Today's hearing before the House Judiciary Committee to explore George Bush and Dick Cheney's abuse of executive powers devolved into a Neo-Con-worshiping charade before it even began.
It started yesterday when Committee Chair John Conyers said there would be absolutely no tolerance of discussing articles of impeachment, or attacking Bush or Cheney. This of course tied the hands of Dennis Kucinich - who brought forward the article of impeachment leading to the hearing - as well as the rest of the witnesses there to testify.
Neo-Con representative Lamar Smith (Tx.) led off by saying, "we all know, the media all know, nothing will come out of this hearing." He added that there is no evidence to support impeachment, and no evidence of criminal activity by the Bush Administration. How is this any different than a judge - before hearing one witness's testimony - saying "we know the defendant is innocent, there's no evidence to support any other theory, and we all can now go home?"
Kucinich got his chance to speak, and while he was able to read off the points about no WMDs, no 9/11 link, no threat, et al., Conyers felt he had to reassert that Kucinich was not allowed to read any of his actual articles. I suppose none of this should come as a surprise.
In the end, the important thing is that we have someone like Kucinich out there valiantly fighting for us, rather than the corporate-military-industrial complex.
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It was also nice to hear Wexler and Baldwin speak on the matter.
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