David Lindorff: Impeachment - They Think They Can, They Think They Can...

[Hissyspit]

http://www.democrats.com/node/12741

Impeachment: They Think They Can, They Think They Can...
ImpeachForChange
By Dave Lindorff

The impeachment train is starting to roll.

Last week, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), started things off by filing a three-article bill of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. Initially largely ignored by the mainstream media, and even ridiculed by some leading Democrats in Congress, that bill, HR 333, today garnered two co-sponsors, Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO) and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL).

The two co-sponsors signing on to the bill (both veteran members of Congress, and one, Schakowsky, a deputy whip and member of the Democratic Congressional leadership team), give it a much stronger chance of being taken seriously in the House Judiciary Committee headed by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), and follow a week of intense impeachment activities across the country.

A week ago, dozens of impeachment activists gathered on the steps of the main entrance to the Cannon House Office Building in a group press conference calling on Congress to back Kucinich’s impeachment bill, and to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

That same week, delegates to the annual convention of the California Democratic Party, the largest state chapter of the Democratic Party, overwhelmingly passed a detailed resolution calling for the impeachment of the president and vice president. The resolution received the highest vote total of all the resolutions offered at that convention, and was a powerful message to California’s top Democrat, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who represents a district in San Francisco, that her own party wants action on impeachment, not a political dodge.

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With frustration with President Bush’s insistence on endless war in Iraq, and with grassroots pressure for impeachment building, it is going to be harder and harder for the mainstream media to keep ignoring the impeachment story. It is also going to be harder and harder for Democratic Party leaders to hold deter their more progressive members in the House from filing impeachment bills.

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[The_Casual_Observer]

1. Dennis K is the kind of guy the press loves to hate.

Too fucking bad he's always right!

[Norrin Radd]

5. Or ignore.

I noticed that on PBS when they were flapping their gobs about the debate, that they simply refused to mention Dennis at all.

[global1]

2. The Dems Can't Overturn A Veto.....

they can't get support from across the aisle to bring this war to an end. What makes you think they can get support to impeach?

[Hissyspit]

3. They can't get support to impeach. Right now...

Change is the one true constant.

Just as impeachment would be a moral political act, PUSHING for impeachment is a moral political act and I, personally, will continue to do it, whether it ever happens or not.

[Norrin Radd]

6. Agree. n/t

[gipper66]

4. impeach now

the mainstream demo's continue to dissappoint on pressing for impeachment. At least float the proposal and the let the chips fall. We would then know where the politician fall on their support for or against.

[AndyTiedye]

7. They Should Practice This Impeachment Thing on Gonzales First

An open-and-shut case for impeachment of the Attorney General can be made from the evidence already before Congress.
The Senate would very likely vote to convict.
That's not the end of it, of course, only the beginning.