DICK CHENEY-- THE DARK FORCE FOR PURE EVIL ON THE AMERICAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE

Indicted money launderer and Jack Abramoff conspirator, Tom DeLay is screaming that the Democrats are "close to treason" and the GOP hate machine is making an all-out push to smear Harry Reid as a "defeatist" for saying what between 60 and 70% of Americans say-- that the Iraq war is lost if we just keep following Bush's disastrous agenda. And, between running from doctor to doctor today, Cheney popped into Congress to spray his own personal vitriol all over the American political dialogue and slime the Senate Democratic leader.

Is it time to take a garden hoe or rake and chop off the head of the snake? Dennis Kucinich thinks there's a constitutional way to do so. He's introduced H. Res 333 articles of impeachment against Cheney, a great start. He's seeking to charge Cheney on 3 big counts:

* Manipulating intelligence to fabricate a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
* Manipulating intelligence to fabricate a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda
* Openly threatening aggression against Iran absent any real threat to the United States

I spoke with Nancy Pelosi on the phone for a long time today and she went on a bit about why it would be a waste of time and energy to impeach Bush. I know she's right in many ways. But I don't agree with her. Leaving Bush in office-- not even trying to remove him, is a stain on the soul of our nation. It's time. We're well beyond a Senate no confidence vote in Gonzales. The time for symbolic gestures is past.

This morning's NY Times covered Kucinich's news conference. "
The event was originally planned for noon, but Kucinich initially postponed it based on news reports Cheney was undergoing emergency medical treatment for a chronic blood clot condition in his leg. When subsequent news reports indicated the tests were more routine, Kucinich rescheduled the event... Speaking at the news conference, Kucinich said he was pursuing impeachment of Cheney, and not Bush, for practical reasons. 'It’s significant and responsible to start in this way, because if the same charges would relate to the president as relate to the vice president, you would then have to go through the constitutional agony of impeaching two presidents consecutively,' he said."

The resolution concludes like this:

In all this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as vice president, and subversive to constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States . . . [and] by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.