[NYTr] 3 Timely items on impeachment, Kucinich

[All the News That Doesn't Fit]

Kucinich's Impeachment Effort, like Ron Paul's Campaign, is Alive and
Well -- Though you wouldn't know it from the mainstream press. 

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    by Linda Milazzo

 	*Linda Milazzo is a Los Angeles based writer, educator, and 
activist. Her writing has appeared in numerous domestic and international 
newspapers, magazines, and journals.  Over the past three decades, Linda 
has divided her time between the entertainment industry, community 
development projects, and education.

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Was it retaliation by the Democratic Leadership that exempted Dennis 
Kucinich from appearing with fellow Presidential candidates at Friday's 
Jefferson Jackson Day fundraiser in Iowa?

Was it Speaker Pelosi's vindictive payback to Kucinich for his impudent 
dismissal of her "impeachment is off the table" dictum that kept Kucinich 
out of the Jefferson Jackson Day party? After all, hadn't Kucinich 
introduced HR 333 on the House Floor just that week, calling for the 
impeachment of Vice President Cheney, in defiance of the prescripted 
cowardice in Pelosi's House of Wacks?

Until that moment when Congressman Kucinich introduced impeachment 
resolution HR 333 on to the House Floor, members of Pelosi's Democratic 
majority had fallen spinelessly in line, kowtowing to Pelosi's disavowal 
of Article I Section 2 of the Constitution, which grants the House the 
authority to impeach.

Speaker Pelosi's wanton subversion of the Constitution, which has 
subjected this nation and the world to the continued atrocities of George 
W.  Bush and Dick Cheney, will be far more relevant in the annals of 
history than her singular honor as the nation's first woman Speaker of the 
House. Pelosi's legacy (thus far), as the most powerful woman in the 
history of this land, has been shamefully tarnished by catastrophic 
failures in leadership and courage -- predicated principally on her 
refusal to hold President Bush and Vice President Cheney accountable for 
their crimes.

On the heels of September 11, 2001, George W. Bush squandered his chance 
to capitalize on the support of the world by not taking the appropriate 
multilateral actions against the rogues who'd assaulted our nation from 
without.

On the heels of January 4, 2007, after becoming Speaker, Nancy Pelosi 
squandered her chance to capitalize on the support of the world by not 
taking the appropriate multilateral actions against the rogues who'd 
assaulted our nation from within -- namely George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Pelosi's failure to form the necessary coalitions to pursue Bush and 
Cheney for their crimes against America is as damaging as George Bush's 
failure to form the necessary coalitions to pursue Bin Laden and 
al-Zawahiri for theirs. As Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri plot further assaults 
from without against America, Bush and Cheney plot further assaults from 
within.  Some may argue the difference between the two-evil-duos is that 
Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri knowingly harmed America, while Bush and 
Cheney's harm is unwitting. Unwitting or not, Bush and Cheney have done 
more long-term damage to the safety and stability of America than Bin 
Laden and al-Zawahiri had ever hoped to achieve.

It's this failure on the part of Pelosi to use her authority to thwart 
Bush and Cheney that has incensed Democrats, and growing numbers of 
Republicans, all across this land. It's Pelosi's suppression of the 
members of her House and their willingness to be suppressed that has 
incensed Americans all across this land.  Sadly, to the lawmakers 
ensconced inside the Washington bubble, the intensity of Americans' anger 
is likely not known -- which makes the need to intensify the levels of 
activism, including outreach to their offices, that much more necessary. 
Constant contact is critical to make them understand.

If only both Houses of Wacks would empty in 2008 -- to follow the Great 
White. If only we could replenish them all with real leaders.

During the dozen years the Republicans held the majorities in the U.S. 
Senate and House, there was ample sympathy from the frustrated 
constituents of the long suffering Democratic minority.  It was believed, 
and certainly hoped, that if given control, the Democrats would summon the 
courage and moral authority to end the war and reinstate America's 
Constitutional principles and respectability in the world.  Now, a full 
year has passed since November of 2006 and nothing of the sort has 
happened. In retrospect, it was sheer whimsy.

Instead, over the past year, Congress members, under the leadership of the 
well-mannered, genteel Speaker Pelosi, and Senators, under the leadership 
of the well-mannered, genteel Senator Reid, are fodder for brawling 
Republicans.  Instead of backbone, Democrats govern by courtesy. How does 
one quantify how many American lives have been lost in Iraq due to 
courtesy? Or how many limbs have been lost? Or how many Iraqis have been 
murdered, maimed, and displaced? How many Iraqi children have been 
orphaned? How many emergency rooms in America would still be open?  How 
many Americans would have health care? How many homes would be rebuilt in 
New Orleans? How many fire-fighting planes would have flown over 
California? How many? How many? We will never know.

In different times - less urgent times - there is much to be said for 
courtesy. BUT THESE ARE NOT THOSE TIMES!!! Then there is Dennis Kucinich 
-- the diminutive giant in the House of Representatives.  The American 
Congressman from the 10th District of Ohio who refuses to be silenced. 
The Democratic candidate for President who passionately upholds his oath 
to protect the people and Constitution of the United States of America 
from all enemies both foreign and domestic. Not as an oral exercise when 
sworn into office -- but as a moral exercise every day in office.

For Dennis Kucinich, NOTHING and NO ONE will suppress his allegiance to 
his country and to his abiding principle of "strength through peace."

So when Speaker Pelosi tells the cowards in her House that "impeachment is 
off the table" because the fight to impeach is too hard, Kucinich doesn't 
believe her.  No one ever told him being a Congressman would be easy. No 
one ever told him maintaining democracy was a cinch.  When the president 
and vice president commit acts as egregious as lying the nation into 
illegal war, illegally surveying their own citizens, endorsing and 
allowing torture AND MORE, the strong don't stay quiet.  It's the weak, 
such as Pelosi, Hoyer, Emanuel, Clyburne, Boehner, Murtha, Blunt, and over 
400 others in Pelosi's House of Wacks -- Democrats and Republicans alike 
-- who do.

As do Reid, Durbin, Lott, McConnell, Feinstein and around 93 more in the 
Senate House of Wacks - absent Boxer and Feingold who have earned our 
respect.

At the October 31 Democratic candidates' debate in Philadelphia, NBC's Tim 
Russert tried to discredit Dennis Kucinich by questioning him about a UFO. 
Kucinich, accustomed to being blind-sided by agenda-minded practitioners 
such as Russert, fielded the question with resilience and cool.  Working 
in tandem, the networks and Democratic Leadership were trying to force 
Kucinich out of the running. It's amazing how much pressure the honest 
must endure, while the compliant seem to get a free ride.

At Friday's Jefferson Jackson Day Democratic fundraiser in Des Moines, 
Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel weren't invited.  Gravel, in all 
likelihood, was persona non grata to the Democratic Leadership for 
challenging his "fellows"  on their lies, deceits, and inadequacies.

Gravel never seemed to "get"  that his "fellows" CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!

Iowa Democrats, when challenged on Kucinich's and Gravel's absence from 
the Jefferson Jackson Day event, stated that Kucinich and Gravel were 
ineligible to attend because they didn't have an office or staff in Iowa. 
Point of fact, Kucinich had garnered more than enough popularity amongst 
Democrats to warrant his inclusion. He's been polling quite high over the 
past two months, often running 4th in the field of eight.

For those who understand the politics of Pelosi's House of Wacks, it's 
clear Kucinich's dismissal of her no impeachment bray, ensured his own 
dismissal from her Jefferson Jackson Day. Particularly since, Pelosi, 
herself, was emcee.

As of now, Kucinich's House Resolution 333 to impeach Vice President 
Cheney has been sent to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by former 
progressive hero John Conyers. Hopefully, Congressman Conyers will be the 
fortunate recipient of COUNTLESS letters, phone calls, faxes, and e-mails 
asking him to give HR 333 SERIOUS consideration when it comes to his 
committee. He can change the House of Wacks to a House of Facts -- and 
restore his nation to sanity.

Et tu John Conyers? Will you remain silent, as you have, since winning 
re-election on November 7, 2006?  Or will you remember Article I Section 2 
of the Constitution and the oath you swore to uphold it? Support 
Congressman Dennis Kucinich's House Resolution 333 to impeach Vice 
President Dick Cheney.

Contact Congressman Conyers at:

Email: John.Conyers at mail.house.gov

IN WASHINGTON, DC:
2426 Rayburn Building, Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5126
Fax: (202) 225-0072

IN MICHIGAN:
2615 West Jefferson, Trenton, MI 48183
Phone: (734) 675-4084
Fax: (734) 675-4218
669 Federal Building
231 W. Lafayette, Detroit, MI 48226
Phone: (313) 961-5670
Fax: (313) 226-2085

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As we reported last week, House Resolution 333 for the impeachment
of Vice President Dick Cheney is off the House floor, and has instead
been sent to the Judiciary Committee for "further study." This
maneuver, organized by Pelosi and the Democratic leadership, is
consistent with their mantra that impeachment is "off the table."

But not so fast. Some House members not associated with Kucinich's
resolution are now openly calling for immediate hearings into
Cheney's impeachable actions--specifically lying the country into
a war in Iraq, and threatening war with Iran. Rep. Robert Wexler
(D-FL), not a co-sponsor of the resolution, has called for the
Judiciary Committee to take up the impeachment resolution, admitting
that,"Cheney and the Bush Administration have demonstrated a
consistent pattern of abusing the law and misleading Congress and
the American people."

Because of popular pressure, even those who have wanted nothing to
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Impeachment is on the move. We are asking everyone to take a moment
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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/09/1455244

DemocracyNow! broadcast Friday, November 9th, 2007

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Effort to Impeach Vice President Cheney Still Alive

Despite the best efforts of the Democratic leadership, impeachment was 
indeed on the table this week in Washington. On Tuesday, Congressmember 
and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich nearly forced the full House to 
vote on his measure to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. House 
Resolution 333 accuses Cheney of deliberately manipulating intelligence 
and deceiving the public to build support for the invasion of Iraq and now 
towards a possible attack on Iran. Twenty-one House Democrats have 
supported the bill, but it's met fierce opposition from the Democratic 
leadership.

Democratic leaders were able to send the bill to the House Judiciary 
Committee, where they expect it to languish. In a bizarre sequence, 
Republican lawmakers initially voted against tabling the bill after their 
leadership apparently decided a House debate would embarrass the 
Democrats. The bill was eventually sent to committee after a 
back-and-forth wrangling between Kucinich and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

Democratic leaders have famously declared that impeachment is off the 
table. But their view does not fall in line with recent polling figures. 
An American Research Group poll in July found that fifty-four percent of 
Americans support beginning impeachment proceedings against Vice President 
Cheney. Seventy-four percent of Democrats were also in favor.

Congressmember Dennis Kucinich of Ohio introduced the measure. He joins me 
now from Washington.

* Rep. Dennis Kucinich, Ohio Congressman and Democratic presidential 
candidate. Introduced House measure to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. 
_________________________________________________________________

JUAN GONZALEZ: Despite the best efforts of the Democratic leadership, 
impeachment was indeed on the table this week in Washington. On Tuesday, 
Congress member and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich nearly forced the 
full House to vote on his measure to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. 
House Resolution 333 accuses Cheney of deliberately manipulating 
intelligence and deceiving the public to build support for the invasion of 
Iraq and now towards a possible attack on Iran. Twenty-one House Democrats 
have supported the bill, but it's met fierce opposition from the 
Democratic leadership.
 	Democratic leaders were able to send the bill to the House 
Judiciary Committee, where they expect it to languish. In a bizarre 
sequence, Republican lawmakers initially voted against tabling the bill 
after their leadership apparently decided a House debate would embarrass 
the Democrats. The bill was eventually sent to committee after a 
back-and-forth wrangling between Kucinich and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.

AMY GOODMAN: Democratic leaders have famously declared impeachment is off 
the table. But their view does not fall in line with recent polling 
figures. An American Research Group poll in July found 54% of Americans 
support beginning impeachment proceedings against Vice President Cheney. 
74% of Democrats were also in favor.
 	Congressmember Dennis Kucinich of Ohio introduced the measure. The 
presidential candidate joins us now from Washington, D.C. We welcome you 
to Democracy Now!, Congressman Kucinich.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Good morning. Good morning, Amy.

AMY GOODMAN: Explain exactly what you did this week.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: The articles of impeachment that were introduced 
under a privileged resolution cite the Vice President's persistent lies 
relating to Iraq. He claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, 
that necessitated the US response. He claimed that Iraq somehow was 
connected to al-Qaeda's role in 9/11. He has been beating the drums for 
war against Iran. Those are the elements of the articles of impeachment 
that were introduced into the House this week.

JUAN GONZALEZ: And why introduce your resolution in regards to Vice 
President Cheney and not to President Bush?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, certainly President Bush also has to be held 
accountable. However, I think that any constitutional process that begins 
for the removal of an official, when you have the Vice President, who led 
the effort to deceive this country with respect to a war against Iraq, its 
appropriate that he be dealt with first, so that you don't create a 
condition where you remove the President first and then Mr. Cheney becomes 
his successor, and then you have to have an impeachment of two presidents 
consecutively.

AMY GOODMAN: Explain the leadership's position and why you chose to do 
what you did this week.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: I think its very difficult to explain their 
position, because I don't think their position is defensible. I think when 
you consider that our whole nation is at risk, our constitutional form of 
government has been undermined by lies, by illegal war, by massive debt, 
how can you explain the position of Democratic leaders?
 	I think that the American people and their response is becoming 
more and more powerful, and were seeing that there being rising discontent 
among Democrats in Congress about the direction that our leaders have said 
is not possible. I think that people want to see this administration held 
accountable. After all, what could be more important than having an 
opportunity to get to the truth of what happened in Iraq, that the war was 
based on lies; that over almost 4,000 of our brave young men and women who 
represent this country have lost their lives because of those lies; that 
over a million innocent Iraqis, noncombatants, civilians, have lost their 
lives because of those lies; that we will spend between one and two 
trillion dollars for this war, even borrowing money from China? And our 
whole domestic agenda is being capsized by this war. And the 
administration is preparing still to take us in another war against Iran, 
similarly lying about a cause for war. So what can be more important? Our 
country is at risk, and its time for our Democratic leaders to take a 
stand.

JUAN GONZALEZ: What do you say to those who will argue that even though 
they may agree with you on a lot of your concerns, that the impeachment 
process itself would drag out for so long that it may as well -- people 
should just move forward toward the elections and elect a new president?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Right, well, you think about that. You know, the 
administration will be in office for at least fourteen more months. They 
can cause a lot of damage in that time. Theyre planning to attack Iran. 
When you think about the defense authorization budget including a 
provision that would retrofit Stealth B-2 bombers so they can carry 
30,000-pound bombs, which would then be dropped on nuclear research labs, 
creating an humanitarian and ecological disaster, What are we waiting for? 
is the question, not Why don't we wait for the election?

AMY GOODMAN: The other argument that the leadership has used is that 
they're concerned about losing in a landslide vote against them, that that 
is bad strategically, Congressman Kucinich.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Since when does it become unfashionable to stand up 
for the Constitution, to stand up for our nation's laws, to stand up for 
international law, to stand up for moral law? Since when does it become 
inconvenient to take a stand that would help secure our democracy once 
again? I mean, were really -- its all at risk right now, and its time that 
the Democratic leadership exerted an effective influence. As a coequal 
branch of government, Congress cannot stand by and let this administration 
continue to undermine our Constitution. Thats why I introduced those 
articles of impeachment.

AMY GOODMAN: What happens now? Is it over?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Not at all. I mean, Representative Wexler, who's a 
member of the committee, sent a note to the members of the committee two 
days ago saying that we ought to proceed with hearings. Members have been 
talking to John Conyers on a regular basis since the impeachment 
resolution was introduced, asking him to take this up, and I'm hopeful that 
he will.

AMY GOODMAN: Do you feel Conyers has changed his position from, when he 
was in the minority, calling for impeachment, and then, when he became 
head of the House Judiciary Committee, stepping back with pressure from 
the House leadership?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: I think John Conyers wants to do the right thing, 
and I'm hopeful that he will.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Congressman, I'd like to ask you, on another matter, a vote 
this week in Congress over the Peru free trade bill. Many Democrats 
supported the administration position on this. You've been outspoken in 
your opposition to many of these free trade agreements. Your perspective 
on this vote?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Its a disaster for the people of Peru. Its a 
disaster for farmers whose land is being poisoned by gold mining and the 
cyanide thats used in that process. And American workers have absolutely 
no protection about jobs being moved out of this country. Its basically a 
modeling of NAFTA sent to Peru. This is really a continuation of the 
stripping of rights of peoples of both nations. And a reason why NAFTA has 
to be canceled -- and Ive said that I would do that as President -- that 
we must get out of the WTO -- I said that I would withdraw from the WTO -- 
and to have trade that is wholly and solely based on workers' rights, 
human rights and environmental quality principles. And its time that we 
recognize that this whole trade model has been about nothing but a race to 
the bottom for workers. Its time we stood up for workers, no matter if 
they're in Peru or anywhere else in the world, but certainly in the United 
States. We should have some concern about what the effect of these trade 
agreements are on American workers.

AMY GOODMAN: Congressman Kucinich, you are head of the Domestic Policy 
Subcommittee, which has oversight over the FCC. Today in Seattle, there is 
going to be the last of the FCC hearings, as Kevin Martin, the chair, 
wants to expedite media consolidation. He says perhaps they'll be taking a 
vote around December 18th. What control do you have over this?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, as the chairman of the Domestic Policy 
Subcommittee, I can and will hold hearings on the FCC's decision-making 
process. I think that we are in a time when media consolidation is having 
a material and adverse impact on our exercise of First Amendment rights in 
a democratic society. The public may be largely unaware that the 
electronic media are regulated because the airwaves belong to the people. 
And the Federal Communications Act of 1934 said that the electronic 
broadcast media must serve in the public interest, convenience and 
necessity. And the more monopolization that happens, the less likely it is 
that the public interest is going to be protected. So there is a long and 
historic train here of thought that says that media consolidation is a 
danger to our democracy and that, notwithstanding what the FCC does, 
Congress should intervene to block any effort that would enable further 
media consolidation.

JUAN GONZALEZ: And the argument of those who say that the advances, the 
technological advances in communications, the development of the internet, 
basically has made -- outmoded a lot of the regulations that the FCC 
operates now to regulate media ownership.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Theres a lot of people who think the Constitution is 
outmoded, too. I think that when we realize the concentration of wealth in 
our society has accelerated wealth to the top, the concentration of 
information in our society and control over information accelerates the 
intellectual wealth of the country and the First Amendment rights of the 
country into the hands of fewer and fewer.
 	You know, A.J. Liebling years ago famously said freedom of the 
press belongs to the man who owns one. But when you're talking about 
electronic broadcast media, the people own the airwaves. I mean, that is 
the fundamental understanding that the American people should have. Those 
airwaves do not belong to those networks or to those big media companies. 
The airwaves belong to the public, and they're supposed to serve in the 
public interest.

AMY GOODMAN: Were talking to Congressmember Dennis Kucinich, not only a 
Congress member from Ohio, but Democratic presidential candidate. I wanted 
to ask you about the issue of exclusion of presidential candidates from 
various debates, most recently Mike Gravel, the former Alaska senator. You 
weren't invited to the Democratic Party's Jefferson Jackson dinner in Des 
Moines, that the six other Democratic contenders are; your response?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, its pretty interesting when you consider the 
fact that Ive been running consistently fourth in a number of national 
polls, ahead of three of the candidates who have been invited. So what 
does that say? It says that there's an attempt to rig the presidential 
election, using the Iowa Democratic Party as an accomplice. Thats not 
acceptable. This election doesn't belong to one state or, for that matter, 
to one party. And so, you know, look of the national polls, and you'll see 
what I'm talking about.
 	Amy, while we're still on the air, there's something I want to 
mention to you that I think is really important. Last night I was reading 
the Defense Authorization Bill, and there is a section in the bill that I 
want to read to you: Section 1615 requires the Secretary of Defense to, 
one, determine the military-unique capabilities needed to be provided by 
the Department of Defense to support civil authorities in an incident of 
national significance or a catastrophic incident. And then it goes on to 
say provide funds to develop a plan. Whats going on in this country? How 
can we stand by and see our basic liberties undermined?

AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Congressmember Dennis Kucinich in 
Washington, D.C., running for president. I wanted to ask you about the 
comment you made during one of the presidential debates, that issue of 
seeing an unidentified flying object. Can you explain what it is that you 
saw?

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, first of all, you know, I was kind of taken 
aback when I was asked that question, but I understand in Washington the 
truth is an unidentified flying object, so I guess I could admit that I 
saw something, found out later that Ronald Reagan on two occasions was 
said to have seen a UFO, that Jimmy Carter was said to have seen a UFO. So 
I'm assuming that now becomes a prerequisite for becoming President of the 
United States.

AMY GOODMAN: Final comment on media coverage right now of the presidential 
race that you're a part of.

REP. DENNIS KUCINICH: Well, you know, I mean, the New York Times has yet 
to discover that I'm a candidate. I could -- if I suddenly catch fire in 
New Hampshire, where We're running fourth and closing in on third place, I 
would imagine that I could even win the election, and the New York Times 
would have a big story about second, third, and fourth place and fail to 
mention that I won.
 	There is an attempt by the media to manage this election, to try 
to determine the outcome of the election prior to the people casting 
votes. Its just another way to try to defeat the public interest and to 
make of the election a kind of a farce.
 	You know, all I need is an opportunity to debate Senator Clinton 
on the war. She has voted for the war. She voted to fund the war. She 
wants to stay in Iraq through 2013. And, frankly, her positions aren't much 
different than Barack Obama's, John Edwards's. I mean, when I break into the 
top three, the whole election changes. And I'm working on that.
 	I realize I'm a long shot. I don't have any delusions about that. 
But I also know that right now democracy is a long shot in America, and I 
realize that our constitutional protections are kind of a long shot. So I'm 
willing to take that stand, and I think that the people of New Hampshire 
are going to have an opportunity to append the political process by voting 
for my candidacy, which will give them a chance to have a voice and a 
consistent supporter, not just of peace and workers' rights and healthcare 
for all, but of the basic constitutional principles that brought us 
together to form a nation so many years ago.

AMY GOODMAN: Congressmember Kucinich, I want to thank you very much for 
being with us, Congress member from Ohio and Democratic presidential 
candidate.