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April 25, 2007 at 07:31:34

Dropping the First Shoe

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Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has dropped the first impeachment shoe, filing a bill calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Kucinich, defying the leadership of the Democratic Party, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who have been struggling mightily to prevent impeachment from occurring during the waning years of the Bush presidency, on Tuesday filed three articles of impeachment, claiming that Cheney violated his oath of office and the Constitution, for deceiving Congress and the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, about alleged but nonexistent links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and finally for making threats to invade Iran.

The bill now goes to the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the rest of the committee's members will have to decide whether go hold formal hearings on the charges.
The move by Kucinich comes as impeachment is gaining ground among the broader public. Today, the Vermont House of Representatives will hold a floor debate and vote on a resolution calling for Congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against both President Bush and Cheney. That measure would be a companion to a similar resolution passed last week by Vermont's state Senate. If the state's lower house passes its version, Vermont will be the first state in history to pass a bi-cameral resolution on impeachment.

Under Thomas Jefferson's Manual for the Rules of the House, under which the US House of Representatives has operated for over 200 years, such a resolution would require the House to take up the impeachment issue, just as would a member's bill of impeachment.

The speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives, Lynn Symington, had strenuously opposed the resolution, and has been keeping it bottled up in the House Judiciary Committee, but following passage of the resolution in the state Senate, and a massive grassroots campaign by Vermont impeachment activists, she has been forced to relent and let the measure go forward. Passage is not a sure thing, however.

Similar measures are being pushed in at least 10 other state legislatures, while two such efforts, in New Mexico and Washington state, were killed thanks to pressure from the national Democratic Party leadership.

On April 28, demonstrations are planned in Washington, DC and all around the nation, calling for impeachment to begin against both Bush and Cheney. To find the location nearest you, click on the Impeachment banner to the right of this article.

The mainstream corporate media, which has so far been largely ignoring the issue of impeachment, will have to go to extra lengths of censorship to block out the popular movement now, with a bill on the floor of the House, and with impeachment resolutions passing in the Vermont state legislature. It will be interesting to see how the nation's news gatekeepers handle the story now that it is breaking out into the open so forcefully.

http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

Dave Lindorff, a columnist for Counterpunch, is author of several recent books ("This Can't Be Happening! Resisting the Disintegration of American Democracy" and "Killing Time: An Investigation into the Death Penalty Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal"). His latest book, coauthored with Barbara Olshanshky, is "The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office (St. Martin's Press, May 2006). His writing is available at http://www.thiscantbehappening.net

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8 comments

A meteorologist by trade, I am an ardent Bush, Cheney and (general liar) detractor. When I'm relaxing, I love to camp and fish.
wxman2001A meteorologist by trade, I am an ardent Bush, Cheney and (general liar) detractor. When I'm relaxing, I love to camp and fish.

way to start the boll rolling, Dennis

About f%^&*() time!

by wxman2001 (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 14 diaries, 117 comments) on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 9:45:41 AM

Not a politician, for God's sake not a journalist, just your regular joe who's baffled with the mess this country is in. Only 4 democrat presidents since JKF and they still blame them for all this mess!I am an engineer, major league wannabe, Naturalized in 04 to vote against bush.
Frank grNot a politician, for God's sake not a journalist, just your regular joe who's baffled with the mess this country is in. Only 4 democrat presidents since JKF and they still blame them for all this mess!I am an engineer, major league wannabe, Naturalized in 04 to vote against bush.

Let's drop BOTH shoes!

All it take is a little momentum. WE can do it! Some people say that "A country has the government they deserve".

Well, WE DON'T DESERVE these thugs, immoral, corrup assholes.

Out of our Country!

I heard Iraq is hiring...

by Frank gr (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 48 comments) on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 2:35:44 PM

I'm active in bull dozing down the axis of evil called the Bush Regime, Hi Bushler :)
ex-merchant marine with a degree in IEEE.
Bad habits: not proof reading things that I write.
Folks get your tickets early, its going to be a sell out for sure ( Bush swinging from the hangmans gallo).
Fred FI'm active in bull dozing down the axis of evil called the Bush Regime, Hi Bushler :)
ex-merchant marine with a degree in IEEE.
Bad habits: not proof reading things that I write.
Folks get your tickets early, its going to be a sell out for sure ( Bush swinging from the hangmans gallo).

Let's drop BOTH shoes!

Hey you forgot to add in this, drop both shoes well in prison and grab the ankles. Also don't allow him soap for showers, I'm sure there will be many inmates willing to share there's with him. Send his buddy Dubya Bush there also.

by Fred F (1 articles, 1 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 361 comments) on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 2:44:35 PM

very good looking.
tom feltvery good looking.

impeach

fantastic. please keep it coming.

by tom felt (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 13 comments) on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 4:40:49 PM

Charlie Levenson is a writer and activist in Portland, Oregon. In addition to serving as the Manager of Electronic Communications for a social/athletic club in Portland, he instructs in Digital Media at Portland State University, consults on communications strategy, and occasionally writes/directs videos.
Charlie LCharlie Levenson is a writer and activist in Portland, Oregon. In addition to serving as the Manager of Electronic Communications for a social/athletic club in Portland, he instructs in Digital Media at Portland State University, consults on communications strategy, and occasionally writes/directs videos.

Time to start lining up the co-sponsors

The link that matters is here:
H. RES 333

The important part is the second row in the second column where it lists the "Cosponsors" and currently has NONE.

I've called the field office of my dear congressman, Earl Blumenaeur (OR-3) and the staff assistant said I wasn't the first and that "we were all in favor."

SO, it's time to get our Repsentatives out in front of this issue, rather than trailing it.

Saturday is A28.ORG day -- let's make a splash, shall we?

by Charlie L (2 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 715 comments) on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 5:02:58 PM

American against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.
Dom JermanoAmerican against War and Violence. Writer, English Teacher, Inventor, Creator of the First Manmade Floating Farm On The Ocean.... My companies name is ACET: Algae Charcoal Ethanol Technicorp. We grow Algae for Oil.

My Question

All well and good. But no one has answered my question. What happens when impeachment is tabled, then Bush declares War on Iran? Isn't Iran a terrorists country? Isn't that why Nancy Pelosi has said impeachment is off the table to stop another war? Bush is calling Democrats traitors or terrorists?

I think impeachment is good, but only if his war powers are stricken.

by Dom Jermano (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 40 diaries, 930 comments) on Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 3:59:32 AM

I live in the capital city of a major blue state.
MaxwellI live in the capital city of a major blue state.

This is all you've got?

Not very impressive, really. Deceiving Congress and the American People? Threatening to invade Iran? What, lying on "Meet the Press"?

If nothing else, it reveals how clever they've been. Bush has been right up front: he is responsible for the illegal invasion of Iraq; he ordered the illegal wiretaps; his fingerprints are all over the prosecutor firings; he made statements that were false, that he should have known to be false in the 2003 State of the Union Address (don't forget that for all the political pep rally the SOTU has become, it is in fullfillment of a constitutional obligation). I refer in particular to the famous then already debunked "yellowcake" statement.

But, they know nobody will impeach Bush, because that leaves Cheney as president. Sort of like the classic chess defense where the king and queen protect each other against an attacking piece.

This will not go as far as Kucinich's presidental campaign. Might as well plan to wait it out another two years.

by Maxwell (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 273 comments) on Friday, April 27, 2007 at 10:04:31 AM

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jpsmith123Ex Government Worker

Bush and/or Cheney will never be impeached.

Unless they were to do something reasonable like reversing their course, maybe start talking to Iran and Syria in good faith, etc.; thereby causing the Zionist "lobby" that controls the U.S. government to get pissed off, and give the word to remove them.

Should Bush show signs of wavering on the PNAC agenda (obviously the raison d'etre for the installation of Bush/Cheney in the first place), then you would see the Zionist controlled media spring into action against them.

Bush and Cheney know they are vulnerable and can be removed and perhaps prosecuted for their many crimes, should the Zionist lobby merely give the word. And this is why there will be no pull-out from Iraq, and why there will very likely be a catastrophic war against Iran in the near future.

by jpsmith123 (3 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 286 comments) on Saturday, April 28, 2007 at 6:24:09 PM