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Kucinich to Sponsor Impeach Cheney Bill
Sources close to the office of Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) confirm that the progressive Democratic congressman and Democratic presidential aspirant intends to introduce a bill of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, April 25. The move will mark the second time that an impeachment bill has been submitted against a member of the Bush administration. Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) filed a bill of impeachment against President Bush in December of last year, just as the 109th Congress was about to end, and as Rep. McKenney was about to leave office (she was defeated in last November's election).
Kucinich's bill will go to the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the other members will have to decide whether to request subpoena powers and to begin a hearing into impeachable offenses by the vice president.
Kucinich's action marks a major step forward for impeachment activists, who have been frustrated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has repeatedly stated that she has no interest in having the House hold impeachment hearings against president or vice president (and who has been leaning hard on Democratic caucus members in the House not to file impeachment bills).
By bucking Pelosi and filing his bill, Kucinich may force the mainstream corporate media to start discussing the idea. There has been a virtual blackout on impeachment in the media, which has not even been asking the question in polls, since a year ago, when Pelosi made it clear she had no interest in impeachment.
Kucinich's move comes as citizens across the country are bringing impeachment resolutions to town meetings, city councils, Democratic Party county and state committees, and even state legislatures--and getting them passed.
The Democratic Party Establishment has been resisting impeachment, fearing that it could "turn off" independent voters, although the few polls that have been conducted suggest that a majority of Americans, and even not a few Republicans, favor impeaching the president. But as the administration's scandals have grown in number and seriousness, from financial chicanery to voter suppression to political firings of federal prosecutors to illegal spying on citizens, and as the president's War in Iraq has lurched from bad to catastrophic, public pressure is mounting for Democrats to take tougher action.
Kucinich's bill may not in itself put Bush's impeachment back on the Congressional table, but it could whet the public's appetite for more substantial fare.



77 Comments so far
Show AllThere are a lot of great comments posted here. I think Dennis would to see them posted on his Presidential campaign website as well. Now I have to tell you that you need to register first and wait for your password to be emailed to you before posting messages.
Once that is done, there are 2 places in particular on his website you can post comments, which Dennis and his wife Elizabeth do read. The website is kucinich.us. On the home page, you can post a comment or more than one under the Impeachment Discussion. Then you can scroll to the bottom of the page and click Page 3. You can also post a comment at Impeachment: I'm Asking You. Is It Time?
Thank you Congressman Kucinich!! It is incredible to me that the issue is being run away from by so many people. It is past time that we bring these suspects to task.
I am in favor of impeachment for Cheney and Bush.
Impeachment events will be taking place around the country on Saturday, April 28, 2007. Check them out at:
http://www.a28.org/
Dennis Kucinich is currently the ONLY candidate I consider to be honest and truthful. The presence of even one candidate telling the truth is an extraordinary matter if other candidates are unable to successfully dismiss him. Telling the truth will force the other candidates to be more truthful, if he is not eliminated from the debate. But don't expect the press to give him much air.
I have said, and I maintain, that nearly all politicians are whores. On the other hand, since there are very few absolutes in life, I personally believe that it is quite possible, just this once, that one in our midst is truly one of us, a person whose political involvement is driven by passion for doing what is right and not monetary and corporate interests. We certainly need a leader like that, if there is one.
Here is a link to a speech now well-known amongst his fans. It is known as "Spirit and Stardust". Before you dismiss his cosmic perspective on life on Earth (like other Democratic candidates perhaps would do), I would invite you to read all of it. If you refute it, try doing so without stooping to turn it into a caracature, as the press so often does. I find this perspective much more refreshing than that of a "War President" who traces his twisted religious logic back to Jesus.
http://www.co-intelligence.org/CIPol_DKucinich6.12.html
Kucinich has made the first move. Now, we the citizens, have to do our part. We have to get out in the streets, millions of us, and demand impeachment. Democracy is always defended in the streets.
There is unlimited grist for this mill. Haliburton's war profiteering, the war mongering, the influence of oil companies on energy policy, etc. Investigation is the only thing congress can do to challenge the unitary executive strategy the Bush administration.
Kucinich is to be applauded. Let's see if the others in Congress do their jobs to defend civil liberties, restore integrity and trust in government, and set the Republic back on the right track.
The question is this: will the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) and its 71 members abandon Kucinich in this effort. My guess is not even John Conyers (a pretty good progressive) will defy the corporate-militarist leadership represented by Pelosi.
In the Senate, when Russ Feingold came forward and censured Bush for his illegal spying, the entire Senate (minus Kerry and Boxer) abandoned him.
In a similar way, there is a good chance that the CPC will abandon Kucinch, minus perhaps the other seven of the Progressive Eight who refused to vote for the recent Iraq occupation funding request: Barbara Lee, Mike McNulty, Mike Michaud, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, and Lynn Woolsey.
A lot of letters and calls to the CPC members would be a good thing, once Dennis Kucinich files.
The CPC members can all be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Progressive_Caucus
and here:
http://cpc.lee.house.gov/
Impeaching that bastard cheney is not about revenge, its about justice. Justice for the parents, wives, brothers, sisters of the deceased service men and women who were sent on a fools errand into Iraq.
If this criminal administration can leave office without being taken to task over their egregious behaviour, what will it say about a nation that is supposed to be a system of laws, to protect the many from the predatory few?
Justice is all we are asking for.
Justice.
Oops. Add John Lewis to the above list of those who voted against the Iraq occupation funding request. The Progressive Eight are:
Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, John Lewis, Mike McNulty, Mike Michaud, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, and Lynn Woolsey.
Thankyou Dennis, maybe eventually we can hold this administration accountable for war crimes. Impeachment is a good start.
Dennis Kucinich is the only Democratic candidate with the leadership and integrity we need in this country right now. Go Dennis!
Elohi Gadugi Journal
I am so grateful to Dennis for having the courage to put his money where his mouth is. As the New York Times states, the last polls that were taken on impeachment showed that the majority supports it. It is the first step toward cutting out this cancer that has been eating away at our collective souls. To the rest of Congress--WAKE UP AND FOLLOW THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE!
We ALL need to do more than say "Thank You" to Kucinich!
The first thing we do after he introduces the Articles of Impeachment next week, is we go over to his web site (kucinich.us)and donate whatever we can to his campaign to show our support for everything he is doing.
Then we write ALL of our Congressional "representatives" and DEMAND that they support impeachment. Phone calls, letters, e-mail, the works.
Another thing we can do is contact our local newspapers and write letters to the editors or submit an article that supports impeachment. The thrust has got to be that impeachment, as jpeter noted, is the only way that justice will be served. This is NOT a partisan issue!
I'm sure that there will many "Actions" on multiple sites that will have petitions we can sign, or campaigns that we can join to support impeachment.
What a great day! Finally!!!!
Kucinich is the only decent Democrat in the fetid Congress. He deserves support and defense against the corporate elite who run this dog and pony show. If you plan to be involved in the presidential campaign and work for a candidate in the 2008 race, he's the one to support.
Work for impeachment now! One week to make a push from below:
http://www.a28.org/
Barbara Lee, John Lewis, Mike McNulty, Mike Michaud, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, and Lynn Woolsey --- Okay, they deserve honorable mention. Conyers seems decent most of the time. But when it comes time to step up, it was McKinney, and now the torch goes to Kucinich.
Finally a statesman stands up and says we have to do the right thing.
Hoa Binh
Cheney has been the greatest deceiver all along and continues to lie every time he is interviewed. He is a dangerous person and a serious force against democracy. He must be impeached and so must Bush.
For far too long voters, and indeed candidates, have accepted the rather flawed logic that since we live in a country that utilizes a two-party system - profoundly corrupted by special interests, the tyranny of the bottom line, and a mainstream media that is beholden only to its advertisers - we must all swallow that same bitter pill.
Don't dare vote for the one that you really think would be a great leader, vote for the one who will win. Folks, a time will come when we will have to just deal with the reality that as long as we continue to vote out of fear and greed, we will get nothing but leaders who are fearful and greedy.
I, for one, have decided that that time is here. Until another candidate steps up to the plate and demands that the VP and ultimately the Prez be not only impeached, but held accountable under oath and given the prison time they deserve, Kucinich will have my vote. And don't give me that bullshit about a vote for him is a vote for the other side. Save it! I'm done playing that game and the rest of ought to be too.
Bottom line: If we all decided not to play the lesser of two evils game, the game would cease to exist. It's up to us to be educated on the issues and take responsibility for the crooks that we have elected as a result of an ignorant voting system.
My husband and I have been ardent supporters and campaigners for Dennis since the early days of th elast campaign. Here in Northern California we are not alone. Everything I've read says he can and would be the best ever. We, and only we, will make it happen.
See you at Ocean Beach SF on April 28 at 10 am for another demonstration of •IMPEACH!• using our bodies to fill Brad Newsham's one hundred-foot-tall outlined letters.
The first three days of this week were amazing–working with Brad to fill three boxes with the string kits and get them shipped to… Coney Island, Central Park, and Coachella CA for a giant Red Hot Chili Peppers concert.
Find an activity near you, circulate homemade Kucunich information, wear pink, carry signs, tattoo a message on your forehead. Get involved.
Save our country ! Impeach Bush / Cheney. This vicious junta has damaged or destroyed every democratic concept our forebears had understood as necessary to defend humankind against cruel and oppressive rule. The time is now to recitfy this cataclysmic horror by using the constitutionally mandated powers of Congress to indict and seek justice from these psychopathic perversons of humanity.
Thank you, Dennis.
This is long over due and Kudos to Dennis Kucinich for having the balls to do it and I am sure that there are millions more who feel the same way as I do.
Go Dennis!
Americans from many political and social viewpoints seem to be realizing the severity of the misconduct and possible criminal actions of individuals in the Bush-Cheney administration.
Honorable people who retain human decency and a sense of citizenship and pride in our country are becoming more concerned about the Bush-Cheney gang. For more on this, take a look at:
"Winds of change again blowing across America"
PopulistAmerica.com
April 20, 2007
http://www.populistamerica.com/winds_of_change_again_blowing_across_america
what more can I say?:"Kucinich for President!"
Every time the subject of impeaching Bush came up, I thought it was a bad idea, especially since I have sensed all along that Cheney is the manipulator behind the throne. So three cheers for going after Cheney first!
Impeaching Cheney would pull the rug out from under Bush, who would probably suffer a mental breakdown, be declared legally insane by Congress and placed in a special insane asylum for "Mr. President," complete with token inmates and a model of the deck of the aircraft carrier Bush posed on in 2003.
Yes, it is high time to bring this botched, bloody, fetid abortion of a US presidency out of the back room. To the extent that these corporate scorpions are in power we have failed utterly. Let's all support impeachment now that we have an undeniable need for it.
More than impeaching Cheney and Bush, though, we must each create a revolution in our own lives by changing the way we live. We must form small, decentralized, self-sustaining communities which network with one another to share information related to survival and social transformation. Even after the rogues in Washington are gone, we will be left with the fruits of their misdeeds for decades to come. The less dependent we are on the US government for anything the less we will suffer when it collapses.
I think the reluctance to impeach stems not only from a fear of facing failure, but also from the dawning realization that the gluttonous way of life we have known since the end of WWII is coming to an end. Our democracy is not a solved equation. We have not gone to consumer heaven. God has not favored us above all other nations. It is time for us to wake up and grow up.
As a totally jaded, politically disgusted, Viet vet, I became terminally (Or so I thought) apathetic about the politics-as-usual and the people who continued to support acorrupted system. Then, in 2003, something happened: I heard a guy named Dennis Kucinich was going to run for president in 2004. Then, the more I read (www.kucinich.us) and learned about this man, I felt myself beginning to glow inside. A glow of HOPE! Could it be? A REAL "WE THE PEOPLE person in, gag, politics?!
I became totally a "follower" of this great and courageous man. I ACTUALLY GAVE MONEY to a politician for the first time in my life! I even became a delegate for him at the Colorado state convention. I was hooked--and still am.
If you folks want to support him I recommend (Beyond the wonderful suggestions above) you visit very soon
www.impeachfor peace.com and follow the directions to file two citizen's petitions for impeachment. One copy will be sent to Dennis Kucinich's office and the other will be delivered with, hopefully, thousands and thousands of others while the cameras are rolling. Let's all WALK OUR TALK just as the Honorable Dennis J. Kucinich does. Like he said in 2004: "I AM electable, but you have to vote for me!"
I love you D.K....
With popular support, Kucinich may yet restore the people's sovereignty and the rule of law in America. Kucinich is shaping up to be a real presidential contender. After he spearheads the impeachment of the criminals, and their wider criminal networks, we'll elect him president, and let him hold down the fort while the people implement the progressive revolution. All across America, burger flippers will become small farmers, craftsmen and merchants serving booming local markets with globally shared best practices and methods.
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The beleaguered American People thank the Congressman for his courage and strength of character to do what we personally cannot step up to do. It is right and just to file our grievances against a public servant that has long turned a deaf ear to our cries for justice
The only one in a position of power, candidate or not, doing the right - the mandated - thing. For president, or not, we need to support this guy.
I too paraded around the Colorado State Assembly as a delegate for Kucinich in '04. Our rally cry was "Send a message!!!" The Dems did NOT receive our message, but there is always hope.
If America were actually governed by the people, that message might have carried some weight. The Corpos have the power and all we the people can do is rail against the Right from inside some "Free Speech Zone" (Hyde Park anyone) while being as ignored as DK by the Corporate-owned press.
Peace to you and yours.
Regioster Democratic to vote for Kucinich in the primaries, then if he doesn't get anywhere, reregister to something else (preferrably Green IMO)and vote for him or Nader anyway.
Why? Becasue if neither of them get serious attention it doesn't matter who wins anyway.
Hillary, Obama, Edwards,
Richardson, McCain, Newt (yechhh!), Wesley Clark, Duncan Hunter, etc. will all pretty much do the same thing when it comes to the most urgent issues of our time. A plague on all their political houses!
Rebel Farmer,
You are right on. Kucinich's action is only the beginning of a lot of work that will need to be done. If we ALL do what we can, the Congress and Ms. Pelosi will be hard-pressed to say no.
Go Dennis go! I wish you well from New Zealand!
A correction on my post. The website for "Do It Yourself Impeachment" is: www.impeachforpeace.org Hope you'll visit and help D.K. bu taking this simple ACTION step.
On SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2007, many cities and towns around the country will be holding impeachment ceremonies. Make a sign: "KUCINICH FOR PRESIDENT 2008" and take it with you.
Go to the website below to see if there's an impeachment behing held in your area.
http://www.a28.org/
No honor without impeachment.
No justice without prosecution.
These criminals cannot be allowed to slink out of office without being held accountable for unspeakable atrocities they have committed.
Go Kucinich! The only honest man in Washington. At least, the only one with the courage of his convictions.
Dennis is a real candidate of the people. He's putting everything on the line in doing this so let's support him in any way each of us can. When he was the mayor of Cleveland in the late 70s, he did the same thing to save the city's low-cost municipal electric system from a takeover from a utility monopoly named Cleveland Electrical Illumination Co. that is widely considered the forerunner of Enron. From being touted as a future Governor of Ohio, this event caused him to lose his reelection bid , then being unable to find a job, nearly losing his house, having his wife leave him and having to survive on $38 in income in 1982.
Fortunately, he was able to make a comeback.
Every week Cheney goes on a Sunday pundit program and repeats the lie about the Saddam - Bin Laden or Al-Qaeda connection with no evidence. I would just like to have a hearing discussing the topic of impeaching Cheney.
Thankyou Dennis and Anne , I will support your efforts to the max! Don't fly on any small private planes or jets,please keep the faith.We will all pray for you.I have been telling Nancy she needs a larger table for a long time!The time is right the troops are behind you ,the people have your back ,your the Man!. Peace out and in. jh
all of europe supports kucinich....
its time to remove the liars and we all know that,it must happen quickly....cheney and bush need to be watched closely as evil lurks in there twisted minds....
When I was a small child in the fifties, we lived far out in the country, and only went to the "store" once per week. I do not remember the incident, and was told of it many years later when I returned from a tour of duty as a US Marine in SE Asia. I had put a roll of anti acids in my shirt pocket no doubt thinking they were candy without paying for it. When we were packed into the family car and ready to go back to the farm, my Grandmother noticed the roll of anti acids and made me go back into the store and confess my theft to the owner and accept my punishment. I did as I was instructed.
If our president and vice president have committed crimes are they not subject to the same? My Grandmother has been dead for many years, but she would make Mr. Cheney go back and confess his crimes----------let the congress take up her job. After all we are not talking about a roll of anti acids.
Its about time, Cheney then Bush. Kucinich for President.
Hooray for Dennis, a vegetarian who's willing to go for the administration's throat. Whether or not impeachment succeeds, Cheney has more to answer for than any VP in history. I would love to see him testifying under oath--not that I expect him to honor an oath, of course, but still . . .
The founding fathers were very sensative about monarchies and included strong language in the constitution to prevent them. The constitution doesn't say that Congress has a choice to intoduce articles of impeachment if an impeachable offense occurs. It says "shall". Dennis Kucinich has it right. He is obligated by his oath of office uphold the constitution of the United States. He should be joined by every member of congress and every citizen.
I'm sorry to be ineligible to vote in the US elections. As a citizen of a felow "coalition of the willing/killing" country, I can only wish for a decent president in your White House. The one that upholds your democratic traditions, the one who is not beholden to any corporate or ideological interests, someone that the US can be proud of and the rest of the world can heave a big sigh of relief!!! We'll have elections in Oz later this year: the choice is between bad and worse... We don't really have a decent politician waiting in the wings.
Mr Kucinich, good on you! Citizens of the US: go and vote en masse for this man!!!!!! Can we hold our breaths?????
When you hear people talk about "winability", they just want you to vote for one of the corporate militarists, even though they are at odds with the majority of americans, where Kucinich is not at odds, they still have the nerve to refer to him as "less winable". Hillary voted for clusterbombs, and Obama is also an insider, who is ready to go to war with Iran at the behest of AIPAC, as is Edwards. Edwards, Hillary, and Obama are all strongly AIPAC supported and we have just gone through an era where this very organization was implicated in spying on us and attempting to manipulate this country into another war. Kucinich is really the ONLY option. It's Kucinich, or no-deal. I am not going to vote for any of the three stooges, or four if you count Hillary's partner in clusterbombs Joe Biden. What possible reason could these two have for crossing the isle to side with the republicans with clusterbombs? Sorry, there just is none.