Kucinich to launch Cheney impeachment push on April 25
I realize Kucinich is an utterly dismissable garden-gnome. He's as far left to the wing of the party as there can be such a place, and who simultaneously if inexplicably doubles as a Faux-News apologist. Moreover, the buzz on Capitol Hill is that nothing can be made of this. I read that to mean nobody has the stones to do the right thing and actually remove the vice president, snarling gargoyle he, from his spider hole under the Naval Observatory. But mark these words: This Will Become Major News. Vermont and other states have been pushing for both Bush's, as well as Cheney's, impeachment. Right now, the focus is on Fredo testifying before the Senate Judiciary committee. Maybe the impeachment push will include him, as Dubya seems impervious to sound advice and is thus unlikely to fire his pet squirrel over at Justice.
Meanwhile, and as per usual, the major dailies don't make anything of it: The Times, The Post, not even The Boston Globe. Sleepy goddamn M$M seems never to break news anymore, leaving it to the Blogosphere to rake the muck and then foment the unrelenting buzz over it until the overpayed slobs wake from their slumber muttering, "Oh here's a story!"
George Orwell? Meet Aldous Huxley!
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Late Friday Update: Vermont pushes bid to impeach Bush
The senate in the northeastern US state of Vermont passed a resolution Friday calling on Congress to begin impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush, senate officials said.
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Apparently, the boy mayor is not actually specifying the charges yet, but we will soon learn if telling Leahy to go F&*K himself is a high crime or misdemeanor.
i would imagine "obstruction of justice" charges would be easy to proove in a legislative "trial"...
in a world court, i'd imagine "crimes against humanity" would be the charge...
get off impeachment already. It is a loser of an issue.
If the Dems really want to cement their hold on the middle, they need to get behind this.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/22/AR2007042201552.html?hpid=topnews
In studying the tax issue, I have come to the conclusion that the much ballyhooed or criticized Bush tax cuts were more smoke and mirrors than substance. Rather than a gift to the rich, they were a gift to the Dems. The rich really did not get the huge bailout Dems screamed about (unless they die in 2010) although they did make out better in general, and the middle class did not see much, if any, relief at all due to AMT creep. Ironically, the poor made out best on a percentage of income paid basis from Bush (and don't think I am not taking full advantage of that fact. Got kids? They are now tax shelters again!). So any Dem proposal that lifts the AMT is good so long as they also lift it from the "investor class" of middle-to-upper-middle class professionals and businesspeople.
Win them and you win control.
And here we go. The articles of impeachment revealed.
From today's Washington Post, so you gotta believe it:
"Kucinich introduced three articles of impeachment against Cheney: The first accusing the vice president of deceiving the country by "fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify" an invasion of Iraq; the second accusing him of "purposefully" manipulating intelligence to Congress and the American public about a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaeda "despite all evidence to the contrary;" and the third for 'threaten[ing] aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States.'"
I especially like the last one. Color me guilty!
after all, what did Iran ever do to us?
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