Then, sometime between 3:45-4:15 pm (EDT), he’ll climb back aboard his tiny space ship and light out for whatever the fuck planet it is he comes from, where he’ll enjoy a couple of Miller Chills and a tiny plate of warmed-over irrelevance while watching a “Petticoat Junction” marathon on his interstellar satellite dish:
A press conference will be held today at the Cannon HOB Terrace at 2pm (EDT)
Sessions of the House of Representatives are broadcast live on C-SPAN (check your local cable listings for channel) and streamed live via the Internet (www.cspan.org).
The article of Impeachment will deal directly with President Bush fraudulently obtaining support for an attack on Iraq by creating a false case for war. Full details of the Article of Impeachment will be available after they are read on the floor of the House by Congressman Kucinich.
Please spread the word and continue to circulate the online petition that Congressman Kucinich will personally present to members of Congress.
Media contact
Andy Juniewicz - 216 409 8992Thank you.
Re-Elect Congressman Kucinich Committee
Uh, yeah.
You know, perhaps it’s time Congress instituted a rule that would ensure that taxpayer money isn’t wasted on this kind of showy and self-serving nonsense, particularly after a number of independent investigations have shown that there was no orchestrated attempt to “create a false case for war.” In fact, all Kucinich need do to disabuse himself of this notion is read the Joint Resolution to Authorize the use of US Armed Forces — and his constituents should remind him that mistaken intelligence having to do with the state of Iraq’s weapons program (as opposed to the capabilities of such a program, once reconstituted) is more an indictment of the state of our intelligence capabilities than it is of any evil intent on the part of the Bush administration.
But then, Kucinich is more about pimping Kucinich than he is about protecting the country, or else he wouldn’t be attempting to bring charges against the President for acting in a way that he, as the CiC entrusted with protecting the homeland, thought most likely to bring about a longterm widespread strategic victory against rogue terrorists and their state sponsers, a course of action that had to take into account all of Saddam’s international transgressions, then incorporate those transgressions into a context that included a surprise attack against the US, obvious (though not “operational”) connections between Saddam’s government and terrorists (including those affiliated with al Qaeda), an Anthrax scare, and a Middle East that had been largely emboldened by years of ineffectual responses by the US to belligerent provocation, a region whose distrust of the US had be stoked, at least in part, by the kind of foreign policy realism that people like Kucinich had previously decried as sinister and self interested.
These kinds of show measures do nothing more than make it increasingly difficult for a sitting President to do anything but protect his own “legacy” — which means that our elected officials are being trained to kick the can down the road, lest they face this kind of feigned outrage by fringe politicians playing to their fringe base.
Sometimes I wish Kucinich had been born taller, and with ears that looked less like they belonged on a ring-battered leprechaun. Because I suspect were that the case, he’d probably be a happy insurance salesman somewhere in the suburbs of Ohio, and we wouldn’t have to put up with his constant attempts to grab a few headlines.
But alas, the Lord sawed him off and blunted his ear tips. And so it is what it is…
Let’s see .. the last time the Congress impeached a President and sent it to the Senate for trial, the majority party nearly (well sort of did with Jeffords) lost the Senate in the next election.
I say go for it Dennis.
With the astronomical approval rating of 9 per cent, Congress just needs to bring more attention to the uselessness of this Congressional leadership and the current majority.
God dam treasonous liberals need to all emmigrate to freakin France with the rest of their socialist buddies.
On the other hand is wife is kind of a hottie. Not sure where I’m going with that.
There are times when I’d like to use little Dennis as a railroad spike, particularly since there are a couple of loose spots in the track out back of my house, in which event I’d probably be glad he was born kinda short as it would mean fewer swings of the hammer.
Didn’t his wife admit to having a piercing “down there”?
ConservativeHero —
If you can’t do parody effectively, stop it. You’re embarrassing yourself and lowering the value of my real estate.
Fascist.
I can haz hearings?
bush should be impeached for crimes against humanity. He is a war criminal and they should have his perp walk at the Hague. Impeachment is a natural step in order to stop further trashing of the constitution, warrantless wiretaps, torture, illegal war, manipulation of the Justice Department, and bush’s Oil buddies rape of our planet. This administration disgusts me and any rational person. Only you 28%ers cling to your beloved bush, everyone else everywhere in the world hates his guts.
We should a lot impeach some congresspeople I think for creating a false case for peace I think. Anyone who’s ever cited that George Soros Lancet study, for starters. And really, it seems kind of kooky to impeach Bush without first firing a whole bunch of those CIA pansies.
A nitpick — I believe it’s “Petticoat Junction.” The Petty was likely a Freudian slip, given how well it describes Kucinich.
BTW, Uncle Joe? Moving slowa than evah.
Okay, I’m fixing to get out my banning stick.
You could just ask me to leave.
I could also take a dump in my sink, then draw in it with a toothpick. But that’s not my first choice, either.
Well have a nice life.
Is our CIA totally teh gay? I think it might could be. Definitely at least there should be hearings.
They should have hearing about why MTV changed their decades long policy on accepting political advertising this year rather than in 2004 when that devil Bush could have been defeated by the heroic John Kerry. Questions need to be asked!!!
It is a bureaucracy and has suffered what happens in all such creatures, ‘feet.
But that doesn’t explain hiring Joe Wilson really. There’s clearly a poncey bias at work over there.
Will the socialist/whiney/code-pink/progressive/mike-moore/commie/islamo block of screeching nitwits let go of the most virilent BDS strains when the man leaves office? I mean, they kinda quit hating on Reagan after a while. Not so much Nixon, though.
I used to live in a neighborhood near DC that was chock-a-block with CIA people (of course they would all say they worked at State or wouldn’t say at all where they worked) and they were good sorts of people. They all had families to care of etc. and weren’t big risk taking types at that stage of their lives.
[…] Given that Reid and Pelosi already told him once to cut this out you’d think he’d stop entertaining us. […]
Good point, sdferr, and even Joe Wilson didn’t turn his little children out on Access Hollywood.
Sorry Jeff, that was probably my fault.
Yesterday, when I told ConservativeHero his ProggHero was a better parody, he must have misread it and thought I was saying ProggHero was a good parody.
My bad.
Well consider who would want to work in a long established bureaucracy and you have your answer to how Joe Wilson and why so poncey. Back in the ’60s which is when I knew cia sorts I notice a lot of ex-military, catholics (with big families of 5-6 kids, my pals) and mormons with medium families (2-3). It had a John Updikey element to it too though. Lots of bridge players in that neighboorhood.
Re: The CIA
Striped-pants sorts from State established a beachhead at the CIA when they fled Foggy Bottom during the Red Scare (and whay did that happen, hmmmm).
Oh, and I like bridge. Great game. Not boring.
Koochy and the Boys running up this flag over and over again are just putting on a show. That, I understand.
The audience that demands it, making this tired dance a yearly inevitability during every Republican presidency, is fucking psychotic.
Why does this remind me of that funny little song in the end credits of “Team America: World Police”, sung by Kim Jong-Il –
“You are worthress, Arec Bardwin”…
I get the sense that the Bush Impeachment Movement went out of fashion about the same time as the Trucker Hats did. The Kidz have moved on to Obamamania, and I think the trend-setters are even post-Obama now. They are writing DKos diaries filled with world-weary cynicism and ennui now that O! has betrayed them on so many issues.
Kucinich is so 2004.
mojo,
I could tell you exactly why it reminds you of Kim Jong-Il at the end of the movie, but it would be a spoiler for those who haven’t seen the reveal.
[…] time and money with his delusions of grandeur. Jeff Goldstein has, so far as I’m concerned, the only post on this subject you need to read, ever. It begins with the proper level of disdain “Congressman Dennis Kucinich will present a […]
What was that about a cooter-ring ?
What was that about a cooter-ring ?
See? Totally 2004.
You are so gonna get a letter from Shirley Maclaine.
Mojo & Karl will get nasty emails from “Maaaaaatt Daaaaaaamon.”
I always figured his ears were his most complimentary feature. Well, that and his wonderful personality.
I’ll be on the lookout for anything postmarked from the Past Lives Pavillion.
I was gonna title this post “An Army of Kuciniches” just to see if I could draw some interest from IP. But then I decided against it.
Comment by happyfeet on 7/10 @ 12:59 pm #
He did allow his kid to be interviewed by a newspaper reporter in the airport though. His kid said something like “My mommy is a secret spy”
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Here is what I don’t get. If Bush is a war criminal and a constitution ripper upper, warrantless wiretapper that should be impeached then why are all the Democrats lining up to vote in favor and greenlight all his
crimesprograms and policies?#38: Probably wise, as I just tapped that with “An Army of Durantys.” I was thinking something along the lines of “Kucinich is Impeachy-keen again.”
It will be interesting to see the honorable chairman John Conyers try and play the moral authority card while his wife is being frogmarched for being caught on surveillance for taking bribes for votes though.
oh. That’s true about Joe Wilson. When Madonna is more protective of her children than you are you should look at yourself I think.
All eyes on the Tofupup Kucinich
I’ll be thinking of him tomorrow night when Rush plays “Limelight”
Simple. When KKKarl Rove resigned, he left his super-secret mind control ray behind.
That, or they’re afraid of Cheney.
Kucinich is the top suspect in Ron Paul’s missing pot o’ gold. Details forthcoming!
Bring back duels for the political class. That will stop this sort of nonsense from the blowhards. It will also improve the ratings for C-SPAN. I’d even spring for pay-per-view if Chuck the Schmuck was one of the participants.
The chance of seeing Chuck Schumer get the crap kicked out of him…. priceless.
There’s plenty of room on the National Mall for a Thunderdome. And maybe a Hooters.
I love the innernuts:
“I was sent from pranet Xiron to conquer the Earf / I had a twiffic pran – I thought it would work / I tried to get the Earfrings all to kill each other, y’see / But it all went wrong and now I must decree / You are worthress Arec Bardwin / You are worthress Arec Bardwin / You have faiwred in every way / and now my stock in you has fawren / Your career is stawrin’ / and you’re worthress Arec Bardwin / That’s why I brew your head off / And your chirdren are all bawrin’ / Pranet Xiron is inhabited with Xipods rike me / But arso with Barmacs who are giant bees / The Xipods and the Barmacs are at constant war / So we wanted a new home and that’s what Earf was for / But you are worthress Arec Bardwin / You are worthress Arec Bardwin / You fucked up my whole plan / and now Xiron is smeared with Barmac porren / Your garbage needs some hawring / and you’re worthress Arec Bardwin / Now I must return home a faiwrure / I’m afraid the pit of Cryrock is cawrin’.”
TWO MEN ENTER… ONE MAN LEAVES!
Even better: TWO POLITICIANS ENTER… NEITHER LEAVES!
Master Blaster!
Harry Reid could be the big, lumbering retard in the helmet, and Kucinich could be the creepy midget on his shoulders.
Jeff can don a knee brace and half a set of shoulder pads, then defeat them with a magical dog whisltle forged of satire and common sense.
– Judging from his FOX appearance, where he explains his idiotic impeachment, Kucinich needs s new toupe’.
– Nancy immediately tabled it in committee. The nutroots get a little medicine to quell the indegestion of all of Obama’s recent reversals, but it goes nowhere.
– A win, win, and Kucinich still looks like the answer to the question “Are the greys or greens living among us?”.
“Aren’t we a pair… Raggedy Man?”
To be fair, I think it should be known that Dennis Kucinich really looks up to Harry Reid.
In the best of all possible worlds, Kucinich’s supporters would be deeply embarrassed.
#53 – I vote “greys”.