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Impeach Cheney? Not today. Posted by Frank James at 10:45 am CDT Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) was going to have a press conference today to discuss his plan to push for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. But he's postponed it because of the vice president's unscheduled medical exam to re-examine a blood-clot discovered last month in one of his legs. Kucinich's website bore this terse statement: “News reports this morning indicate the Vice President was experiencing a medical crisis. Until the Vice President’s condition is clarified, I am placing any action on hold,” Kucinich said.

The postponement won't change much since Kucinich's call for impeaching Cheney because of his major role in the run-up to and the continuance of the Iraq war is, at best, a quixotic quest similar to his presidential campaign. Suffice it to say, Kucinich's impeachment articles won't be going anywhere. Kucinich is one of the few members of Congress who can make the liberal Rep. John Conyers look conservative. Conyers, a Michigan Democrat, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will likely make sure Kucinich's legislation withers away in committee. The irony is that in recent years, Conyers had himself raised the prospect of impeachment proceedings against President Bush. But he stopped that kind of talk before last year's election because it might've turned off the independents while motivating conservative voters to vote in greater numbers for Republican candidates. And to neutralize the impeachment question as a campaign issue before the election that put Democrats in power, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vowed there would be no impeachment of Bush and by extension the vice president. Indeed, she let it be known before Election Day that certain grizzled Democrats in line to chair committees because of seniority might not necessarily get those posts, a public warning thought to be directed in large part towards Conyers. So Kucinich's impeachment articles are a dead letter. But if you're a third-tier presidential candidate not getting much media attention, raising the specter of impeachment gives you a prayer of getting a little face time before the cameras. Only not today.

in Congress, Vice President Cheney, White House 2008 | Permalink Comments He is the man behind the cutain. Worst ever! Posted by: bill r. | Apr 24, 2007 11:07:34 AM So many crimes committed by Bush/Cheney, so little time. Might as well start impeachment proceedings ASAP. Posted by: RomanB | Apr 24, 2007 11:08:56 AM Sure start impeachment hearings immediately- Look busy, activity=results.. These guys must be paid by the hour. I can't believe he is letting a little thing like a life threatening condition slow him down... Posted by: heartburn | Apr 24, 2007 11:18:35 AM Isn't little Dennis funny? Posted by: Jeff | Apr 24, 2007 11:27:01 AM Is Kucinich afraid that a call for impeachment will push Cheney over the edge? Not likely. "The man's too big. The man's too strong." (Dire Straits.) Posted by: Bud McFarlin | Apr 24, 2007 11:27:32 AM IMPEACH!!!! IMPEACH BOTH OF THE DICTATORS !!! IMPEACH !!! IMPEACH PREZ CHIMPY !!! IMPEACH DARTH VADER...CHENEY !!! IMPEACH !!! Posted by: Sieg Heil George W Bush | Apr 24, 2007 11:32:33 AM He's still getting "face time" today. You wrote about it, right? I'm guessing several political talk shows also will discuss this topic. Posted by: Siobhan | Apr 24, 2007 11:33:26 AM Dennis the Menace. Isn't he the same man who was mayor of Cleveland when the river there caught fire due to pollution? Posted by: Shanika | Apr 24, 2007 11:58:41 AM To mislead Congress is an impeachable offense. Posted by: Michael Anthony | Apr 24, 2007 12:05:43 PM April 23, 2007 9 US Troops killed by an IED explosion.

IMPEACH PREZ CHIMPY AND VICE-DICTATOR CHENEY! Posted by: Sieg Heil George W Bush | Apr 24, 2007 12:12:16 PM Yes Shanika, Dennis was mayor of Cleveland when the river caught fire. See what happens when Reagoon doesn't enforce environmental laws? Posted by: RomanB | Apr 24, 2007 12:18:12 PM Dennis the Menace. Isn't he the same man who was mayor of Cleveland when the river there caught fire due to pollution? Posted by: Shanika No, It was mayor Carl Stokes. Posted by: kg123 | Apr 24, 2007 12:24:47 PM Mr. Bush & Mr. Cheney are truly criminals, and deserve to be impeached... not only was Iraq a LIE, but what led us to Iraq in the first place, 911, was also a LIE & an Inside Job. No NORAD response, despite 67 incidents in the previous year of a military response to offtrack civilian aircraft. No pilots inputting the standard procedure emergency code "HJCK" on their transponders (jet version of a bank's "silent alarm"), but instead the hijacking had to be "called in" on phones. WTC falls & disintegrates into dust due to "jet fuel fire" which miraculously saves Mohammed Atta's passport. The 47-story WTC7 falls without getting hit by a plane but by 2 small fires, which on any other day, would have led to a major investigation - despite the fact that WTC7 is not addressed in the 911 commission. Pentagon has anti-aircraft missile batteries & tons of surveillance cameras, but no missile response despite the fact that WTC attack had started 45 minutes earlier, and also only 1 video (with no plane in it) is publicly released. FBI confiscates video from nearby Citgo gas station + Sheraton hotel. While "jet fuel fire" allegedly destroys the 2 WTCs, UA93 plows into the ground, disintegrates, and leaves almost no fire at all. AA77 & UA93 leave no trace of engines, fuselage, wings, tail, airline seats, luggage, etc, or even aircraft parts with identifiable serial numbers. Alleged cellphone calls are made at heights of +10,000ft & +300MPH, which is nearly impossible. Look at the evidence. There is literally tons. Smoking guns of cordite & thermite everywhere. For a brief overview, go to google video & watch for free "Loose Change" (General 911), "911 Mysteries" (WTC Demolition), "Pandora's Black Box" (Flight 77 Pentagon). Reopen the 911 investigation. Don't trust Republicans or Democrats. 911 is the whole entire justification for Iraq, the "war on terror", the Patriot Act, the social subsidization of the defense/arms industry, Halliburton/Blackwater war profiteering, etc.

Posted by: Evanel L. | Apr 24, 2007 12:29:16 PM I think the blood clot is in his head, the only people that want to Impeach Bush or Cheny are either 1. Mentally impaired due to Blood Clots in their brains.

2. Hateful leftist bigots that are hypocrites when dealing with the issues of tolerance.

3. Graduates from Chicago public schools and Public universities. Posted by: Brandon | Apr 24, 2007 12:32:27 PM Mr. 20% approval should stay on his meds. Posted by: athena | Apr 24, 2007 12:43:38 PM All I hear on these boards is:

Cons are selfish, hypocritical, imperialistic, trigger-happy, pro-corporate war-mongerers

while the Libs are nothing but a bunch of educated, social-minded, mature, free-thinkers who will stop at nothing to make the world a better place... You people really ought to stop and hear yourselves... Posted by: Smirky McFlightsuit | Apr 24, 2007 12:48:09 PM Evanel, The W. administration used 9/11 to invade Iraq and to curtail our constitutional rights but they weren't behind making 9/11 happen.

The W. administration couldn't start a pillow fight without messing it up,there's no way they are competent enough to pull off a 9/11 style attack. Posted by: John E | Apr 24, 2007 12:54:59 PM I think the blood clot is in his head, the only people that want to Impeach Bush or Cheny are either 3. Graduates from Chicago public schools and Public universities. Posted by: Brandon | Apr 24, 2007 12:32:27 PM Ahh, I see we have a Fortunate Son on our hands. Posted by: Jeff C. | Apr 24, 2007 12:58:45 PM We are really lucky to have Kucinich as no other Presidential candidate cares about what the American people want: the impeachment of the crooks who cost more than 3000 servicemen and 700,000 Iraqis their lives for a lie aimed at allowing Bush and Cheney to loot the US Treasury and steal the hard-earned money of the American people. After these guys are impeached and removed, they deserve life. Posted by: Ruth | Apr 24, 2007 1:08:02 PM Ruth, Really? That's what the American people REALLY want? Good to know. Have you written to the presidential frontrunners? I'm sure they'd love to adopt that position as part of their platform. Sure to be a winner. Posted by: JB | Apr 24, 2007 1:18:24 PM Jeff... (from earlier thread)... you're quoting Teddy Roosevelt's "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in defense of our current foreign policy and as argument against using ex-president Clinton for diplomacy shows a stunning historical ignorance on your part. If you'd take the time to look into it, you'll find Bill Clinton was much more Teddy Roosevelt than George W. Bush is. Let's look at Teddy Roosevelt's history on the White-House's own website:

"He won the Nobel Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War, reached a Gentleman's Agreement on immigration with Japan, and sent the Great White Fleet on a goodwill tour of the world. Some of Theodore Roosevelt's most effective achievements were in conservation. He added enormously to the national forests in the West, reserved lands for public use, and fostered great irrigation projects. As President, Roosevelt held the ideal that the Government should be the great arbiter of the conflicting economic forces in the Nation, especially between capital and labor, guaranteeing justice to each and dispensing favors to none. Roosevelt emerged spectacularly as a "trust buster" by forcing the dissolution of a great railroad combination in the Northwest. Other antitrust suits under the Sherman Act followed." That does NOT sound like George W. Bush to me... in fact, in their constant peace brokering through diplomatic channels while showing willingness to use military force when needed, and a democratic platform at home, Clinton and Roosevelt were cut from the exact same policy cloth. George Dubya's version of "Speak Softly and carry a big stick" is more like "Screw speaking, swing the Big Stick and ask questions later".

Posted by: dave | Apr 24, 2007 1:20:13 PM Roman B., REAGAN wasn't anywhere near the presidency when the river in Cleveland burned. Can you perpetually-ignorant Lefties EVER get your facts straight? For those who say Bush and Cheney lied to Congress, again wrong. Congress has been getting the same intel on Iraq since the Clinton years and before that Bush. Kennedy, Daschle, Kerry, et al made the same speeches about Iraq in 1998 that they made in 2002. Sorry to burst your little bubbles with truth and reality. And again, we have the same ultra loonies from the left: Impeach Darth Cheney! Impeach Prez Chimpy! 9/11 was a conspiracy! How did the buildings fall?!?!?! Bozos, the buildings fell because airplanes loaded with thousands of gallons of jet fuel at a high rate of speed. Steel tressels were damaged. The outershell of the buildings were breached. Hot, hot fires raged. Because of the impact of the planes, fire-resistant insulation was sheared away, enabling the steel to melt. Because of the hot fires, the weakened steel tressels and the breached outer shell, the buildings gave way at the areas of impact, putting tons of weight on each floor, so once the process began the entire buildings fell upon themselves. American Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. It wasn't a missile but a plane with people on it. The plane was kidnapped by aliens. American Airlines did not conspire with Bush and Cheney to forever hide the plane and its occupants. United 93 crashed in Pennsylvania. The people on the plane died. They are not on the TV show Lost. Watch the movie United 93. Remember, people made phone calls from the planes. All the families are not part of the conspiracy. But why am I wasting all this on a bunch of people who are so whacked out that no mental institution would take em in because they are impossible to help?? Posted by: John D | Apr 24, 2007 1:23:33 PM "We are really lucky to have Kucinich as no other Presidential candidate cares about what the American people want:" Yes, thanks to Dennis, Communist Party USA didn't field a presidential candidate because they felt D. Kucinich represented their veiws sufficiently. It's true, look it up. Evenal,

You know you are in trouble when you have John E. pulling you from the brink. Get some help.

Posted by: JD | Apr 24, 2007 1:24:01 PM I would rather fight the war overseas than here in the USA. All of this name calling and talk of impeaching our leaders. All this does is take away from the support for our country and our men and woman serving overseas.If we pull out too soon, then all of the lives that have been lost so far, will have been in vain, and we will leave Iraq in a more unstable condition than before. We will also lose respect from other countries by abandoning the Iraqi people when they need us.We need to finish what we started and the Democrates need to quit using this as a political agenda to further their own careers and start supporting our country and our men and women of the armed forces. Posted by: Susan, former Army Reserve Capt. | Apr 24, 2007 1:29:04 PM I would rather fight the war overseas than here in the USA. All of this name calling and talk of impeaching our leaders. All this does is take away from the support for our country and our men and woman serving overseas.If we pull out too soon, then all of the lives that have been lost so far, will have been in vain, and we will leave Iraq in a more unstable condition than before. We will also lose respect from other countries by abandoning the Iraqi people when they need us.We need to finish what we started and the Democrates need to quit using this as a political agenda to further their own careers and start supporting our country and our men and women of the armed forces. Posted by: Susan, former Army Reserve Capt. | Apr 24, 2007 1:30:13 PM Comments are not posted immediately. We review them first in an effort to remove foul language, commercial messages, irrelevancies and unfair attacks. Thank you for your patience.



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