All aboard the impeachment bandwagon: Cheney first, Bush next; Update: Dem House leader Steny Hoyer to block Kucinich resolution; Update 1:37pm Eastern: Kucinich on the House floor; Update 2:58pm Eastern Hoyer moves to table the resolution; Update 3:43pm Eastern: Vote still underway, flurry of vote-changing; Update: Hoyer motion fails; Denny K’s nutroots measure moves forward, the impeachment circus will “get its day in court;” Update: The Democrat switch-a-roonies; Update 7:45pm Eastern: What will Conyers do?
Update 7:21am Eastern 11/7. A Daily Kossack suggests that Kucinich to do it over and over and over again.”
Update 8:00pm Eastern: Quip of the night goes to corruptocrat Alcee Hastings. Gotta love the blue-on-blue action:
Kucinich “is on a quest of his own. He sees flying saucers and he acts like one,” Hastings said.
Update 7:45pm Eastern. What’s next? Fox is reporting that Kucinich claims House Judiciary Committee chairnut John Conyers told him the resolution is alive. Conyers is playing coy (hat tip – Paul M.):
Kucinich savored the victory, saying that Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers
had reassured him and backers of the resolution “that he would in fact launch an impeachment inquiry.” But Conyers told FOX News that he would announce his decision on Wednesday after speaking with House Democratic leaders.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has previously stated that she did not want the impeachment articles to come to a vote. High-ranking Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, who was himself impeached while a judge in Florida, said he was not happy with Kucinich’s attempts to raise the matter on the floor in an attempt to circumvent the normal legislative process.
Update. The Hill reports that Rep. John Shadegg gets credit for outmaneuvering the Dems.
Who were the Democrat switch-a-roonies? Brian Faughnan:
There were 81 Democrats who voted to have an impeachment debate when they were pretty sure it would be tabled, then turned around and voted to prevent a debate when it was clear one might occur. Those opportunists are:
Neil Abercrombie
Tom Allen
Joe Baca
Tammy Baldwin
Bruce Braley
Lois Capps
Mike Capuano
Yvette Clarke
Bill Clay
Emanuel Cleaver
Steve Cohen
John Conyers
Joe Crowley
Elijah Cummings
Danny Davis
Pete DeFazio
Norm Dicks
Lloyd Doggett
Mike Doyle
Keith Ellison
Sam Farr
Al Green
Gene Green
Raul Grijalva
Luis Gutierrez
Phil Hare
Maurice Hinchey
Mazie Hirono
Paul Hodes
Rush Holt
Mike Honda
Darlene Hooley
Jay Inslee
Jesse Jackson
Sheila Jackson-Lee
Hank Johnson
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Paul Kanjorski
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Barbara Lee
John Lewis
Dave Loebsack
Carolyn Maloney
Betty McCollum
Jim McDermott
Greg Meeks
Mike Michaud
Brad Miller
Gwen Moore
Jim Moran
Grace Napolitano
Solomon Ortiz
Mike Pallone
Bill Pascrell
Ed Perlmutter
David Price
Charlie Rangel
Laura Richardson
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Bobby Rush
Jan Schakowsky
Bobby Scott
Jose Serrano
Carol Shea-Porter
Brad Sherman
Louise Slaughter
Hilda Solis
Pete Stark
Bart Stupak
Betty Sutton
Mike Thompson
John Tierney
Ed Towns
Nydia Velázquez
Mel Watt
Anthony Weiner
Peter Welch
Bob Wexler
Lynn Woolsey
David Wu
Albert Wynn
Update 4:52pm Eastern. Rolls are not up yet, but they’ll be here. Word is that Denny K’s measure is effectively dead because the Dems won’t act on it in the Judiciary Committee. Brian Faughnan at the Weekly Standard observes:
4:31 Update: Looks like the Democrats successfully regrouped after that first vote surprised them. The House just voted 218-194 to send Kucinich’s impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee. This effectively kills the bill, preventing a debate on impeachment.
It’s interesting that on such a weighty question as impeaching the vice president of the United States, votes can change so quickly. While the roll calls are not yet available, it seems there were plenty of Democrats who voted to go forward with impeachment when they thought it would fail, who suddenly voted against impeachment when it mattered. I guess it was all just about politics after all — even for the supposed ‘true believers.’
Indeed. I’ll post the roll calls when they become available.
Update 4:35pm Eastern. “The House just voted, 218-194, to send the resolution to the Judiciary Committee. That should end today’s debate- but it does keep the resolution at least technically alive.”
AP:
GOP Forces Debate on Cheney Impeachment
House Republicans, changing course midway through a vote, tried to force Democrats into a debate on a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney on the grounds he purposely led the country into war against Iraq.
The GOP tactics reversed what had been expected to an overwhelming vote to table, or kill, the resolution by longshot Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
Midway through the vote, with instructions from the GOP leadership, Republicans one by one changed their votes from yes _ to kill the resolution _ to no, trying to force the chamber into a debate and an up-or-down vote on the proposal.
At one point there were 290 votes to table. After the turnaround, the final vote was 251-162 against tabling, with 165 Republicans voting against it.
“We’re going to help them out, to explain themselves,” said Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas. “We’re going to give them their day in court.”
Heh.
Update 4:30pm Eastern. Chaos! Steny Hoyer’s motion to table the Denny K resolution fails 251-162.
Update 3:52pm Eastern. The current tally now shows 170 yeas, 242 nays, and 21 not voting. The nays now include 164 Republicans. It does indeed seem to me that the GOP is maneuvering to embarrass the House leadership and defeat Hoyer’s motion to table the nutroots impeachment resolution.
If you’re in the know, correct me if I’m wrong.
This is the first of four votes. We’re over an hour into a vote that was supposed to take 15 minutes.
An MSM blogger notices the developments on the floor:
At first, a whole bunch of Republicans voted with Hoyer to kill the resolution. Then they came to their senses and are in the process of switching their votes before the gavel comes down.
*** Update *** Now we are being treated to the spectacle of Democrats who had voted to table/kill the measure changing THEIR votes. They don’t want to be in a postion of defending Dick Cheney if they don’t have to.
Update 3:43pm Eastern. The vote to kill Kucinich’s impeachment resolution is wrapping up. C-SPAN’s tally shows 207 yeas (to kill), 204 nays (to support), and 22 not voting.
The nays include 133 Republicans.
Not sure what’s going on. Maybe Republicans want it to pass to embarrass the House leadership?
Lots of last-minute switching…now it’s 204 yea, 207 nay…192 yea, 219 nay…189 yea, 222, nay…
A simple majority is needed to kill the resolution. 218 is the magic number.
Update 2:58pm Eastern. Steny Hoyer just made his motion to table Kucinich’s resolution.
Update 2:54pm Eastern. If you’re in the mood for a quick trip to fantasy land, the video of Denny K is up at Hot Air.
Update 1:37pm Eastern Nutroots-mania on the House floor! Kucinich is now reading his impeachment resolution.
Update 1:27pm Eastern. This report claiming Steny Hoyer will block Kucinich’s impeachment resolution is attributed to Dow Jones…haven’t seen it anywhere else yet…so FWIW…
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday he will block an effort to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio has announced he will try to force a vote on Cheney’s impeachment. Hoyer said he will use parliamentary tactics to table that effort.
“Impeachment is not on the agenda,” Hoyer said.
Hoyer said his decision was not based upon the merits of the impeachment effort, but rather because the new Democratic majority had more important issues to resolve.
The wire dispatch is also on NASDAQ (via reader William Amos)…
Update 11:50am Eastern. Here’s the Kucinich campaign video about his impeachment crusade on YouTube. It’s self-parodying. At the end of the video, a Kucinich staffer announces a nationwide raffle to win the chance to spend an evening with Kucinich’s beautiful moonbat wife and watch the next Democrat debate with her while sticking pins in Bush and Cheney voo-doo dolls. Okay, I made that last part up about the voo-doo dolls:
Update 11:23am Eastern. Oh, crikey, they actually have an “Impeach Cheney First” song.
And I guess this little logo at the official Impeach Cheney site is for non-English speakers. Or something:
Reader Steve e-mails:
The peach that they are using in the logo at the official Impeach Cheney site is the logo from Sage Software’s Peachtree Accounting software. I just happen to have the box on my desk while I’m installing their latest version. I wonder if Sage Software (one of the largest accounting software firms) might have an issue with the nutroots using their logo.
Here’s a reference. It’s the three little droplets of water that give it away as being stolen.
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I told you on Friday about Dennis Kucinich’s privileged resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Well, today’s the day. The UFO-spotter will hold a press conference at 3pm Eastern. The After Downing Street mob is singing a new left-wing tune: All we are saying is give impeachment a chance.
Kucinich’s co-sponsors are Jan Schakowsky, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Albert Wynn, William Lacy Clay, Dennis Kucinich, Yvette Clarke, Jim McDermott, Jim Moran, Bob Filner, Sam Farr, Robert Brady, Tammy Baldwin, Donald Payne, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Ed Towns, Diane Watson.
There was supposed to be a conference call last night about the resolution, but so many unhinged members of the nutroots community called in, that they apparently crashed the lines:
Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is planning to re-schedule a nationwide conference call to discuss Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Richard B. Cheney after tonight’s planned event encountered technical problems stemming largely from the overwhelming volume of calls from interested citizens.
The Kucinich campaign apologized for the snafu, explaining that staff had significantly underestimated the number of call-ins, and public interest in the issue exceeded technological capacity. The call will be re-scheduled within the next few days.
Kucinich, author and prime sponsor of the impeachment measure against Cheney, will be introducing a privileged resolution to the House tomorrow (Tuesday) to force a vote on the matter of impeachment.
LB at Don’t Go Into the Light cracks: “…perhaps he couldn’t establish an up-link with the mother ship.”
Here’s the text of the resolution:
RESOLUTION
Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, That Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Article I
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, to wit:
(1) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Vice President actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction:
(A) `We know they have biological and chemical weapons.’ March 17, 2002, Press Conference by Vice President Dick Cheney and His Highness Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain at Shaikh Hamad Palace.
(B) `. . . and we know they are pursuing nuclear weapons.’ March 19, 2002, Press Briefing by Vice President Dick Cheney and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem.
(C) `And he is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time . . .’ March 24, 2002, CNN Late Edition interview with Vice President Cheney.
(D) `We know he’s got chemicals and biological and we know he’s working on nuclear.’ May 19, 2002, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(E) `But we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons . . . Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.’ August 26, 2002, Speech of Vice President Cheney at VFW 103rd National Convention.
(F) `Based on intelligence that’s becoming available, some of it has been made public, more of it hopefully will be, that he has indeed stepped up his capacity to produce and deliver biological weapons, that he has reconstituted his nuclear program to develop a nuclear weapon, that there are efforts under way inside Iraq to significantly expand his capability.’ September 8, 2002, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(G) `He is, in fact, actively and aggressively seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.’ September 8, 2002, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(H) `And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.’ March 16, 2003, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(2) Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq the Vice President was fully informed that no legitimate evidence existed of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The Vice President pressured the intelligence community to change their findings to enable the deception of the citizens and Congress of the United States.
(A) Vice President Cheney and his Chief of Staff, Lewis Libby, made multiple trips to the CIA in 2002 to question analysts studying Iraq’s weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration’s policy objectives accounts.
(B) Vice President Cheney sought out unverified and ultimately inaccurate raw intelligence to prove his preconceived beliefs. This strategy of cherry picking was employed to influence the interpretation of the intelligence.
(3) The Vice President’s actions corrupted or attempted to corrupt the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, an intelligence document issued on October 1, 2002, and carefully considered by Congress prior to the October 10, 2002, vote to authorize the use of force. The Vice President’s actions prevented the necessary reconciliation of facts for the National Intelligence Estimate which resulted in a high number of dissenting opinions from technical experts in two Federal agencies.
(A) The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research dissenting view in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate stated `Lacking persuasive evidence that Baghdad has launched a coherent effort to reconstitute it’s nuclear weapons program INR is unwilling to speculate that such an effort began soon after the departure of UN inspectors or to project a timeline for the completion of activities it does not now see happening. As a result INR is unable to predict that Iraq could acquire a nuclear device or weapon.’.
(B) The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research dissenting view in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate also stated that `Finally, the claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are, in INR’s assessment, highly dubious.’.
(C) The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research dissenting view in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate references a Department of Energy opinion by stating that `INR accepts the judgment of technical experts at the US Department of Energy (DOE) who have concluded that the tubes Iraq seeks to acquire are poorly suited for use in gas centrifuges to be used for uranium enrichment and finds unpersuasive the arguments advanced by others to make the case that they are intended for that purpose.’.
The Vice President subverted the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 3300 United States service members; the loss of 650,000 Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $500 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq.
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
Article II
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, to wit:
(1) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Vice President actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and the Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda:
(A) `His regime has had high-level contacts with Al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to Al Qaeda terrorists.’ December 2, 2002, Speech of Vice President Cheney at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference.
(B) `His regime aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda. He could decide secretly to provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists for use against us.’ January 30, 2003, Speech of Vice President Cheney to 30th Political Action Conference in Arlington, Virginia.
(C) `We know he’s out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the Al Qaeda organization.’ March 16, 2003, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(D) `We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on biological weapons and chemical weapons . . .’ September 14, 2003, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(E) `Al Qaeda had a base of operation there up in Northeastern Iraq where they ran a large poisons factory for attacks against Europeans and U.S. forces.’ October 3, 2003, Speech of Vice President Cheney at Bush-Cheney ‘04 Fundraiser in Iowa.
(F) `He also had an established relationship with Al Qaeda providing training to Al Qaeda members in areas of poisons, gases, and conventional bombs.’ October 10, 2003, Speech of Vice President Cheney to the Heritage Foundation.
(G) `Al Qaeda and the Iraqi intelligence services have worked together on a number of occasions.’ January 9, 2004, Rocky Mountain News interview with Vice President Cheney.
(H) `I think there’s overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.’ January 22, 2004, NPR: Morning Edition interview with Vice President Cheney.
(I) `First of all, on the question of–of whether or not there was any kind of relationship, there clearly was a relationship. It’s been testified to; the evidence is overwhelming.’ June 17, 2004, CNBC: Capital Report interview with Vice President Cheney.
(2) Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq the Vice President was fully informed that no credible evidence existed of a working relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, a fact articulated in several official documents, including:
(A) A classified Presidential Daily Briefing ten days after the September 11, 2001, attacks indicating that the United States intelligence community had no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11th attacks and that there was `scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda’.
(B) Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary No. 044-02, issued in February 2002 by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency, which challenged the credibility of information gleaned from captured al Qaeda leader al-Libi. The DIA report also cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy: `Saddam’s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control.’.
(C) A January 2003 British intelligence classified report on Iraq that concluded that `there are no current links between the Iraqi regime and the al-Qaeda network’.
The Vice President subverted the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 3,300 United States service members; the loss of 650,000 Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $500 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq.
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
Article III
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and done so with the United States proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining the national security of the United States, to wit:
(1) Despite no evidence that Iran has the intention or the capability of attacking the United States and despite the turmoil created by United States invasion of Iraq, the Vice President has openly threatened aggression against Iran as evidenced by the following:
(A) `For our part, the United States is keeping all options on the table in addressing the irresponsible conduct of the regime. And we join other nations in sending that regime a clear message: We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.’ March 7, 2006, Speech of Vice President Cheney to American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2006 Policy Conference.
(B) `But we’ve also made it clear that all options are on the table.’ January 24, 2007, CNN Situation Room interview with Vice President Cheney.
(C) `When we–as the President did, for example, recently–deploy another aircraft carrier task force to the Gulf, that sends a very strong signal to everybody in the region that the United States is here to stay, that we clearly have significant capabilities, and that we are working with friends and allies as well as the international organizations to deal with the Iranian threat.’ January 29, 2007, Newsweek interview with Vice President Cheney.
(D) `But I’ve also made the point and the President has made the point that all options are still on the table.’ February 24, 2007, Vice President Cheney at Press Briefing with Australian Prime Minister in Sydney, Australia.
(2) The Vice President, who repeatedly and falsely claimed to have had specific, detailed knowledge of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction capabilities, is no doubt fully aware of evidence that demonstrates Iran poses no real threat to the United States as evidenced by the following:
(A) `I know that what we see in Iran right now is not the industrial capacity you can [use to develop a] bomb.’ Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, February 19, 2007.
(B) Iran indicated its `full readiness and willingness to negotiate on the modality for the resolution of the outstanding issues with the IAEA, subject to the assurances for dealing with the issues in the framework of the Agency, without the interference of the United Nations Security Council’. IAEA Board Report, February 22, 2007.
(C) `. . . so whatever they have, what we have seen today, is not the kind of capacity that would enable them to make bombs.’ Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, February 19, 2007.
(3) The Vice President is fully aware of the actions taken by the United States towards Iran that are further destabilizing the world as evidenced by the following:
(A) The United States has refused to engage in meaningful diplomatic relations with Iran since 2002, rebuffing both bilateral and multilateral offers to dialogue.
(B) The United States is currently engaged in a military buildup in the Middle East that includes the increased presence of the United States Navy in the waters near Iran, significant United States Armed Forces in two nations neighboring to Iran, and the installation of anti-missile technology in the region.
(C) News accounts have indicated that military planners have considered the B61-11, a tactical nuclear weapon, as one of the options to strike underground bunkers in Iran.
(D) The United States has been linked to anti-Iranian organizations that are attempting to destabilize the Iranian government, in particular the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), even though the state department has branded it a terrorist organization.
(E) News accounts indicate that United States troops have been ordered into Iran to collect data and establish contact with anti-government groups.
(4) In the last three years the Vice President has repeatedly threatened Iran. However, the Vice President is legally bound by the U.S. Constitution’s adherence to international law that prohibits threats of use of force.
(A) Article VI of the United States Constitution states, `This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.’ Any provision of an international treaty ratified by the United States becomes the law of the United States.
(B) The United States is a signatory to the United Nations Charter, a treaty among the nations of the world. Article II, Section 4 of the United Nations Charter states, `All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.’ The threat of force is illegal.
(C) Article 51 lays out the only exception, `Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.’ Iran has not attacked the United States; therefore any threat against Iran by the United States is illegal.
The Vice President’s deception upon the citizens and Congress of the United States that enabled the failed United States invasion of Iraq forcibly altered the rules of diplomacy such that the Vice President’s recent belligerent actions towards Iran are destabilizing and counterproductive to the national security of the United States.
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
And that is just the beginning.
Kucinich called up a left-wing blogger to let him know that Bush is next:
Congressman Dennis Kucinich said on a conference call Monday evening that after moving to impeach Vice President Cheney on Tuesday he will also introduce, at a future date, a resolution to impeach President Bush. Or rather, he would have said that on the conference call if not for several technical SNAFUs.
The call was advertised as a one-way call on which only Kucinich could speak, but Kucinich was unable to get through because of the incredible number of people on the call (I have no count yet, but the dings of the new people coming on were a steady stream of noise for half an hour).
So Kucinich phoned me, and I held one of my phones up to another so that everyone on the call could hear him. That was working fine for about 20 seconds, until the geniuses running the call chose that moment to mute everyone except Dennis (without stopping to realize that by muting me they were muting Dennis). So, Kucinich gave a nice speech through my phones, but I was the only one listening.
What will Nancy “Impeachment is off the table” Pelosi do?
Stay tuned for the day-long circus.
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Southern Any statement that starts “I think…” is grossly deficient. What if I think something different. Who is to say your “think” is better than mine?
As far as what you think is torture, some kids think having to eat their spinach at dinner is torture too.
I think, therefore I am.
Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s.
Two cities with fire and brimstone.
Southernboy, you sure you are a Christian? Read your Bible and come back in a year.
I imagine he’d go straight to DNC headquarters. (But that’s only a guess because only he knows for sure.)
And Southernboy- isn’t asking these inane Jesus questions a backdoor way of judging those who walk differently from you in this world? (I am affording you a big concession here by ASSuming you walk the talk.)
A time for every season under Heaven.
Now go inside before you get rained on.
ROFL PeterX
Southernboy, maybe you should move to the middle east, so that you can “turn the other cheek “…after being beheaded.
Just rhetoric, I don’t wish for you to be killed….just showing the dichotomy of your stance.
Well, at least the aliens taught him how to read.
aj- the anal probing cleared his sinuses for him.
It’s a wide stance.
I think we’re just getting started on the list of punishment God has dealt the world along the way…
Seems to me the instructions to Israel was to wipe out the inhabitants of the land, kill every last one. Of course they didn’t do it and now look at their mess.
Just before 9/11, there was also talk of eliminating sanctions on Iraq because of poor starving Iraqi children (we Americans were starving them, not Saddam “Oil for Palaces” Hussein).
Could have done without that visual.
Actually it was the UN, not the US, that was starving the Iraqi people. The Americans were either incredibly naive or very optimistic when they claimed the Iraqi people would greet us as liberators. These are the people who (correctly) blame us for ditching them in the first Gulf War and (incorrectly) blame us for starving them out of food.
Southernboy…are you a republican senator in an airport bathroom per chance ?
Who would Jesus bomb?
Someone here hasn’t read Revelation, much less understood it.
Like I said before, we got us a Moby troll.
Isn’t it ironic that the demoncraps are declaring that Cheney did not protect the US citizens (violated the Constitution), YET…..they want to allow Illegals to come in and have free rein/open borders?
Isn’t THAT a violation??
Just had to say that.
lol
Actually, it was Saddam Hussein.
LOL! You’re not even American, GTHO moby.
– southernboy
They were neither naiive or optimistic. We WERE greeted as liberators. It’s only when security failed to improve, and when important utilities such as power/water/etc. failed to improve in short order that sentiment turned against us. Go back, watch the news clips. They handed us candy and flowers, and danced in the streets.
southernboy = Edwards
I’m with Southern Boy except for the torture issue, which seems like a broad generalization.
I think the Hirohito and Hitler comparisons are beyond off base for the reasons that LGM described, and of course he didn’t even need to explain how much of Europe Hitler had conquered.
“What happen in Iraq stay in Iraq”
Well yes,(WHEN IT COMES DICTATOR ATROCITIES AT HOME) unless in impacts our security interests. What happens in Darfur stays in Darfur(hell look at Africa), and Cuba, North Korea, eventually Russia. I’ll listen to a lot of arguement for the war, and many are good, but the whole “Saddam killed millions of Iraqies” card rings false and disingenuous. If that’s our new foreign policy doctrine, I guess we’ll be in perpetual war around the world.
lol
gayle, yep, and they dont care. but you knew that.
This guy is even more worthless than Rusty. I’m leaving the thread with this link, The Mother of All Connections, and y’all can have fun batting this moby around.
Whoops. The Mother of All Connections. DOH!
response to 209 gayle. sorry busy here today.
southern boy .. your professions of ‘knowing’ Jesus leaves me smelling a rat. democRAT… who thinks if he has read a little of the Bible he can use it to twist an argument. (satan’s done that for millenniums)
real christians can see through your ‘phony’ relationship with the bible, let alone with Jesus. I know that you think that Jesus would concern himself with the ‘earthly’ realm, when He came as King of the Spiritual. He himself said, there will be wars and rumor of wars.. He comes back.. and He comes back as a Warrior..
His disciple John had a revelation of Jesus after He (Jesus) ascended. His eyes were like fire. Devouring fire. He is a figure of War. Jesus is the leader of God’s Army. Yes, in the physical realm parallels the Spiritual Realm. Where The Angels of God war against Satan and his minions. The violence you see in the physical realm is just a mirror of the violence going on in the Spirit.
Get a clue. Jesus comes back to Conquer as a Warrior. Your lack of knowledge of the Bible astounds me. Smacks of someone who has taken things out of context, and spews them out thinking that Christians are going to be baffled. Maybe you assume they know as little as you do about the Risen Lord and the Word of God?
Jesus came as the Lamb the first time, but He returns as the Lion the second time. Come Lord Jesus Come…..
I support a Culture Of Life, as did Jesus Christ.
Image: Dennis Hopper pointing his gun at his hostages in “Red Rocks West” saying: “Oh!!! I get it. You think you’re better than me.”
southernboy, the jig is up.
Southernboy, as you support a culture of life, should you then support the elimination of the death cult that is radical islam.
The islamic radicals say it themselves….paraphrased, they “love death “……what’s a Christian to do, but help them attain their desires ?
LOL !!!
Culture of life – ROFL.
I’ll give this to boy, he is more intertaining than lgm.
With you all the way uhangtight. Be careful, you will get the bigot tag hung on you like I have.
/WAAAAAYYYY off topic
Soap may be a first time grandpa as soon as tonight! WOOOOHOOOO!
I support. I support. I support. I support.
In a world run by jock straps and bras perhaps you’d be in good company.
Christ didn’t “support”. “I am the Way, The Truth, and The Light”.
What is the point, southernboy?
Jesus, supported a culture of life? pray tell where did you hear that one? Jesus came to give life and that life more abundantly speaks to Spiritual life. period. quick trying to take the Things of the Spirit and make them Physical. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit.
Never the two shall meet. So, are you saying that in Supporting a culture of life that you are against abortion? And, in support of taking down Roe V Wade? just wanting to know just how much of the culture of life you support?
Jesus does not call for us to lay down and die when an evil cult rises up to Submit, Covert or Die to that murderous cult. As a matter of opinion, Jesus would want us to rise up and fight fire with fire against this evil.
IMAGE: Bear1909 with crash helmet on swings on a vine over to On-my-Soapbox’s tree Off Topic to high five the biblically grounded Brotha on the prospect of bein a real live G-Paw.
Hallelujah, Soap. Best to Mrs G-Paw too. Nice work. You beat the odds!
Scriptural prowess in motion = uhangtight
kudos to you, hang. nicely done.
Indeed Bear. Five back at ya – thanks. Have a slice tonight for me will ya! I have a feeling it will be a loooonnnng night!
I know I’m late on this thread, but who cares what the UN thinks or says? We should kick that socialist organization out of New York and get rid of Kucinich and the rest of the nutroots while we’re at it.
culture of life = let’s pay every mexican 5 large to have a baby in the USA
I see a motion to table is up. There must be a big collective bipartisan sigh.
If anyone should be impeached it should Kucinich & all his fellow croany traitorKKKrats. They have been trying to undermine the president & American war effort ever since 911. That is the definition of TREASON & SEDITION. It is a very legal & just war. If KKKlintoon would done something after the ‘93 WTC attack we would not be in the situation we are in now.
IMPEACH THE TRAITORKKKRATS FOR SEDITION & TREASON!!!
For 5 large I will talk to my daughter and see if she will name the baby Jesus.
Where do any of you get the idea containment works?
Oh sorry – probably same place you get the idea that socialism works.
Never worked before but “we’re smarter so it’ll work this time”
Talk about naive.
errah, I had my staff fold some marvelous hats out of some spare aluminum siding. These receive the DNC Howard Dean channels much better than my old crumpled tin foil hat from Tip! On another note errah, if Elliot is giving out licenses to illegals i NY, perhaps either he or Hillary could put in a good word for me with the Massachusetts DMV. I lost mine swimming some time back errah . . .
jesus soap has a nice ring to it. lol
but ivory works if its a girl….
Soap… lol…lol..
think that we have heard the last from southernboy for tonight.. gosh this was fun!!!
thanks bear..but can’t stand it when i smell a rat..
and this one has an especially fowl ordor..troll..ordor
oops odor..
It was Saddam. The UN NEVER cut off food to Iraq under sanctions
In fact that is why Food for Oil was created because Saddam refused to feed his people because his weapons were cut off
LOL – Teddy – luv ya man!
Ivory Soap – you’re good. We’re not worthy!
I just got here and don’t have time to read the entire thread, or Denny’s diatribe, but I get the distinct impression that he does not approve of Cheney’s performance in office
I’ve uh been off for some time. I put my password on a coaster or napkin somewhere and could not seem to find it. Errah Fortunately one of my interns found it at Bullfeathers last night
Hindsight taught me that Saddam was never a terrorist threat.
So, Teddy, what do ya think about impeachment of the VP?
The kurds that were gassed, really, beg to differ.
They were the threat to Saddam’s regime, not the other way around. He did what he had to do. And how that relates to 9/11 I’m not quite sure.
ROFL – boy.
Did you not watch as his own government officials were called out and shot? No trial? What would Jesus have done?
I’m feeling kinda guilty these days – here we go all using facts and logic and for those challenged in such….what a confusing world.
At one point I thought it might be a terminal disease – but Clarence Thomas indicates in his book that he recovered from it.
I’m not in a position to judge (thankfully so) – but for some who spout here claiming things Jesus would say or do a verse that comes to mind “many will call me Lord Lord but I will say – depart from me, I never knew you”
errah we’re all giggles up here in harry’s office. we’ll vote yes on anything! Errah eh what’s a VP??!!
Who said it relates to 911……fact is, they were gassed……civilians….dead.
Your argument has no basis with regards to actual history, and Saddam’s bellicose behaviour in the region, much less within his own borders.
I’m willing to impeach Cheney, if we can also impeach all the Democrats who said the same sorts of things as he did. Lets start with Hillary Clinton.
We attacked Saddam in retaliation for 9/11. I don’t think he had anything to do with al Qaida.
Hatelibs has it right. The Congress-critters would soil their pants if we stockpiled what we have found in Iraq within a mile of the Capitol. They’d go to the bunkers PDQ. I still don’t think that the regular snail-mail is anywhere near functioning normally after the anthrax episode.
We know that the Russians were in Iraq helping to clean up the place before the US deployment. We know that Mrs. Hussein, for instance, moved out of country as part of a convoy of trailer trucks that probably didn’t contain just American dollars and her collection of shoes. And we know that hers wasn’t the first or last of such movements.
Why the Bush administration hasn’t made hay out of the things we DID find and the documents that we’ve captured documenting Saddam’s evil maneuverings is a Mystery for the Ages.
D. Kucinich is the only politician referring to little green men when he discusses amnesty for illegal aliens. How does this guy get elected? Honestly Ohio, what the hell?
errah Mr. Box (#242) perhaps impeachment is too strong a term here. We Dimocrats really need W around for the next two years kinda like a beach ball. If he’s gone then someone might start asking serious questions on our positions. Howard comes up with these distraction when one of our folks is taking too much heat like Hillary has this past week. He’s a media genius and know how to get these MSM folks off the scent.
errah my error # 243
20 yea 211 nay so far
opps yea 195 nay 216 nay
Oh. It is really too bad that we can’t let Kucinich have his lead on this for a little while. Watching the Dems display their full fruitiness would pave the way for a strong Republican showing in 2008.
Yes, it would be horribly wasteful and expensive but it would be soooooo illuminating and educational.
looks like we have some floppers.
An absence of public evidence does not prove this negative.
errah Mr. Box, How did you like those three plants he sent to question her in Iowa the other day?
this is crazy…
They are going on record? WOW.
I read where someone was saying Kucinich’s wife looks like the character Arwen Evenstar in the “Lord of the Rings. Well, I’ve seen her and that’s a bit of a stretch. Denny looking like Gollum is a more likely comparison in my opinion.
How can this even be close?
SouthernChild – You have now PROVEN yourself a moby. That was spoken like a true BDS-afflicted, Code-pinko, MoveOn indoctrinated liberal drone.
we attacked saddam in retaliation for 911 ??
So, the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998, was in retaliation for 9/11/2001 ?
Dude, pull your head out, your hair is scraping the back of your teeth.
unreal how many crapweasels are changing their votes , so far 55 minutes this has taken to table.
Why did we attack Saddam, a person who was no threat?
what’s a moby ?
now its at yay 178 nay 233
The Taliban were of no threat to the USA either……soooooo….how does it feel, hanging on that pole, straw man ?
Errah, Good uhh job uh Mr Dean! Errah, look’s like Hillary’s back to the B Section tomorrow on driver licenses and immigration. Wolffy now has something to fill his three hours with tonight. Tell Denny “Mission Acomplished!”
I’ve seen less up and down at a yo-yo contest.
A person who was no threat? If you really believe that, then I am done with you and would only ask that you stop the charade.
I agree. Saddam was no threat to all the people he killed. They were all dead.
southern boy, you didn’t answer my question about how far your culture of life extends. Does it extend to anti-abortion, culture of life? Or is it just evil you want to have a culture of life towards?
say as in pro-choice, kill babies but keep Saddam alive? culture of life? please, answer. tell me do you agree with abortion or not?
Sorry, Teddy – not ignoring.
You Dems did a great job there. Now, send her some flowers to go with those plants.
Saddam would have never directly attacked the USA…….the issue was the handing off of the WMD’s, that were stipulated to exist, in order for him to maintain relevance in the Middle east as a bad ass……..
lol michelle dont try and keep up it will make you nuts.. switching flurry .. lol
The MSM has been pricking the frontal lobes of the “Law and Order” show conditioned American public.
“If you can’t find fibers of Osama Bin Laden’s camel hair coat, then there is nothing to tie him to Saddam Hussein.”
Yet, where does al Qaeda mysteriously appear in force once the Americans invade? Iraq. Did they just take the bus?
Sunnis help Sunnis, as long as said Sunnis can deliver the patronage, cash, and loot to the sheikhs.
Osama had ties with the Sunni sheikhs.
They ran the show in the neighborhoods and protected Saddam’s power. And when Saddam was ousted they had a fallback plan- their connections and ties with Al Qaeda operatives.
Boots on the ground intel found that out in short order as American troops were being slaughtered.
George Tennant (sp?) was ineffectual about al Qaeda operating anywhere because he was a giant chickensh*t who never put people on the ground in spite of Clinton and his Mommy HalfBright.
History written ten years from now is going to be a blistering read for Americans who choose to engage.
It won’t be pretty. Once the Tennants and Clintons and other sorry peawits have written their legacy books, the genuine articles of history will be written.
Slaughterhouse anyone?
I know an Iraqi family that had to flee their country after Saddam held elections on 10/15/02. Why? The mother did not support Saddam in his so called re-election bid and had put a sign on her house stating she supported another leader, Saddam’s thugs came to the house took the sign down, took her eldest son into custody and threatened the family with death if they continued to oppose Saddam. Her son has never been seen since and she fears Saddam’s henchmen murdered him as punishment for her transgression.
They had to escape through Saudi Arabia because they where being harrased by Saddam and his cronies. They told me they where Saudi when I met them and several month’s later their daughter told my daughter they where really Iraqi, “We just tell people that because Americans hate Iraqi’s”. I asked her father why they would tell people that they were Saudi when I knew he was an Iraqi and he told me the same thing his daughter told mine. I told them that American’s don’t hate the Iraqi people they dislike Saddam’s Government. “I’m glad you made it here and that your safe” I said.
They have watched entire families dissappear into the night with Saddam’s thug’s never to be seen again. They have watched people shot in the streets for no apparent reason to them. The father thanked me and the American people for supporting the invasion of Iraq. Now their confused “Why do some Americans want to impeach Bush and Cheney the hero’s that freed our people and allowed us to come to your country and live peaceful lives.” My explanation was this. The people who want to impeach Bush and Cheney have another agenda, these are people that would like to turn the U.S. into a police state just as you lived in, they will denie this at all turns telling you that they are fighting this fight for people like you. They think that you aren’t smart enough to figure it out on your own so they just tell you what you want to hear, not the truth because if you know the truth they can’t make their power grab that will plumit us all into subserviants.
I told him you watch and see who is pushing this agenda and you will know who your real enemies are. It didn’t take him long either he came back to my house and told me he fiqured it out, “It’s the Liberals, Democrats is what you call them”.”I think when I become a citizen and I can vote I’m not going to be a Liberal”. (Smart Iraqi)
This is a betrayl to all the Iraqi people to base an Impeachment on intelligence that the entire world believed. How absurd, Kucinich and the moonbats that support this are fools.
can we get a list of the 133 republicans that are voting nay?
WHA?????
No balls. Probablly Ron Paul supporters too.
wow someone on the floor is really laughing loud and long… what the heck?
uhangtight,
its still going on, its nutso!!!!