Kucinich calls for Impeachment

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  • NYbenben
    NYbenben Posts: 1,020
    i think its a shame that a guy that ran for president stood there in front of the House of Representatives last nite for HOURS talking about how the current President should be impeached... yet it doesnt even make the headlines on any of the major news sources in our country...

    Go figya.
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  • Medicated-Genius
    Medicated-Genius Posts: 359
    floyd1975 wrote:
    I never once said that I thought that impeaching Clinton was a worthwhile use of funds.

    Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that you'd said that, just giving an example of frivolous spending.
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    NYbenben wrote:
    i think its a shame that a guy that ran for president stood there in front of the House of Representatives last nite for HOURS talking about how the current President should be impeached... yet it doesnt even make the headlines on any of the major news sources in our country...

    Go figya.


    Honestly, the media is another place where a critical mass of people could make a difference. Demand the information or refuse to watch.

    I've been guilty of simply refusing to watch, because it's all fluff to me. However, I haven't taken the time to contact the news organizations (at least not often enough) to demand that the things of my interest be covered.

    Anyway - Go Kucinich!!!! I love you man! :)
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    Any idiot can say anything they want (just look at my post as exhibit A). That doesn't mean there is any merit to it.
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    I'm no lawyer, and certainly no fan of George Bush, but the war wasn't solely his doing. It passed Congress, and it washed with the vast majority of Americans. Not to mention the British and Australian governments, among others. So as much as I'd love to see Bush impeached, that's not something you're gonna pin on him.

    It is, however, something to consider when you're voting in a few months - both major parties were, and are, complicit in this war.


    so this could be a loophole to get a real actual change over in all the government positions and change up the oligharchy?

    Delicious.
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
    Rhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    Pacomc79 wrote:
    so this could be a loophole to get a real actual change over in all the government positions and change up the oligharchy?

    Delicious.

    We can only hope, right?
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  • Pacomc79
    Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    We can only hope, right?

    yeah, I was just hoping out loud since no one will vote thier bastards out.

    :D
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/11/kucinich.impeach.vote/
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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/11/kucinich.impeach.vote/


    From the article:

    "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she would not support a resolution calling for Bush's impeachment, saying such a move was unlikely to succeed and would be divisive."

    Well, Speaker Pelosi, here's a quote for ya:

    Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. ~ Vaclav Havel
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    From the article:

    "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she would not support a resolution calling for Bush's impeachment, saying such a move was unlikely to succeed and would be divisive."

    Well, Speaker Pelosi, here's a quote for ya:

    Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. ~ Vaclav Havel


    Excellent quote!! I'm going to share it. :)
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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    Excellent quote!! I'm going to share it. :)

    Awesome! I needed that quote after today - my first day of petitioning. :o:D
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  • he still stands
    he still stands Posts: 2,835
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    From the article:

    "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she would not support a resolution calling for Bush's impeachment, saying such a move was unlikely to succeed and would be divisive."

    Well, Speaker Pelosi, here's a quote for ya:

    Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed. ~ Vaclav Havel

    I was just about to comment on that same quote from Pelosi... I'm glad I didn't because your comment is much more pithy than mine would have been.
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    Awesome! I needed that quote after today - my first day of petitioning. :o:D

    And how was it? :)
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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    Abookamongstthemany wrote:
    And how was it? :)

    Good and bad, I almost cried. :( But, I also cheered a lot. :) When I get my thoughts together I may start a thread on the whole petitioning experience.

    Telling people you guys had to throw pages of signatures away, because the size of the paper was was wrong got me a few sigs. :D
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    Good and bad, I almost cried. :( But, I also cheered a lot. :) When I get my thoughts together I may start a thread on the whole petitioning experience.

    Telling people you guys had to throw pages of signatures away, because the size of the paper was was wrong got me a few sigs. :D

    I'm sorry to hear you almost cried. :( Some people can be assholes.

    I'm glad to hear our dilemma did some good and actually our state coordinator emailed me today and said we may be able to use those signatures after all. :)
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  • Abookamongstthemany
    Abookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    he still stands wrote:
    I was just about to comment on that same quote from Pelosi... I'm glad I didn't because your comment is much more pithy than mine would have been.


    Some kind of leadership, eh?
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  • binger
    binger Posts: 179
    Pelosi is a little complicit in a few illegal things this administration has done so it's not a surprise that "impeachment is off the table." All I can say is GO DENNIS!
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  • sweetpotato
    sweetpotato Posts: 1,278
    http://www.alternet.org/stories/87811/

    Kucinich's Mammoth Case for Impeaching Bush
    By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
    Posted on June 12, 2008,http://www.alternet.org/story/87811/

    WASHINGTON -- It is not politically correct to offer a good word about Dennis Kucinich, the elfish, left-leaning congressman from Ohio who regularly runs for president only to drop his quixotic campaigns for the White House so that he might continue representing his working-class district near Cleveland.

    Kucinich can be an annoying gnat. He buzzes around the Democratic cloakroom with ideas his party leaders may well agree with in substance -- promoting a single-payer system such as Medicare to deliver universal health insurance, for instance -- but which they refuse to embrace because they believe them to be too politically risky.

    Kucinich's latest gambit is his introduction of articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush -- 35 of them, to be exact -- laid out in a five-hour floor speech that was likely heard by no one save the C-SPAN technicians and perhaps a few hundred viewers at home. The charges have no chance of being taken seriously in Congress, where Democratic leaders will dispose of them quickly in a parliamentary move. There is no benefit in throwing the country onto the pyre of partisan flames with Bush set to go quietly away to Crawford, Texas, in just seven more months, they reason. And this is certainly sensible.

    Nonetheless, you cannot find a more complete and compelling indictment of the Bush administration than Kucinich has presented in his articles. They range from the exceedingly obvious, such as those detailed in his Article III: "Misleading the American people and members of Congress to believe Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, so as to manufacture a false case for war," to the specious, presented in Article XII: "Initiating a war against Iraq for control of that nation's natural resources."

    Kucinich gives us a bleak road map through seven years of deceptions and misjudgments, incompetence and malevolence. There are clear constitutional violations -- Article XVII, for example, spells out "Illegal detention: Detaining indefinitely and without charge persons both U.S. citizens and foreign captives." Then there are the torture and abuse of detainees, and the use of secret "black sites" abroad where no one really knows what happened to suspected terrorists once they were sent there.

    Being neither a lawyer nor a constitutional scholar, it is impossible for me to tell if the founders had impeachment in mind for some of the malfeasance Kucinich details. In Article XVI, for example, he reviews the tawdry matter of Iraq contracting, an enterprise so sordid it is difficult to keep track of all the allegations and investigations that should have commanded more of our attention. The administration, Kucinich asserts, "recklessly wasted public funds on contracts awarded to close associates, including companies guilty of defrauding the government in the past, contracts awarded without competitive bidding, 'cost-plus' contracts designed to encourage cost overruns and contracts not requiring satisfactory completion of the work." If that weren't enough, those chosen to oversee the contracts in some cases "oversaw their business partners."

    The pathologies that Kucinich recounts extend to the administration's persistent myth-making. There is the matter of misrepresenting the death of former football star Pat Tillman, in which a cover-up was launched to hide the truth that Tillman did not meet a heroic end but rather was killed by friendly fire. There is the Jessica Lynch fairy tale, in which the former Army private was said to have been brutalized and the subject of a dramatic rescue, a story that also was fabricated.

    Besides Iraq, the war on terror and the warrantless wiretapping of American citizens, Kucinich lays out many other stunning abuses: everything from the effort to keep a Medicare actuary from relaying to Congress accurate cost estimates about a new drug benefit, to the U.S. attorney scandal in which top prosecutors were pushed out of their jobs for their apparent refusal to bring political prosecutions that would please Republicans.

    Kucinich does not rant. He relies almost exclusively on the government's own documentation of wrongdoing -- accounts from inspectors general, congressional testimony, and memos that surfaced or were subpoenaed. Some of Kucinich's charges truly outline high crimes; others merely display a blatant disregard for the public. And, politically speaking, they are at this point in time irrelevant.

    But if you really want to know "what happened" in the Bush era, take a pass on buying former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book. Read Kucinich's articles of impeachment in the Congressional Record -- for free -- instead.

    Marie Cocco's e-mail address is mariecocco@washpost.com.

    (c) 2008, Washington Post Writers Group
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  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    sweetpotato wrote:
    http://www.alternet.org/stories/87811/

    Kucinich's Mammoth Case for Impeaching Bush
    By Marie Cocco, Washington Post Writers Group
    Posted on June 12, 2008,http://www.alternet.org/story/87811/

    ....

    "Kucinich does not rant. He relies almost exclusively on the government's own documentation of wrongdoing -- accounts from inspectors general, congressional testimony, and memos that surfaced or were subpoenaed. Some of Kucinich's charges truly outline high crimes; others merely display a blatant disregard for the public. And, politically speaking, they are at this point in time irrelevant.

    But if you really want to know "what happened" in the Bush era, take a pass on buying former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book. Read Kucinich's articles of impeachment in the Congressional Record -- for free -- instead."

    Marie Cocco's e-mail address is mariecocco@washpost.com.

    (c) 2008, Washington Post Writers Group

    Good Article.

    I disagree with the writer that at this point Bush's crimes are irrelevant. I believe time is of the essence. We have only so long to make sure he is dishonorably discharged from the presidency. I want this man to leave office with a badge of shame.
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    Good Article.

    I disagree with the writer that at this point Bush's crimes are irrelevant. I believe time is of the essence. We have only so long to make sure he is dishonorably discharged from the presidency. I want this man to leave office with a badge of shame.


    And if congress/senate have the gall to stand up to the president, to hold him accountable for his crimes...who knows, maybe the next president will think twice.

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