Election Results!

I just found this election result tracker on MSNBC. Tres cool!

Ben Affleck as Keith Olberman

Genius!

Kucinich on Rachel Maddow

So far Dennis Kucinich is the only one explaining anything about this bailout in a way that makes sense. If only more people were listening. Then we wouldn't be stuck with this stupid bailout bill....

Dennis Kucinich on the new Bailout Bill

Congressman Kucinich explains why the bailout bill won't work, shouldn't have been passed, and what we should have been doing instead.

McCain on the Mortgage Crisis...

Olberman on Kucinich's articles of impeachment

Okay, first I must say that I was recently discussing blogging with friends and they were talking about how much time they spent on their blogs and carefully choosing each word and tracking down the right links... My blog? Not so much. Pretty much all video links. And I thought to myself at that time that I was going to stop doing that and try to make this an actual blog with actual things that are interesting to read on it.

That being said, I just came across this video on Dennis Kucinich's site, which I thought was fabulous and should be out there as much as possible for people to find. It's Keith Olberman's segment on Kucinich's articles of impeachment, and it's amazing. I love Keith Olberman...

Impeachment's Not Newsworthy??

Last night I received an email from the Kucinich folks informing me that an historical event was taking place -- Dennis Kucinich was on the floor of congress introducing 35 articles of impeachment for President Bush. Google News had stories posted from both Reuters and AP announcing that this was happening. At that moment I did something I had never done before -- I turned on C-SPAN!

There was Dennis Kucinich, standing in a nearly empty room, reading these articles, and all of the data he had gathered backing them up. He spoke tirelessly for nearly 3 hours. You could tell when he got to an article that he really liked and he would smile and shake his head in disbelief as he spoke.

This was one of the greatest things I have ever seen. He just went right down his list - bam, bam, bam - until he had gone through all 35. But the most spectacular thing about this? Searching this morning, there was no mention of it anywhere. CNN, MSNBC, local news outlets... nothing. I did find two small stories; one on USA Today and one on ABC News, but both were buried deep and took some searching to find.

Now is it just me, or is a Congressman introducing THIRTY-FIVE DIFFERENT ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT not something that should FRONT-PAGE NEWS on every station?? Is it because the media doesn't want these articles to go anywhere?

Nancy Pelosi for some reason has said that impeachment is "off the table" but I'm not sure I understand what gives her the right to decide for the country that we're not going to pursue our legal right to oust a dishonest and most probably criminal man from the highest office in our government. Why should Bush not be held accountable for his actions? Aren't the checks and balances that were written into our constitution purposefully put there to ensure that no one branch has the opportunity to abuse their power? What happened to those checks and balances anyway??

In my most recent search I've found that most of the B-media outlets are picking up this story and running with it. There's an extensive list on Google News. My favorite headline is from rawstory.com - Mainstream media yawns as Kucinich offers impeachment.

Salem-News.com has reported the "Kucinich Website Crippled Under Suspicious Circumstances Following Introduction of Impeachment Articles." Hmmm.... Pretty interesting.

The articles themselves can be found in PDF form here on democrats.com or here on chun.afterdowningstreet.com.

Personally, I'd like to encourage everyone to click through to the media outlets that are covering this story and stumbleupon, digg, reddit, blog, link to facebook, and do whatever else you can to get these articles into a place where someone NOT looking for them may actually see them. If this isn't the most important news out there, I'm not quite sure what is...

For those of you who don't feel like clicking around right now, here's the full list of the 35 articles of impeachment. To see the documentation behind it you'll have to view the full pdf.

Article I
Creating a Secret Propaganda Campaign to Manufacture a False Case for War Against Iraq.

Article II
Falsely, Systematically, and with Criminal Intent Conflating the Attacks of September 11, 2001, With Misrepresentation of Iraq as a Security Threat as Part of Fraudulent Justification for a War of Aggression.

Article III
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, to Manufacture a False Case for War.

Article IV
Misleading the American People and Members of Congress to Believe Iraq Posed an Imminent Threat to the United States.

Article V
Illegally Misspending Funds to Secretly Begin a War of Aggression.

Article VI
Invading Iraq in Violation of the Requirements of HJRes114.

Article VII
Invading Iraq Absent a Declaration of War.

Article VIII
Invading Iraq, A Sovereign Nation, in Violation of the UN Charter.

Article IX
Failing to Provide Troops With Body Armor and Vehicle Armor

Article X
Falsifying Accounts of US Troop Deaths and Injuries for Political Purposes

Article XI
Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq

Article XII
Initiating a War Against Iraq for Control of That Nation's Natural Resources

Article XIIII
Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries

Article XIV
Misprision of a Felony, Misuse and Exposure of Classified Information And Obstruction of Justice in the Matter of Valerie Plame Wilson, Clandestine Agent of the Central Intelligence Agency

Article XV
Providing Immunity from Prosecution for Criminal Contractors in Iraq

Article XVI
Reckless Misspending and Waste of U.S. Tax Dollars in Connection With Iraq and US Contractors

Article XVII
Illegal Detention: Detaining Indefinitely And Without Charge Persons Both U.S. Citizens and Foreign Captives

Article XVIII
Torture: Secretly Authorizing, and Encouraging the Use of Torture Against Captives in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Other Places, as a Matter of Official Policy

Article XIX
Rendition: Kidnapping People and Taking Them Against Their Will to "Black Sites" Located in Other Nations, Including Nations Known to Practice Torture

Article XX
Imprisoning Children

Article XXI
Misleading Congress and the American People About Threats from Iran, and Supporting Terrorist Organizations Within Iran, With the Goal of Overthrowing the Iranian Government

Article XXII
Creating Secret Laws

Article XXIII
Violation of the Posse Comitatus Act

Article XXIV
Spying on American Citizens, Without a Court-Ordered Warrant, in Violation of the Law and the Fourth Amendment

Article XXV
Directing Telecommunications Companies to Create an Illegal and Unconstitutional Database of the Private Telephone Numbers and Emails of American Citizens

Article XXVI
Announcing the Intent to Violate Laws with Signing Statements

Article XXVII
Failing to Comply with Congressional Subpoenas and Instructing Former Employees Not to Comply

Article XXVIII
Tampering with Free and Fair Elections, Corruption of the Administration of Justice

Article XXIX
Conspiracy to Violate the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Article XXX
Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare

Article XXXI
Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency

Article XXXII
Misleading Congress and the American People, Systematically Undermining Efforts to Address Global Climate Change

Article XXXIII
Repeatedly Ignored and Failed to Respond to High Level Intelligence Warnings of Planned Terrorist Attacks in the US, Prior to 911.

Article XXXIV
Obstruction of the Investigation into the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Article XXXV
Endangering the Health of 911 First Responders

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Just Manny Being Manny....

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