House Narrowly Avoids Having to Debate Impeachment of Cheney

An anonymous reader writes "Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) yesterday successfully moved articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney to the House Judiciary committee. 'Today's resolution from Kucinich (D-Ohio) was essentially the same as the legislation he introduced earlier this year, which included three articles of impeachment against Cheney based largely on allegations that he manipulated intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war. The last article accuses Cheney of threatening "aggression" against Iran "absent any real threat."'"

Comments

Re:Before people start asking "why not impeach bus

[gQuigs]

You don't think America is that stupid...
Never mind. Doesn't Bush have 6 years and 1 day yet? Your only allowed to be President for 10 years.

Ya

[moogied]

So basically, house and senate have done the following this year:

Said they would not give the war anymore money without a pull out date. Decided to "investigate" steriods in baseball(May of been last year, don't remeber). Burned a couple of hours trying to get approval to TALK about *maybe* impeaching the Vice President.

And what were the results?

The war is still going on, there is no pull out date.

A few key players got free publicity for there books. Helped me waste 3 minutes writing a response on slashdot that will be modded to -35, for retard.

God bless America.

Re:Ya

[Bongo Bill]

Helped me waste 3 minutes writing a response on slashdot that will be modded to -35, for retard. Please. The only way to get modded that low is to support both the war and Microsoft.

Re:a little tweak

[warp1]

However, I would rather hunt with Dick Cheney than ride with Ted Kennedy.

Re:Summary of the accusations

[Donniedarkness]

Hold up, here: He made false statements that helped send us to war, but he's not liable in any way because he didn't make them while under oath? Would he get away with shooting somebody, as long as he wasn't under oath?

Actually, I guess he already did...

Re:a little tweak

[Alotau]

There IS an alternative to shoot first & invent evidence later. We already tried "invent evidence & then shoot"... I just don't see any other options.

Re:Why not impeach 'em all?

[MightyYar]

I'm voting green from now on. THAT will teach those republicans!

Are you enlisted?

[xjlm]

Sounds like what they need is your wisdom leading the way on the front lines. From what I understand they're pretty open to guys like you, too. Why don't you go enlist today? http://operationyellowelephant.blogspot.com/2005/07/operation-yellow-elephant-overview.html probably has all the info needed on a guy (or whatever) like you.

Re:Are you enlisted?

[coolbox]

No no no. How you present the idea is crucial! Instead of "Just think of it as a strategic retreat." re-phrase it as "We are not retreating, we are advancing in the opposite direction". That would probably be more acceptable to the warmongering crowd.

Re:Before people start asking "why not impeach bus

[Q-Cat5]

Impeaching Bush without getting rid of Dick Cheney first would lead to total abolition of civil and human rights in the US. Even typing that revolted me.

I attempted to quote you above, but something keeps happening to the bold text. Let me try again:

Impeaching Bush without getting rid of Dick Cheney first would lead to imminentizing the eschaton. Even typing that revolted me.

Okay, one more try:

Impeaching Bush without getting rid of Dick Cheney first would lead to victory for Emperor Palpatine. Even typing that revolted me.

I give up.

Re:Replacement had Nothing to do with it!

[Lord Kano]

The congress has a responsibility to impeach such behavior because failing to do so condones the illegal behavior.

Exactly. Let one President get away with perjury, witness tampering, obstruction of justice and subornation of perjury then just look at what the next one does.

LK

Re:Replacement had Nothing to do with it!

[notamisfit]

Nixon deserved to be impeached, only for the fact that he was using illegal methods to undermine the electoral campaign of George frickin' McGovern. That's like taking steroids and doping your blood to win a foot race against Richard Stallman.