While impeachment is indeed the constitutional remedy for removing Bush from office for his crimes, Vincent Bugliosi, the man who prosecuted Charles Manson, advocates that with or without impeachment state attorneys general and local prosecutors have the jurisdiction to prosecute George W. Bush for murder for the deaths of our soldiers in Iraq.  He argues forcefully that the facts warrant trying George W. Bush for murder in the first degree.

http://www.democracynow.org/

If anyone’s feet should be held to the fire, it’s Nancy Pelosi’s. She is to blame for this impeachment motion lying dead in the water. Pelosi herself should be impeached. It is she who insists that the impeachment movement is a left wing polemic, completely oblivious to the fact that Bush’s crimes are crimes against the people and the constitution, and NOT merely annoyances to the political party she purportedly leads.

IMPEACH PELOSI!

It is my belief that congress is in violation of their oath of office by not proceeding with impeachment! Violation of the oath of office is a Federal Crime! Does anyone in congress care? The fact that crimes are being committed by the Bush administration, in plain view, and no one is doing anything about it, IS A TRAVESTY!

I don’t know why Conyers is not moving forward with impeachment? Pelosi does not have the legal authority to take impeachment off the table. Impeachment is the legal remedy, mandated by the constitution, to remove crooks in government from power! 

Pelosi is in violation of the law and should be removed from office! She is violating her oath of office, to uphold  and protect the constitution, and the rule of law. When numerous laws are being broken, in plain view, She and  every other member of congress should vote to impeach! Why they don’t, is very curious! Are they all being blackmailed?  They are politicians after all, and, probably have plenty of dirty laundry! God!! What a travesty! 

Don’t  count on corporate media to tell the public anything. They all have parent companies that are military contractors, arms dealers, and weapons manufacturers! It is in their interest to keep the public ill informed, so they can continue the massive rip-off of taxpayer funds that endless war allows. TV pundits, and journalists, report what they are told to report, if they want to keep their jobs. Reporters are not allowed to say anything that isn’t approved by corporate bigwigs! 

What a mess! The level of corruption in both party’s is mind boggling! I just hope that Obama, is able to straighten things out, provided the election isn’t stolen again! The crooks that are in power are desperate! They know that as soon as they’re out of office, the investigations and indictments will begin. The last thing they want is to have to go to prison! I think that things are going to get ugly!

I watched Dennis Kucinich’s entire presentation on C Span 1. It was the most
compelling statement for the reason to impeach that I have ever heard. How sad, that this bright, honorable man, was feared so much by his political peers, that he was marginalized and ignored to the extent he was! Shame on those who claimed that he was a left wing loony! Denis is a great patriot, and history will honor
him the way his peers didn’t!

Impeachment, Government, and Anarchy

I would argue that government is inherently evil as it relies on force to garner revenues for services it provides. We all make our faustian bargains when we receive any subsidy from it. Some would say it is just a matter of putting the right person or party into power. Within your lifetime how well has that worked for you as a commoner?

Because at base we are dealing wit sociopathic institution that relies on force, we will have sociopaths attracted to it. You may say that government exists with the consent of the governed, but such a basis seems like a fiction now. Recall how the Declaration of Independence was a cry against arbitrary force and taxation without representation. Are you really that well represented fro your tax money when you have an illegal war that grinds for years and years. I think the first government started when a group of cro-magnan thugs who were too lazy to work thought it would be a good idea to extort protection money from their industrious, horticultural neighbors.

Student loans, TANF welfare, HUD housing, and food stamps have slowly evolved into methods of tyranny. I hate to see anybody starve or go homeless or uneucated, and I would not want that to happen, but I do see that these subsidies have indisdious effects. Young people are forced into obeying government laws on selective service, vaccinations, and possession of marijuana. I wonder what next group of concerened citizens will lobby for in order to force young people into lawfulness or safety just so that they won’t lose government subsidies for education.

As for impeachment, most of Congress is indentured in some way to the system for favors, handouts, and influence. Perhaps the new ways of Bush seem very attractive to Democrats wanting to capture the executive branch of government. There are methods of coercion and wealth extraction unimaginable, before the advent of Baby Bush that are too lucrative to give up. We have law codes of confiscation and exceptions to indiviual rights will enable the eating out of the substance of the public at unprecedented level. Private monopolies will in partnership with government in this global war on terror will have many tools to suppress technology and competition. Impeachment will be difficult because it will close a new, prosperous way of life for the criminals in Washington, DC.

Tom suggests here:
•  “I say help elect McClone and more of the same until it gets bad enough for the Right to see how wrong.”

Tom, if they haven’t figured it out after nearly 8 years, it ain’t gonna happen. That’s not to say that many haven’t figured it out in the time since they all thought the shrub was a nice guy to have a beer with. But, there are still more than a few die-hard ideologues among us, who are committed to denial and delusion.

These are the ones who will sign on to the final stages of the takedown, not unlike Hitler’s Nazi apparatus…the ones who efficiently carried out the millions of exterminations. They were convinced that they were just doing their jobs.

To quote Hannah Arndt in her explanation of the “Banality of Evil”, she also explains that “There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.” And, I think she’s right. And, if we listen to some of the remaining 28% of the population who continue to support the Crimes of the Cabal, we know she’s right.

So, while it may be less visible to some than it is to others (even those who finally DO recognize that we’re in the deepest of shit) we’re already AT the edge of the cliff. In fact, it can be reasonably argued that we’re hanging off of it, and parts have already slipped into the abyss. The election/appointment/coup of McSame will simply seal the finale.

Meantime, I’m admittedly confused on what is happening with the articles of impeachment. Some seem to believe that this has been ‘tabled’. I don’t understand it as such. It was ‘tabled’ the first time Dennis Kucinich introduced the articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, back in April of 2007, so over a year ago. At the time, the motion WAS tabled, after Ron Paul spoke passionately against such an action. My own understanding is that no vote was taken, so it was never sent to the Judiciary Committee. I could be wrong of course, but that was my understanding at the time. So..it went nowhere.

The difference here seems to be that a vote was taken, and that vote allows it to go to the Judiciary Committee. The Judiciary Committee can decide to act on it immediately or NOT, but that isn’t the same as ‘tabling it’.

Now if I’m wrong or otherwise confused about this, somebody will hopefully tell me what the real deal is. In short, have the articles of impeachment been sent to the Judiciary Committee for consideration?

Is that not what this 251-166 vote accomplished? If that IS what happened, then that’s what needed to happen. Now it’s on the Judiciary committee to move forward on it.

Vidal’s observation about the silence of the U.S. corporate media is essentially accurate with one notable exception.  MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann did an entire segment, featuring constitutional law Professor Scott Horton.  Horton not only paid tribute to the accuracy of the Kucinich Articles of Impeachment, but observed the anomaly that George W. Bush is hiding in plain sight—having openly admitted many of his crimes, such as his authorization of waterboarding (a crime under both U.S. law and treaties) and his ordering warrantless NSA surveillance in direct violation of FISA (a felony).  Most poignantly, Prof. Horton observed that the framers of our constitution simply failed to anticipate a Democratic opposition which would place political expediency above their solemn oaths to support and defend the constitution and the rule of law.

History will not look kindly upon Nancy “impeachment-is-off-the-table” Pelosi and the rest of the so-called “Democratic leadership.”  With the president’s approval ratings a dismal 28%, the last thing these calculating fools want is for him to be removed from office—an amoral gamble that could severely backfire if the Bush cabal decides to attack Iran.

Ed Harges,
I definitely get your point here. And, it IS a realistic point to consider.

•  “March 7, 2003, was the day Mohammed El Baradei publicly discredited Bush’s evidence of an Iraqi nuclear threat. Every single Congressperson and Senator who failed to say, “Wait! Stop the war! Bush is a liar!” was a traitor to the country and to the Constitution. .. That’s a lot of people….And we are hoping these people will open impeachment hearings against Bush? ..Hah! “~

But WAIT! Don’t forget about those several million of us, (world wide) who gathered together in our respective places of the globe, on February 15th, 2003 (we already knew what El Baradei was gonna say) to loudly demonstrate our protest to the war that we knew the Dick Bush Criminals had long prepared to launch. I can’t put my hands on the exact statistics involved in those demonstrations, but my memory tells me that they occurred in something like 60 nations of our world.

Yes, yes…I know it didn’t stop the war machine…nothing would have, unless we’d been able to lock all of THEM up. Besides, by the time El Baradei made his public statement, the US troops were already en route to the Persian Gulf and on to Baghdad, and the Halliburton (KBR) guys were ALREADY THERE! The Halliburton crew was there with their OIL stealing equipment, and standing by on the shores of Kuwait, waiting for our ground and air troops to arrive, and prepared to ‘save the oil’ in the event that Saddam tried to set any of those fields ablaze. (like to keep us from getting it).

So by then of course, it was too late. And the only thing that could have stopped it then, or since, would be the impeachment of the entire bunch. But I only said this to remind that even though a lot of people, (Congress) allowed this to happen, there are far, far, far more who were opposed from the beginning. The largest show of world wide disapproval ever recorded in the history of the world. And, we’re still here. (or most of us anyway) and our ranks have grown.
So, take some heart in that much at least.

Print out this flyer from ImpeachBush.org and share it with you’re friends and neighbors. Ask them to do the same. It has the phone numbers for John Conyers and congress. Ring the phone off the hook!

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/R?i=gCTCtd5iUe8-qSIQurIk5g

I hold no hope that our politicians current or future will hold the G.W. Bush administration accountable for their crimes against the Constitution, the American People, or Humanity…none at all.  (Too many of those politicians are implicated as well.)

However, there is one very good reason why the Dems should table the impeachment resolution: it will tie the administrations hands to some degree.  Yes, it will corner them further and perhaps provoke them to act even more irrationally.  But whatever they do will be under a microscope.  The propaganda will be tinged…and that is of the utmost importance.

In fact, it may be the only act that can save the Republic.  Unfortunately, the opposition party is in no way concerned with saving the Republic.  Rather, they are salivating from the prospect of taking the Imperial reigns: this is why impeachment is off the table.

Oh, and beerdoctor, the biggest of props for quoting Fela Kuti.

Please forward this article to everyone you know, stupidhead and brilliant mind, alike.  Even the dumbest American who has any concept of all of democracy and freedom must agree with this.

I would like to have the mailing addresses of the 28% who still grovel at the feet of the psychopath-in-chief, to send this to them.  Please send it to all who fit the bill.  The choir already knows this.

I feel Truthdig could easily have found a better report on the extremely important act of having impeachment articles filed against Bush and easily approved for examination and subsequent action, by House Committee.  Give the sob something to worry a little about, likely not much but maybe enough to wipe that smug look off his face.  Maybe stop him from any more of these embarrassing (to most Americans) trips abroad.

Maria’s rather whimsical treatment of the event, her slight (possibly not intended) demeaning of Dennis Kucinich’s actions and ideas, and completely negative position that anything good could come of it was short-sighted!  How about showing the world that America CAN control a maniacal President Bush {throw up}!  Impeach that weasel and I promise to quit hating ALL republicans (and a big bunch of the democrats)!  ...but get Cheney first; better yet, a simultaneous White House Impeachment Party—-with all current occupants immediately evicted, preferably to jail…for life! 

Kucinich would make a great President…which is likely the cause of his not being seriously considered so far.  America is not worthy of him yet, more’s the pity!  imo

backwards it have you Drool.

you are de loorD.

Good News!

Drool you have it backwards. Human race is brilliant, but human culture made big mistake.

paul easton…after reading a copy of the Social Contract that rousseau had sent him, voltaire penned the following reply:

i have received your new book against the human race, and i thank you for it.  never was so much cleverness used in the design of making us all stupid.  one longs, in reading your book, to walk on all fours.  but as i have lost that habit for more than sixty years, i feel unhappily the impossibility of resuming it.

and how did our political system get so totally dysfunctional? because the american people are totally corrupt (white ones anyway). our politics no longer has anything to do with ideas; it is all about money. you buy votes directly, by paying off the interest groups, or indirectly thru control of the media. we should fix the system so that each persons wealth is weightened by their net worth. at least that would be honest.

and how did the american people become so totally corrupted? because of the reductive materialist view of the person as a productive unit. as i said elsewhere:

It seems we are in the final stages of the Kali Yuga, when everything comes apart. We are entering
the regime of exponential decay, when ‘the cloud-capp’d towers, the gorgeous palaces,the solemn temples ... shall dissolve ... and melt into thin air’.  For ‘We are such stuff as dreams are made on’, and the old dream is just about done, and a new one is getting ready.

Clearly the era of market capitalism is done for, since it depends on economic growth, and we have finally reached the limits of growth. But even beyond that, the reductive materialist view of the person as a productive unit has reached its absurd limit, plunging us into an ontological crisis. The culmination of our rationalist philosopy has cut us off from the roots of our animal nature, and we are gone beyond any basis for our values, directionless, radically inauthentic.

So what seems to need to happen in our culture, and what is in fact happening, is a process of return to Eden, to the pre-civilized state, before the Fall. Before social power structures were organized as multiply layered hierarchies. Before religion was reorganized in the image of the bureaucratic State, and its primary function became to support the State. Before the imposition of the superego as the tree of knowledge of good and evil, before morality was conceived of as a legal code. What we need is not the creation of the New Human, but the retrieval of the old one.

If I had to give this movement a name I would call it neoshamanism.

I tend to think it is inevitable. But the challenge is how to usher it in with a minimum of uncontrolled
population collapse.

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so actually we should rejoice at this decay. it is a sign of progress. It is good news!

Put a mustache on him and the little idiot would look like Adolph Hitler. Whats tragic is as dumb as he is the voters in his district are even dumber

the impeachment situation seems much like israel where the present crook in chief is roundly detested by all but the parliamentry parties are unanimously afraid of early elections. in both places the earlier ideology of government has been replaced by the principlal that legitimcy derives from the consent of the governors. the governmental vermin are twittering in their hives that if we are forced by the dumbass voters to get rid of the head crook who knows where it will stop, it could happen to you and me. soon they will bring in voting reform so they can directly elect one another.

good news good news i say! the kali yuga is coming to an end!

Actually the Democrats, right along with the Republicans, oppose impeachment, apparently even Kucinich himself, as the article below points out:

House Democrats kill resolution to impeach Bush
By Patrick Martin
12 June 2008

Democratic members of the US House of Representatives voted unanimously to kill an impeachment resolution against President Bush introduced by Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich of Ohio.

Kucinich himself participated fully in the farce. He introduced the resolution Monday and read out the 35 articles of impeachment for crimes ranging from the lying pretexts given to the American people for the war in Iraq to torture at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and illegal domestic spying. Then he moved to send the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, whose chairman John Conyers has long rejected any effort to hold Bush constitutionally accountable. This move will have the effect of burying the bill indefinitely.

The 251-166 margin of the vote, held on a roll call Wednesday, saw all 227 Democrats—including Kucinich and his lone co-sponsor, Robert Wexler of Florida—joined by 24 Republicans move to dispose of the resolution. Voting against were 166 Republicans, who sought to force a debate on impeachment for the purpose of embarrassing the Democratic Party leadership.

After Kucinich introduced the measure Monday and spent more than four hours reading the entire text into the Congressional Record, House Republicans utilized a parliamentary provision to force the clerk of the House to read the text out loud all over again on Tuesday, consuming another four hours and keeping the House in session until after midnight. The purpose was to rub the Democrats’ noses in their own refusal to take action to back up their occasional bursts of anti-Bush demagogy.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ruled out any impeachment of Bush as soon as the Democrats won control of Congress in November 2006. Impeachment resolutions against Cheney were introduced in May and November of 2007 and killed each time by the Democrats, in the same fashion as the Bush impeachment resolution Wednesday.

There is no question that, unlike Bill Clinton, who was impeached for lying about a private sexual encounter, George W. Bush is guilty of offenses that meet the “high crimes and misdemeanors” standard set by the US Constitution.

The adamant opposition to impeachment proceedings on the part of Pelosi, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and the rest of the Democratic leadership does not stem from a belief that such proceedings would be unpopular. According to public opinion polls, a majority of the American people and an overwhelming majority of Democratic voters favor Bush’s impeachment and removal from office.

A public vote in the House of Representatives would, however, find a clear majority of the Democrats in Congress siding with Bush against the sentiments of their own constituents. The Democratic leadership seeks to block any vote to conceal as much as possible their role as the last line of defense for the Bush administration.

The Democratic leadership opposes impeachment not on legal, but on political and class grounds. They are well aware that the adoption of an impeachment resolution against Bush and Cheney, regardless of the outcome of a Senate trial, would deal a major blow against the White House as an institution and undermine the legitimacy of all Bush’s actions as “commander-in-chief,” especially in the war in Iraq.

It would also inevitably raise the question of who in Congress was complicit with Bush’s criminal conduct over the past seven years—tarring Democrats as well as Republicans, since a majority of Senate Democrats and a large number of House Democrats voted for the Iraq war resolution in 2002. Many other actions listed in Kucinich’s articles of impeachment were given near-unanimous support by the Democrats.

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http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jun2008/impe-j12.shtml

On keeping crooks in Washington and being betrayed by congress and tough decisions like, to vote or not to vote, and what is Armageddon anyway?

Maybe when Bush bragged he spoke to a higher father his blasphemy brought all the forces of Hell down upon our heads.

Or maybe when he sold his soul to the God of money a small portion went to members of congress.

Or maybe their really is a just God and he just quit looking and caring and threw his arms up in disgust and walked away. And maybe that’s what Armageddon really is. When the switch is turned off the orb reels out of control.

But there still can be no denying the God of money is the God supreme in Washington DC.

Maybe we can get through to them if we stop worshiping their God. Actually, the way things are going we may soon find ourselves locked into that non-religion sooner than we think.

I am so fed up I think I’m going to dedicate the rest of my life to thumbing my nose at their God. Cause even the high priest/priestess of the God of money is going to suffer if the market crashes and the stores close and no matter how cheap their favored foreign suppliers become ... their product still wont sell, if nobody buys.

And they can buy all the crooked vote counters and vote flippers and vote riggers they want. If we cant drive to the polls, or they cant pay to keep the lights on, what then?

And for those who think we are controlled by Israel’s war party and their obedient if not racially prejudiced lobby. I cant prove we are or aren’t, but I can say with a certain amount of conviction ... we outnumber them.

So buckle up and keep the faith babe ‘cause we are in for a bumpy ride!

For a long while it’s been perceived as a waste of time and resources to pursue impeachment, what with time running out and all. But the importance of precedent must not be ignored. Once a chief executive arrogates (illegitimate) power and goes unchallenged, a future office-holder is unlikely to forego it.

the principal here is the American Constitution
and the concern that future Bushes
will continue to destroy our Republic

breaking into Dem HQ (Nixon)
having sex with an intern (Bill)
are peanuts compared to the crimes of GWB

some people have sacrificed life & limb
for our Republic

surely the cowardly Democrats
should be willing to sacrifice their jobs
to save our Republic
and send a message to the world
that we will not allow anymore GWBs
to rule our country or the world.

Dennis Kucinich has drawn a line
in the fragile sand of democracy

which side are you on ??
cowardly, traitors of the American Constitution
which side are you on ??

Long Live the American Revolution

or permit myself to hope so i should say.

but actually i should be a moderate in this regard and have faith that obama is the lesser evil.

it sort of reminds me of the lunatic fringe of old christian theology.

But my problem about obama is, even if he needs to play dumb for the moment, why must he carry it to the extreme that he did for AIPAC?

And do you feel a little uncomfortable to continue to have such faith that you can trust him because he is lying?

martin weiss~~ Actually I dont Remember Kennedy was killed after he promised to get US out of Vietnam and shut down the CIA in 1963.  Could you refresh my memory?

rbs~ i think that BushCheney do indeed face consequences,and thats why we had better be scared. if obama is elected i think the truth about 9/11 will come out.

Let Obama wait to indict until he is in office. He won’t get elected if he threatens to cut defense spending. He won’t live long if he calls Bush a mass murderer. I think he is an unusually intelligent and perceptive man, having read his book. Give him room to run.
Remember Kennedy was killed after he promised to get US out of Vietnam and shut down the CIA in 1963. That would have cost the MIC twelve billion 1963 bucks per month just for Vietnam, no telling the CIA budget. Let Obama work it out for himself.

They don’t call it “Skull and Bones” for nothing. I wonder how many skulls of men of the people like JFK, RFK, Wellstone, Carnahan, and others they have on a shelf in the basement.

tom, until very recently i felt the same way. certainly the election of bush was a wonderful gift from God.

but now i am confident that the whole heap of s*hit is coming down fast in any case, so it is worth thinking about avoiding its falling directly on our heads.

Vidal’s eloquence and indignation - like great cathedral bells - ring out beautifully. If only the whole nation felt the same, for only millions of us aren’t enough.

We live by many fantasies in this country. Bush has done much to puncture some, though his apologists (McCain included) argue his goals were incompetently carried out, but fundamentally correct.

McCain believes Iraq will some day be as America happy as Japan or Germany. That our soldiers will be able to take their dates out (in mufti) to downtown Baghdad. Where perhaps they can get a beer or a soda pop. And that if Norman Rockwell were still alive he would record it all.

Lies and fantasies (fueled by the mainstream media) will only lead us to the edge of the cliff.  I think Gore Vidal (historian that he is) is crying out with all his heart at this impending disaster.

Yes Louise there is no Santa Claus. Its easy to scream ‘Let me at the bum’ when you cant get at the bum.

How about this? A mass movement to pledge to vote against all congresspeople who do not get behind impeachment. Including and especially in the remaining primaries.

When I said I had had it with Obama, a friend of mine said all politicians are crooks. I said no Kucinich is not a crook but he thought I must be crazy.

The media is largely owned by institutions friendly to deranged European oligarchs who prop up the British Empire. No surprise impeachment resolution ignored.

We should send the French “The Statue of Kucinich.”

All hell is breaking loose in the heartland… floods, straight line wind storms, tornados.  Is the rapture coming or what?  TD is ignoring it all.  Global warming is apparently the cause.

John Conyers was interviewed on democracynow last winter and when asked the reason why democrats had taken impeachment off the table he said it was because the tv networks would be all over them if the started impeachment proceedings. “...and not just Fox and CNN but all of them,” he said.  There you have it - the msm controls congress.  You can probably still find the interview in the democracynow.org archives.

Good idea. Let’s get Bush out of office so Cheney can take over.

O.K. I’ll admit i had an Impeach Bush bumper sticker on my car in December of 2000.  All i knew then was that Bush would empty the Treasury into the pockets of friends & relatives.  Little did i know how well he would do it or the special effects he would employ to that end.

If we don’t impeach it means we approve of the actions this president has taken and we hope that the next president is as asinine.  And, frankly my dears, just like today, we will get the kind of government we deserve.

If the newspapers of this country had any balls whatsoever, the headlines would scream “Impeach Bush” every single day.  Alas, our newspapers are in the hands of the corporatists who believe in Bush’s brand of business as it helps the bottom line.

And that is the same position of this so-called Democratic congress.

Well, most of you voted Democratic in 2006 and did you get the “Yes we can Change we can” you deserved???  Hell no.  The fact of the matter is you will not get the change you want from either the Repugnicans or the Democraps.  To vote Democratic again would fit the very definition of insanity, doing the same thing over & over and expecting different results.

I will not be voting for a new change in rhetoric or Bush III, but will be voting for non corporatist candidates.

Obama will only end the rule of the Neoconvicts of PNAC and deliver us into the hands of the Trilateral Commission. Which only means that instead of attacking countries that can not defend themselves (for the sake of Israel) we will attack countries that can defend themselves, like China & Russia.

I once had great respect for Nancy Pelosi. She had the courage to draw a line in the sand. Challenge the repub controlled congress. Demand explanations for dishonesty and blatant abuse of power. That line defined her. But that was then and this is now and Nancy busily brushes till no sign of the line remains. Confident control in November is a sure thing, so the “distraction” of real accountability, holds no account.

Hoyer tells us “we are holding him accountable” and we search in vain to find one example of Bush accounting. “We have held a lot of hearings.”  And the reality of how little things have changed in spite of those hearings, assaults our reality.  He says the administration has one of the worst, if not the absolute worst record, then reminds us the Democrats have conducted wide-ranging oversight. And we remind him, we too have been looking on as this goes on and on.

Hoyer asks does it make sense spending time on impeachment in “the waning months” of the Bush administration? Should we reply of course not, how many more will die anyway?

Does that make it OK?

Does our candidate for president still talk about “the urgency of now” these days?

A few courageous representatives have decided to honor their oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic, and stand against the orders of “not now, not ever” from dem leadership. Kucinich is running for re-election too you know. But he’s placed his concern for preserving Constitutional Law above preserving his warm seat in a cuddly congress. Do you suppose the rest of them get it?

A few do and one at least besides Kucinich, has the courage to tell us so. Congressman Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)

Meanwhile we stand dumbfounded. Not by the offensive march of cowardice, but that apparently many representatives elevated to the Committee of the Judicial have already judged, and found they really don’t want to bother. We too judge. And we find they as well as Bush, need to face accounting.

Who would have thought, as we suffered through the final days of the Bush administration, even the right guys on the left side of the aisle would chose to look the other way?

Who would have thought, the day would come when Bush’s former spokesman would look more like someone coming to the rescue than the democrat pillars in congress?

Who would have thought, that to see honest resolve peeking through a crack in the armor we might suggest the body congress, look at the credible, incredible Mr. McClellan for an example of courage? A man who has decided better now than never.

Who ever would have thought?

To show the party cares more about getting out of Iraq than how we got there, dem leaders waste capital holding down their people on impeachment. Yet the war goes on and efforts to end it look more like efforts to keep it going, and we rarely hear it mentioned anymore. Except when McCain tells us it’s simply splendid.

And last night, another eight names - killed in Iraq - rolled down the screen on PBS.

When WILL US troops come home? “That’s not too important” McCain tells us. Demonstrating his capacity to see nothing, not even life and death as “too important.” But he is a republican after all.

What explains the democrats?

Kucinich himself made the motion to send his Articles of Impeachment to the committee, saying his detailed allegations should be weighed in a hearing. He said that if Judiciary does not schedule a hearing, he will introduce a longer version of his Bush impeachment resolution in 30 days, and again 30 days after that.

Will Judiciary hold a hearing? I don’t know, lets ask them:

http://judiciary.house.gov/

Meanwhile kudos to Kucinich, and raspberries to leaders and followers who hold each other up because they cant stand on their principles anymore. They need to know, we’re not paying for their crutches, and they are there only because we gave them PERMISSION to be!

That can change.

....by giving the people a voice through the media

Media action…..www.americahappens.com

Please, please, please… I just want to live in America again. There has been no such place for so long. “Liberty and justice for all” has been such an empty phrase. There can be no justice until Mr. Kucinich’s articles are heeded.

How many years ago was it when Russ Feingold stood before the Senate and proposed to that corrupt body that Mr. Bush be censured.

Because Republicans held a majority then, it was doomed from the start.  But how to explain the fact that Feingold was shunned, repudiated and even scorned by his fellow Democrats - apparently for even having the audacity to propose the censure.

The reasonable explanation might be that the censure would come back to bite a bunch of Senators in their well-fattened asses.  Get the feeling that they were also eating out of the Bush/Cheney gutter?

Seems somehow Americans equate impeaching their president with exposing America’s flaws.  Nothing could be further from the truth. 

Now, more than ever, Dennis Kucinich is my hero!

Thanks for making this a matter of congressional record, Dennis. If that’s all that comes of it, it’s still important.  I wish I resided in your district. Take note, Tim!

The media is too busy covering human interest stories about how to cope with rising gas prices, and food prices, to cover Mr. Bush’s impeachment.

To the media, our present state of problems, is a mystery. Seeming to happen without a warning, or a cause. 

Our government doesn’t work anymore, it’s become a tool to make money for the plutocracy and that’s all.

What are they doing in congress that is more important than this?

Unless they do something quick I have no doubt that President Bush will bomb the hell out of Iran, and if he does they will be complicit in what happens.

Dennis Kucinich makes me proud to be an American! There are people and representatives in Washington who still abide the Rule of Law! We are a nation of Laws not Men! The transgression against our Constitution is, in no small amount, unforgivable.

These people who have usurped power from the people are traitors to America! And those in the Democratic party who abet these traitors should be tried and convicted along with the guilty party! That means you, PELOSI!

So the million dolar question is: how do we get our “Democratic” congress to follow through, and follow through loud and clear during the months leading up to November?

Dennis Kucinich is the benchmark for courage.

Without Dennis many of us would be voiceless. Dennis is rightly saying - without Justice we cannot go on. There is no meaningful election. We cannot bury this, hide it away as if it will go away. It is a cancer.

Crimes against humanity as well as the American people were committed by this administration - starting with George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. We must stop this, even if we have not always been vigilant in the past.

This cannot stand.

Thank you Gore Vidal.

Gore Vidal expresses the outrage that so many suppress for whatever misguided reason. American television fortifies the public with lies. That is why I hear, ad nauseum, that John McCain is genuine American war hero. Nothing could be further from the truth. Meanwhile, the man ridiculed as the boy mayor from Cleveland, stands up to do the responsible thing. If we have a future, history will be the judge. Where was the democratic nominee on this matter?
Nowhere in sight.
“I must look and laugh.”
Fela Kuti