Impeachment on a Roll

[IndianaGreen]

Published on Saturday, June 9, 2007 by CommonDreams.org

Impeachment on a Roll

by Dave Lindorff

Down the shore yesterday, as we say in Philly, I was body surfing in the Atlantic and it got me to thinking.

On the East Coast, where the prevailing winds are offshore, the surf tends to be pretty tame, and Thursday was no exception, with the biggest waves cresting at perhaps three feet. Nonetheless, these little combers were able to send my prone body racing 100 feet toward the beach at a good clip.

There's a lot of energy packed in even a small wave.

Just so with impeachment, where a wave is slowly building for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Since Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) filed his impeachment bill against Cheney back April 24, five other members of the House have signed on as co-sponsors, most recently Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), co-chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. She joins Reps. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL and chief deputy whip of the House), William Lacy Clay
(D-IL) and Albert Wynn (D-MD) as co-sponsors of H. Res. 333.

Kucinich's bill is narrowly focused on Cheney's criminal role in lying the nation into an illegal invasion of Iraq, and on his illegal threat to launch an unprovoked attack on Iran.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/06/09/1771/

[loyalkydem]

1. Should the bill

also add his role in the wiretapping of American Citizens? I'm hoping all of this will lead back to King Bush.

[elocs]

2. That's quite a roll, 5 added in a month and a half. "Slowly" is the operative word here.

Tick, tick, tick. I think going for Cheney is better than Bush because does anybody want a President Cheney? But as it stands now, no matter how this is spun, it does not seem to have much legs unless something big turns up.