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Rep. Dennis Kucinich Wants to Impeach Cheney
Rep. Dennis Kucinich – the darkest horse in the race for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008 – said he will file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.
The Ohio congressman sent a letter to his Democratic House colleagues on Tuesday declaring his plans to file, according to the Washington Post’s blog The Sleuth.
Kucinich’s office had no comment on the letter or what the focus of the articles of impeachment would be.
The letter read in part: "This week I intend to introduce Articles of Impeachment with respect to the conduct of Vice President Cheney. Please have your staff contact my office . . . if you would like to receive a confidential copy of the document prior to its introduction in the House.”
It’s not likely that Cheney is overly concerned about the move by Kucinich, who trails his presidential rivals by far in the polls and in fund-raising. Even one Democratic aide quipped: "We’ll see a Kucinich administration before we’ll see a Cheney impeachment.”
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Predictably, many readers who sent comments to the left-leaning paper’s blog were supportive of Kucinich’s plans. Wrote one: "It may never happen, but Kucinich is right to propose it . . . The great irony is Bush can’t be impeached because if it were successful, then Cheney would become president.”
Both others were hardly impressed. "The proposed action by Kucinich may well explain why he is near last place among even Democratic presidential candidates: political zeal not balanced by political smarts,” wrote one commentator. Another opined: "I love it when Democratic leftist fringe types talk about impeaching Bush or Cheney since it really makes them seem like loons to the majority of people.”
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