Daily Utah Chronicle Op/Ed: Impeach Cheney

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Impeach Cheney
By: Joseph Bateman
Issue date: 11/15/07 Section: Opinion

Last Tuesday, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich stood with courage and leadership before the House of Representatives and entered impeachment charges against Vice President Dick Cheney. Ever since the Democratic takeover of Congress in 2006, talks of impeachment proceedings against President Bush and Cheney have been thrown around. These talks have been tabled under the leadership of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Publicly, she declared impeachment off the table.

Kucinich issued true leadership when he defied the Democratic establishment and exercised his privileged resolution to force the House of Representatives to debate the issue. Although Kucinich stood alone before Congress, impeachment is an issue that finds majority support among American citizens, including 21 co-sponsors of House Representatives.

According to a poll by American Research Group, 54 percent of Americans want impeachment hearings to begin against Cheney. This 54 percent touches every aspect of the political spectrum -- 76 percent of Democrats, 17 percent of Republicans and 51 percent of Independents. The support for impeachment is even higher in Vermont. A statewide poll conducted by WCAX/Research 2000 found that nearly two-thirds support impeachment before Cheney's term ends. The Vermont's Senate legislature even passed a resolution calling for impeachment. Here in Utah, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson traveled the nation, giving talks and drumming up support for impeachment proceedings.

Besides calling for Cheney's removal from office, what are impeachment supporters seeking and under what grounds? Representative Kucinich lays out his reasoning, "The best option to prevent an unnecessary war with Iran is to impeach the vice president, the lead cheerleader of the war. The Constitution gave Congress the power to impeach. Congress must use its power to restrain the Administration and impeach the vice president before he prods the United States into another war."

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Hell, even my Rep, Barney Frank, is against impeachment.

WTF?

I am reminded of an HST quote: "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro".