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Want to know how many co-signers the Clinton articles of impeachment had?
That would be ZERO -- not a single one of those prissy GOP moralist s signed on to that witch hunt.
This time around, we have a renegade administration that has committed literally dozens of impeachable offenses and is actively scheming to commit more -- mostly in the form of further removal of Cons utionally guaranteed freedoms at home and continued pursuit of a foreign policy of endless war, which hasn't been authorized by Congress, and includes the possibility of nuking Iran and embracing torture as an effective means of extracting information.
And you would do nothing because it might tarnish the image of the democratic congress, a body which enjoys the approval of around 11 to 15 percent of the public -- even lower than Dubya's own approval rating?
Sometimes being a legislator isn't about passing laws; it's about preserving what's left of the Cons ution, restoring protections that have already been stolen, ending disastrous and genocidal policies, preventing the next war of aggression and imperialism and begging the pardon of the world community for allowing things to get this far out of hand.
Impeaching Cheney is a step toward accomplishing all those objectives and the American people are way ahead of Congress on this one, as they seem to be on just about every other issue when the MAJORITY PARTY has failed to constrain Dubya in any way whatsoever.
Think about all that before you bash Kucinich. If his courage and the strength of his convictions could be distributed evenly around House democrats, we might finally have a body that actually represents its cons uents. As it is, we have Steney Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi telling us that the House has more important business and can't be distracted. As if there were anything more important than impeaching, trying, convicting and removing Cheney from office, then, in federal court, indicting, trying, convicting and sentencing Cheney and the rest of these vermin to life terms at Abu Ghraib.
We don't have the votes? Tough . Do the right thing anyway. Maybe when mass media is forced to cover impeachment hearings and the sheer magnitude of BushCo's crimes committed against the American people and the rest of the planet are revealed to the public, voting for impeachment might just be the only way to preserve House and Senate seats in the next elections.
Remember: Dubya isn't the most unpopular president ever because he's been subjected to media scrutiny; Congress' ratings aren't in the tank because they've been raked over the media coals for not impeaching or ending the Iraq occupation. Huge numbers of people have arrived at those conclusions in spite of, not because of, mass media. Imagine what might happen when the spin ends and testimony takes its place. Might be tough to restrain all the peasants with torches and pitchforks from demolishing the white house one fine morning.
