[Sosfbay-discuss] Impeaching Cheney First. Finally! (Next Wed Ap 25th???)

[JamBoi]

http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/041907Lindorff2.shtml
Impeaching Cheney First. Finally!
by Dave Lindorff

Kucinich's move comes as citizens across the country are bringing
impeachment resolutions to town meetings, city councils, Democratic
Party county and state committees, and even state legislatures--and
getting them passed.

Sources close to the office of Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio)
confirmed that the progressive Democratic congressman and Democratic
presidential aspirant intends to introduce a bill of impeachment
against Vice President Dick Cheney in the House of Representatives on
Wednesday, April 25.

The move will mark the second time that an impeachment bill has been
submitted against a member of the Bush administration. Rep. Cynthia
McKinney (D-GA) filed a bill of impeachment against President Bush in
December of last year, just as the 109th Congress was about to end, and
as Rep. McKenney was about to leave office (she was defeated in last
November's election).

Kucinich's bill will go to the Judiciary Committee, where Chairman John
Conyers (R-MI) and the other members will have to decide whether to
request subpoena powers and to begin a hearing into impeachable
offenses by the vice president.

Kucinich's action marks a major step forward for impeachment activists,
who have been frustrated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has
repeatedly stated that she has no interest in having the House hold
impeachment hearings against president or vice president (and who has
been leaning hard on Democratic caucus members in the House not to file
impeachment bills).

By bucking Pelosi and filing his bill, Kucinich may force the
mainstream corporate media to start discussing the idea. There has been
a virtual blackout on impeachment in the media, which has not even been
asking the question in polls, since a year ago, when Pelosi made it
clear she had no interest in impeachment.

Kucinich's move comes as citizens across the country are bringing
impeachment resolutions to town meetings, city councils, Democratic
Party county and state committees, and even state legislatures--and
getting them passed.

The Democratic Party Establishment has been resisting impeachment,
fearing that it could "turn off" independent voters, although the few
polls that have been conducted suggest that a majority of Americans,
and even not a few Republicans, favor impeaching the president. But as
the administration's scandals have grown in number and seriousness,
from financial chicanery to voter suppression to political firings of
federal prosecutors to illegal spying on citizens, and as the
president's War in Iraq has lurched from bad to catastrophic, public
pressure is mounting for Democrats to take tougher action.

Kucinich's bill may not in itself put Bush's impeachment back on the
Congressional table, but it could whet the public's appetite for more
substantial fare.

Dave Lindorff is the author of Killing Time: an Investigation into the
Death Row Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal. Another book is of CounterPunch
columns, titled This Can't Be Happening!, is published by Common
Courage Press. Lindorff's latest book is The Case for Impeachment: The
Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office,
co-authored by Barbara Olshansky. Visit his website for more
information. Lindorff may be reached at dlindorff at yahoo.com. This story
is published in the Baltimore Chronicle with permission of the author.

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