"The Deputy Whip Just Stepped Aboard ..."

[donsu]

http://counterpunch.com/lindorff05032007.html


The Deputy Whip Just Stepped Aboard ...
Kucinich's Impeachment Train


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 latter a deputy whip and senior member of the House congressional leadership.

The two co-sponsors signing on to the bill 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.

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It remains to be seen whether more members of the House will sign on to Kucinich's bill, or whether other representatives will add new bills of impeachment of their own against the vice president. Kucinich's bill is narrow in scope, only citing three impeachable offenses: lying about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, lying about an alleged link between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and illegally threatening war against Iran, a country that poses no imminent threat to the U.S. Certainly there are plenty of other grounds for impeaching Cheney, ranging from conspiracy to commit kidnapping and illegal torture of prisoner of war detainees and war profiteering to lying to Congress and orchestrating the theft of national elections.

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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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electricity is in the air

[magellan]

1. Momentum is building from within and without Congress

My hat's off to DK and all who stand with him in the House. Hold Cheney accountable.

[riderinthestorm]

2. It's picking up steam.

"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..."





First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Ghandi.

[VWolf]

3. Uncanny, eh?

Get ready for the "fight" phase.

[riderinthestorm]

5. Unfortunately most of the "fighting" over impeachment right now is happening internally

The DU impeachment threads are classic examples.

[gratuitous]

4. The pressure increases

Day by day more pressure is put on the congressional leadership to address this movement. Will you do the job the voters elected you to do back in November 2006? Because we can put in new leaders in 2008 if you're not up to the task.

[Swamp Rat]

6. IMPEACH!!

:kick:

[lazyriver]

7. Slow and steady progress. Thanks DK! n/t

[bdamomma]

8. Call or fax your Reps to co sponsor this .

[mopinko]

9. just fyi- jan

aside from being one of our absolute best, she is on the house intelligence committee. hmmm..