Tom Curry Article At MSNBC On Kucinich's Cheney Impeachment Resolution

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18297390

Kucinich launches oust-Cheney effort
Other House Democrats do not seem keen on impeaching vice president

By Tom Curry
National affairs writer
MSNBC

WASHINGTON - As Vice President Dick Cheney walked Tuesday into the Republican senators’ weekly policy luncheon, as he does nearly every Tuesday at noon, he looked as imperturbable and cryptic as ever.

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“It is urgent that Congress take steps to check the abuse of power, and that’s what this impeachment resolution will do,” Kucinich told reporters at his launch event late Tuesday afternoon.

Kucinich is running for the Democratic presidential nomination.

According to the wagering at the Intrade site where one can trade “event futures” on political and other future events, Kucinich has about a one-10th of 1 percent chance of getting the nomination, compared with Sen. Hillary Clinton’s better-than-40 percent chance.

Some in Washington consider Kucinich an eccentric, but he was saying in 2004 when he ran for president what the other Democrats are now saying: The Iraq war was a profound mistake and the United States must get out.

In his party, Kucinich was a man ahead of his time on Iraq.

So, too, with his move to impeach Cheney? History offers a lesson here, partly encouraging to Kucinich, but mostly not.

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1. nice

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2. Why Cheney, not Bush? ... Kucinich said ...

It is good to see a road map in all this!

Why Cheney, not Bush?

Kucinich said he was starting to try to impeach Cheney rather than President Bush, because if he succeeded in removing Bush, Cheney would then become president.

“You would have to go through the constitutional agony of impeaching two presidents consecutively,” he explained.