Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-Mars) is preparing to offer articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney. While it remains the responsibilty of Congress to introduce such measures, it seems highly unlikely that Kucinich will get anywhere with this considering his own party is laughing at him:
But Kucinich shouldn't hold his breath on getting anywhere with his impeachment plan. "We'll see a Kucinich Administration before we'll see a Cheney impeachment," quipped one Democratic aide.
Kucininch is just continuing the Democrat plan: introduce a resolution that either has no chance of passing or is non-binding, then go back to the far-left base and tell them you tried. It's win-win and amounts to nothing, just like the first one hundred days of the Democrat-controlled Congress.
You may or may not remember that Kucinich is the same candidate who last election said that he would develop a U.S. Department of Peace in his administration. That agency would oversee a "Peace Academy" built on the same principle as the U.S, Naval Academy or West Point...with different curricula of course.
As an exit question, what degrees could be attained at a college that teaches peace? A bachelor of arts in advanced papier mache puppet construction with a minor in creative Bush/Hitler analogies? Perhaps a BS in uses of pachouli oil for fuel with a minor in Phish Philosophy.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. It would be great if the citizens of this country could vote for impeachment. He'd be out of here.
peebrah at 3:35PM on Apr 18th 2007
2. It really doesn't matter if it ever goes anywhere.
Denny K, way to go, brother....
Philosophy of Phish...outstanding, Scott.. a new course at UCSC.
Manfred at 6:04PM on Apr 18th 2007
3. The Department of Peace is an old idea. It was first proposed under a different name by George Washington.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Peace#Similar_proposals_in_history
Dennis Kucinich has a history of doing the right thing even when it’s not popular. He voted against the PATRIOT ACT, because he knew it would endanger our civil liberties, and he voted against the Iraq War, because he saw that it would be a mistake.
The biggest criticism of Kucinich is that he was bad when he was the mayor of Cleveland. But that’s just how it looked at the time.
Kucinich didn’t want to sell Cleveland’s public power company, Muny Light to the private company, CEI. CEI had been involved in anti-trust actions to take over Muny Light. Muny Light had a broken generator and needed to buy power from private companies in the meantime. CEI lobbied the city council to make it difficult for Muny Light to repair its generator. Then, they made sure Muny Light could only buy their power and raised the price. This is called price gouging. They put Muny Light into debt and filed a lawsuit against the city to force them to pay.
In order to solve the city’s budget woes CEI offered to buy Muny Light. Kucinich refused to sell. The city council forced him either to default or sell. He chose to default.
This turned out to be one of the best decisions of his career. Muny Light saved its customers $195,148,520 between 1985 and 1995 over what they would have paid CEI. Hundreds of union jobs would have been lost if CEI had taken over power in Cleveland. In 1998, city council praised Kucinich, stating that he had "the courage and foresight to refuse to sell the city's municipal electric system."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayoral_administration_of_Dennis_Kucinich
TheRealdeal at 9:37PM on Apr 18th 2007
4. Unlikely, but still, I wonder what he's got on Cheney.
Steve Bonomo at 10:30PM on Apr 18th 2007
5. At the University of Michigan, we have a peace and social justice minor. I don't think its that farfetched...
Mike at 11:31PM on Apr 18th 2007
6. it is a novel idea to impeach dick but,dont forget king george as well
blade at 3:24AM on Apr 19th 2007
7. I don't know if any of you live in Dennis Kucinich's congressional district but I do. And I can assure everyone that based on what he's done for this district he would be a total DO NOTHING President. Because that's exactly what he's done for us here...NOTHING! He should spend more time trying to right the problems we have here in NE Ohio (and they are many) than trying to get himself invited onto national News shows trumpeting his silly ideas!
Jim W. at 6:20PM on Apr 22nd 2007
8. Anyone who watched mayor Kucinich screw up the City of Cleveland would know what a disaster he would be in the White House.
Neil Jones at 8:57AM on Apr 27th 2007
9. dennis' ideas are innovative and proactive. maybe we need new thinking. the others only speak up at election time.
daniel f. pastorius at 2:16AM on May 9th 2007
10. If anybody ever deserved impeachment Cheney is that person. Along with the first Chimp.
But I'd like to see them last their terms in hopes the rest of the world can get it together to indict them on war crimes and crimes against humanity. It'd be a slam dunk case but as usual, might makes right. Still, I'd love to see an international poll on how many believe they deserve to be tried. 70 percent?
Mike at 7:13AM on May 9th 2007
11. Kucinich is right, and I have requested Cheney be impeached by my own congressional delegation. Why is a Department of Peace so laughable? Why does cynicism and brutality govern? Look at the results of that mindset. Now Cheney is trying to foment war with Iran-what a sensible, smart idea! Kucinich or Ralph Nader as President makes a LOT of sense-then it would not just be ass-kissing corporate ass non-stop. Idealism has a place-pragmatism has run rampant way too long. Bring on the articles, Mr. Kucinich, Cheney is the most dangerous thing to happen to this country in my lifetime, and I lived through Reagan AND Clinton.
Joe Dennis at 8:57AM on May 13th 2007
12. Way to go Dennis! At least one democrat has a spine. King George needs to be included with the impeachment proceedings of Cheney. These two are the most corrupt our White House has ever had! The whole world hates us thanks to these two.
cindi wilson at 4:10PM on May 30th 2007
13. The impeachment of Dick Cheney would be more than appropriate, however the multinational corporations that now control the leaders of this country are not going to allow it. 95% of everythihng we see on television, hear on the radio, or read in newspapers or magazines, are controled by just 5 of these giants. What would you expect them to write about Kucinich?
steve kaser at 7:52AM on Jun 4th 2007
14. this congressman is really out there....he should get together with Moonbeam Jerry Brown and all the other left over hippies from the 1960's who never grew up, go smoke his pot or whatever he's on, and leqave the job of serious decision-making to sane and mature and realistic adults
steve at 9:19AM on Jun 5th 2007
15. Clevenland-ers who know little of city government would say Mayor Kucinich did nothing. However those of us who know a little bit of city government and civics are using his example to stop water privatization in our own cities. If that had happened in Cleveland your water bill would've skyrocketed and the safety of your water would've been left in the hands of a greedy corporation. Kucinich succeeded against great odds at stopping that from happening in Cleveland and look at the thanks he gets from those living there.
As for what Kucinich has on Cheney, read this: http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/issues/alert/?alertid=9672446&PROCESS=Take+Action
Kucinich knows what we all know now, that there media manipulation came out of the Vice President's office to make the case to go to war on a lie.
Alma Kesling at 11:29PM on Jun 23rd 2007