WHO'S MORE CRAZY? Kuchinich, For Taking On The Most Powerful Men In D.C. Or His Fellow Democrats?

[kpete]

Un-Cheney Melody
Who's More Crazy? Dennis Kucinich, For Taking On The Most Powerful Men In Washington? Or His Fellow Democrats, For Not Supporting Him?
By Dan Harkins



KUCINICH - As a young peacenik. In the press toward the 2006 congressional elections, Democratic contenders couldn't talk enough about impeachable offenses committed by the Bush administration in the holy pursuit of oil and influence. The lies. The wire-tapping. The torture. Impeachment hearings, goddamnit! Oversight!

But look at them now. These days, with the White House within reach (two out of three ain't bad!) and a majority of Americans shooting the collective finger at the Bush camp, those same Democrats have once again let honorary chairman of his own Department of Peace, Cleveland Congressman Dennis Kucinich, carry the heaviest load.

All of them still decry the deception and the perils of unnecessary war, and yet they're angling this week to approve another $96 billion in war funding for a war that's cost more than 3,400 American and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives, not to mention the $429 billion in tax dollars that could have instituted universal health care. Bush just vetoed a war spending bill with a timeline for withdrawal. Now, he's set to concede to benchmarks instead, one of which is a provision to privatize Iraq's oil supply. Sigh.

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"We've spent a lot of time talking about Iraq here tonight and America's role in the world," he declared. "This country was taken into war based on lies about weapons of mass destruction and al Qaeda's role with respect to Iraq, which there wasn't one at the time we went in. I want to state that Mr. Cheney must be held accountable. He is already ginning up a cause for war against Iran. Now, we have to stand for this Constitution, we have to protect and defend this Constitution. And this vice president has violated this Constitution. So I think that while my friends on the stage may not be ready to take this stand, the American people should know that there's at least one person running for president who wants to reconnect America with its goodness, with its greatness, with its highest principles, which currently are not being reflected by those who are in the White House."

more at:
http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/4/uncheney-melody

[pinto]

1. I don't disagree with this Free Times piece, or the quote that

" 'impeachment...would be a risk for Democrats now that the White House is in reach', says David Cohen, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Akron and a fellow at UA's Bliss Institute of Applied Politics."

Yet, I feel that impeachment proceedings would *not* foster a resolution to our involvement in Iraq. They would prolong it. While the House was embroiled in defining articles and the Senate, should those articles be forwarded, be called to sit in judgment, Iraq would be off the table.

However ineffective our slim majority has been to move this administration to reality, impeachment would be a side step that overshadows any further, realistic progress.

Are there good justifications for bringing articles of impeachment? Yeah, I think so. No doubt. Would the means justify the ends? Not while Iraq continues unabated.

That's why I'm not in favor of impeachment.

[Taverner]

2. Impeachment is beginning to be like Iraq....

Dennis was right about that

History will prove the Kuch right...

[eppur_se_muova]

3. It's official ... kpete and babylonsister are karmic twins.

Same article, same timestamp.

[slipslidingaway]

4. K&R n/t

[EFerrari]

5. Kick

Impeach Cheney.

[bamacrat]

6. Kucinich is the best possible candidate..

he is the only one who will stand up to this current regime, GO DENNIS!!!

[MadHound]

7. Kucinich is the only presidential candidate that has been right about the war, Bushco

And the direction that this country is headed. He has also been the only candidate who has been out front, for six lonely years, taking on this misadministration time and again while the rest of the pack has cowered, triangulated, and played political games with people's lives. Frankly he is the best, most honest candidate out there.

Yet it still amazes me that his courage and energy are scorned and ridiculed by so many here.

[Az]

8. In a nation that elected presidents based on reason he would be the one to beat

But that is not our nation. Marketing and money elect presidents here.

[lonestarnot]

9. Woot Dennis!

Here's to spank'n their asses! :spank: :toast:

[mdmc]

10. chIMPREACH

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

11. Dennis is not crazy so... LOL