Get to work, John Conyers and Nancy Pelosi, you pathetic pieces of shit, you.

HRES 333 IH 110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. RES. 333

Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 24, 2007

Mr. KUCINICH submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

RESOLUTION

Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Resolved, That Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:

Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Article I

In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, to wit:

(1) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Vice President actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction:

Here is a comment that I thought was cool:

jh wrote:

The last time I voted was in the 1998 elections, and it was for Ron Paul. I was registered as a Republican at the time, and had to change that. In the following years, I completely lost faith in the system and gradually drew to market anarchism. I haven’t even been registered to vote in nearly 20 years, and certainly haven’t contributed to anyone’s stinking campaign.

But I did contribute to Dr. Paul this cycle, and I have registered (all over again) so that I can once again take part, hopefully not regrettably, in the most twisted, tortured system since Wal-Mart’s “10 Items or Less” swipe-your-card-and-go line.

I may be a fool, but Dr. Paul’s progress is encouraging. The outcome of this election almost doesn’t matter; with each week, he’s reaching more and more people with his message, and it’s working. It won’t be enough to get him into the White House, but like Perot, he’s at least raising awareness to some important issues (Perot was effectively a one-issue candidate), and unless Americans at large have shamefully short memories — please don’t embarrass me, you motherfuckers — that message will stick with people years after the elections themselves are forgotten.

If — if — that message isn’t forgotten, the next low-life to “lead” this nation further into despair can expect, we can only hope, to look out a window of the West Wing one day to see a line of Citizens carrying pitchforks and torches … and some burly guy carrying a 5-gallon pail of hot tar, as well.

For 20 years now, I have been completely without faith in our government, or the system that puts and keeps them there, to ram it to us right through the next cycle (rinse, repeat). I’m damned tired of living in a country where “patriotism” has been so perverted that mere dissent is interpreted as tantamount to treason. Where in the span of only a couple decades, it has become acceptable for the Feds to spy on each and every one of us (”not acceptable,” you say? Nobody’s marching in the streets, there’s no uproar around the ol’ water cooler … so where’s the outrage?). Where torture is even a fucking debate, let alone one seriously considered.

“I have seen the enemy, and he is …” yeah, well.

Now here’s the “obscure” (only for those who haven’t been paying attention) Dr. Ron Paul, and he’s gaining momentum, in a big way. I have no illusions. He won’t win. But for the first time in 20 long years, I believe — or I want to believe, anyway. I want to believe that America is still a country where people actually believe in the Constitution, that it’s not “just a goddamned piece of paper,” a country whose residents still believe in the concept of individual liberty.

Hope it’s okay I reprinted that, JH…

What, you thought central banking was for “smoothing out” booms and busts?

Heh.