Dennis Kucinich Sums It Up

Dennis Kucinich deserves our thanks today.

I'm not a disgruntled supporter from the primaries. I agreed with most of what he had to say, but it was obvious he wasn't going to be the nominee.

No, he deserves our thanks and gratitude for standing on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives this afternoon and reading the thirty-five Articles of Impeachment of George W. Bush.

Even those who say, "We must look forward, we know how bad the Bush administration has been, but why waste our time on this," must stop and listen.

The breadth and length of Kucinich's articles are astonishing. They sum up Bush's evil reign succinctly and to hear them recited been said on the floor of Congress makes me wonder how American could have possibly put up with this despotic murderer and thief for so long.

He should be impeached and removed. He won't be. I can understand why the current Democratic leadership, in its myopic lack of vision takes what they think is the safe political stance. I also understand that they don't want to distract the electorate during an election.

But 75% of the American public thinks he's a rotten president and a large percentage of that public think he's the worst president in American history.

I don't think we should shut up about that.

Bush should not be able to just leave office and slink on back to Texas or Kuwait or wherever he's going to end up and live off the millions made from the blood of American soldiers.

Is there anybody here who wouldn't send him to jail?

I know our nightmare is about to be over, but I do not forgive.

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Comments

[tyrdofwaitin]

I share your sentiments and I have a great deal of respect for Sen. Kucinich. The problem I see with Bush's impeachment at this time is that it would a) grind the Congress to a halt and b) produce a backlash against the Democrats as they ascend the White House. Impeachment should have proceeded four years and 3 thousand soldier deaths ago.

The Democratic leadership IS spineless. I'm hopin' Obama provides some needed backbone!

[chronic5]

It needs to be put out there in detail for the permanent record and for all the world to see. Dennis is doing this with such eloquence. This is history being made and these articles are going to be referred to for a long time whether they result in an impeachment or not.

[divineorder]

From what I have been reading over at dailykos, Congress has few plans to do much until next year anyway. Impeachment would be a good thing.

[KDelphi]

It's not the heat, it's the naivte' . You guys cannot be serious...of course Obama will be better thanW! So, also, with every Prs. we've ever had! But he's not gonna SAVE us! Maybe AM. has a savior complex...or maybe he was sent directly from Jesus--but, rememver, that's what the neo-cons thought about W! If you put people too far uop on a pedastle, you're setting them uip to fail.

[philistine]

While I agree that impeachment should have been taken up as soon as we figured out that Bush lied us into the war and was responsible for outing Valerie Plame, he can still be impeached after he leaves office. I would imagine that he could even be tried and convicted of treason, war crimes, racketeering or whatever else sticks. And if the trials start up after he leaves office, he can't pardon anyone. With such thin majorities in Congress at the moment, this may be the best we can do.

[KDelphi]

Indeed, if someone were serious about it, it would "So many high crimes and misdeamenors, so little time!" No prob....