than a month's experience. His actions are supported by every legitimate former President since the release of V1, so he must be doing something right.
"With all of his mistakes, Sam is doing the best job he can. Most of the time, he only has only five or so minutes to make his decision or be accused of being too late to act or be decisive. I may say he sucks at talking to his generals, but at least he is doing the best damn job in the country."
Jewitt could say no better, except, "No offense to Mr. Scrabman, [whom would become president if President Sam is to be impeached], but I can think of no other candidate that can handle this tricky situation better than Sam himself."
________________________________________ _______________________________
To Do List
Write your congressman and ask them about their views on impeach and the war. Do not accept "I support it." Ask for details. If they fail to reply to your message, they are not doing their job. They should be the ones ousted from office.
Get involved on the IRC. For more information, see this thread.
Get more involved on the eUS Forums, it is where a lot of the country's action and politics happen. Click here for a direct link.
-Jewitt, Chief Editor
*Since Mr. Sam speaks in bold on IRC, we figured it would not be an appropriate quotation without it.
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VOTED!
To Impeach or not to Impeach?... That is the question
Voted, Uncle Sam has done a great job, and he did 1 thing wrong and now people are calling for impeachment??
I'm happy Mexico invaded Baja. It gave me the opportunity to be a hero for 15 seconds with 14 damage.
The government needs to make the hard decision to say no to the ignorant rest of the country. We have to much to lose if we do not stick together!
That's only a tip of the iceberg. There is more stuff happening on the hidden board.
Although I question the fairness at which the '100 gold' penalty was leveled against eAmerica, the recent support from ATLANTIS nations seems to make that a moot point. We will need ATLANTIS support, if eMexico and ePortugal push north past the border. While eAmerica is a force to be reckoned with, fighting against eight or more nations at once is simply too much to even hope to contain.
No impeachment. If you're that upset with the man, vote him out of office during the next election. It's only a few weeks away.
Gilroy, I am well aware of the hidden congressional board discussions but I will not publish any of that information to the public until it is released. I already have that article drafted and updating it as the conversation shifts.
Lol, only PEACE would invade while having a conversation with the leader of the country they're invading.
Vewted
Obviously the discussions on the "hidden" boards are "hidden" for a reason.
As someone who has immense experience in the field of politics, I'd impeach Uncle Sam.
But that's just me.
I don't see why anyone would be shocked that Mexico is not negotiating at this point. They can freely take back every Mexican territory without triggering any American MPPs, but with their own to their backs. It's French Toast all over again. Why in the world would Mexico, at this point, agree to a cease fire until the US is back to its original 50 states?
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I guess you can publish that article now.
Never have I seen in my life so much respect paid to incompetence and failure. People of eUSA, you are in deep trouble! A bunch of egocentric adventurists have lead you - the most populous and economically strong of the eNations - to a series of dismal defeats at the hands of third-rate eWorld powers. They fast-talk you into miscalculated and unnecessary wars, siphon the nation's resources into private pet-projects, boast profusely with their mediocre achievements and apologize reluctantly and insincerely for their frequent blatant mistakes. They make and carry out important decisions behind closed doors in total disregard for the people's will. And then you pay the price and suffer the dire consequences. They have made you a joke in the eyes your allies and enemies alike. Why are putting up with all this BS?!!
Since you mentioned me by name:
I am far from the only one who supports impeachment, and for the moment, looking at the collapse of our Mexican front, I'm proud to be unaffiliated with any public office of this government.
Sam has been mistaken more than once. He doesn't understand that he is in a fight not with me or the other members of the opposition, but with his own historical record of saying and doing a variety of extremely wrong things. His defense amounts to, "I have to make decisions! It's my job!" which rather substantially misses my point.
Through Uncle Sam's simple errors of execution and lapses of foresight, this war (*his* project) has weakened the eUSA and now threatens the safety of the continental U.S.
Why, for the bland sake of "unity", should we continue to support a commander who continually and demonstrably falls short of what's needed?
And now they're saying "don't kick us out before the crisis is over". But guess what - they'll do their best to perpetuate the nation's problems, because should the situation improve the people will immediately throw them out of office. Are you going to wait for these people to plunge the country in a full-scale national catastrophe so they insure themselves against your rightful anger and blame it all on the evil foreigners?!
This is an awesome unbiased look at the situation. Nice Jewitt!
What Kyle said, exactly. We should not impeach him because it would be a major inconvenience to our country; we can't deal with that kind of shift of gears.
Voted. Another awesome article by Sir Jewitt!
I hope your "non-imperialistic" war will not take the form of a disaster in front of Mexico. Even if USA didn't sent all the help they can give in the Romania vs Indo war and continued with your own purposes, I hope you will never be in the situation when you will need more help that we can give!
Voted.
If this was a basketball game, I would have put Sam on the bench days ago. It is time that America does the same.
Grakulan, that's pretty sweet advice. I usually listen to advice from PEACE GC members, especially Bulgarian ones fighting in Indonesia right now.
Do you seriously not have anything better to do than troll the eUS media?
We need to vote him out, not kick him out.
I appreciate that Uncle Sam did his best. There was no malice in anything he did. And yes, everyone does make mistakes. But:
1) We were told we were going to war variously to get territories for war games, or to oust the Poles. Within a week, this changed to wiping Mexico off the map.
2) The possibility of having to pay the ATLANTIS fines was discussed in Congressional threads, then dismissed. When we got called on it, Sam unilaterally made the decision to pay the UK 100 gold of US tax money, basically as a bribe to get them to sign an MPP with us. In spite of overwhelming public opinion against paying. I still haven't seen a UK-US MPP proposed in either Congress or Parliament. Until I do, I can't say this is money well spent.
3) Attacking Southeast Mexico and exposing us to Portugal and its' eight allies was an inexcusable blunder. Given the fact that we proposed peace with Portugal a few days ago, and they refused, they clearly signaled their intent.
4) Command and control broke down utterly. USNG soldiers had little or no guidance about who or where to fight. Oaxaca is a classic example. Platoon leaders haven't received orders for days. We're making it up as we go along now.
5) We started a major war without the weapons industry to fight an extended war. All except the very rich are fighting barehanded now.
6) I understand the "continuity, stay the course, be loyal argument". But I haven't seen any proposal from Sam about how to fix this. Instead, I see a bunker mentality. We can't afford another few weeks of this. We need new leadership. We need at least SOME leadership.
I respect his service. I know he meant well. I'm sure this is personally painful to Uncle Sam, and I'm sorry about that. But I have to think of my country now.
No confidence. Impeach.
Dang Jewitt another flawless Article...
I do hope that Sam is not impeached. It sets us back every month to get a new President, it will be worse with a new one in the middle of it.
Not to mention the fact Uncle Sam won hands down on the last election. Uncle Sam won by EXACTLY 300 votes! You would have to be blind to not realize that the public WANTS Uncle Sam. This is just another example of the stupidity of Congress and their lack of representation.
impeach him
NO IMPEACHMENT
UNCLE SAM UNCLE SAM
Do you have a say Uncle Sam ?
Oh, let see.. You don't care, coz its all about you..