Guess Who's Coming to the Impeachment

[helderheid]

by David Swanson Page 1 of 1 page(s)

In response to public demand for impeachment hearings and pressure from Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Congressman Robert Wexler, and others, as well as electoral challenges by pro-impeachment candidates, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally caved and proposed to allow Kucinich to present impeachment in a Judiciary Committee hearing.

The hearing was then scheduled for a Friday (July 25) and scheduled to last a full two-hours (10 a.m. to noon). Then the topic was altered. Rather than being about impeachment, the hearing will be about impeachment and other supposed remedies to a lawless presidency, with the bulk of the time devoted to those other remedies. Most of those other remedies will involve, believe it or not, legislative proposals. Thus, the dererrence to future presidents who follow the Bush-Cheney tradition of violating all laws and checks on power will be the knowledge that during the administration following Bush-Cheney some bills were passed criminalizing what had always been criminal activity.

Rumor has it there are two panels being planned for the hearing, one consisting of Kucinich and four other members of Congress (Jane Harman, Walter Jones, Brad Miller, and Maurice Hinchey), and the other consisting of five non-Congress Members (Elizabeth Holtzman, Bruce Fein, Frederick Schwartz, John Dean, and Bob Barr). Each of these speakers will likely have 5 minutes for opening remarks. So, Kucinich's presentation of the impeachable offenses of 7.5 years will be limited to 5 minutes. The hope of those planning this afair will be to bury impeachment.

Here's why they'll fail. Holtzman and Fein -- and Kucinich -- are among the most persuasive advocates for impeachment alive. At least those three speakers, it is safe to assume, will be standing up for our Constitution. Another you can add to that list is commmittee member Robert Wexler. Others are committee members Shiela Jackson-Lee and Tammy Baldwin. It is safe to assume that these members will direct their questioning to the need for impeachment and the advocates of beginning it. Plus Hinchey favors impeachment too.

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[helderheid]

1. bleah

[bear425]

2. July 25th! n/t

[bdamomma]

3. I wish Turley was on the panel.

or Vincent Bugliosi

[Lugnut]

11. That makes two of us.

I'd nominate Turley.

[Sonicmedusa]

4. Two hours?!?!?!

The man has screwed this country for 7 years, and Kuch only gets two hours? Two hours won't even scratch the surface.

[tekisui]

5. It's a start and will open many doors.

[tekisui]

6. Fein is great, he is an old repubbie.

[csziggy]

7. "Most of those other remedies will involve, believe it or not, legislative proposals."

:wtf: We do not need "legislative proposals" - we've got the CONSTITUTION. All Pelosi and Reid need to do is use the powers granted to Congress in the Constitution to limit the Executive Branch. Kucinich should request that the entire 35 articles of impeachment he had read into the Congressional Record be read AGAIN prior to the start of the clock for the two hours. Keep everybody there over the weekend, if that is what it takes. And Congress should do their damn job.

[bbgrunt]

8. wow. a whole 2 hours. kick.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. There's not going to be an impeachment, sorry to say

Nothing will happen.

I'd love to be wrong about this, but I don't expect to be.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

10. After which, they will send him a strongly worded letter

stating that since Condi is out of town, Nancy will be waiting in the cloakroom to suck his dick. What bullshit!