Guilty guilty guilty

[khaosworks]

Rep. Kucinich calls for Bush impeachment
Mon Jun 9, 2008 10:13pm EDT
By JoAnne Allen

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic Rep. Dennis Kucinich defied his party leadership on Monday by calling for the impeachment of U.S. President George W. Bush for launching the Iraq war -- but his move was not expected to go anywhere.

The Ohio representative outlined his intention to propose more than two dozen charges against Bush on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kucinich, a former presidential candidate, accused Bush executing a "calculated and wide-ranging strategy" to deceive citizens and Congress into believing that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has repeatedly said she opposes trying to remove the Republican president who leaves office next January because such an attempt would be divisive and most likely unsuccessful.

Kucinich, an outspoken Iraq war critic who has consistently voted against funding the war and led anti-war efforts in Congress, offered a resolution to impeach Vice president Dick Cheney in April 2007. That also failed to move forward.

Many Democrats and civil liberties groups have accused the Bush administration of providing misleading information before the 2003 Iraq invasion as well as violating the rights of U.S. citizens with its warrantless surveillance program. The White House denies the charges.

Comments

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

...and at quarter past 11, he's still reading...

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

And when he's finished, he'll wrestle a bear stark naked, tearing its throat out with his teeth, make the entire Republican side sterile just by staring at them, and then sexually satisfy the entire Eastern seaboard with sheer telepathic force of will before going home and making love to his wife for the next three weeks.

Skipping to the punchline

[cfred.livejournal.com]

Captain Kirk staggers back into the tent, bleeding his clothes torn, and says, "Okay, now where's this witch woman I'm supposed to wrestle?"

(Sorry, something about that sequence reminded me of the joke in question.)

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Not likely. We're talking about the first Keebler elf ever elected to Congress.

[khaosworks.livejournal.com]

Yes, but he's a badass Keebler elf with a smoking hot wife.

[gingicat]

What Khaos said.

[fizzixrat.livejournal.com]

Heh. I happened to discover this accidentally while flipping channels an hour ago and watched him read the last few points live on CSPAN. I believe my rep (Keith Ellison) was presiding over the House at that point, and it may well have just been the two of them plus some clerks left.

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

As I understand it, he read for a solid four hours and forty minutes.