Hey everybody!  MonicaL checking in on a subject near and dear to this avatar's heart -- impeachment!  I noticed that Dennis Kucinich wrote several hundred articles of impeachment last week, and that at least one of the bloggers in this wonderfully anonymous community has written many posts in support!  Several of them essentially simultaneously!  As I know better than most of you, Impeachment Is Kewl!  So let's support Dennis Kucinich in his patriotic bid to restore sanity to our government.  I am writing to add my reasons to the bonfire.
 
Representative Kucinich, our elfin friend with the hot wife, is fed up.  He's not going to take it anymore!  "It" being President George W. Bush.  So far, so good, there's one thing any sane person can agree about.  To get Bush, he has _thirty-five_ articles of impeachment to prove it.  Count 'em!  I did.  And the neat part is, they aren't just all about Iraq.  Article 30:  Bush is destroying Medicare.  Never mind taking back the government and fixing Medicare -- impeachment on you, bad boy!  Here's another neat one:  Article 11:  Establishment of Permanent U.S. Military Bases in Iraq.  Gee, I thought the Congress that Dennis was in could unfund that.  I guess I'm mistaken!  Or maybe the whole Congress gets impeached for voting for it!  Or maybe just the people who voted to fund the bases!  What a totally cool definition of impeachment.  We can impeach people for doing things voted on in a democratic process.  That should deter anyone from voting against us in the future!
 
I saw where some pompous lawyer windbag on TPM told Dennis' impeachy blogger fan that only backward countries use the courts to get to their political opponents, and that the whole thing was taking the worst page from Ken Starr's book.  The blogger says the lawyers are wrong, and that we need to get back to being like the Framers!  He has a point, especially when he says we need to investigate Nancy Pelosi for stifling impeachment!  She didn't get us into Iraq, so impeaching her makes us a bunch of framers!  Impeachment on you, Nancy!  And if you disagree, this post will crawl up through your screen and impeach you!  It's what in logic is called an infinite regression.  Emphasis on regression.
 
I also really like the totally cool impeachment articles that go against what Democrats voted for, and the history of American foreign policy.  Article 12 says that Bush can be impeached for waging a war over oil.  Never mind all the Democrats who voted to authorize the use of force, I suppose we're impeaching them.  It was really polite for Representative Kucinich to wait until after the primaries to train his impeachment ray gun on Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and all their AUMF buddies in the Senate!  John Kerry too!  Dennis is a team player!  While I disagree with the war, I thought we waged wars of expansion in the 19th Century.  Better dig up James K. Polk and impeach him!  Or why not give Texas back to Mexico?  It's too humid anyway, and the food sucks!  Spanish-American War?  After we give back Puerto Rico and Guam, which I'm sure Dennis has been trying to do on principle since 2003 too, let's impeach McKinley!  Fair's fair!
 
But back to this silly voting thing.  I guess the American people voted for this war of aggression in 2004 when Bush beat Kerry.  Is there any way we can impeach them too?  Maybe the 35% of us who were smart enough to know the war was all lies on the front end can just imprison the other two-thirds of us who didn't.  Sounds like fun to me, but until you've been intimidated by U.S. Marshals in a fancy hotel until you make a proffer to the Independent Persecutor in an impeachment, you have no idea how much fun impeachment can be!
 
One other little point about another article.  Dennis wants to impeach Bush for invading Iraq without a declaration of war.  That occurred in March 2003.  Is there a reason Dennis waited seventy-five months to seek impeachment?  Did he write these totally cool articles of impeachment and just, like, misplace them?  Were they in the normal-looking business suit he never wears, and then Elizabeth Kucinich got it out to dry clean it before a fundraiser and said, honey, I found those thirty-five awesome articles of impeachment you lost in the spring of 2003?  Or is it some kind of existential joke, like if he went on C-SPAN2 and said he was going to stay on camera reciting pi until the war ended?  I don't know, it just seems funny to wait until thousands of troops, and tens of thousands of civilians die in a bogus war to suddenly get all I'm-going-to-put-my-enemies-in-jail and all that.  Seems like a sincere person might have tried this earlier.  But I must be wrong, he's showing so much principle!
 
Don't be an appeaser of the Bush-lovers!  Don't listen to wussy lawyers!  In fact, don't listen to anybody except Dennis Kucinich.  After all, Nancy Pelosi is just in the bag for W.   So step up to the anonymous message board with the same courage our elvin friend showed by holding these articles for five years.  Impeachment Is Kewl!