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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Windmills

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 06:17 AM

Finally

At least get the issue out there.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 06:23 AM

Tilt Away, Dennis

A healthy portion of the American public has your back. Do not be intimidated, and stay out of small planes, Please!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 06:59 AM

Let's see the charges listed in the MSM

I'm glad he's doing it too. Maybe some reporter will actually publish the charges being made so they can be laid out somewhere other than Gentleman's Quarterly.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 07:04 AM

Bravo.

Impeaching Cheney will defacto impeach a President, as the V.P. of Torture, is in fact the real President running the country from an "undisclosed location".

Once he tumbles, Shrub can disclose his drinking problem and go quietly into the night leaving behind a divided, if not ruined, country and devistated Middle East.

Lots of shrub left unattended back at Crawford, lots of tumbleweed left unattended in the world...

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 07:20 AM

As an added bonus

With Cheney out of the way, people won't be so afraid of Bush not being president.

Now, before any of you Bush-lover bloggers out there claim that I'm calling for the president to "meet with an accident", I'm merely referring to the fear many liberals have of impeaching Bush, only to then be forced to deal with the even worse evil that is Dick Cheney. I really would like George to be around for years to come to try to explain how he thought he had a good idea.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 07:21 AM

That's just not right.

Who let a democrat into congress? Heads will roll! Nancy Pelosi has got to get to the bottom of this and make sure this kind of thing doesn't happen again.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 07:35 AM

Great! Hooray! Get moving, please!

We need to get after these people this year, now, before they get near the ends of their terms in office.

Now, it will get attention. A year from now, unless the process is well along, it will seem irrelevant.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 07:49 AM

Finally!

Go Go Kucinich! The sooner the better!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 07:51 AM

Go Dennis, Go!!!!

If these 2 fuckers aren't impeached by the time their terms are up, I don't ever want to here about Clinton's impeachment ever again.

The bar is set so high now for the amount of shit you'd have to do to get impeached that no one short of a president who nuked his own country would ever be removed.

The next president can literally do whatever he/she wants to do without restraint and have no fear of punishment. That's how badly our government works now.

We are stuck with 2 crazy assholes and no way to save ourselves until the next election.

Thanks a lot for that Congress.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 08:23 AM

Go Ned Lamont Go

Shake your fist at God.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 08:41 AM

Cheney is a windmill?

I'd think he'd be more of a coal-burning plant or oil refinery...

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 08:52 AM

Quick! Before They Invade Iran

Thank God. Maybe if this gains some momentum the White House will be too paralyzed to go after their next windmill - Iran.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 08:54 AM

Da Prez

D.K. just got my vote for president. He's the only one with the nutsack to do what we all know is mandatory if we're to have a nation of laws after this Neocon swamp is drained in 09.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 08:55 AM

Kudos Rep. Kucinich

and shame on the spineless Democrats who are living down to the DemocRat party smear. At the very least Cheney should be censured for telling a member of congress to go f*ck himself on the floor of the senate chamber.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 09:43 AM

FINALLY

Someone has to get the ball rolling. Cheney is the real dark emperor. I bet the momentum will build once the articles of impeachment are out the door. I bet the MSM WILL cover it as a quirky side story. Let's wait and see.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 09:45 AM

three things

1. Let's not be so happy about impeaching the VP. We totally should, but I'm just saying, that's a dark day for our country when that is necessary.

2. Why does this make me want to pat Kucinich on the head and say, "Aww, aren't you just CUTE?" Well, you did call it "windmills"... (And I'm 6' and he's what, 4'2"?)

3. Even though this is probably pointless, we do need some people somewhere to keep the heat on, like K and Feingold, just to remind us of where we want to be even as we negotiate and compromise with others (and rightfully so, that's politics).

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 09:57 AM

A dark day perhaps . . .

but it's like lancing a boil. We need to drain the toxins from the Body Politic.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:08 AM

This is an interesting approach,

and outstanding political deftness on Kucinich's part. It does several things at once - side-steps the 'controversy' over impeaching Bush, points up the power and culpability of Cheney, and, one hopes finally gets the ball rolling so the rest of the bums, starting with Bush, get thrown out. We cannot let stand what they have done!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:39 AM

Post Cheney?

While I am not holding my breath in the expectation that Cheney will indeed be removed from office - as lovely a thought as that is - it is amusing to speculate who Bush might nominate to fill the resulting vacancy. I suppose he might ask Cheney to again manage the search, but since this time he could not end up putting himself forward, who could possibly be the Cheney 2.0? John McCain has started to sound like he could fill the slot, and it might be the only thing that could now boost his presidential bid. But to my mind the only plausible candidate is ... Joe Lieberman. Making him Veep at Last!

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:50 AM

Air Force Vet in Amsterdam

How about Alberto Gonzales? But seriously, lets hope there will be enough votes to get rid of the sharpshooting SoB

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:19 PM

Cervantes says

And I shall remain satisfied, and proud to have been the first who has ever enjoyed the fruit of his writings as fully as he could desire; for my desire has been no other than to deliver over to the detestation of mankind the false and foolish tales of the books of chivalry, which, thanks to that of my true Don Quixote, are even now tottering, and doubtless doomed to fall for ever. Farewell."

Wednesday, April 18, 2007 12:19 PM

It's not about Bush or Cheney

Impeachment isn't about Bush or Cheney. It's about their successors. If there is no serious effort to impeach them, future presidents will have to be even worse before they can face impeachment. Even an unsuccessful effort, however, will set an historical precedent, leaving open the possibility that only contemporary politics protected Bush and future presidents can't assume immunity. I've never bought the argument that removing Bush would put Cheney in the presidency because Cheney and every subsequent president would know their predecessor got involuntarily removed. I don't buy they removing Cheney anoints his successor as the next president because again, that successor will know his predecessor didn't get away with his crimes. Besides, Congress has to approve an appointed VP, and I doubt they'll approve an obvious GOP presidential candidate. If they did, that candidate would get incumbency, but also be saddled with Bush's problems.

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