Kucinich Files Articles of Impeachment Against VP
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), a 2008 presidential candidate, announced Wednesday that he was filing articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney. The grounds: that Cheney "purposely manipulated the intelligence process" and "fabricated a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction" with the purpose of getting the public to support the invasion of Iraq.
But the big question of the day is will these charges have any legs to run on? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on the recording as saying that impeachment is "off the table," and the Democratic majority seems to have no desire to remove the Bush administration from office. Instead they hope to hold out until the 2008 election and take the White House back the good old-fashioned "democratic" way. The media also seems hellbent on making Kucinich out to be a left-wing nutjob.
Granted, such a move on Kucinich's part is probably not the smartest one for a presidential candidate, politically speaking. However, Kucinich's chances of snagging the Democratic nomination are probably slim to none.
Whether or not the articles of impeachment go anywhere is really not the point in my opinion. Talks of purging Bush and his cronies from the White House have been rife on the left for quite some time now. But national media coverage of the i-word has received little to no attention. Now that national outfits such as CNN and the Washington Post reporting on this issue, the idea has been pushed into the mainstream conscious. And regardless of which way this goes, the public I imagine, will find themselves thinking more and more about the idea.