DENNIS & GOLIATH - KUCINICH'S IMPEACHMENT BILL VS. CORPORATE AMERICA'S STATE OF THE UNION
"We know the state of the union, it's a lie". Truth has seldom been spoken in such simple terms. With these words Kucinich dismissed any need to postpone his move to impeach Bush until after the state of the union speech. The time has come for action and only one candidate is strong enough and of sound minded enough to step up the plate. (Pardon the baseball analogy but it had to be.)
This is what it has all been leading up to. This is what people will remember about this election years from now, not some speech Obama gave in Iowa. Not that the media and establishment won't do everything in their power to down play and ridicule or even ignore Kucinich's bold move now that he has already submitted articles of impeachment toward Cheney and gotten twenty four congress members to sign on. No matter what the main stream reaction is the articles will still have been introduced and it will in a way represent the moment when all of America somehow, deep down, starts to recognize that the dream is dead. The dream of America somehow being so great that we deserve to be the richest and most powerful people on the planet indefinitely - even if by force. That's the thing that Democrats and Republicans have been agreeing upon since World War II - particularly the Bush's and the Clintons - and the people believed it. It took the current administration's stunning level of corruption and lying to shake that belief but it has also taken a supremely qualified candidate such as Kucinich to drive the point home.
The gauntlet has been thrown and history will record that Dennis Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment against George W. Bush on the same day as the state of the union address. To Nancy Pelosi and her singular commitment to keeping impeachment off the table Kucinich has said "if impeachment is off the table than truth is off the table". A second gauntlet. Perhaps the all powerful one party machine should have thought twice about leaving a man like that out of the debates. Turns out they were damned either way - the truth is coming out. Perhaps the corporate controlled democratic candidates should be focusing more on the bigger picture rather than getting caught up in their theater of absurd squabble.
Kucinich's move, no matter how the "Sabotage press" (as Harry Truman used to call it) tries to spin it, will come back to haunt every candidate running for office at the current moment. The reason is because Kucinich has the law on his side. By the time the election rolls around the scandals will be exploding so fast and furious that the shock of revelation will stoke public outrage over the fact that nothing was done sooner. Before long even republicans will be calling for impeachment because they know that after the election, if Bush is not impeached, everyone will be admitting that he should have been. Then you will have an entire government full of people forced to explain why they didn't do their jobs.
When it comes to high crimes in the oval office congress members are law enforcement officials and they are all currently (all but twenty four that is) derelict in their duties. All the people whose job it was to push impeachment forward will have to explain to investigative committees why they refused so adamantly to do so. These committees will be forced into existence because without gestapo style homeland security curtailing freedom of speech and right to protest peacefully you will have a lot more public displays of outrage. You might even have the alternative press gaining in stature and market reach and suddenly the media monopoly is over and then of course the truth tends to spread around fast and furious in such a climates.
Then you have a change in who gets elected and with that you have hearings on the great big disaster that corporate corruption and clandestine military complex operations have inflicted upon our democracy for many decades. As all of this spills into public view the big question will be why didn't anybody in government break the silence and then people will remember. Oh yeah that guy that everybody dismissed. That guy with the hard to pronounce last name who seemed really cool but everybody called unelectable.
By that time Kucinich will be everywhere. He will be the guy who stood up for the rule of law at the moment when Bush was preparing to pass his torch of tyranny to one of the other shills. Kucinich will be the guy who everyone recognizes as having had more guts and hope than anyone in politics for simply saying what needed to be said and doing what needed to be done. All of this is bound to happen because if you look closely enough you can see that the arguments against impeachment are all completely unethical and unable to stand the test of time.
I've read many accounts of representatives trying to explain to their constituents that even though the vast majority favor impeachment they are still not going to sign Kucinich's bill. They all seem to read from the same script. I even attended a sit in where over a hundred people forced our local representative, who is supposedly extremely outspoken and progressive, into a meeting where he read from the same script. He scolded all of us simply because we insisted on a straight answer as if we were little children who just didn't understand how Washington works. We understand all to well. The big argument he gave was the same one they are all giving and it is an argument which is based completely on democratic party strategy.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that is how our system is supposed to work. Putting partisan politics ahead of the law seems in and of itself grounds for impeachment. Didn't tricky dick learn that the hard way. I even read an article where the author had dined with Rep. Conyers and was given the same spiel. Conyers made the two strategy points that so many in the house have made to their angry constituents. First that it might cost the democrats the white house. Second that there just aren't enough votes.
Now, I'm no law enforcement expert but when arresting someone, as far as I know, you see how much evidence there is, you don't try to figure out who the jury will be and how they might vote at the end of the trial. Everyone knows that juries swing in different directions and that there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY OF KNOWING (unless it is rigged which is what congress might be trying to tell us) which way a jury will swing once all of the evidence is presented. And you certainly don't base your decision on arresting a criminal upon the outcome of an upcoming election, that would be corruption of the highest order. Yet here is Mr. Impeachment expert himself, chair of the Judiciary committee coming out and exposing himself as one of the nations leaders basing the biggest decision of his career on the outcome of a future election and the chance that such an initiative might fail. That's like the FBI saying well, Al Capone is really powerful and can sway elections so I don't think we should try to arrest him. If they took that approach then Capone would have become president and beaten George to the punch.
No matter what the outcome for our political future we owe it to our system to keep the integrity alive. We must start to enforce law fairly otherwise the result, which we already see unfolding on the battlefield and on wall street, is complete lawlessness. The way to restore the law is to enforce it, even if at first you don't succeed. For if the Democrats put politics ahead of simply doing their jobs of enforcing the law than even if they get themselves elected nobody will trust them to do anything other than what Bush has been doing all along, using the law to bolster the his party and the corporate elite.
Democrats have just shown us that they do the exact same thing with a slightly different complexion and that is why they are not being seen as an alternative anymore. All except Kucinich. He is more than an alternative. He is the person who is going to lead the entire nation into a calm and deliberate backing away from our drift into the madness that accompanies all empires in their final years.
He is going to help the world realize that high powered financial elite move their assets from one budding empire to the next in a constant shifting of their global power. He is going to help unite people of integrity everywhere to economically shift the world away from supporting the power elites and their wars. He will teach us how to empower ourselves through earning power, spending power and investing power. He will serve a solid eight years in the white house and then most probably go on to become the first American president ever to travel into outer space. I say that just because it's the kind of thing Dennis would do. Just when you think he's done all he can do, he does some more.
This is what it has all been leading up to. This is what people will remember about this election years from now, not some speech Obama gave in Iowa. Not that the media and establishment won't do everything in their power to down play and ridicule or even ignore Kucinich's bold move now that he has already submitted articles of impeachment toward Cheney and gotten twenty four congress members to sign on. No matter what the main stream reaction is the articles will still have been introduced and it will in a way represent the moment when all of America somehow, deep down, starts to recognize that the dream is dead. The dream of America somehow being so great that we deserve to be the richest and most powerful people on the planet indefinitely - even if by force. That's the thing that Democrats and Republicans have been agreeing upon since World War II - particularly the Bush's and the Clintons - and the people believed it. It took the current administration's stunning level of corruption and lying to shake that belief but it has also taken a supremely qualified candidate such as Kucinich to drive the point home.
The gauntlet has been thrown and history will record that Dennis Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment against George W. Bush on the same day as the state of the union address. To Nancy Pelosi and her singular commitment to keeping impeachment off the table Kucinich has said "if impeachment is off the table than truth is off the table". A second gauntlet. Perhaps the all powerful one party machine should have thought twice about leaving a man like that out of the debates. Turns out they were damned either way - the truth is coming out. Perhaps the corporate controlled democratic candidates should be focusing more on the bigger picture rather than getting caught up in their theater of absurd squabble.
Kucinich's move, no matter how the "Sabotage press" (as Harry Truman used to call it) tries to spin it, will come back to haunt every candidate running for office at the current moment. The reason is because Kucinich has the law on his side. By the time the election rolls around the scandals will be exploding so fast and furious that the shock of revelation will stoke public outrage over the fact that nothing was done sooner. Before long even republicans will be calling for impeachment because they know that after the election, if Bush is not impeached, everyone will be admitting that he should have been. Then you will have an entire government full of people forced to explain why they didn't do their jobs.
When it comes to high crimes in the oval office congress members are law enforcement officials and they are all currently (all but twenty four that is) derelict in their duties. All the people whose job it was to push impeachment forward will have to explain to investigative committees why they refused so adamantly to do so. These committees will be forced into existence because without gestapo style homeland security curtailing freedom of speech and right to protest peacefully you will have a lot more public displays of outrage. You might even have the alternative press gaining in stature and market reach and suddenly the media monopoly is over and then of course the truth tends to spread around fast and furious in such a climates.
Then you have a change in who gets elected and with that you have hearings on the great big disaster that corporate corruption and clandestine military complex operations have inflicted upon our democracy for many decades. As all of this spills into public view the big question will be why didn't anybody in government break the silence and then people will remember. Oh yeah that guy that everybody dismissed. That guy with the hard to pronounce last name who seemed really cool but everybody called unelectable.
By that time Kucinich will be everywhere. He will be the guy who stood up for the rule of law at the moment when Bush was preparing to pass his torch of tyranny to one of the other shills. Kucinich will be the guy who everyone recognizes as having had more guts and hope than anyone in politics for simply saying what needed to be said and doing what needed to be done. All of this is bound to happen because if you look closely enough you can see that the arguments against impeachment are all completely unethical and unable to stand the test of time.
I've read many accounts of representatives trying to explain to their constituents that even though the vast majority favor impeachment they are still not going to sign Kucinich's bill. They all seem to read from the same script. I even attended a sit in where over a hundred people forced our local representative, who is supposedly extremely outspoken and progressive, into a meeting where he read from the same script. He scolded all of us simply because we insisted on a straight answer as if we were little children who just didn't understand how Washington works. We understand all to well. The big argument he gave was the same one they are all giving and it is an argument which is based completely on democratic party strategy.
Now correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think that is how our system is supposed to work. Putting partisan politics ahead of the law seems in and of itself grounds for impeachment. Didn't tricky dick learn that the hard way. I even read an article where the author had dined with Rep. Conyers and was given the same spiel. Conyers made the two strategy points that so many in the house have made to their angry constituents. First that it might cost the democrats the white house. Second that there just aren't enough votes.
Now, I'm no law enforcement expert but when arresting someone, as far as I know, you see how much evidence there is, you don't try to figure out who the jury will be and how they might vote at the end of the trial. Everyone knows that juries swing in different directions and that there is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY OF KNOWING (unless it is rigged which is what congress might be trying to tell us) which way a jury will swing once all of the evidence is presented. And you certainly don't base your decision on arresting a criminal upon the outcome of an upcoming election, that would be corruption of the highest order. Yet here is Mr. Impeachment expert himself, chair of the Judiciary committee coming out and exposing himself as one of the nations leaders basing the biggest decision of his career on the outcome of a future election and the chance that such an initiative might fail. That's like the FBI saying well, Al Capone is really powerful and can sway elections so I don't think we should try to arrest him. If they took that approach then Capone would have become president and beaten George to the punch.
No matter what the outcome for our political future we owe it to our system to keep the integrity alive. We must start to enforce law fairly otherwise the result, which we already see unfolding on the battlefield and on wall street, is complete lawlessness. The way to restore the law is to enforce it, even if at first you don't succeed. For if the Democrats put politics ahead of simply doing their jobs of enforcing the law than even if they get themselves elected nobody will trust them to do anything other than what Bush has been doing all along, using the law to bolster the his party and the corporate elite.
Democrats have just shown us that they do the exact same thing with a slightly different complexion and that is why they are not being seen as an alternative anymore. All except Kucinich. He is more than an alternative. He is the person who is going to lead the entire nation into a calm and deliberate backing away from our drift into the madness that accompanies all empires in their final years.
He is going to help the world realize that high powered financial elite move their assets from one budding empire to the next in a constant shifting of their global power. He is going to help unite people of integrity everywhere to economically shift the world away from supporting the power elites and their wars. He will teach us how to empower ourselves through earning power, spending power and investing power. He will serve a solid eight years in the white house and then most probably go on to become the first American president ever to travel into outer space. I say that just because it's the kind of thing Dennis would do. Just when you think he's done all he can do, he does some more.
