Impeaching Cheney With A Little Elfin Magic
Just the other day I was bitching about my pussy-whipped fellow Dems for not taking any action to depose the despots in DC. Then today, enter the little man with the big balls.
I’ll eat crow when I have to. So I’ll admit, I have on more than one occasion been rather unkind to the diminutive fellow who would be President, Dennis Kucinich. I have been rather dismissive of the guy, but not because I don’t like him. In fact, I’ve also said that I think he makes the most sense. I agree with virtually his entire platform. It’s just that I haven’t really considered the possibility of him having a chance in hell of being a finalist in the competition, so I’ve been concentrating on the three front-runners.
Then, yesterday on Capitol Hill, stood Dennis Kucinich officially calling for the impeachment of one Richard B. Cheney. Huzzah! Even if tippy-toeing to clear the podium on the House floor, here was someone, at last, taking a stand and proclaiming the need to excise the first, and most dangerous, of the two malignancies that have been allowed to aggressively spread for far too long. Cliff’s Notes version (well, my synopsis, not so much Cliff’s) of House Resolution 333, Articles of Impeachment Relating to Vice President Richard B. Cheney, a paraphrase of my elfin hero:
“Despite all evidence to the contrary, Richard Cheney had purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and the Congress by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the US armed forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security. Preceding the invasion of Iraq, was fully informed that no legitimate evidence existed of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The vice president pressured the intelligence community to change their findings to enable the deception of the citizens and the Congress.
Despite all evidence to the contrary, manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and the Congress about an alleged relationship between Iraq and Al Qaida in order to justify the use of United States armed forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security. Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, was fully informed that no credible evidence existed of a working relationship between Iraq and Al Qaida, a fact articulated in several official documents.
Despite no evidence that Iran has the intention or the capability of attacking the United States, and despite the turmoil created by the United States’s invasion of Iraq, openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran, absent any real threat to the United States, and has done so with the United States’s proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining the national security interests of the United States.”
Now if only my party pals will support the resolution. Likely? I’m not getting my hopes up, but at least it’s finally on the table. I’m afraid most will continue to prefer idle chatter instead of actually taking any action, lest they step on unfriendly toes. But at least it will go down in history that someone in Congress took the initiative to publicly recognize and attempted to eradicate the corruption that defined the US of A under the Bush-Cheney administration.
As an aside, I am increasingly impressed with Mr. Kucinich’s consistency on the issues, without pandering to the dissenting, without flip-flopping or spinning rhetoric to appease the noncommital, unlike his competing candidates. I can only hope that things may change, and he might in the end be a contender, although I’m pretty sure that’s still pretty iffy.
He may not be the biggest man, but he sure as hell has the biggest balls. The rest of the Democrats need to grow some. That includes Hillary, although the pantsuits might require some customized tailoring.
impeachment, dick cheney, dennis kucinich, articles of impeachment, george bush, iraq war, government, election 2008
November 7th, 2007 at 5:15 am
Doug, I don’t get it. Last decade the Republican thugs came within a whisker of overturning an election and removing a competent, intelligent and popular president from office. And over what…something that endangered our national security or well being? Hardly. Yet today the Democrats are unwilling to remove a president whose job approval rating barely registers, who is largely perceived on the world scene to be war-monger and threat to world peace, who has repeatedly proved himself an intellectual lightweight. This is a president who has run roughshod over our Constitution and has brought America closer to dictatorship than anyone imagined possible. Yet he continues to govern by brutish minority rule. What country is this?
November 7th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
He don’t need no steenkin’ Constitution. Even with his barely-registering approval rating, it doesn’t take a village to give him free Dicktatorial reign when the Democrats, although maybe not intellectual lightweights as is King George, certainly neither are heavyweight champs when it comes to standing up to the insanity and going for the knock-out. So we’re screwed. As is the rest of the planet.
November 7th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
It makes long for the days before TV, when you never actually saw the candidates unless you were lucky enough to meet them in person.
If Dennis were tall like Abe Lincoln, he’d be a shoo-in for the Dem’s nomination. Instead he’s got more of a Calvin Coolidge thing going.
November 9th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
Pretty funny you have no clue why bush isn’t being impeached but you believe he should be.
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It’s a s simple as the outing of the spy. You ignorantly blame bush and his henchmen, except it was richard armitage.
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Enjoy this link about the democrats lying about saddam and wmds. This is why bush isn’t being impeached. Your democrat leaders WILL NEVER allow themselves to be put on the stand under oath.
http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html
The truth lies in the middle between cnn and fox.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:31 am
You know what, Mark? I really am glad you sent that link. It’s a perfect example of why I, on many occassions, have professed my disappointment in my own Democratic party. I’ve been very clear about that, even in this post. Of course, your Republican leaders, the current ones in particular, will never allow themselves to be put on the stand under oath either, and this administration in particular is the most secretive and “executively privileged” in history, but I do get your point, and I do agree. Completely. The truth lies in the middle.
November 10th, 2007 at 5:22 am
[...] archrival and commentor Mark Karr submitted this noteworthy link, in response to my previous Cheney-impeachment post. I’m glad he did. It was, in fact, a fine footnote to the article, justifying my expressed [...]
November 17th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
[...] My new little bud Dennis Kucinich, though, got … five minutes. All right, it was nearly five and a half. Still coming up short, though (pun intended), to even Dodd and Biden, who respectively were permitted seven and nine minutes of chat time. [...]
December 2nd, 2007 at 1:42 am
Doug Robertson wrote:
this administration in particular is the most secretive and “executively privileged� in history
Only if one’s knowledge of history is nonexistent.
See: Democrat FDR, who placed Americans sharing the ethnicity of our enemies into camps, and developed a nuclear weapon to drop on the cities of our enemies.
See: Democrat JFK who invaded Cuba, brought America into the Vietnam War, and threatened to annihilate Russia with nukes if Cuba attacked America.
See: Democrat Bill Clinton who went to war in Bosnia without a UN resolution, and warned of the grave threat of Saddam’s WMD and ties to terrorists.
December 2nd, 2007 at 2:45 am
Yep, you’re right, it doesn’t matter who is headmaster in charge, there is always that secretive BS that goes on. I know that. My knowledge of history is not nonexistent. Still, the keyword is “most.”