Cynthia McKinney's Last Act- Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush

[Jcrowley]

McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush
By BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer
Friday, December 8, 2006 08 02 PM
 
(12-08) 20:02 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.

The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.

McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected. In introducing her legislation in the final hours of the current Congress, she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation's laws.

In the bill, she accused Bush of misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and violating privacy laws with his domestic spying program.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/12/08/national/w152917S79.DTL

[wildbilln864]

1. Thank you ...

Mrs. McKinney for the efforts!

[Octafish]

2. Thanks for kicking the BFEE in the pants, Ms. McKinney.

You told the truth about Bush and his cronies -- they are warmongering profiteers and traitors.

[savemefromdumbya]

3. nice parting shot!

[nam78_two]

4. K&R.nt

[Sapphire Blue]

5. "she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation's laws"

Indeed, he has. It is Congress' duty to impeach.

[Disturbed]

7. A simple Impeachment

32 Violations of the FISA Law. No investigation required. Impeach in Jan. 071

[southerncrone]

8. Ditto

Go Cynthia!

[Erika]

6. It seems the only thing that will stop W is impeachment

Yeah for the lady.

[sandnsea]

9. Good to have it on record

I wish she would have included his lie in the Determination that he had exhausted all peaceful means and that Iraq was a grave threat, not to mention that he was never authorized to liberate Iraqis. There's so much more she could have put in it, but at least it's something to let future generations know what was going on.

[Imagevision]

10. Well we know what's going to happen, Bush will push the envelope with Pelosi to

figure out just how far he can go, - And Ms.Pelosi will have to immediately shut down the mentally challenged president or, chance suffering the consequences from this extremely corrupt administration.

Speaker Pelosi is tasked with the everyday oversight on the current crooked administration, let them slide for just one day, and the problems begin because they would have managed to implant a common diversion to cause the typical Bush smoke & mirror's scenario throwing off the Dems real work and instead go chasing the goons around for no reason!

[Nutmegger]

11. It's people like this who make me want to cry.

Her voice will be sorely missed. :cry:

[Hippo_Tron]

12. I don't like McKinney but I'll admit that she's solidly left wing on the issues

Her comments about Al Gore's "Negro tolerance level" aren't exactly appealing to me. I wish her district had found someone better than that lightweight Hank Johnson to replace her with.

[quiet.american]

13. I LOVE THIS WOMAN. SHE IS MY INSPIRATION. nt.

[stephinrome]

14. Send your thoughts to...

Your rep:
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Pelosi:
[e-mail] (if you are a constituent - include your full address)
[e-mail] (if you're not a constituent)

Conyers:
[e-mail]

[jarnocan]

15. thanks, hundreds of thousands have died because of their crimes

including the crime of election fraud which put and kept the regime in power. I don't think it is right to just forgive and forget.

How dare they refuse to accept our petitions, commit crimes against our democracy, and kill so many people for their profit! We need to MANDATE ACCOUNTABILITY!
and meanwhile; Cindy (and other peace protestors) are on trial in NY!
Asoociated Press


http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/07/america/NA_GEN_US_Peace_Mom_Trial.php

New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/08/nyregion/08sheehan.html

[Karenina]

16. What petitions?

[jarnocan]

40. Do not attack Iran (please)

Dave Swanson ,Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright delivering petitions. The BU**SH** regine refused to accept them, couldn't even be bothered to send an aide out to collect them. So we did heave some of them over the fence., oooh we could be arrested, ho w dare we?

[LWolf]

17. I look forward to hearing about her the next few years.

I don't think she is the type to go gently into quiet retirement, lol, and I believe she will be acting for the changes I wish to see.

[Rex]

18. Revenge is a dish best served cold.

It is very cold in space, Mr. Bush.

[oasis]

19. McKinney's displayed more courage in her short career than anyone else in congress.(n/t)

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. Woudln't it have been more couragous to have introduced this earlier?

Perhaps before her primary?

[Critters2]

25. Exactly. This is one last moment of grandstanding. Nothing more.

I'd like Bush to be impeached--really impeached. Not used as a political football by someone who wants to humiliate her fellow Dems.

I won't miss this woman.

Flame away!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

34. Me Either. She's Done Some Good Stuff For Her District But She's Too Much A Nutjob For Me To Support

fully. There have been several over the top irrational statements and actions and after seeing more and more of it I just started really acquiring a distaste for her.

And this act was nothing more than 'Hey look at me!' grandstanding on her last day since her ego probably can't handle the fact she is no longer part of congress. To me, this was just a further act of immaturity, irrationality and instability that drove me away from her to begin with.

May god bless her and may life be kind to her as I wish her nothing but the best, but I'm kinda glad she didn't make it through the primary.

[oasis]

45. And just how would that have helped Pelosi become Speaker? (n/t)

[Freddie Stubbs]

50. Perhaps it would have taken some attention away from the cop slapping incident

[oasis]

51. McKinney should have said she rushed past the cops to introduce an

impeachment bill on the president.

That's the ticket. :yourock:

[dogday]

21. Way to go Cynthia!

MIght as well give him the finger on the way out....

[Raster]

22. I'm the 24th recommend, and wish I could do it another 24 times!

Rep. McKinney and the Congressional Black Caucus were just about the only persons in Congress to stand up to the ILLEGAL (S)Election 2000 and maintain that bush* was NEVER LAWFULLY ELECTED. On her own, Rep. McKinney has courageously stood against bush* time and time again, never doing what was SAFE, but DOING WHAT WAS RIGHT. What a lovely parting shot! Brava! I know Rep. McKinney will continue the good fight in whatever vocation or circumstance after her term in Congress. I wish more of Congress had her backbone and sense of right and justice. Thank you Rep. Cynthia McKinney!
:kick:TWENTYFOUR!

[thingfisher]

23. If more Democrats had followed McKinney's example

and courage and were willing to risk the danger of being labeled a radical, perhaps our recent history would be a lot less tragic.

[Karenina]

24. Indeed.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

35. Or, To Be More Realistic, Perhaps We Wouldn't Have Regained Control Of Congress.

There are ways to show courage and stand up for convictions while going against status quo. There are ways to do so without coming off as a ranting lunatic that most people don't listen to and don't want to be associated with. I felt she definitely started vaulting herself towards the latter. We need reps who can speak out strongly without coming off like that. I found her ineffective and detrimental to our party in certain ways, which is why though I respect some of her accomplishments, I was somewhat relieved that she didn't make it through her primary.

[Jcrowley]

39. Here's a good resource

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Cynthia_McKinney

to learn more.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

44. Nice Try.

I know plenty about her which is why I can still compliment her on the good she's done. But I also have the ability to think objectively and think that some of her behavior has been over the top and extreme and more and more she started to leave a bad taste in my mouth. That includes this last egocentric last ditch effort at attention bill she just presented.

There's no doubt she has had a career in which she at times has done much good. But her instability and other irrational behaviors have made me thankful to a degree that she was defeated in the primaries. But nice try on the condescending attempt at trying to portray me as someone who just MUST not know enough about her if god forbid I don't bow down at her presence. That notion is beyond absurd. I'm simply objective and take all of her behaviors into account. I'm not going to miss her and though I wish her well, I'm glad I don't have to see her in the next congress.

[Hippo_Tron]

26. Yet she had no problem making comments about Al Gore's "Negro tolerance level"

[thingfisher]

28. I am not familiar with this comment.

Could you contextualize it for me?

[cali]

29. Here:

Choose your source. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Cynthia+McKinney+Gore+low+tolerance+for+negroes&btnG=Google+Search

[Hippo_Tron]

30. Here's a link

http://www.slate.com/?id=2064530

I'm not one who blasts McKinney for her politics because I value the voices that we have on the left but I still think she's a complete asshole because of things like this.

[thingfisher]

46. Here is the context for the Gore comment

Black agents have been complaining of racial discrimination within the agency charged with guarding at all costs the lives of the president and other top federal officials, ever since Gore and President Clinton first came into office in 1993.

According to a Friday story in the Washington Times:

Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney, in her fourth term from Georgia, said she found out only last week that the Clinton-Gore administration had placed a ceiling on the number of black Secret Service agents who could be assigned to protect Gore, who is the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

"Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high," she wrote on her congressional Web site. "I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time. I'm not shocked, but I am certainly saddened by this revelation."

The congresswoman said she learned about the limit of black agents permitted to guard Gore from a group of agents bringing a racial-discrimination suit against the Clinton-Gore Treasury Department, the mother agency of the Secret Service.

McKinney said she was troubled that the black agents had received no response from Gore or his staff about their complaints, even after the vice president and his staff had been informed.

"That these black officers had no response from Gore's staff is symptomatic of a larger problem," she said. "Gore would like these problems to just go away, but they'll never go away if they're not addressed."

Ron Schmidt, an attorney representing the agents, said those black agents who complained about the Gore cap were threatened with retaliation.

Her comment may have been poorly worded but in the context of the larger story, they do not carry the same impact as when quoted out of context.
I can't say that I approve of everything Ms. McKinney says and does, but she has my support for her strong stand against Bush, including her support for real investigations into the 911 attacks.

He said at least six "less qualified, less experienced" white agents were named over more-qualified black agents to informal supervisory positions on Gore's security detail – assignments that boost an agent's chances for promotion.

[Raster]

48. Isn't it amazing when one delves just a tad, the content or reference of a quotation

can change. Thank you for the reference. My original statement still stands: Thank God she has the "whatever" to fire a shot across the Congressional and (P)Residential Bows. bush* was not lawfully and legally elected in 2000. Information revealed on almost a daily basis calls into question bush*'s legitimacy in 2004. And by just about every standard, bush* deserves to be impeached FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS. Thank you Rep. Cynthia McKinney for doing what the rest of those chicken-shit congressional bastards apparently refuse to do: Uphold the Constitution of the United States, enforce the laws of the land and investigate the (P)Resident of the United States and his actions under the rules of impeachment. I don't care if it is a stunt or a cry for attention. It is the correct action.

Impeach the bastards!

[Hippo_Tron]

49. She jumped to the conclusion from this story that Gore was a racist

Which is complete bullshit and she knows it.

I respect the work the fact that there needs to be voices from the left in congress like Cynthia McKinney's but she made a baseless accusation of racism and didn't even apologize for it. Simply put, I like that Cynthia McKinney's views get to be heard in Congress but I don't like Cynthia McKinney.

[thingfisher]

52. I think Ms. McKinneys comment could be interpreted

as 'racist' if so taken. I tend to think that she like many people often make comments that reflect resentments and other negative feelings that are normally kept at bay by our better natures.

[NYCGirl]

53. So what do you interpret "Negro tolerance has never been too high" to

mean, if not racist?

Edited to get exact quote right.

[Raster]

31. So she said Gore had a low Negro tolerance level. Maybe he did, maybe not.

The article wasn't about her and Gore. It was about her never wavering from her conviction that bush* was NEVER lawfully and legally elected. No matter what she had said previously about Gore, she recognized and maintained--and still maintains today--that Gore won and was lawfully elected POTUS. The article was also about her parting shot at the "no-impeach Congress." I still thank her--and the Congressional Black Caucus--for vehemently protesting the selection of bush* to POTUS. Something many, many Democrats in Congress DID NOT DO.
:kick:

[In Truth We Trust]

27. McKinney 08' Thank you rep McKinney. I love her truthiness!!!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

36. Ehhhh, Hank Johnson Would Probably Beat Her Again In 08 Too.

[porphyrian]

32. I'll kick that. - n/t

[ritziecracker]

33. You Go Girl!!!

[dailykoff]

37. That's a gal with guts.

She'll be back soon I hope. We need her!

:patriot:

[Vidar]

38. K&R for a courageous lady.

[pitohui]

41. well good for her

dammit why does it have to be symbolic? we have plenty of dirt on these creepazoids!

[lonestarnot]

42. Yeya baby!

:applause:

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[IWantPeace]

47. Conyers will not investigate

From Conyers’ report, The Constitution in Crisis:

Our investigation has found that while the allegations set forth in this Report rise to the level of impeachable misconduct by the President, the Vice President, and other high ranking officials within the Administration, more information and investigatory authority is needed before recommendations can be made concerning specific Articles of Impeachment.

link : scroll down to Chapter 4, page 13

So last year Conyers do-nothing excuse was “more information and investigatory authority is needed”. Now that the democrats will have control of the House, “they aren’t even going to issue subpoenas.”

They aren’t even going to issue subpoenas! They aren’t going to investigate anything!

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2791/BREAKING_Congresswoman_McKinney_Files_Articles_of_Impeachment