Uh-oh. The Dick Better Hope Lou Barletta Doesn't See This.

Or he's in for a world of hurt . . . .

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'Impeach the Dick' Resolution

Dennis Kucinich has posted on his Congressional website the Resolution Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, together with his note to The Dick.

The Resolution, formally introduced yesterday and given the designation H.R. 333, was referred to the House Judiciary Committee, which will likely be its final resting place.

There are three articles in the resolution. The first addresses what Kucinich calls the Veep's intentional manipulation of the intelligence to falsely convey the impression that Saddam has WMD at the ready for an attack on the United States or its allies.

The second article using similar language in accusing The Dick of putting out false intelligence linking the 9/11 attacks, Iraq, and al Qaeda.

The final article calls Cheney out on his current campaign against Iran and, essentially, says "there he goes again", in violation of the Constitution and UN Charter.

Unfortunately, these Resolutions have no chance of resulting in any hearings or investigations, as the Democrats are too chicken-livered to take on anything this hot. Just like they were afraid to call out Bush when he wanted to invade Iraq in the first place, and just as today they will back down on their demand for a timetable and pull back from any claim of a lost cause.

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Kucinich: Impeach the Dick

According to an announcement on his Congressional web site, Ohio Congressman and Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich is holding a press conference today to announce his intention to introduce articles of impeachment against Vice-President Dick Cheney.

{UPDATE: Kucinich has cancelled today's news conference and delayed his introduction of articles of impeachment against the Veep due to Cheney's apparent sudden "medical crisis".}

{UPDATE II: It is back on . . . . Congressman Kucinich held his Impeach the Dick press conference during the 5:00 hour this evening.}

Seems an odd move. (I understand those of you who responded "which one?") Accordingly to the Associated Press, the Big Dick merely went in to have that blood clot checked on. The Veep's office said that the doctors told Cheney that the clot had shrunk and sent him back to work at the White House . . . . .

Steny Hoyer wasn't impressed . . . .

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Cheney: Bush Administration May Challenge 22nd Amendment in 2008 Election.

The rest of us are all pikers compared to these guys. From the NYTimes:

The comments were fairly unremarkable except for one short comment near the end of the speech in which Mr. Cheney suggested that the Bush Administration may seek to challenge the 22nd amendment in the 2008 presidential election in an effort to ensure that the war in Iraq is successful.

Mr. Cheney again cited the war in Iraq as a key component in the effort to combat terrorism, saying "The war in Iraq is such a crucial part of the greater war on terror that we currently have our legal advisors looking into the possibility that the 22nd Amendment may not apply in 2008." . . . .

[Sources] say that the Bush Administration will argue that the 2000 race was not actually decided by an election and that the Bush administration has technically only been "elected" once since the Supreme Court's Decision in Bush v. Goreeffectively nullified the popular vote. Anonymous sources inside the White House have corrborated that this may indeed be the Administration's plan.Hey, remember when Giuliani wanted to put off NYC's mayoral elections, so he sould hang on after 9/11 despite term limits?

h/t to Phillybits.

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Cheney's Big Idea

“Deciding to side with the Shia is probably the most inflammatory thing we could do right now,” says Wayne White, a member of the Iraq Study Group who is now at the Middle East Institute, a research center here. “It would be a multi-headed catastrophe.”

-- New York Times, 12/17/2006.

The Times says that consideration of Cheney's plan to back the Shiites over the minority Sunnis is reflective of the "dearth of good options" for the Administration. No, it isn't. It is reflective of the dearth of good leadership in the Adminsitration of this miserable failure.


(Image Credit: Georgette's World.)

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One I Missed

In doing my overview of how various blogs treated the fifth year anniversary, I missed one of the best. It comes from a non-political blog, which is perhaps why I overlooked it that day. It is smart, funny, moving, and oh, so true.

From Liam McEneaney:

HAPPY SEPTEMBER 11TH EVERYBODY!

I was watching Meet the Press Sunday morning, and Tim Russert was interviewing Dick Cheney, and to give Russert full credit, he was not letting Cheney slide. In fact, Russert might be the only person in the press who I've seen interview Bush and Cheney and not give them softballs or easy questions. And I think that the reason he can get away with it is that the core constituency that Bush and Cheney should be afraid to alienate are not spending their Sunday mornings watching Meet the Press.

I have to say that watching Cheney cemented exactly the thing I admire most about him. I'd tried to figure it out for years, and it became crystal clear: He is not afraid to be what he is; an openly evil puppetmaster pulling the strings. I used to watch Disney cartoons, wondering why no one suspected the main villain was up to no good, what with their wearing dark capes, laughing maniacally at the slightest provocation, and singing songs about how much better life would be once the hero was dead and the world was under their thumb.

In fact, if I was going to make a movie about a bent, twisted villain super-genius bent on world conquest, I would cast Cheney in a heartbeat. You know, like the kind of man who shoots his friend in the face and gets the victim to issue a public apology for embarrassing him. The kind of man who could watch the biggest terrorist attack on US soil in history, and immediately start the wheels spinning, figuring how to turn that into an excuse to attack Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with it.

And the fact that he makes no bones about who he is is the masterstroke. If he had any kind of positive charisma, he would be the most dangerous man in America, if not the world. Instead, he's a cantankerous, contemptuous cesspit of sarcasm and bilious spittle who can go on a show like Meet the Press and be confronted with his lies, and not only show no remorse, but lie about the fact that he had lied, denying it with the fervor of a six year-old, with his hand in the cookie jar, denying that he was trying to eat a cookie.

At one point, Russert showed videotape of Cheney lying which Cheney had just lied about not having done, and Cheney immediately started adding a third lie to the mix about how the first two lies were invalid.

Cheney's at the point where I would immediately suspect him, even if he said something I wholeheartedly agreed with. If Dick Cheney went on national television and said, "The President and I are firmly against baby-eating," my first thought would be, "What's he hiding on the baby-eating issue? Do babies really taste like chocolate? Are they an alternative energy source?"

Sorry, I really try to keep politics off of this blog, but I've been surprised at how depressed I've been this whole weekend leading up to the fifth anniversary of September 11th, and to see this smug arrogant piece of left-over Nixon White House garbage telling me that his underlings hadn't spent a lot of time linking Saddam hussein to the falling of the World Trade Center makes me as sick as their use of the September 11th tragedy as political currency in the first place.

It's like the murderer who uses his lousy childhood as an excuse for his crimes. Ugh. Sometimes I expect Cheney to turn into a bat and scream, "SO LONG FOOLS! NOW I SHALL FEED ON THE BLOOD OF VIRGINS!" as he flaps off into the sunrise.

My point is, if you disagree with me, good. Please persuade me that I live in a world where the Bush administration's actions over the last five years are rational, well-reasoned, and ethical. That thousands of young Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis didn't die in vain. That global warming is a myth, that the economy is rebounding, that the evidence of my senses are completely wrong.

In other words, I need to get laid. Okay, I get it.

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