Posted on 12/08/2006 3:49:15 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney announced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.
The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.
McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected. In introducing her legislation in the final hours of the current Congress, she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation's laws.
McKinney has made no secret of her frustration with Democratic leaders since voters ousted her from office in the Democratic primary this summer. In a speech Monday at George Washington University, she accused party leaders of cowing to Republicans on the war in Iraq and on military mistreatment of prisoners.
McKinney, who has not discussed her future plans, has increasingly embraced her image as a controversial figure.
She has hosted numerous panels on Sept. 11 conspiracy theories and suggested that Bush had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks but kept quiet about it to allow friends to profit from the aftermath. She introduced legislation to establish a permanent collection of rapper Tupac Shakur's recordings at the National Archives and calling for a federal investigation into his killing.
But it was her scuffle with a Capitol police officer that drew the most attention. McKinney struck the officer when he tried to stop her from entering a congressional office building. The officer did not recognize McKinney, who was not wearing her member lapel pin.
A grand jury in Washington declined to indict McKinney over the clash, but she eventually apologized before the House.
Doesn't she have a Burger King to manage?
Oh, boy......
Isn't this the woman who physically assaulted/hit a Capital police officer while he was performing his duty?
Spell 'Impeach', Rep. McKinney.
You go girl!!! Get Nancy to sign on with you.
< /sarcasm >
She's going to have a tough time finding a job in the private sector. My bet is that she's going to be a lobbyist or on some liberal organization's payroll.
Wooo de hooo!
Are you kidding?I wouldn't let her near other people's food,she might spit in it.
1. A prostitute.
2. A person considered sexually promiscuous.
3. A person considered as having compromised principles for personal gain.
Good grief, is that skank still around?
To bad we are not able to bring to a vote whether she will receive a pension.
She should be in jail introducing herself as 'poster girl for Nutjobs of America' to new inmates.
Ummm...having trouble making it to the third paragraph? I know it's a long way to read, but...
I think she used to be a professor at Cornell. Imagine paying Ivy League tuition to have that teach your kid.
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