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More Stupidity on Impeachment
By pudge on November 24, 2007 11:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
I was just looking over some of Dennis Kucinich's stuff on impeachment.
I've never seen a rational article on impeachment against Bush or Cheney. And that has not changed.
Here's some of what Kucinich accuses Cheney of:
purposely manipulating intelligence to fabricate a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in order to justify an attack on Iraq
deceiving Congress about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida
threatening aggression against the Republic of Iran, absent any real threat to the United States
That never happened. No aggression was ever threatened against Iran.
This article in the Seattle P-I adds more ideas:
It was in violation of neither. And further, Congress gave Bush the authority to do it. Congress impeaching the President for exercising authority granted by the Congress is inexcusably stupid.
This is a dispute over whether FISA constitutionally limited the authority of the President, and can only properly be adjudicated by the Supreme Court. To impeach on these grounds would be a serious violation of separation of powers.
That never happened, in fact. Only statutory habeas corpus was rescinded, and only for alien unlawful enemy combatants. It's absolute idiocy to say that a plain old law that granted rights cannot be rescinded.
And besides, Congress did this, not the President!
abuse of signing statements
As they have no legal force, and are not mentioned by the Constitution, this would be a stupid thing to impeach over. That's like saying you should impeach the President for watching baseball.
and rescinding habeas corpus.
It's astounding that our representatives to Congress carry on with business as usual knowing that Americans lack habeas corpus and a working code of law.
It's astounding to me that the P-I would publish a column by someone claiming that any American lacks any habeas corpus (including stautory habeas corpus).
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More Stupidity on Impeachment - <pudge/*>
More Stupidity on Impeachment
By pudge on November 24, 2007 11:35 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
I was just looking over some of Dennis Kucinich's stuff on impeachment.
I've never seen a rational article on impeachment against Bush or Cheney. And that has not changed.
Here's some of what Kucinich accuses Cheney of:
purposely manipulating intelligence to fabricate a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction in order to justify an attack on Iraq
deceiving Congress about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida
threatening aggression against the Republic of Iran, absent any real threat to the United States
That never happened. No aggression was ever threatened against Iran.
This article in the Seattle P-I adds more ideas:
It was in violation of neither. And further, Congress gave Bush the authority to do it. Congress impeaching the President for exercising authority granted by the Congress is inexcusably stupid.
This is a dispute over whether FISA constitutionally limited the authority of the President, and can only properly be adjudicated by the 
Supreme Court. To impeach on these grounds would be a serious violation of separation of powers.
That never happened, in fact. Only statutory habeas corpus was rescinded, and only for alien unlawful enemy combatants. It's absolute idiocy to say that a plain old law that granted rights cannot be rescinded.
And besides, Congress did this, not the President!
abuse of signing statements
As they have no legal force, and are not mentioned by the Constitution, this would be a stupid thing to impeach over. That's like saying you should impeach the President for watching baseball.
and rescinding habeas corpus.
It's astounding that our representatives to Congress carry on with business as usual knowing that Americans lack habeas corpus and a working code of law.
It's astounding to me that the P-I would publish a column by someone claiming that any American lacks any habeas corpus (including stautory habeas corpus).
This page contains a single entry by pudge published on November 24, 2007 11:35 PM.
You Forgot Ron Paul! was the previous entry in this site.
LCE025 Strange Days is the next entry in this site.