Kucinich Follow-Up

This is a bit off topic, but since the truthers continue to have full body sexual responses to Kucinich's tilting at windmills, I should point out that it was thrown into a committee to die. This bill was such a threat, that it was actually the Republicans who wanted to bring it immediately to a vote:

Democratic aides widely suggested those gauging the bill's prospects look to a precedent: the impeachment articles against Vice President Dick Cheney, which were sent to Conyers' committee in November. There's no evidence they will be considered before the Bush administration leaves office in January.

Those were Kucinich's, too. Republicans, seeing a chance to force Democrats into an embarrassing debate, voted to bring up the resolution. Democrats countered by pushing through a motion to scuttle the bill from the floor.

The Impeachment Story

A bunch of our commenters have been clamoring for us to cover this non-story.

An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.

Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on C-SPAN.

I haven't seen the actual charges themselves, but Jon Gold says:

Dennis Kucinich just introduced 35 articles of impeachment. Number 33 had to do with criminal negligence with regard to 9/11. Number 34 had to do with obstruction of justice with regard to 9/11. Number 35 had to do with how this administration has treated the 9/11 First Responders.

You know how it is, the Troofers believe the government pulled off 9-11. Negligence implies that the government did not pull it off. But they'll take it anyway.

The idea that this is going anywhere is a fantasy. Remember, Kucinich has introduced impeachment resolutions in the past:

Kucinich, a 2004 and 2008 Democratic candidate for the White House, abandoned a prior attempt to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush in January of this year.

In April of 2007, Kucinich presented impeachment articles against Vice President Dick Cheney, but the effort went nowhere. Kucinich exclaimed that "impeachment may well be the only remedy which remains to stop a war of aggression against Iran."

Before leaving office in January 2007, then-Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney--currently a Green Party presidential candidate--introduced articles of impeachment against President Bush as her last act in Congress, but that effort also was fruitless.

Keep digging, "Truthers"! There's a pony in there somewhere!

Kucinich's 9-11 Investigation, Part II

He seems to realize that there's no there, there with regard to the financial investigations that he promised to make, but he's unwilling to completely blow off the Troofers. Sound and video quality are awful.

Kucinich's 9-11 Investigation

He says he's going to be looking into "financial issues" related to 9-11. I'm not particularly opposed to this line of inquiry. It might be useful to put the "Put Options" story to bed, or finally nail down whether the head of the ISI really ordered $100,000 to be wired to Mohamed Atta.

But Kucinich is definitely flirting with disaster here, because it strikes me as highly unlikely that he will come up with anything that will please the "Truthers", even though they are thrilled with him right now. As has often been observed, riding the tiger is easy; it's getting off that can be difficult.

Update: I did a little checking over at SourceWatch on Kucinich's committee assigments. Kucinich chairs the subcommittee on Domestic Policy under the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Yeah, I'm scratching my head too.

Kook Kucinich Continues to Nibble at the Apple

He gives a diplomatic, limited hangout answer.

Kook Kucinich On 9-11 Denial

Kucinich starts about 1:06 in with a call for reparations for the Iraqi people. But at 1:27 he dips his toes into the fetid swamp of "truth":

"And finally, our plan is to tell the truth about 9-11 and to tell the truth..."

Unfortunately the video fades out there to get to Eve Ensler and her vagina.

Video found at Age of Hooper.