Posted on 08/06/2007 4:36:02 PM PDT by Sybeck1
WASHINGTON -- Before returning to Memphis on Sunday after a marathon weekend House session, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., signed on as a co-sponsor of bills to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney and to censure both Cheney and President Bush. The impeachment resolution was introduced by U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, in April and has 18 co-sponsors, including the four it picked up in the last week.
Advertisement In a telephone interview from Memphis on Monday, Cohen said he and his staff are working with former Reagan Justice Department lawyer Bruce Fein to draw up articles of impeachment against Atty. Gen. Alberto Gonzales. The conservative Fein has advocated impeaching Cheney for initiating kidnappings and secret detentions and advocating the ongoing domestic warrantless wiretapping program. "I just think that with what I've seen in these first seven months is that there's been so much disregard for the Constitution by the administration," said Cohen. "I've seen it firsthand on the Judiciary Committee with General Gonzales."
Cohen said Gonzales' efforts when he was White House counsel to get a surveillance program approved by then-Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft as he recovered in his hospital room were particularly egregious.
"It's a major part of our country's civil liberties, and principles, that we don't spy on our people," Cohen said.
The eight-page censure resolution had 20 sponsors when it was introduced on Saturday by U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y. It contains six reasons for the action, including that the president and vice president "overstated the nature and urgency of the threat posed by" Saddam Hussein's alleged nuclear weapons program, alleged weapons of mass destruction and alleged ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network. It also seeks to censure them for inadequate planning of the war, for straining the military to the point of undermining national security and for misleading the public about progress against Iraqi "insurgents."
The future House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in her first press conference after the Democrats won a majority of seats last November, said that impeaching President Bush was "off the table" as a Democratic priority. Asked about the censure motion on Monday, Pelosi's press secretary Drew Hammill released a statement: "The Speaker understands and sympathizes with the frustration of millions of Americans over the actions and decisions of the Bush administration on the issues of Iraq and the effort against international terrorism. The Speaker will continue efforts to end the war responsibly, redeploy our troops, and strengthen our effort against terrorism to increase stability in the region and security for the American people."
The House is in recess until September.
Don’t they think things through?
If Cheney is impeached the President appoints a new VP and that VP will get big boost running for President.
Ford will take his seat back next year. No way is he going to let a whitey represent Memphis.
Has the left gotten a brain scan recently? It may be time... the symptems can no longer be ignored.
How could anyone think through all that Hate they've built up?
"Nifong Syndrome" doesn't even come nearly close enough to describe these people's condition, but it's a start!
Cheney kidnapped people? Who knew?
“It’s a major part of our country’s civil liberties, and principles, that we don’t spy on our people,” Cohen said.
“Our” people. You know, like Saddam, Osama, Adam Gadahn, Ahmadinejad...
Somehow, I thought that Steve would do a better job than a Ford!
Thank goodness I no longer live in the 9th district.
Is this supposed to be humor?
Cohen is looking for his fifteen minutes of fame.
A Jew, right?
and I believe that...
>>>Thank goodness I no longer live in the 9th district.<<<
I did and sadly will again in a few short weeks. And the funny thing is that you hear the likes of Mike Fleming talking on behalf of Cohen as times.
Time to start calling them the traitors and the Islamic coddlers that they are again...
Are you going to practice in Memphis?
Mike is a neighbor of mine, so I know what you mean.
The Congress must consent to any vice-president whom the President appoints. The Congress then would impeach, convict, and remove the President, allowing Nancy Pelosi to ascend to the throne. The vice-president, however, will exercise his constitutional duty to preside over his own impeachment trial in the Senate. That’ll be interesting.
>>The Congress must consent to any vice-president whom the President appoints. The Congress then would impeach, convict, and remove the President, allowing Nancy Pelosi to ascend to the throne. The vice-president, however, will exercise his constitutional duty to preside over his own impeachment trial in the Senate. That’ll be interesting.<<
The President would need to appoint a John Roberts - somebody so well qualified he could not be rejected.
Less than a year-and-a-half to go for this administration and the idiots in Congress, instead of supporting our war/survival effort, think this is what they should be doing. Does it beat raising taxes? They’re doing that too!
The “political” Jews seem to want the destruction of Israel as much as the Islamofascists do.
The Democrats control the calendar; if confronted with someone too well-qualified to reject, they simply can defer indefinitely their consideration of such nominee without even identifying themselves publicly. They just won’t schedule a hearing, deferring instead to more important matters. And Cheney’s so well-qualified to be vice-president (and presently the most popular official in Washington) that I’d give him another eight years in the post.
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