Kucinich
pulls the trigger:
After a series of delays, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a candidate for president in 2008, announced a series of charges against Vice President Dick Cheney in Washington, DC, late in the day. Kucinich alleged that the Vice President had committed a series of impeachable offenses, and he was therefore introducing Articles of Impeachment against Cheney in the Congress today.
And Naahm's
up at the crack of dawn (what I pay him for):
And here we go. The articles of impeachment revealed.
A clue you will need, Naahm: No "loser of an issue" it! Cheney, on his best day, has 4 out of 5 people hating his guts. And winning "the middle" is so pre-9/11. People want out of the quagmire,
by any means necessary!
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and I thought it was just the GOP that was in favor of using the constitution for wiping it arse. . . .
excuse the typo earlier. No sleep.
As for my clue, we will see when the votes get counted. First round of beers at Uno's that this never gets out of committee.
At least the Boy Mayor puts it out there. I respect him even as I laugh at him. Of course, I respected Don Quixote too.
your glib globule aside, precisely *what* constitutes grounds for impeachment in your fertile if fetid legal mind, mr. wizard... ?
Re: winning the middle. Remember what Bill said? "It's the economy, stupid." Well, you want to win the middle, you have to give them bread and circus.
AMT reform is the bread, and apparently Ways and Means has a bill that I like. First, it gets most of the AMT off of my back, and second, it creates new punitive taxes on real HNW folks, which will then come to me for tax avoidance advice. Ka-ching!!!
(on a related note, better buy your bahamian condo soon.)
Of course, who needs my advice? If the Dems want to run on their principles of economic socialism and appeasement in international affairs, I applaud that and say go for it.
As for grounds for impeachment (in the real world anyway, not the People's Republic of Vermont), something that is actually a crime, meaning you can be convicted for it, not simply castigated by the democratic party, liberal press (is that an oxymoron) and third world leaders. I doubt even a "world court" of euro-trash could convict for being belligerent toward Iran, if there was even such a crime.
And I repeat, political prevarication--not a crime. Lying under oath--crime.
But if the Dems want to lower the bar, and impeach for every policy quibble where they feel "misled" (and it is apparently quite easy to mislead democrats since they are always carping about it), they cannot be heard to scream when the tables are turned in coming years.
Nuf said. I gotta get back to work
never "nuf said"... legal jurisprudence aside, congress is not the judiciary... a "letter of the law" crime is not required for impeachment by the house, and/or conviction in the senate...
subsequent to whether Congress' has the constitutional right to remove a rogue administration from power, please explain: invading a sovereign nation with no just cause *isn't* a crime... ?
how about with the U.N., with whom, i believe we have legal treaties indicating a certain U.S. deference, i.e., compliance to applications of U.N. laws... ?
let's have a war-crimes trial at the hague that supercedes a presidential pardon of U.S. laws...
it was good enough for milosevich... moral equivalence and all that...
oh! "obstruction of justice"... or isn't *that* a crime any more, mr. wizard... ?
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