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35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush
vsync64 writes "Last night, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) spent 4 hours reading into the Congressional Record 35 articles of impeachment against George W. Bush. Interestingly, those articles (63-page PDF via Coral CDN) include not just complaints about signing statements and the war in Iraq, but also charges that the President "Sp[ied] on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment,' 'Direct[ed] Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens,' and 'Tamper[ed] with Free and Fair Elections.' These are issues near and dear to the hearts of many here, so it's worth discussing. What little mainstream media coverage there is tends to be brief (USA Today, CBS News, UPI, AP, Reuters)." The (Democratic) House leadership has said that the idea of impeachment is "off the table." The Judiciary Committee has not acted on articles of impeachment against Vice President Cheney introduced by Kucinich a year ago.
The war in Iraq is going well--in fact Baghdad is having a housing market boom.
Oh fucking goody!
My house is worth $50k less than it was in 2004 when I bought it, everything is more expensive on a weak dollar, I'm glad I now have the option to use public transportation to work because I'd be paying 2x as much as I did last year, I'm really glad I work in higher education due to the slow job market -- one of the few industries that doesn't get hit as hard during economic downturn, I'm thrilled at grain and rice prices and the fact that distributors are not permitting buyers to hoard it as the prices skyrocket while our National Grain Reserves fall on our humanitarian efforts abroad, and I'm really excited that we're still pumping billions upon billions of dollars into a country that's 1000s of miles away so that they can have a housing boom while we fucking suffer here.
While these worthless articles of impeachment are nothing more than words -- the same as those against Cheney -- and we're doing such great things for those in other countries (including bombing them with bombs purchased on credit we can't back for at least 25 years), I'm wondering when someone is going to bail the United States out.
What it says is that even the liberal press recognizes that Kucinich is a loon who should not be taken seriously.