Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) stood for four hours before the House of Representatives Monday evening (6/9/08) and read 35 articles of impeachment he has proposed as a HR resolution.

The articles accuse George W. Bush of secretly manufacturing the case for war, misleading the American people and Congress regarding Iraq, failing to adequately equip our troops in Iraq, falsifying troop casualty reports, obstructing justice in the Valerie Plame matter, illegally detaining US citizens and foreign captives, providing immunity for criminal contractors in Iraq, secretly authorizing torture of Afghanis and Iraqis, creating secret laws, violating the Posse Comitatus Act, violating laws and the Fourth Amendment through warrantless searches, failing to comply with congressional subpoenas and encouraging government employees to do the same, tampering with free and fair elections, failing to respond to the civil emergency in New Orleans, repeatedly ignoring high-level intelligence warnings of terrorist attacks prior to 9-11, obstructing investigation of the 9-11 attacks, and endangering the health of 9-11 first responders. For details, see http://blog.cleveland.com/openers/2008/06/kucinich_introduces_bush_impea.html

While the Kucinich resolution has picked up a couple co-sponsors this week, Kucinich hopes the co-sponsor list will grow rapidly this coming week.

You can help by urging John McHugh, our 23^rd District representative in the House, to sign on as co-sponsor of the impeachment resolution. You can call, fax or drop by McHugh's office at 104 Federal Building, Plattsburgh, NY 12901-9723 (Phone: (518)563-1406; Fax: (518)561-9723), or call or fax his office in Washington (Phone: (202)225-4611; Fax: (202)226-0621).

If you call, when the staff member answers, identify yourself by name and city of residence, and say you are calling to urge Congressman McHugh to sign on as co-sponsor of the Kucinich impeachment resolution and call for hearings to begin ASAP.

You might think that one lowly constituent can't have any effect on a senator or congressman's vote, but I can vouch that one phone call or letter from a constituent DOES COUNT. As a former staff member of a former New York senator (now our governor), I can tell you that it's not likely that McHugh will get your message, but he will check the numbers of people who took time to contact him in support of the resolution, and if the number is over 100, he'll multiply it by 10, or 50, or 100—whatever the factor in his formula is—to get a general idea of how his constituents are leaning. Let's show him!

I just spoke with “Robert” in Congressman John McHugh's WDC office, and Robert assured me that McHugh VOTED WITH KUCINICH to force the impeachment resolution to the House floor for discussion. As you might guess, the vote failed. The resolution was sent to the Judiciary Committee.

Nonetheless, we now know that John McHugh is supporting Kucinich's efforts to make Bush accountable for high crimes and misdemeanors. We have a good man in Washington! Pipeliners can still call McHugh's office to express their approval of McHugh's support of the impeachment resolution, and while they're at it, ask McHugh to sign on as a co-sponsor of the resolution.

Thank you for his great source of information! I decided to call. I'm guessing the number is 2, Let's hope more people call in. A prompt investigation would be a positive step towards hopefully bringing an end to all these horrible policies and needless war.

A complete farce...

Kucinch voted against his own resolution.

House Democrats kill resolution to impeach Bush

The 251-166 margin of the vote, held on a roll call Wednesday, saw all 227 Democrats—including Kucinich and his lone co-sponsor, Robert Wexler of Florida—joined by 24 Republicans move to dispose of the resolution.

One party - two disguises.