Player of the Week: Dennis Kucinich
A little less than five months ago, Rep. Dennis Kucinich dropped out of the presidential race and went home to Ohio to find himself enmeshed in a tough Democratic primary fight for reelection to the House. His opponent charged that he was neglecting his district after becoming too enamored of national attention and being a liberal darling.

Rep. Kucinich is on a one man crusade for impeachment. (File photo from Getty Images)
Kucinich was able to return to Cleveland in time to convince voters to keep supporting him, winning the primary by 15 points. It's not clear whether Kucinich is any more or less dedicated to local issues than he was before that scare, but the Ohioan definitely hasn't been frightened into staying out of the national spotlight. For evidence, just look at this past week, when Kucinich dropped 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush and then kept the House open for several hours on consecutive nights so they could be read into the Congressional Record.
Kucinich is decidedly in the minority in the House on this issue. Though all Democrats voted this week to refer the impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee, very few members actually want hearings (it's likely there won't be any) and only three have signed on as cosponsors.
There also isn't much evidence that a majority of Americans want to see Bush or Vice President Cheney impeached. Polls on the subject have fluctuated, but most seem to show pro-impeachment forces in the minority. That minority, however, is very passionate and very vocal. They flock to pro-impeachment Web sites. They sign petitions. They flood the e-mail inboxes of lawmakers (and those of reporters writing on the subject). And Kucinich is their hero.
So is there any chance that the impeachment effort will succeed? Bush has just seven months left in office, his party is suffering from widespread national "brand" problems and there is a real chance that Democrats will own the White House come Jan. 20, 2009. House Democratic leaders have no interest in any further action on impeachment, fearing that they would be accused of engaging in partisan stunts instead of legislating.
Kucinich says he's unwilling to take no for an answer. He vowed this week that impeachment would be back in 30 days (with 60 articles this time, not 35) if the Judiciary Committee doesn't hold hearings. So expect to see Kucinich spending a lot more hours on the House floor this summer reading aloud why he believes Bush has committed high crimes.
Should Kucinich instead be spending that time attending to the parochial needs of his district? Ohio voters will have another chance to weigh in this November, but he stands little chance of losing in a heavily Democratic district.
Which means that come January, he'll still be here in Washington stirring the pot. Bush will be gone though, even if Kucinich never gets the chance to push him out the door.
By Ben Pershing |
June 13, 2008; 2:32 PM ET
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Posted by: Dave in DC | June 13, 2008 3:11 PM
Of course he should keep trying. Even if it never comes to hearings, it is the only way Bush's crimes get any mention in the mainstream press. It would be nice, BTW, if the post could print the charges - even in the back pages. Certainly next time when there will be 60 counts.
Posted by: Shine a light! | June 13, 2008 3:13 PM
Dennis may be small but he's got balls and beliefs, unlike the spineless Democrats who have kowtowed to Bush since day 1. Hooray for his sense of justice and his courage. Bush & Cheney should be impeached (tried for domestic crimes) and indicted for war crimes (for their international brutality). If not in this world, they'll get payback in another for their horrifying deeds. Thank God their reign is coming to an end.
Posted by: JanO | June 13, 2008 3:40 PM
I feel that impeachment must take place to protect the constitution. Make it effective 12:01 on Jan 20, 2009. That way we get a president that is hopefully not a criminal, and we won't have to worry about Cheney.
Posted by: Mike From Detroit | June 13, 2008 3:49 PM
Here's a question for you:
Based on polling data, how many people wanted Bill Clinton impeached?
How many want Bush impeached?
Which number is greater?
Posted by: Tomhere | June 13, 2008 4:15 PM
I hope Obama picks Kucinich as VP. Kucinich is from Ohio, a big swing state, and they seem to agree about the role of government. I think Obama/Kucinich would be a consistent ticket.
Posted by: CP Cook | June 13, 2008 4:16 PM
Dave in DC: No one cares. No one cares about America. No one cares about the Rule of Law. No one cares if Condi Rice sits in the basement of the White House and directs overseas agents as they beat (innocent?) people to death.
No one cares if people (suspects) are rounded-up and thrown in prison without charges and with no hope of ever having a day in court, or any form of justice.
No one cares how many American troops are killed in Iraq.
No one cares how many lies the president tells.
No one cares about any of this.
No one cares if Death Squads come to your house and .........
Well, you get the idea. Or do you? Maybe you're like the 30% who just don't have a clue.....
Posted by: Tomhere | June 13, 2008 4:20 PM
I hope Obama picks Kucinich as VP. Kucinich is from Ohio, a big swing state, and they seem to agree about the role of government. I think Obama/Kucinich would be a consistent ticket. BTW, Kucinich's wife is beautiful.
Posted by: CP Cook | June 13, 2008 4:23 PM
DaveinDC wrote:
Haven't the Dems and/or Ohioans had enough of this little retard Kucinich? Does he have any ideas other than to try to impeach somebody? Does anybody care?
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Classic transferrence of one's own deep-seated inadequacies onto a recognized and irrelevant target.
DaveinDC, my staff of labcoat-sporting scientists would love to have you over to our office for a few "tests".
Posted by: Deaniac | June 13, 2008 4:28 PM
Where theres smoke theres fire, and in this case Bush is soaking wet of gasoline.
Posted by: DvHawk | June 13, 2008 4:43 PM
Revenge has a long history - perhaps they want to follow the example of Cromwell:
"In 1661, Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed from Westminster Abbey, and was subjected to the ritual of a posthumous execution, as were the remains of John Bradshaw and Henry Ireton. Symbolically, this took place on January 30; the same date that Charles I had been executed. His body was hanged in chains at Tyburn. Finally, his disinterred body was thrown into a pit, while his severed head was displayed on a pole outside Westminster Abbey until 1685. Afterwards the head changed hands several times, including the sale in 1814 to a man named Josiah Henry Wilkinson[84], before eventually being buried in the grounds of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, in 1960."
Posted by: Gary E. Masters | June 13, 2008 5:03 PM
Not impeaching both 43 and 43.5 is making us complicit. They are criminals of the highest order and the impeachment of all of bushco is just the beginning if justice prevails. otherwise, the call should be for revolution or secession. the People see the rich getting free passes as the rest of us suffer. they see how bushco is responsible for a pointless war and endless poverty--while the rich and oil companies get tax breaks. anyone, even normally apathetic couch-bound amurkins would break and rise after all that has happened since 2000--The Year of the Tragically Stolen Election. makes one ill thinking of a world without bush/cheney. ANYTHING would have been better. high time the citizenry took their country back.
Posted by: Pre AmeriKKKan | June 13, 2008 5:04 PM
"Maybe you're like the 30% who just don't have a clue....."
It is sloppy thinking to say everyone who does not agree with you does not have a clue. Perhaps they really do know better.
Posted by: Gary E. Masters | June 13, 2008 5:06 PM
We gotta impeach and remove executive immunity so we can criminally prosecute these guys. Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Condi are all guilty of war crimes, federal law violations, treaty violations (tantamount to federal law violations)...and then turn them over to the Hague.
The evidence is strong. What's wrong with the Democrat's collective spine?
Posted by: Fmr Conyers Staffer | June 13, 2008 5:31 PM
Interesting article. Welcome to Newspeak...1984.....Wake up people.
Posted by: awake | June 13, 2008 5:38 PM
I am glad to see one major news outlet actually covering this story. Even if it is only on a blog.
However, your sycophantic equivocations don't even come close to journalism.
Since when is legislation judged on the basis of polls? Since when is criminal guilt determined by polls? And yet that is all you report when you make your lame excuses for why impeachment is not advancing.
What about the substance of the charges?
Everyone knows that Bush personally signed executive orders authorizing illegal activity. The only way he won't be impeached or sent to prison is if the charges are never brought before a body with the authority to bring him to justice.
That is exactly why the media and the Democrats refuse to let the charges be heard. They know he is guilty, and they know that if he is found guilty, their own complicity will be the next subject of investigation.
Posted by: NotEnough | June 13, 2008 5:39 PM
I don't care about pushing Bush out the door. I care about holding him accountable for his crimes, and putting everyone complicit in them behind bars to dissuade future administrations from repeating these atrocities to our Constitution, our international reputation, our freedom, our security, our military, and our Treasury.
Posted by: trippin | June 13, 2008 6:28 PM
78 Senators voted to authorize that war. How does anyone with half a brain expect that 66 of those same Senators will vote to impeach Bush for the same war he authorized?
Does Kucinich have a brain?
Posted by: Sternberg | June 13, 2008 6:33 PM
' "Maybe you're like the 30% who just don't have a clue....."
It is sloppy thinking to say everyone who does not agree with you does not have a clue. Perhaps they really do know better. '
Or perhaps they don't.
Well, that's why we have trials, now, isn't it? To deliberate these matters and mete out justice, so we don't have to rely on who thinks they know better.
Posted by: trippin | June 13, 2008 6:38 PM
If the media hadn't already compromised themselves by playing mouthpiece for the administration when they sold us the phoney war cause, they would be screaming themselves for impeachment. The last eight years marks the darkest period in journalism's history. Democracy is on the ropes and our president along with the watchdog is ripping at its underbelly. Bad presidents come and go, but when the media joins government in deceiving us, there is no hope for integrity in government. They are shameless in their willingness to play along with deception and then protect the criminals when the lies come to light. If it is in print, question it, if it is on the TV screen, doubt it. If they tell you it is news, know they have deceived you before in the most important matters facing our nation.
Posted by: Kevin Morgan | June 13, 2008 6:55 PM
I was in favor of the impeachment this time around, and hope it will still happen.
I am a FL certified teacher in a small FL GOP town, where the one local daily newspaper in town does NO investigative journalism whatsoever, and we have a new superintendent of schools -- a retired Army colonel -- whom I believe has faked his educational credentials.
Who is going to investigate this? I wrote to FL's new attorney general, Bill McCullom. Do you think he will?
This retired Army colonel I think is pretending to be a superintendent is hauling off over $240,000 in texpayer dollars in salary. He was appointed by a
3-2 partisan school board, with no other candidates allowed to apply, and no 5 days of advertising the job.
I made a quiz about his actual background, and you can take it and decide for youself if this guy is a fraud:
http://www.dennisthompsonbackgroundquiz.blogspot.com
He has now fired all the teamsters janitors in the schools. Next week our nation's president is coming to this town. and will perhaps stand next to this fake superintendent in an effort to prove this fake super is real and not a fraud.
I think we need new leadership in the White House, sooner rather than later.
I vote yes on impeachment, and I wish every Dem in DC would too this time.
Posted by: flcertifiedteacher | June 13, 2008 9:50 PM
The fact that all Americans are not rioting in the streets and storming the white house to demand justice for the evil acts of this administration is simply incomprehensible to me. I blame the American people. They just dont care. Who was it that said "Give em circus and cake? Well, thats the American people for you. Give em their toys i.e. cell phones and Ipods and keep them busy working 80 hours a week, spinning their wheels and going nowhere. That's keep em off the protest circuit.
Posted by: Rich K | June 13, 2008 10:33 PM
Dennis is a hero. The Torture President must be impeached.
Posted by: artforhumans | June 13, 2008 11:23 PM
We need give Dennis Kucinich a big hand!
And then we need to throw "I Took Impeachment Off The Table" Nancy Pelosi,
Steny Cockroach Hoyer and Harry Reid out
of Office!..Anyone dumb enough to trust
Barack Hussein Obama and thinks Obama would
put Dennis Kucinich on th ticket with him,
has to be the dumbest person alive,as the
fact remains Barack Hussein Obama is backed
and sponsored and owned by that phony
Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi,Howard Dean,
Harmless Harry Reid,Teddy Kennedy,and John
Kerry,the Democrat Version of the Axis of
Weasels. No To Barack Hussein Obama!
Posted by: Claudine 1000 | June 14, 2008 1:04 AM
Kucinich has both brains and principles. That is more than I can say for some of the posters here!
Posted by: pinky | June 14, 2008 1:37 AM
Although I am 99% in favor of impeaching Cheney and Bush, necessarily in that order, AND I believe that part of the reason that Democratic leaders won't act is because their complicity would be revealed in these hearings, possibly decimating the Democratic party's hope of winning the White House, my 1% reservation wins out. Specifically, and at the risk of sounding like a tin-foil hat wearer, I have just enough healthy fear of the spectre of the Homeland Security/FEMA congress-suspending, martial law-Rex 84 plan to think maybe it's better to not kick that particular hornet's nest at this time, just in case.
Posted by: Anonymous | June 14, 2008 8:55 AM
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Posted by: reality | June 14, 2008 11:16 AM
Keep going, Dennis! This is important work you are doing, and even if it doesn't work (come on, Pelosi), your efforts will keep this issue alive and in front of the voters.
Posted by: Susan | June 14, 2008 5:44 PM
Okay let's talk about applying Accountability and Responsibility directly
where it belongs for the War in Iraq Disaster since DINO Madame Speaker Nutso
Nancy Pelosi is as fully responsible as
George W Bush and Draft Dodger Cheney for
it,by Pelosi "Taking Impeachment Off The
Table" and that then makes Nancy Pelosi
Complicity and a Accomplish and Co-War
Criminal along with Bush and Cheney now
then. So we need to punish the Democrats
and Republicans severely for it on Election
Day 2008 by voting every stinking incumbent
Democrat and Republican out of office,if
they fail to Impeach Bush,Cheney,Rice,
Rumsfeld,Powell and Nancy Pelosi before
election day 2008. And one last thing there
is no way Barack Hussein Obama will ever
name Dennis Kucinch as his Vice President
as Dennis Kucinch is far too honest then
Obama and Obama's Pals Nancy Pelosi,Steny
Hoyer,Harry Reid,Howard Dean,John Kerry,
Teddy Kennedy,Bill Judeas Richardson,et al.
No Way Obama in 2008! NOBAMA! IMPEACH THEN!
Posted by: Sherry Kay | June 15, 2008 8:21 AM
So,isn't it time,for the voters to take a
good long hard honest look at the failed
leadership of not only George W Bush and
Draft Dodger Dickey Cheney,but that of
Democratic Leaders or more correctly,the
Democratic Misleaders From Madame Speaker
Nancy "I took Impeachment off the table"
Pelosi,and Pelosi's Accomplishes Steny
Hoyer and Horrid Harry Reid,as well as
the Democrats Presidential Candidate,that
covert Muslim,elitist lefty liberal,Marxist
Black Racist loser Barack Hussein Obama and
his hateful wife,Michelle Obama,the Obama
First Lady Wannabe,and be damn glad that
little Dennis Kucinch has helped get the
voters to focus on the real reason that the
US is such deep trouble today,is our total
failure leadership of both the Republicans
and Democrats now then. And that gives all
of us,voters good reason to vote every lying incumbent Democrat and Republican
under the Obama Bus and vote them all out
of power come Election Day 2008. And thank
you Sherry Kay for your excellent comments
as they made me more determined then ever
to vote all these scumbags out in 2008.
Posted by: Sandy5274 | June 15, 2008 5:20 PM
Kucinich is right. Bush's crimes are so monstrous that he simply must be impeached for them, or future generations will suffer from even more, even worse Bushes.
Posted by: Tom | June 16, 2008 12:56 AM
A poll on msnbc.com last week had 89% of respondents in favor of impeachment, given the recent revelations in Scott McClellan's book and the Senate committee report documenting the fraud, lies and misrepresentations is Bush's original case for invading Iraq.
Posted by: Tom | June 16, 2008 12:59 AM
The news and opinion media fail again, just as they failed with the run up to the Iraq war. This opinion article is little more than smear and sneer. The 35 indictments in the articles of impeachment are serious and substantive. I encourage readers to click the "35 articles of impeachment" link and actually read them. They document for us and for history this administration's massive failures and its violations of law and oath. Rep. Kucinich is right. This columnist is dead wrong.
Posted by: GaryL1 | June 16, 2008 7:11 AM
Why the backlash against impeachment?
Bill Clinton was hunted by an angry mob with pitchforks for lying about an extramarital affair - now GW trashes the Constitution and everyone complains that impeachment is a waste of time.
Americans have decided that thier personal liberties and constitutional rights are not as important as protecting George W. Bush. And I still can't figure out why, or to what benefit they act.
Posted by: Crames | June 16, 2008 10:27 AM
Kucinich is of course correct. Bush and Cheney should have both been impeached long ago; Bush for his lie-justified war and Cheney for outing Flame.
Having failed to do their job in re those matters, Congress owes it to some future historian to get the greates
misuse of the presidency into the records.
Someday in the not too distant future some modern day Gibbons is going to give several years of his life to "The Decline and Fall of the United States of America".
Others have, of course, contributed but no one person, no one administration has even come close to Bush II's monumental misuse of the office. Admittedly, it had to happen and we were on our way, but it was Bush II and no one else who threw us headlong into what is now a downward racing vortex.
Denis Kucinich will be doing that modern day Gibbons a big favor, and I'm for it.
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Posted by: winger1 | June 16, 2008 12:18 PM
The only retard anywhere is the person who still believes George Bush is lily white.
Posted by: Mendy in Ill. | June 16, 2008 12:32 PM
I switched from Green to Dem in order to vote for Kucinich in the primaries because he seemed to be the only candidate who realized that every power Bush snatched from the people will be available to any future president.
Say what you wish about Kucinich, but acknowledge that he has the courage of his convictions, a word strangely absent from national dialogue these last tragic eight years.
Posted by: Dick Brandlon | June 16, 2008 12:54 PM
Nothing about an impeachment is funny.
If the democrats do not follow through a pos on both parties. How many more are killed each day in Iraq, the unneccessary war? I am not talking of only the 4,000+
Americans, but 100's of thousand Iraqis.
They must pay for this. Too many have gotten away with so much for the lack of accountibility. Only one real concscience in the entire congress?
Posted by: jacques coffe | June 16, 2008 12:57 PM
Dennis Kucinich, the shades of Patrick Henry
As the election circus winds down to nothingness and all the politicians have dropped out and those left standing are tiring of their own voice, one voice can still be heard loud and clear and that one is from Dennis Kucinich. His voice rang out in the House of Congress for five steady hours citing 35 Articles of for the Impeachment of President George W. Bush. Everyone who has a pulse is fully aware of each of the charges including every member of Congress. There is little doubt in anyone's mind that George Bush is guilty of these charges. Every candidate for the presidency knew that the impeachment of George W. Bush is the most important issue of the day and is the one that has the greatest affect on All Americans - the whole world for that matter. And yet not one would dare breach the topic except Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel. Dennis Kucinich speaks for the majority of Americans but our elected representatives have chosen to ignore our demands and is tabling Mr. Kucinich's bill. We need to help ourselves by helping Dennis Kucinich. This is a tug-of-war between right and wrong. We have yielded to all of Dubya's BS for 7 years, we know that he is a psychopath, he has proved it. We can not give in to him now!
Home Page: http://kucinich.us/index.php
Posted by: Libertybill | June 16, 2008 1:51 PM
I have been amazed since 2000 when it was not uncommon knowledge that Bush had taken the White House illegally, that we as a nation were unwilling to hold him accountable. When the NY TIMES published Jimmy Carter's article that cited each international and Constitutional law that Bush and his admin had blatantly violated, I was even more amazed that nothing was being done about impeachment. We'll impeach a President for sexual misconduct and lying about it (and how many of the accusers have similar "crimes" in their own past?), but not an illegal President who "lives above the law"?
How many of you watched the Winter Soldier Hearings? That should have moved us all to the streets!
But when I read the snide remarks in this blog--when the spirit of the bloggers is as hateful as those they accuse, I can see why we are mired in the muck.
We need to be willing to hear the truth, speak the truth (which Kucinich does) and live with one another from a heart of awareness, respect and compassion (which Obama does). Otherwise, we will remain on the same see-saw and it is just a matter of time and circumstance as to which end is up in the air and which end is crashing down in the sand and which is the seat you're riding. Get off the see-saw. BE in your every waking moment the change you wish to see!
Posted by: Mary from Minnesota | June 16, 2008 2:16 PM
Kucinich seems to be one of a very few who actually meant their oath of office when they swore to it. Unfortunately the rest of them, including Bush and Cheney had their fingers crossed when they swore to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. I applaud Rep. Kucinich for persevering in this quest to get rid of the two criminals who head our sorry government. Most of the people in both the House and Senate are dancing with those who brung them.
Posted by: Judy, Salem, OR | June 16, 2008 2:42 PM
Walking in we knew this was the "Maxwell House" adminstration..."good to the last drop".
So, Iraq should not have surprised anyone. However, the scare tatics have wasted our present and future. Ah, it is such a crime and the US may take over 10 years to recover the Bush administration. Of course his pals will do just great thank you for well over 10 years. Is that what politics should be about? Bring in a prez that serves the interests of so few while giving pain and suffering to so many. Deaths in Iraq, the overblown expenses to secure a country with no enemy, the hatred on the Mexico border for no reason, no budget for science and technology, behind the 8-ball in renewable energy, ouch and ouch.
If these aren't crimes than there is no such a thing as crime. IMPEACH and put everyone who benefited illegally away forever!
Posted by: im peachy | June 16, 2008 3:11 PM
I have never seen such mean disgusting human beings as there posting on this rag.If Dennis had a brain ,he would take it out and play with it.How the people in ohio can reelect that man is a mystery to me.As far as impeachment goes, if they had the goods on any of the adm. thay would jump on it with both feet, but they are still alive since the arabs bombed the twin towers .They should be thankful that we has someone like GWB in the whitehouse.Can you imagine what would have happened if osama was in the WH. He would have got Dennis to negotiate with them, so they wouldn't do it again.
Posted by: elmerck | June 16, 2008 9:10 PM
Impeachment is a non-partisan issue established by the founding fathers to guard against abuses of power such as those incurred by the current administration. The imbalance in power between the 3 branches of government must be restored. Impeachment procedings should move ahead as fast as possible. GW and DC have one last ace up their collective sleeve and that is moving forward into war with Iran. If Bush took us into war before the elections then he would remain President and Commander in Chief. If this were to happen post election and prior to the inaguration same thing. The current President remains so in war time. Bush as a confirmed alchoholic is a sociopath, and assuch is unfit to hold this office. Dick is just downright dangerous with an agenda to match. Think they won't go into Iran? This can occur all by executive privilege of the President. Now, who is not in favor of Impeachment. Yes both parties are incolusion on war crimes. Is it possible to get rid of the entire government, no. That said there has to be a starting place, can Barack be the agent of change, maybe maybe not. Can an Independent, Libertarian or Green Party member win the election? Can we afford John McCain? Face the facts we are left with either McCain or Obama. Lots to ponder before November. For now I support moving forward to Impeach Bush & Cheney, they do not deserve to leave office with the favors afforded past presidents and vice presidents. There legacy is one of death, destruction and monstrous debt. And yes Pelosi and company need to get out of the way and let the Judiciary Committee do their job. The time to Impeach is Now
Posted by: gwhtr | June 16, 2008 11:35 PM
The single most important principle of US democracy is: the RULE OF LAW. No one in US history has violated that principle more than Bush the lesser. Therefore, his impeachment is MANDATORY.
Posted by: massimo | June 17, 2008 12:29 PM
The media is as usual focusing on personalities and is basically fiddling while Rome burns.
I thought I was in the twilight zone the morning after the impeachment articles were read on C-SPAN. I had surfed the TV and found C-SPAN just by accident, then became riveted by what turned out to be a chilling few hours hearing the details of the offenses of the current dministration. The stark formality of the reading and its constitutional language added to its impact.
The next day I searched the New York Times for what I was sure would be a front-page story detailing Bush's trashing of the constitution, including his long-held secret intention to preemptively attack Iran and other countries and his funding practices in the Iraq war. To my surprise, I found only one brief news service dispatch at the bottom of a back page of the NYT,the main point of which was that actual impeachment was unlikely.
There was no reporting of the content of the articles on any cable or mainstream TV channel. Why the blackout? The point isn't whether there could or should be an impeachment proceeding. Instead, the press should print or excerpt the text verbatim , spin-free, so the public can be informed, at the very least, of what this administration has been doing behind the scenes. If we choose to live with an administration that has committed and continues to commit impeachable offenses, we deserve what we get.
Posted by: kikilad | June 17, 2008 12:48 PM
Pres. Bush will be considered one of the great American presidents in 20-30 years. He and his administration have kept our country safe from fanatical extremeists for almost seven years and hopefully eight plus years when he leaves office. Our law enforcement agencies have prevented over 20 major plots to conduct a terrorist incident on our soil. None of the plots have been successful.
We are fighting those same terrorists on foreign soil and defeating them. The first responsibility of any president is to keep our citizens safe. That is exactly what Pres. Bush has done... and done very well.
I am a 30 Navy combat veteran having spent my entire career in Special Operations. I know first hand how necessary it is to defend our country from those who would like to replace our democratic form of government with a totalitarian regime. We Americans are a tough bunch of people who have shown the world before that we are not going to let that happen.
Posted by: willfrompa | June 17, 2008 1:52 PM
Yes, this is important. The articles have now been read into the record.
And yes, Bush only has 7 months left in office -- BUT...
...should he not be held accountable for the thousands of American deaths in Iraq, if it turns out that he acted criminally?
What about the hundreds of thousands of dead women and children in Iraq?
Just so the Oil Companies can be posting record profits?
Is not life of more value than this?
Yes, Kucinich should forge onward -- Justice should be pursued diligetnly.
Posted by: American Lover | June 17, 2008 2:21 PM
It will go far better for Bush and Cheney, and for their minions and for the country, if they are impeached.
Now.
The assertions about them are sufficiently serious and widespread that they must be addressed to honor their presumed innocence, and failure to do so makes us all accessories if the charges are sustainable beyond reasonable doubt, and perpetrators if they are not.
This is not about revenge, but the integrity and preservation of the country, insofar as we still care about it.
I cannot but wonder whether Pelosi, Hoyer, and others of whatever party resist impeachment because of their own aspirations to and prospects for tyranny.
Posted by: Hneftafl | June 17, 2008 4:25 PM
willfrompa | June 17, 2008 1:52 PM: "I know first hand how necessary it is to defend our country from those who would like to replace our democratic form of government with a totalitarian regime."
Exactly, and exactly why impeachment must proceed.
Posted by: Hneftafl | June 17, 2008 4:39 PM
I NOTICE OBAMA HAS NOTHING TO SAY ABOUT THIS SUBJECT. HE ALSO IS AGAINST CHANGING THE LAWS THAT MAKE CRACK (BLACK) COCAINE A MUCH WORSE OFFENSE THAN POWDER (WHITE) CRIME. HE ALSO IS AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE.
I WISH O HAD HALF THE HUEVOS KUCINICH DOES.
Posted by: dw314 | June 17, 2008 8:14 PM
I'm quoting from another article in the Washington Post June 6, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060501523.html
"President Bush and top administration officials repeatedly exaggerated what they knew about Iraq's weapons and its ties to terrorist groups as the White House pressed its case for war against Iraq the Senate intelligence committee said yesterday in a long-awaited report."
"the White House crossed a line by conveying certainty about the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to the United States, according to the report, approved over the objections of most of the committee's Republican members."
"administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even nonexistent," Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), the committee chairman, said at a news conference. "As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed."
Given the truth of the report from this Senate Committee
WHEN DO THE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS START?
These lies were the reason that 4,096 US Soldiers were killed (murdered by Bush & Cheney) in Iraq.
If US Congressmen know about high crimes
committed by the President and/or Vice President
they must act to at least hold hearings or they will have violated their oath to protect the Constitution and should be driven from office themselves..
FAILURE TO HOLD HEARINGS means the Democratic Congressmen violated their oath of office and no longer qualify to be in any Federal elected office. If they didn't intend to honor their oath to protect the Constitution they lied to the voters and should be voted out in November.
We voters need to start throwing impeachment in the face of every Democratic Congressman at every public meeting in every State from now until the election. Start commenting on every article related to every Democratic Congressman and keep bringing up their failure to honor their oath. That to violate their oath is treason.
There is no excuse acceptable for any Congressman to refuse to impeach when the voters know of impeachable crimes. For God's sake the Senate just said there were crimes.
We voters are right to be outraged. Vote them out of office. Better an honest Republican than a treasonous Democrat.
John H Kennedy, Denver CO, 43 yr Democratic voter, Obama delegate
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Posted by: John H Kennedy | June 17, 2008 10:03 PM
What Denise and Robert Wexler are doing is political showboating. There is no way that a impeachment proceeding can be done from start to finish before January 2009.
If congress was at all serious about impeaching Bush & Cheney they would have done it six or eight months ago. The problem is if a politcal witchhunt is started half of the members of the US Congress would end up impeached with Cheney & Bush.
You could start with any number of members of congress who have gotten special deals from Countrywide Homeloans.
Chris Dodd is the first guy caught and there is no doubt in my mind that there are at least 100 or more members of congress that have gotten special deals including a woman member of congress from California.
They all need to be in prison with Duke Cunningham. If not they owe Cunningham an apology and need to set him free.
All 500 members of congress are just like Duke Cunningham. They all belong in jail along with most of the political appointees in DOD who have robbed the Ameican taxpayers blind to the tune to 9 trillion dollars
Posted by: Ralph Dreifus | June 18, 2008 10:04 PM
We, the people - who put Nancy Pelosi in office, and who expected her to do our bidding - knew that stopping the war in Iraq, or failing that - impeaching the president ( and/ or the vice-president ) to assure the same result - would put her under great pressure and criticism.
With all due respect to the Speaker of the House, when the Constitution of the United States lays impeachment on the table, who is she to determine that it should not be? Where this president and vice-president have committed crimes against America and its people ( to say nothing of Iraqis ) that make Nixon's and Clinton's offenses look like schoolboy pranks, her abetting attitude has been unconscionable and leaves this nation powerless to deal with this out-of-control demagogue and his cohort - and they know it! She should not think for one moment that they will not take advantage of her weakness, and our resulting powerlessness, in the time they have left in office. In fact, if they decide - in the face of being forcibly retired - to declare martial law, they may not leave office in 2009.
This grieves me to have to say, but the house leadership, under Rep. Pelosi's direction, has prostituted itself with its disgraceful failure to dispense its constitutional duty. She is sadly mistaken if she believes that in claiming that the House has more important matters to consider ( than ending the Iraq war or proceeding with Impeachment, ) that the Democratic Party will prevail upon Democratic voters to reward its spinelessness in 2008.
Dennis Kucinich seems to be one of the few voices in the wilderness ( and certainly in the Congress ) who is willing to really support our brave men and women in the service, its veterans, the common people, and oh, yes - that quaint, obscure document forgotten by the Bush Administration - The United States Constitution. Since he cannot be president ( though he was my choice, ) I hope that Dem nominee OBama will realize that he needs Kucinich's strength and constancy, and will consider him as a running mate.
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Posted by: Nancy Barness | June 23, 2008 8:54 PM
Go Dennis!
The Dems afraid to impeach Bush for his high crimes and misdemeanors are helping corrupt Republicans and Bush to plunder America. Now, the U.S. Government is of business, by business, and for business, rather than of the people, by the people, and for the people. They've got to go!
Posted by: Chuck | June 24, 2008 2:42 PM
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Haven't the Dems and/or Ohioans had enough of this little retard Kucinich? Does he have any ideas other than to try to impeach somebody? Does anybody care?