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Articles of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:40 pm
by Evermore
Looks like he's reached his boiling point.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Kucinich has made ending the war in Iraq the central theme of his campaign. He has even taken aim at the leading Democratic presidential candidates in the field for their votes on authorizing the war.


Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution gives Congress the authority to impeach the president, vice president and "all civil Officers of the United States" for "treason, bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

Sources tell the Sleuth that in light of the mass killings at Virginia Tech Monday, Kucinich's impeachment plans have been put on hold. There will be no action this week, they say.

Kucinich's office had no comment on the Congressman's "Dear Colleague" letter -- which apparently was drafted over the weekend, before the school massacre -- or on what the focus of articles of impeachment against Cheney would be.

But Kucinich shouldn't hold his breath on getting anywhere with his impeachment plan. "We'll see a Kucinich Administration before we'll see a Cheney impeachment," quipped one Democratic aide.


Here is the text of his letter, a copy of which was forwarded to the Sleuth:


April 17, 2007


Dear Colleague:

This week I intend to introduce Articles of Impeachment with respect to the conduct of Vice President Cheney. Please have your staff contact my office . . . if you would like to receive a confidential copy of the document prior to its introduction in the House.


Sincerely,

/s/

Dennis J. Kucinich

Member of Congress

Source:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/04/articles_of_impeachment_to_be.html

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:17 pm
by Lyion
Much lolzer from Kucinich. This write up is from a moonbat reporter, even...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02341.html

"I do not stand alone," Dennis Kucinich said as he stood, alone, in front of a cluster of microphones yesterday evening.


A reporter from the Cleveland Plain Dealer encouraged USS Kucinich to contact planet Earth. "But Nancy Pelosi says this is not going anywhere," she pointed out.

"Have you talked to her today?" Kucinich shot back.

"Yes, I did," she replied.

Kucinich had not expected that answer. "Then I would say I have not talked to her," he acknowledged.

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:14 pm
by Arlos
Well, I think everyone here knows that I consider Bush & Cheney to be impeachable, but even I am a sufficient political realist to know that attempting to impeach either one of them is going to get precisely nowhere. Hell, the man doesn't even have anything approaching a majority in his own party, much less a 2/3 overall majority it would take.

Don Quixote, meet Dennis Kucinich. Dennis, meet Don.

-Arlos

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:21 pm
by Eziekial
It was a publicity stunt.

Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:15 pm
by Martrae
Kucinich was always an idiot. He's still trying to reclaim the 'glory days' of the boy mayor of Cleveland.

Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 7:04 pm
by Evermore
even i laughed at this one..