Thursday, June 19, 2008

NOW, or forever hold your impeach

Dave Lindorff at Counterpunch notes that the Dennis Kucinich articles of impeachment have not made much news. Lindorff succinctly lays out the reasons for impeachment:

As impeachment advocates, including Rep. Kucinich, have pointed out, unless this president and vice president are impeached by the current Congress, any—and probably every—future president will feel empowered by unchallenged precedent

to ignore laws passed by the Congress,
to go to war without Congressional approval,
to spy on Americans in violation of the law,
to ignore court orders,
to abrogate international treaties,
and to lie to Congress and the American people.

Unless Congress asserts its rights under Article I, it will no longer even be a co-equal branch of government, but instead will have been reduced to nothing more than a debating society.

If lying about ten bl*w j*bs were worth impeachment proceedings, then please, 'splain to my why, PLEEZE Lucy, the thirty-five articles of impeachment introduced by Representative Dennis Kucinich (D. Oh) are not worth a hearing?