{"id":5597,"date":"2008-01-23T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T01:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5597"},"modified":"2008-01-23T21:29:32","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T05:29:32","slug":"dem-leaders-put-contempt-citations-on-hold-kucinich-prepares-for-bush-impeachment-on-state-of-the-union-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5597","title":{"rendered":"Dem Leaders Put Contempt Citations on Hold; Kucinich Prepares for Bush Impeachment on &#8216;State of the Union&#8217; Day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Contempt_citations_on_hold_as_Dems_0123.html\">just fine to break the law<\/a>, as long as the economy is seen as being bad&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Democratic leaders and aides <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0108\/8057.html\">tell The Politico<\/em><\/a> that pursuing the contempt citations in conjunction with the stimulus package would &#8220;step on their message&#8221; of bipartisanship.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re focused on working in a bipartisan fashion on [the] stimulus,&#8221;\u009d House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-MD) told Politico&#8230;<\/div>\n<p>Seriously, we must remember to speak with Hoyer and Pelosi about this terrific bridge we&#8217;ve got for sale. We&#8217;re <i>certain<\/i> they&#8217;d be interested.<\/p>\n<p>And while there seems to be <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5595\">confusion in the Kucinich camp<\/a> concerning the Election &#8220;Recount&#8221; in NH (more soon on that, hopefully), at least there&#8217;s no confusion for Kucinich when it comes to what&#8217;s going on in either the White House, or among his party&#8217;s &#8220;leadership,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/23\/kucinich-starts-new-impeachment-drive\/\">according to the <em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">[T]oday Mr. Kucinich took to the floor to fire off his latest salvo at the Bush administration: his plans to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush on Jan. 28 &#8220;\u201d the day of Mr. Bush&#8217;s State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n<p>Accusing the administration of lying about the need for the war in Iraq, Mr. Kucinich said he did not need to hear the president&#8217;s<br \/>\nassessment. &#8220;We know the State of the Union,&#8221;\u009d he declared. &#8220;It&#8217;s a lie.&#8221;\u009d<\/p>\n<p>He also fired a volley at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California who has maintained that impeaching Mr. Bush is not on the table for Congressional Democrats. <strong>&#8220;If impeachment is off the table,&#8221;\u009d Mr. Kucinich said, &#8220;truth is off the table. If truth is off the table then this body is living a lie.&#8221;\u009d<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Yes, a lie. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/005120.php\">935 of them<\/a> to be exact-ish, on just one aspect of what the Kucinich Impeachment articles will detail.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5438\">we reported last December<\/a>, Kucinich has been preparing, for some time, to file Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush. While the Democratic &#8220;Leadership&#8221; may not like the notion, it should come as welcome news to the country&#8217;s few remaining admirers of the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, it&#8217;s just fine to break the law, as long as the economy is seen as being bad&#8230; Democratic leaders and aides tell The Politico that pursuing the contempt citations in conjunction with the stimulus package would &#8220;step on their message&#8221; of bipartisanship. &#8230; &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re focused on working in a bipartisan fashion on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,278,178,340,204,318,127,198],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-dennis-kucinich","category-impeachment","category-nancy-pelosi","category-sotu","category-steny-hoyer","category-the-constitution","category-us-house"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5597"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}