send Kucinich some money for his campaign.

In fact, that's what I have been telling the DNC and the campaigns that are calling me for donations and such up til now.

"As soon as you start impeachment proceedings against the entire Bush administration from the top on down, THEN I'll talk about giving you some money for your campaigns. Then it will be time to put my money where your mouths are, but not if you're still kissing Republican butt."

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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"

"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

I believe there are several crimes covered by those charges

I don't believe that's the best way to think about it, particularly in light of your comment about prosecuting "prosecute policy decisions, not crimes" in the other thread.

A "high crime" is not a criminal offense in the conventional sense; it's an egregious transgression against the state. What constitutes egregious - and for that matter, transgression - was left purposefully vague in the Constitution. In the end, it's a political decision; it's whatever "we" say it is at any given time. It's generally accepted, however, that "maladministration" (i.e., policy choices) is not a high crime.

The charges aren't the Iraq stuff - that's the evidence. The crimes alleged are in that first paragraph you cite: subversion of constitutional government, manifest injury to the people and so on (very similar to the charges leveled against Nixon, actually).

Kucinich could have picked from a wide range of evidence, from alleged violations of statutory law to incidences of executive overreach. Such evidence doesn't have to point to illegality per se; it just has to convince a supermajority that the allegations of high crimes are well founded.

Kucinich probably considers the Iraq intelligence matters the most important and most convincing evidence. I think that's debatable - Cheney & Co.'s unitary executive bullshit on torture and surveillance is in clear contravention of both the will of Congress and the Constitution (Iraq is too, but the intent is more murky).

I think his decision to restrict it to Iraq was also in answer to the oft cited complaint that an impeachment would take longer than Bush's remaining term. Obviously, the problem is that narrow net isn't going to catch enough of his fellow reps.

It's about time somebody did.

The impeachment is nothing but an attention getter for Kucinich and another attempt to grab power from the executive branch. If we're going to talk about prosecution, why isn't Harry Reid being charged with sedition and treason and Nancy Pelosi with violation of the Logan Act? Those are both clearly warranted. This is such a crock, I knew that when the Dems got control of congress all that BS they spewed about working for the people to get things done and not getting bogged down in a bunch of partisan retribution was garbage.

If we're going to talk about prosecution, why isn't Harry Reid being charged with sedition and treason and Nancy Pelosi with violation of the Logan Act? Those are both clearly warranted.

Given your admission of doing large amounts of coke (see Lucinda thread), why haven't you been charged with felony drug possession? It is clearly warranted.

Or maybe it's just Walker back.

ZOMG! YOU LIBZ ARE EMBLDENINHG TEH ALL QAIDAH!!!!!

The discourse is pwn3d by juggaloz. I knew it.

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Georgia's in Florida, dumbass!

why isn't Harry Reid being charged with sedition and treason and Nancy Pelosi with violation of the Logan Act?

Them's the breaks when you install an imbecile as head of the Justice Dept.

More from the "Do-Nothing" caucus:

WASHINGTON - In rapid succession, congressional committees Wednesday ramped up their investigations of the Bush administration by approving a subpoena for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and granting immunity to a former key aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

In Bizarroworld, Tom Delay is still in office and Jack Abramoff gets the Medal of Freedom.

(...waiting for the plea that those upright, ethical GOP congressmen would have gone into an orgy of self-policing had they maintained The Precious in 2006...)

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Georgia's in Florida, dumbass!

Didja see where Tom Delay accused Reid and Pelosi of treason?

(link...)