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Kucinich submits impeachment bill against Cheney
by Dave Lindorff
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has dropped the first impeachment shoe, filing a bill calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.
Kucinich, defying the leadership of the Democratic Party, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who have been struggling mightily to prevent impeachment from occurring during the waning years of the Bush presidency, on Tuesday filed three articles of impeachment, claiming that Cheney violated his oath of office and the Constitution, for deceiving Congress and the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, about alleged but nonexistent links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and finally for making threats to invade Iran.
The bill now goes to the House Judiciary Committee, where
Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and the rest of the committee's members
will have to decide whether go hold formal hearings on the charges.
The
move by Kucinich comes as impeachment is gaining ground among the
broader public. Today, the Vermont House of Representatives will hold a
floor debate and vote on a resolution calling for Congress to initiate
impeachment proceedings against both President Bush and Cheney. That
measure would be a companion to a similar resolution passed last week
by Vermont's state Senate. If the state's lower house passes its
version, Vermont will be the first state in history to pass a
bi-cameral resolution on impeachment.
Under Thomas Jefferson's
Manual for the Rules of the House, under which the US House of
Representatives has operated for over 200 years, such a resolution
would require the House to take up the impeachment issue, just as would
a member's bill of impeachment.
The speaker of the Vermont
House of Representatives, Lynn Symington, had strenuously opposed the
resolution, and has been keeping it bottled up in the House Judiciary
Committee, but following passage of the resolution in the state Senate,
and a massive grassroots campaign by Vermont impeachment activists, she
has been forced to relent and let the measure go forward. Passage is
not a sure thing, however.
Similar measures are being pushed
in at least 10 other state legislatures, while two such efforts, in New
Mexico and Washington state, were killed thanks to pressure from the
national Democratic Party leadership.
On April 28,
demonstrations are planned in Washington, DC and all around the nation,
calling for impeachment to begin against both Bush and Cheney. To find
the location nearest you, click on the Impeachment banner to the right
of this article.
The mainstream corporate media, which has so
far been largely ignoring the issue of impeachment, will have to go to
extra lengths of censorship to block out the popular movement now, with
a bill on the floor of the House, and with impeachment resolutions
passing in the Vermont state legislature. It will be interesting to see
how the nation's news gatekeepers handle the story now that it is
breaking out into the open so forcefully.
Writings 
Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) and a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has dropped the first impeachment shoe, filing a bill calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney. 
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