CNN.com Picks Up Impeachment

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Democratic presidential candidate from Ohio, introduced a resolution to impeach President Bush into the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio has introduced a resolution to impeach President Bush.

Kucinich announced his intention to seek Bush's impeachment Monday night, when he read the lengthy document into the record.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she would not support a resolution calling for Bush's impeachment, saying such a move was unlikely to succeed and would be divisive.

Most of the congressman's resolution deals with the Iraq war, contending that the president manufactured a false case for the war, violated U.S. and international law to invade Iraq, failed to provide troops with proper equipment and falsified casualty reports for political purposes.

Kucinich also charges that Bush has illegally detained without charge both U.S. citizens and "foreign captives" and violated numerous U.S. laws through the use of "signing statements" declaring his intention to do so.

Other articles address global warming, voting rights, Medicare, the response to Hurricane Katrina and failure to comply with congressional subpoenas.

Last year, Kucinich introduced a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. But in November when Republicans tried to force a debate on the move, the attempt failed. Democrats voted to send the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, where committee chairman Rep. John Conyers has taken no action on it.

An earlier resolution to impeach Cheney has languished in the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties since May 2007.

The House of Representatives has voted to impeach two presidents -- Andrew Johnson, in 1868, and Bill Clinton, in 1999 -- but both were acquitted by the Senate and remained in office. No U.S. vice president has been impeached.

Kucinich dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination for president in January to focus on his re-election bid in Ohio. He handily won the Democratic primary in his district on March 4 and faces former State Representative Jim Trakas in the general election.

link: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/11/kucinich.impeach/

[tekisui]

1. Washington Post, ABCNews....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/10/AR2008061003087.html

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/06/congressman-rob.html

[annabanana]

2. This is going to be interesting.

Which would the big pockets prefer to deal with? The impeachment? Or the 23 Billion stolen bucks now being reported by the BBC?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7444083.stm

[tekisui]

3. Fucking War Profiteers.

They should never see the light of day.

We need some journalistic backbone to raise the awareness, and put pressure on the Dems.

IMPEACH '08!!!

[malaise]

5. Watch a clip here

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/7445396.stm

The full program will be on the website later

[malaise]

4. John Murphy and Tom Knapp

http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/06/tom-knapp-issues-statement-in-support-of-kucinichs-call-to-impeach-bush/
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In a statement posted on his congressional campaign Web site, Knapp said:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has declared that impeachment of President Bush and/or Vice President Cheney is “off the table.”

Some other discouraged Americans have declared that it is “too late” for impeachment, given that only about seven months remain before Bush and Cheney leave office in the normal course of things.

I don’t believe that impeachment, if justified, can ever be off the table, or that it’s too late to pursue it in this particular case.

Neither does US Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment versus Vice President Cheney last November; they remain bottled up in the House Judiciary Committee. Yesterday, he introduced similar articles versus President Bush.

Both sets of articles are damning, and most allegations in each set are supported by overwhelming evidence. President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and numerous members of their administration are clearly culpable in the commission of numerous “high crimes and misdemeanors,” all of which warrant impeachment and removal and many of which warrant resort to the US and/or international criminal justice systems as well.



http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2008/06/independent-for-congress-announces-support-for-kucinichs-bill-of-impeachment/
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The “corporate media,” according to John Murphy, an independent for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 16th district, was too busy covering frivolous stories to notice.

Below is a media release issued by the Murphy campaign:

CHESTER COUNTY, PA – According to John Murphy independent candidate for Congress in the 16th district “while Congressman Dennis Kucinich was introducing articles of impeachment against President Bush charging 35 counts of high crimes and misdemeanors ABC was covering a story about sending e-mails from heaven, CNN was covering a story about whether or not Obama was black or biracial and MSNBC was hot on the trail of a story about a brave man who managed to prevent his outhouse from being taken. No wonder the United States is ranked 57th in terms of freedom of the press”. Only C-SPAN covered the story.

“So far”, continued Murphy “the only difference between the Democrats and Republicans is that the Republicans were willing to impeach a president for lying under oath about sex while the Democrats are unwilling to impeach a president who lied to us about the reasons for invading two other countries, who has trashed the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, who has conducted illegal surveillance on American citizens, who has ignored treaties, violated international law, approved torture and eliminated the right of habeas corpus”. The first article Kucinich introduced dealt with the war in Iraq: “Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false case for war against Iraq.”

“Democrat House leaders have opposed impeaching Bush or Cheney as an useless distraction,” Murphy charged; “but they were nearly embarrassed last year when Republicans voted to take up Kucinich’s attempt to impeach Vice President Cheney in order to force a debate. The Democrats are unlikely to let the matter get so far this time.
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[grannylib]

6. It's unlikely to succeed if you DON'T SUPPORT IT, NANCE...

and DIVISIVE??? No, the WAR is divisive, destructive, immoral, illegal, and just plain wrong.
Get it through your thick skulls.
If you're not going to impeach NOW, be ready to INDICT and IMPRISON the minute that unelected little fucker and his handlers and minions are out of office.

[MotorCityMan]

8. It always gets me when she says that it would be "divisive"

Well, yeah, it would. Kind of like Clinton's impeachment. The majority of the country recognized it for the bullshit it was, but "rule of the law", etc, and Congress had to go ahead with it.

And * has done such a FINE job of unifying this country.

[Lint Head]

7. Remove the criminals from office now!

It's like letting the bank robbers 'keep on robbing the bank'. We don't have to arrest the criminals. Eventually they will go away. :dem:

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9. Thanks n/t