House Judiciary Hearings - Impeachment
Under Committee Chairman John Conyers (D Mich) the House Judiciary Committee held hearings today on the case for impeaching President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Although the Chairman admonished the audience that this was not an impeachment hearing Representative Dennis Kucinich (D OH) laid out enough evidence to move the proceedings to an impeachment hearing. However, the Republicans on the Committee suggested that political disagreements were not grounds for impeachment. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) stated that the hearings were nothing more than anger management and severed no purpose. Although more evidence of impeachable crimes were presented than at any other hearing to date, it still seems as if the Democratic Leadership has directed the Committee Chairman not to let the hearings delve to far into the crimes of this Administration that are definitely impeachable. The Democratic questions aimed at anchoring future Presidents while ignoring the obvious impeachable crimes of the cu...