Well, I came into Kucinich’s Impeachment articles about halfway through on CSPAN. I have no idea where it will go, but he did one fine job of presenting them. With each point, he seemed to get a new wind and enthusiasm, and he had certainly done his homework. It was like hearing the history of the issues we read and write about daily in the blogosphere placed end to end. Hearing them all together was powerful. This really has been a horrible eight years with the systematic abuse of almost every power possible. His presentation of the Administration’s ignoring the pre-911 intelligence was particularly chilling. The same with the lead-up to Katrina in New Orleans. Again, I don’t know if this is going anywhere, but if it doesn’t, it won’t be because what Dennis Kucinich says isn’t true.
I’ll admit that I do not understand why the Democratic leadership shys away from this obvious avenue other that Vice President Cheney would succeed him – to which I would respond, impeach them both. As Kucinich read his articles, thirty-five strong, I kept waiting for one that sounded partisan, or overblown, or even proposed on shaky grounds. It never came. Each one stood on its own. Each one was something I knew to be true. Each one was a valid impeachable offense. There were some that showed a callous indifference to the duties of the Presidency, like the lead-up and later response to Katrina, or the warnings prior to 911. Some were outright criminal acts – a particularly poignant one was the voter disenfranchisement in Ohio 2004 or the U.S. Attorney firings. There were campaigns built on lies and deceptions like the march to war in Iraq. There were a number of secret laws and secret programs. But what stood out was a broad pattern of irresponsible and arrogant behavior that defied and ignored every aspect of our Constitution, and the true definitions of Presidential power.
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