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.
>>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.<<
So you think impeachment is a real risk?
I hope you are wrong.
Junior has made no mention of running for his old seat (there’s no guarantee he’d be restored his 10 years of seniority). His brother Jake, who ran as an Independent last November, and Nikki Tinker, a Fordite, are Cohen’s likely primary challengers. Cohen merely need get a plurality in a contested primary and he wins again.
“cohen co-sponsors bill to impeach cheney.”
one wonders how all these people are able to channel so well with comrade stalin.
Jews are not terribly popular with blacks. Many liberal Jews still don’t get this.
Marginally, yes.
Obviously Steven Cohen hasn’t got a clue!
Jr.’s former district is now represented by one of the moonbat left, and would be better served with another (any) Ford. That is hard to say, but Steve Cohen is a proven uber-liberal. He’s bad for the district, and bad for America. I do hope someone steps forward to take him out of the rotation.
Cheney should resign due to "ill health".Upon receipt of the resignation Bush should nominate Condeleza Rice.That would keep the RATS occupied for awhile and should make for some *great* entertainment!
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