Illegal President?
Last week, Dennis Kucinich brought up a resolution to impeach Bush.
On June 11, 2008, 251 members voted to shelve the impeachment resolution, or send it to a committee (where it will most likely die off anyway), while 166 voted against it. Nancy Pelosi said she does not support the resolution because "impeachment would create a divisive battle, be a distraction from Congress's efforts to chart a new course for America's working families and would ultimately fail." Oh my god, you bitch...
"Congress has not considered impeachment because the Democratic leadership believes it will hurt their party's chances of securing the White House in November's hotly contested presidential election between Senators Barack Obama and John McCain. Additionally, Democrats said they do not have enough votes to support a move to impeach the president."
At this point, I don't think it's going to hurt or help either party's chances of winning the presidential election. I also still can't get past how quickly everyone got on board to impeach Clinton for blowjob-gate, yet war crimes and torture are merely "distractions?"
Kucinich presented 35 Articles of Impeachment (pdf file) which include leading the country into war under false pretenses and for authorizing the torture of prison detainees. Fifty-Six House Democrats are calling for an investigation into whether Bush Inc. violated the War Crimes Act after the "the International Committee of the Red Cross conducted an independent investigation of interrogation practices at Guantanamo Bay and 'documented several instances of acts of torture against detainees, including soaking a prisoner’s hand in alcohol and lighting it on fire, subjecting a prisoner to sexual abuse and forcing a prisoner to eat a baseball.'
Source: The Public Record
So NOW Congress is considering conducting an investigation on whether acts of torture were committed? Haven't there already been investigations on this? We already knew about waterboarding. Oh wait, I guess I was thinking of the investigations on whether or not waterboarding was considered torture.
Before anything else, the one question that lingers in my mind is, did Bush steal the election in 2000? I haven't found many news articles on it and I don't know of any investigations going on. The only thing I have managed to find is Op-Ed pieces that all say it's silly to think voter and election fraud occurs. I saw a documentary that proved the memory cards in Diebold voting machines were not hack-proof. I saw another documentary that shows an investigative journalist hacking a computer to show that many registered voters (mostly Black) had their identities changed to criminal status even though they weren't. Then, I saw Recount which sewed the pieces together of what was going on during the 2000 election.
I'm sickened by the fact that no one really cares that our President may have put himself in the White House illegally. If Bush Inc. was investigated and it was found that he did steal the 2000 election, the magnitude of this crime, this treason, the eight years, the deaths, the money of taxpayers wasted and stolen...I mean, isn't this something that should be on the front burner? Before anyone calls me a paranoid leftie or says it's just a big lie, could we at least look into it? I don't think that's asking too much. I don't mind if it "distracts" our government for awhile. I want to know, and if it turns out that the 2000 election really was stolen, I want justice served.
The problem is there's no outrage over the possibility of a stolen presidential election or in support of impeachment. I can understand that people have other things on their minds right now, like housing, gas and food prices, and who will be our next President. I got caught up in Obama's message of hope and change. Who wasn't desperate to hear that a new and improved America was on its way? Then, I read about some of the bills that were voted on in the Senate this past week:
Windfall profits: Voting 51 for and 43 against, the Senate on June 10 failed to reach 60 votes to end GOP blockage of a bill (S 3044) that would levy a 25 percent tax on profits generated by the five largest oil companies judged unreasonable by historical standards and which are not invested in expanding refinery capacity or developing renewable sources of energy. The bill also would repeal $17 billion in energy-company tax breaks that a Republican-led Congress enacted several years ago to spur oil and gas production.
Presidential candidates John McCain, R-Ariz., and Barack Obama, D-Ill., did not vote.
Medicare's doctor payments: Voting 54 for and 39 against, the Senate on June 12 failed to reach 60 votes needed to end GOP blockage of a bill (S 3101) that would avert the administration's 10.6 percent cut in Medicare payments to physicians set for July 1. The bill would raise reimbursement rates by 1.1 percent in 2009. The bill also would lower the copayment rate for mental-health coverage from 50 percent to 20 percent.
Obama and McCain did not vote.
Energy and business tax breaks: Voting 50 for and 44 against, the Senate on June 10 failed to reach 60 votes needed to end GOP blockage of a bill (HR 6049) providing $55.5 billion in business, education, personal and energy tax breaks. The bill would renew or originate breaks for purposes such as spurring the production of non-fossil fuels, promoting energy conservation, spurring business research and development, expanding child tax credits for the working poor, defraying the cost of college tuition and allowing homeowners who do not itemize returns to deduct property taxes. One disputed provision would set new deductions for lawyers trying contingency-fee cases. The bill's cost would be offset by tightening accounting rules on multinationals and closing offshore tax shelters used by some U.S. hedge-fund managers.
Obama and McCain did not vote.
Source: Reflector.com
The same old shit all over again.
