A 'Perfect Storm' Is Rising To Oust Dick Cheney

[babylonsister]

A 'Perfect Storm' Is Rising To Oust Dick Cheney
Posted: 2007/02/04

http://mathaba.net/news/?x=549882

The exposure of Cheney's role in the Scooter Libby case, and his outrageous dismissal of the constitutional role of the Congress, affords ... an opportunity now to take action to get him out

By Michele Steinberg

With the combination of the most somber and serious Congressional hearings since Watergate, and the opening of the trial of Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff and National Security Advisor, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for perjury and obstruction of justice, there is a "window of opportunity" for impeachment of the Vice President—and Cheney is jumping right through it.

On Jan. 24, one day after Cheney was exposed by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, as directing the campaign to discredit a credible, eyewitness critic, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, by exposing the identity of his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, who worked as a covert agent of the CIA, Cheney went on national television to announce that the White House will ignore any resolution from Congress that criticizes the escalation of force in Iraq.

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, when asked about the Senate resolution against the "surge," which had just been passed by the Foreign Relations Committee, Cheney boasted, "That won't stop us . . . we are moving forward . . . the President has made his decision."

In short, Cheney's own foul mouth, in bragging that the White House will ignore the Senate resolution against Bush's surge, just hours after the Senate committee passed the bipartisan Biden-Hagel-Levin measure, creates the "perfect storm" that could finally sweep Cheney out of the White House.

The exposure of Cheney's role in the Scooter Libby case, and his outrageous dismissal of the constitutional role of the Congress, affords the Bush family—which enlisted Cheney to craft George W. Bush's Presidential run in 2000—an opportunity now to take action to get him out.

This is not a matter of partisan, or revenge politics, but a matter of the national interest. Around the world, as a second carrier group move towards the Persian Gulf, and White House threats against Iran are repeated on a daily basis, it is recognized that the only certain path to stopping the planned attack on Iran is the impeachment of Dick Cheney, who today, just as in the case of the Iraq War, is running the "team" and the policy for "regime change" in Iran.

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[kstewart33]

1. It will snow in Cuba before Cheney is ousted.

Cheney could be caught in a compromising position in a nursery school and Bush would still keep him.

It's like taking a toddler's mother away. It will never happen.

[orpupilofnature57]

3. That makes perfect sense ,unfortunately.

[Tellurian]

6. Why? With their fondness for labels. Cheney is a domestic Terrorist!

If Cheney is a threat to the peace and stability of the middle east, thumbing his nose at Congressional Resolutions and in open defiance of the will of the American people. He is an armed combatant posing a threat to our National Security. The very Rules he inserted into the Patriot's Act II designate him as such.

[Benhurst]

7. Whether or not Cheney stays is not Bush's call. Cheney's fate is

in the hands of Congress.

Many here on DU are under the misconception Bush can "fire" Cheney. Only Congress can get rid of a sitting vice president, through the impeachment process.

Communists used to read Das Kapital, a 500-hundred-or-so page book. Americans can't seem to find time to read the Constitution, a short pamphlet.

[babylonsister]

8. He could resign/retire. I just want him gone! We can worry about

criminal proceedings later.

[Benhurst]

10. Cheney has no shame. He won't retire unless facing certain

removal.

Impeachment is not a criminal proceeding, merely a procedure to remove an official from office.

[babylonsister]

11. I wasn't talking about impeachment. I'm optimistically dreaming of

him facing a tribunal for war crimes, treason, etc. Hey, a girl can dream!

[Benhurst]

12. I with you on that!

I'd like to see the whole Bush Crime Family standing trial at the Hague, old Ma and Pa Bush included. O Happy Day!

:hi:

[Tellurian]

14. babylon, could you ask to have these threads combined?

I believe yours was the first.. could you please try?

[babylonsister]

16. What other thread, Tellurian?

Maybe you can alert on it and ask a mod if it's doable?

[Warpy]

9. No, Stupid will never try to fire him, not that he is able to do so.

However, investigation after investigation will take their toll, and if Cheney sees a shadow of a hangman's noose when he closes his eyes, he will decamp on his own, probably to follow the money he's stolen to the Caymans.

[Eurobabe]

15. Let him take the stand and code out n/t

The stress of testifying and keeping track of all the little lies will do him in...

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Dejavu? Agnew then Nixon

[Rebellious Republican]

4. I was thinking more like hitting a "Trifecta"

1)Iran War in the crapper

2) Multitudes of republican scandals (including the Plame scandal)

3) Hurricane Katrina

"Lucky me, I hit the trifecta" G.W. Bush. Guess that little quip may be coming back to haunt them!

:rofl:

[orpupilofnature57]

5. The synthesis of Impeachment ,you would think.

[donsu]

13. the head snake/head of the snake will not leave, get serious

only a legal document will get him gone.

a legal accusation of a crime, on paper, filed at the proper place and filed in the proper fashion and filed by the proper people.

[The Magistrate]

17. Locking

Thsi originates in the LaRouchite Executive Intelligence Review, which is not an acceptable source on Democratic Underground.