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When Being Right Doesn’t Matter: Impeaching Bush Makes Too Much Sense
Whether or not one agrees with Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s strategy of introducing thirty-five articles of impeachment (pdf) against President Bush on the floor of the House last night — I don’t know how anyone could deny that Kucinich’s list provides a devastating indictment of the Bush administration’s misuse and abuse of power over the past eight years:
See the second part of his floor speech here.
If what the Bush administration has done to our global credibility, our legal foundations, our promise to safeguard all of our citizens is not impeachable, what is? And, from all accounts (including now from inside Bush’s own inner circle), this recklessness and neglect was and is the extension of a premeditated, systematic agenda. A Reagan-like ignorance or faulty memory can never be an excuse here.
What’s most interesting about these articles of impeachment from a cultural standpoint is how they barely register in the mainstream media — the same media that failed to report on most of the offenses that they now begrudgingly admit are true.
Admitting the gravity of these offenses, of course, would make a mockery of all the vacuous pundit-driven shows that have come to dominate the media landscape. True investigative reporting has been replaced by off-the-top-of-the-head reactions to packaged political events.
This has all been said before, I know. But when Rep. Kucinich exposes the mechanisms of power so blatantly, I feel it’s independent media’s obligation to spread the word.
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June 10, 2008 at 10:06 am
Thank you for posting this. I am totally blown away that this is not even listed on CNN.com front page at all. Just the fact that it took all night should have been mentioned. Media doesn’t care, but I do.
thanks
June 10, 2008 at 10:21 am
Thank you for posting this NEWS! To say this is barely covered in the mainstream news is an understatement. There hasn’t been a single word mentioned. CNN does have an article posted on their website regarding the dirty dishing by Gennifer Flowers and Paula Jones…
June 10, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Talk about a complete waste of time from a man who believes in UFO’s. This guy should be addressing potholes, not wasting taxpayers’ money on something we all know will go NOWHERE.
June 10, 2008 at 1:20 pm
If this is going nowhere, its because of small-minded minions like Bayle who attack the man, instead of listening to the message. It isn’t up to US House of Representatives to fix potholes - it is their responsibility to keep our country safe and functioning for the benefit of their constituents. Bush has broken every law in the book and made our country unsafe in the process. So how does it waste taxpayers’ money to speak before Congress about the most important crisis facing our country - the corrupt regime in the White House?
June 14, 2008 at 12:32 am
Of all the politicians who appear to be working for the good of the country and equally who wish to invoke the Constitution as our guiding document when conducting affairs of state, both foreign and domestic, Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul are by far the most noble and the most courageous. If Congress allows this opportunity (for impeachment) to pass, due to a lack of political will or just simply ennui, then this country is beyond being morally bankrupt, it has no right to even be a player on the world scene. Our politicians hold us up to the world as a bastion of freedom and liberty, a nation of laws and not of men. By all outward appearances, we are clearly failing at this. And we will continue to fail if President Bush and Vice President Cheney are not brought before the American people, and also the world at large, to answer the charges leveled at them by the aforementioned articles of impeachment. It is time, America, for a revolution, peacefully hopefully, by (counter)force otherwise. Although it may be too late, better late than never. It may come in my lifetime, however, during (or directly after) the complete collapse of the American dollar. Then the American people will have their backs to the wall with nothing left to lose and everything to gain.