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 True investigative reporting has been replaced by off-the-top-of-the-head reactions to packaged political events.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.