At best, some political observers think, this stunt might energize wing-nut Democratics and thus boost Kucinich's otherwise invisible presidential campaign.
This could be true, and why not? From what I gather doing a quick google through the web, Kucinich may just surprise alot of "leadership" or it could get the notion tabled as "leadership" would like.
More likely, it would just spawn another round of Cleveland jokes.
"Kucinich is not doing well. In fact, even in Florida today, people said they wouldn't vote for Kucinich even by mistake." —Jay Leno
He has one vote here. :)
Impeach Cheney First
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2006-05-02 08:17. Impeachment Process
By David Swanson
We should impeach Vice President Dick Cheney first, and President George Bush immediately thereafter. This idea is not original with me. It's been seen on bumper stickers for quite some time. My attention has been called to it by the fact that Congresswoman and Judiciary Committee Member Maxine Waters is talking about it. See below.
I'm persuaded of thevalue of this approach for several reasons. Among activists who very much want impeachment, one can hear a long list of fears and concerns about how things might go wrong, how impeachment could help Republicans who come around and back it, how impeachment could take energy away from elections, etc. But by far the most common of the nonsensical fears one hears is this one: "Impeaching Bush would give us Cheney, who is worse."
By proposing to impeach Cheney first, we eliminate this fear.
AfterDowningStreet.org | Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
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The Bush regime is famous for recommending people combat terrrorism with duct tape. Take them up on their word and use duct tape to combat the terrorists who govern this country today! A strip of tape makes a very easy and inexpensive instant armband or it can be plastered across your shirt, bag or backpack. Buy a roll, get an indelible marking pen, and write your own message on the tape. Presto: anti-terrorist impeachment agent!
Take a roll, something to cut the tape with and the pen out with you and you've got a Show It Off! impeachment kit ready to go. Spread the word! Create a stir! Hasten the day we bring down these criminals!
Kucinich Files Articles of Impeachment Against Cheney
Kucinich may be with the American people and way ahead of the DC curve.
The resolution claims the Vice President "purposely manipulated the intelligence process" and "fabricated a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" in order to "deceive the American public" and the Congress and launch a war of aggression against Iraq. It also accuses him of actively seeking to launch a second war against Iran. (You can download the complete text of the resolution here, or view a clip of Kucinich's press conference here.)
Not only do the charges constitute the "high crimes" that were contemplated by the founders as the basis of impeachment, they're also included in the principles set out during the Nuremberg Tribunal that followed World War II.
The judges that made up the Tribunal said that launching a war of aggression was "not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
Submitted by davidswanson on Fri, 2007-04-27 16:29. Activism | Impeachment
The Campaign is sponsoring a Town Meeting on Saturday, April 28 at 6 PM at First Parish Chruch, 425 Congress Street, Portland, Maine. David Swanson, a national impeachment advocate and founder of afterdowningstreet.org will speak. Other speakers will include members of Maine Lawyers for Democracy and repreentatives of the Maine Campaign to Impeach.
Photograph by Peter Woodruff.
This editorial appears in the January 13, 2006 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
