OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: Pelosi, Cheney, and the Fertilized Eggs

   When Congressman Kucinich introduced impeachment on the floor last week, most of the Democrats of the House Judiciary Committee voted against tabling it. Six had cosponsored it. A seventh, Robert Wexler, emailed his constituents announcing his support for hearings. He was amazed by the outpouring of support that resulted. Wexler then emailed his constituents the same questions that American Research Group had asked, and he got a result of 60% for removing Cheney from office. Congressman Jim Moran took up the idea and emailed his constituents the same questions. I would encourage every member of Congress to do the same. That includes Colorado congress members. In the mind of Nancy Pelosi, genocide in Iraq is not the tragedy that bringing up a bill but not passing it would be. If conservative Democrats start speaking up for impeachment hearings, it will take away her fear of trying to impeach and failing.

   So, here are two more assignments for you (and these are on flyers and can be found at www.ImpeachCheney.org ):

1.Call the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and urge them to publicly call for hearings.
2.Lobby your Congress members by going to their offices and talking, by standing out front with a “Honk to Impeach” poster, and by sitting in their office and reading the Constitution aloud until you are taken to jail. And when you do this, use the media and be the media and you will inspire others to be the change.

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   If you try hard enough you may become as good a human being as George W. Bush. We know he’s good because he goes to church. But by now most of you have probably heard what happened when Bush attended church in a certain town where some of his overzealous supporters had urged the minister to suggest in his sermon that Bush might be a saint. Well, of course, the good reverend gave his sermon and said at the end, “While I respect the office of the presidency, its current occupant is a treasonous criminal with the blood of millions on his hands, but compared to Dick Cheney, he’s a saint.”

   Let’s talk about Dick Cheney’s qualifications for sainthood for a moment. Dick Cheney is a man of principle. He has sought to transfer all power from Congress to the White House no matter which institution was employing him at the time. He led the efforts to create unconstitutional spying programs. He sent Gonzales to Ashcroft’s hospital bed to try to gain approval for a program so far worse than the blatantly criminal programs we know about that Ashcroft turned him down. Asked if he did this, Cheney said he does not recall.

   Prior to this session of Congress, Cheney said that if he were ever subpoenaed by Congress he would probably refuse to comply. Well, Congress has subpoenaed him and he has refused. That may seem a minor point on the list of Cheney’s crimes, but it is one that blocks investigations of the others, and it is a non-partisan, non-policy-based quintessentially impeachable offense. The House Judiciary Committee passed an article of impeachment against Nixon for refusing to comply with a subpoena

   But this is the tip of the iceberg in Cheney’s ongoing multi-faceted obstruction of justice. Cheney initiated and directed his Chief of Staff Scooter Libby’s obstruction of an investigation into the ousting of a CIA agent. Cheney, in fact, coordinated that outing. And more importantly, Cheney led the propaganda campaign that Joe Wilson challenged, sparking the campaign of retribution against his wife.

   Cheney has quietly and openly led the way to institutionalizing the use of torture.

   In an unprecedented move, Cheney made visits to the CIA during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq. His purpose was to pressure the CIA to get the facts wrong.

   According to Senator Rockefeller, the reason Senator Roberts never did the investigation of White House war lies was constant pressure on Roberts from Cheney. (Of course, nobody can explain why – after 11 months – Rockefeller himself hasn’t lifted a finger to conduct the investigation he lobbied for for three years even to the extent of shutting down the US Senate.)

   Cheney, lest we forget, created the secret energy task force that operated outside the laws on disclosure and allowed oil barons to set not just our energy policy but our military policy as well.

   Cheney directed massive no-bid contracts to Halliburton and profited from them as vice president. Cheney helped create the California energy crisis and suppressed related evidence. Perhaps most significantly, Cheney has given us policies on climate change that accelerate global warming.

   Cheney’s criminality and corruption are open and public. His lawyer David Addington has advanced the unitary executive theory, which is similar to the intelligent design theory, only more pretentious. Addington’s signing statements, written for Bush, announce Bush’s intention to violate laws. The House Judiciary Committee held hearing on these early this year, and a Justice Dept. official testified that the statements were as meaningless as press releases. Then the Government Accounting Office studied a sample of the signing statements and found that in 30% of the cases, the Bush-Cheney administration had already begun violating the laws it claimed the right to violate.

   Since then, Congress hasn’t touched the topic. It’s one of the many impeachment investigations where no investigation is needed. To bring up the topic is to impeach, so Pelosi, Hoyer, and Emmanuel run from it like frightened rabbits. Meanwhile Cheney is only emboldened. He exempts his office from the requirement to protect classified information. He destroys the visitors’ logs at the Vice President’s house. He disturbs the neighbors blasting an underground bunker into the ground, and disturbs the rest of us by occasionally emerging from it.

   And do you know what I haven’t even mentioned yet? The charges against Cheney contained in Kucinich’s resolution Two of the three charges involve lying to Congress and the public about weapons of mass destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. The third involves the crime of threatening an aggressive war on Iran.

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