As you may know, Dennis Kucinich had planned to make a formal announcement at noon today submitting Richard Bruce Cheney to an Impeachment Investigation.
Yet Dick Cheney, a man who can walk around easily and freely with no crutches, no limp, and no visible difficulty at all, stole the headlines instead today by producing a big news story about him having a "medical crisis" and going to the hospital (for just a ultrasound test over a trivial "blot clot" in his leg). An ultrasound check is only routine procedure from a medical perspective. Recall that every now and then (remember the Duck hunting episode) when Dick Cheney is under a little heat and pressure - he suddenly "goes to the hospital" for some routine check-up or another under the misleading headlines that there is some big medical story to report there.
It is now being reported that, of course, Cheney's leg is fine and that he has returned back to work (as with any routine check-up) to continue his work day as normal. Cheney's very brief hospital trip was no more of a serious news story than David Letterman's last Yoga night session.
Some "medical crisis".
Unfortunately, this was enough to totally fool Dennis Kucinich who abruptly cancelled his own prearranged press conference and has now placed Impeachment "on hold"
(indefinitely, until "the vice-president's condition is clarified").
It strikes me that this is an illogical overreaction and Kucinich is just being played here like putty by Cheney and his PR team here.
Okay, so what if Dick Cheney (naturally at taxpayer expense) decides to get some sort of routine medical "check-up" each day now for the rest of the week? Wenesday is heart check-up day, Thursday is chest X-Ray day, Friday is a deep & strategic hemorrhoid analysis performed by all-Male nurse interns, Monday is our earpiece & radio-control adjustment day, and Tuesday of course is our weekly "leg ultrasound".
What if Dick Cheney decides to change the terror alert code back to "orange" just for fun to the delight of the mainstream media (which can keep that "war-impulse/support-the-troops-dying" fever going along) ?
What if Dick Cheney decides to travel abroad to one of his favorite Countries (Saudi Arabia) for some highly visible talks (from a secret underground bunker) for a month?
Are we to just bow down here and suspend the search for accountability and adminstration of justice until Dick Cheney is all done playing through his PR games?
Just submit the charges already!
The longer that you delay and defer to Cheney's antics, the more tentative you will seem and the more unsure of yourself you run the risk of appearing. All delaying does is draw attention to the fact that mere Cheney check-ups are somehow really a more important consideration that the gravity of the many War-Crimes that this man has committed (-?-). Come on Dennis, you're smarter than that.
I would serve Impeachment papers on Cheney even if he were lying supine on a hospital gerney in a coma (while vomiting his own urine through his nostrils).
The man is a War-Criminal, a congential, genocidal LIAR, and profound abuser of the public trust, and he deserves no respect and no relief from being held to account for the blood of hundreds-of-thousands that are on his hands.
Submit the charges Dennis and let's get on with it!