Kucinich reads Bush Articles of Impeachment on the House floor

I flipped on my television at approximately ten-thirty Eastern time on Monday night, and I was pleasantly surprised to find Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) speaking on C-Span. Kucinich was talking about President Bush and his various crimes against the United States, and I soon became aware that the Representative was introducing Articles of Impeachment against President Bush (also known as House Resolution 1258).

Dennis Kucinich had begun his long trudge through the Articles two hours earlier, and he would continue his reading, to an almost empty House chamber, for nearly another three hours. There were 35 Articles in total, each one detailing a crime that Bush had committed that warranted impeachment. I congratulate Kucinich for having the courage and conviction to undertake this task.

A summary of each offense for each Article, as provided by the index of the Articles of Impeachment, reads as follows: Read more

The Strengthening American Defense At Home Act

The Republicans are very good with words. For that, they have Frank Luntz to thank. Luntz knows words. Basically, he is a political consultant and pollster who knows how to use the right words to get people to support his candidates. As I recall, Luntz was the guy who coined the term “amnesty” for illegal immigrants to put the democrats on the defensive. Nobody wants to support “amnesty.” George Bush is a big fan of this practice of manipulating words.

Laws championed by Bush like the No Child Left Behind Act, PATRIOT Act and Healthy Forests Initiative all do the exact opposite of what their names say. For example, the Healthy Forests Initiative expands logging rights inside national forests.

The Democrats should start trying these tricks. I have a suggestion for Dennis Kucinich and Robert Wexler. A new bill to introduce into the House of Representatives. I call this bill the Strengthening American Defense At Home Act. This bill includes a reference to strength, America, defense and another reference to America.

What would the SADHA include in its text? Well, first, it would have to be very long. Long enough that nobody would ever read the entire thing. In the text, there would have to be lots of things like giving more money to homeland security and establishing a new database of terror suspects in a way that somehow doesn’t infringe on civil liberties. It’s bound to pass. Anybody voting against it would be labeled an unpatriotic supporter of terrorism. And then we would play a little trick on those lazy politicians who vote for whatever bills the public tells them to vote for…

Hidden in the middle of the bill there would be a tiny little sub-clause bringing about the impeachment of Dick Cheney. Kucinich’s articles of impeachment against Cheney have been doomed to committee hell, and they need to be brought back. Maybe this is the way. We’ve seen time and time again that politicians vote for bills with pretty names no matter what is inside the bill just because they can’t be seen voting against a bill with a name like the PATRIOT Act.

Now, I know this might sound a little underhanded, but we can do it. We need to impeach Cheney and the rest of them, and hiding their articles of impeachment in the middle of a super-patriotic bill like the SADHA is the only quick and sure-fire way to do something so controversial.

Executive Efficacy Expanded

Many, many people in these united states long for the day upon which George W. Bush will vacate the Presidency. During Bush’s terms in office, he has gotten us into a Quagmire in Iraq (and has engaged in a generally arrogant and foolish foreign policy), deftly removed many of our civil liberties from us, racked up record deficits, exploited the people’s fear of terrorism (which helped him to win elections, achieve his agenda, and rob us of our apparently undeserved liberties), and, most importantly, greatly increased the power and influence of the Executive Branch. The People long for Bush’s exit because they are tired of these repeated abuses and usurpations, and with the hope that, once Dubya leaves, we’ll be able to get a Democrat or at least a moderate in office and get America back onto the right track. This perspective is not in agreement with my own; in point of fact, I disagree with it very strongly. It seems to me that this belief is the product of the very ignorance which allowed Bush to expand his office and worsen the state of the country in the first place. Let me take just a few moments in order to explain my thoughts more clearly on this matter. Read more

Impeachment: the biggest research subject ever

A big issue right now is the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, and I think it’s time we role up our shirtsleeves and do some heavy investigating into their political careers. Read more

Attorney General Appointee Doesn’t Know What Torture Is And More

Torture is illegal and unconstitutional. Even George Bush admits this. I am not an expert on torture. What I can say is that torture is defined by federal law as “means an act committed by a person acting under the color of law specifically intended to inflict severe physical or mental pain or suffering (other than pain or suffering incidental to lawful sanctions) upon another person within his custody or physical control”. Mental pain or suffering is defined as “the prolonged mental harm caused by or resulting from - (A) the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering; (B) the administration or application, or threatened administration or application, of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or the personality; (C) the threat of imminent death; or (D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering, or the administration or application of mind-altering substances or other procedures calculated to disrupt profoundly the senses or personality.” You can’t argue that the definition is something different from what it says right there is in the legal code. You can argue that it is a bad definition, but you can’t argue that it isn’t the definition.
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Anti-War Activist Cindy Sheehan to run against Pelosi

Anti-Iraq War activist Cindy Sheehan has announced that, because House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush by midnight last night, Sheehan will run against Pelosi for her San Francisco seat. Says Sheehan, “Not only am I going to run against her, but I will beat her.”

Honestly I’m not sure what effect this will have. Thus far Pelosi has made no comment. I have looked around some of the other blogs, and it appears that as a result of this run Sheehan has lost the support of more central Democrats who supported her efforts previously. While I am certainly not a centrist, I am certainly opposed to this run. Read more

3 Congress Members Away from Impeachment, Senate Plans Censure

In a remarkable turn of events in the past weeks, the White ‘House’ is falling down on the President. Congress is making improvements to end the war, and with an approval rating at 25% and a disapproval rating at 71%, impeachment doesn’t seem too far away.

Congressman John Conyers announced that he is 3 congress members away from moving forward on impeachment.

Senator Russ Feingold announced that he plans to publicly disapprove of George W. Bush’s presidency by calling for a censure. A censure will publicly shame the president as the worst in history. For the illegal wiretapping, the War in Iraq, and the whole throwing the rule of law out the window.
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Will it pass?

NO: Yesterday the House Of Representatives voted for a COMPLETE withdrawal from Iraq. And SURPRISE it will get vetoed again. You can’t make a controversial vote with an ignoramus as president can we? The only thing we can do to save this country is to Impeach the president, then Impeach Cheney. And finally, I am not a fan of her, but she is better then Bush, Nancy Pelosi will become president .My prediction is we will be in Iraq ’til Jan. 20 , 2009 UNLESS we Impeach Bush. Bill Clinton was Impeached for having sex with Monica Lewinsky. Bush has killed almost 100,000 people and he is not Impeached? Until that day of Jan. 20 we will live in Bush’s world of highering spending and cutting taxes; the absolute recipe for disaster.

Until September Comes…

…will more soldiers die? Is impeachment the only answer to rid us of this national nightmare?

September will be the time that Congress decides whether or not to continue the funding for the war. In the recent weeks we have seen some of the president’s top Republican allies switching positions on the War in Iraq. Their fear of the 2008 election has the led these cowards to be late to support our troops. The only real support by ending the war.

So far, six GOP senators , Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, Robert Bennett of Utah, Susan Collins of Maine, John Sununu of New Hampshire and Pete Domenici of New Mexico , support such legislation.

Other prominent Republican senators, including Richard Lugar of Indiana, George Voinovich of Ohio, Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Olympia Snowe of Maine, also say the U.S. should begin redeployments. [philly.com]

Names in bold are up for 2008 re-election.
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Obama: No Impeachment

Obama says no on impeachment? No to the impeachment of both Cheney AND Bush? Yes it’s true, one of his first few flaws. He says it’s a waste of time…But is he wasting the Democrats’ time?
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