Kucinich tried and failed last year to initiate impeachment proceedings against Vice-President Dick Cheney, a move Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer wanted tabled, and which Republican Minority Leader John Boehner wanted brought to the floor for debate as a means of embarrassing Democrats.
Evidently blessed with no sense of shame or of irony, Kucinich is trying again, this time to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush- (C-Span pdf here)-even though he is well aware that, in the words of Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi, impeachment is "off the table."
This is nothing but smart politics on her part, as she realizes the majority of Americans do not want to go through yet another round of impeachment hearings that would more than likely produce the same results as the last time (against Bill Clinton) against a President who has less than a year left in office anyway. To say nothing of the fact that even if successful we would just be stuck with Cheney for the duration anyway.
On top of that, this would be the very thing guaranteed to mobilize the right wing into support behind Republican presumptive nominee John McCain, even though to a large extent they dislike the candidate. In fact a good many of them hate him, to the point they will vote against him or stay home on election day. For Kucinich to bring this up now, if the House leadership agrees to take it up, might well change their minds.
What could he possibly be thinking? Has he been a Vegan for so long his brains have turned into oatmeal? Since he claims to have seen a UFO, could it be that his mind is being manipulated by some cosmic force from another galaxy-like his wife, perhaps?
Then, on the other hand, I got to thinking-maybe this is what Kucinich wants. Forget about Hilary Clinton working behind the scenes to insure Obama loses the election so she can try again in 2012. Maybe this is exactly what Kucinich is doing, trying to derail Obama so he can have a clear road to another attempt himself four years later.
After all, Kucinich has to know that, if Obama wins the Presdency, he doesn't even have the chance of a snowball in hell of becoming President in 2012.
If, on the other hand, Obama loses this year-then by God, he will have that chance.
4 comments:
I find the impeachment people dishonest. They don't themselves believe one wing of the ruling class that supported the war in Iraq, will impeach another. Nobody has more illusions than Kucinich.
He atleast has a hot wife.
Ren-
Come on now. I'll grant you she's not some beast, but she ain't that damn hot, not really. Look who she's standing next to and put it in some context. He ain't her husband, he's her hero, in my opinion-the girl has daddy issues.
The Smurf would be well advised to devote his remaining time in Congress to representing the interests of his constituents. He's spent the last four years making a fool of himself, and I think it's starting to wear thin.
Keep in mind that right after September 11th, in October of 2001, Dennis Kucinich introduced a bill in Congress to try to ban the US military from deploying orbital mind control lasers.
Doesn't that asshole realize WE NEED orbital mind control lasers?
I don't really care about the political story here, but I'm going to have to agree that his wife is hot. I've never seen her before, but my first thoughts after seeing this picture were all obscene.
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