Philip K Dickhead's Journal: McKinney Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush

- By BEN EVANS, Associated Press Writer
Friday, December 8, 2006

(12-08) 19:02 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) --

In what was likely her final legislative act in Congress, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney introduced a bill Friday to impeach President Bush.

The legislation has no chance of passing and serves as a symbolic parting shot not only at Bush but also at Democratic leaders. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has made clear that she will not entertain proposals to sanction Bush and has warned the liberal wing of her party against making political hay of impeachment.

McKinney, a Democrat who drew national headlines in March when she struck a Capitol police officer, has long insisted that Bush was never legitimately elected. In introducing her legislation in the final hours of the current Congress, she said Bush had violated his oath of office to defend the Constitution and the nation's laws.

In the bill, she accused Bush of misleading Congress on the war in Iraq and violating privacy laws with his domestic spying program.

McKinney has made no secret of her frustration with Democratic leaders since voters ousted her from office in the Democratic primary this summer. In a speech Monday at George Washington University, she accused party leaders of kowtowing to Republicans on the war in Iraq and on military mistreatment of prisoners.

McKinney, who has not discussed her future plans, has increasingly embraced her image as a controversial figure.

She has hosted numerous panels on Sept. 11 conspiracy theories and suggested that Bush had prior knowledge of the terrorist attacks but kept quiet about it to allow friends to profit from the aftermath. She introduced legislation to establish a permanent collection of rapper Tupac Shakur's recordings at the National Archives and calling for a federal investigation into his killing.

But it was her scuffle with a Capitol police officer that drew the most attention. McKinney struck the officer when he tried to stop her from entering a congressional office building. The officer did not recognize McKinney, who was not wearing her member lapel pin.

A grand jury in Washington declined to indict McKinney over the clash, but she eventually apologized before the House.

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[bechthros]

and bingo, just like that, impeachment loses any semblance of validity. so that a lame duck could take a parting shot... wait a minute, a parting shot implies that it does some damage, somewhere, to somebody. this does absolutely nothing - except, of course, make any further discussion of impeachment synonymous with an idiot congresswoman who probably never should have been one.

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[Philip K Dickhead]

Right. A little.

McKinney - I believe - knew this would never happen in any other way, and as a matter of conscience had to put it into the record. At least someone, one time, tried.

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[bechthros]

putting it into the record with her name attached, for vanity's sake alone.

any impeachment done under the current lame-duck congress will go nowhere.

there will be no impeachment under the new congress because it will already have failed.

she could not have done more to discredit the actual facts and case for impeachment.

this was a stupid action and she is a stupid woman.

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

"What do you think they are going to do to me this time?" she asks her staff. Everyone uncomfortably shifts in their seats and after no answer comes McKinney explains, "We have to do this because this is simply the right thing to do. The American people do want to hold this man and his office accountable for the crimes they have committed and if no member of congress is willing to do it, than I will."

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