Dennis Kucinich's articles of impeachment here. I wonder how serious even Kucinich is. Lumping all kinds of stuff into his resolution dooms it even more than it might have already been. Here's some examples:
Article XIIII
Creating a Secret Task Force to Develop Energy and Military Policies With Respect to Iraq and Other Countries.
Article XXX
Misleading Congress and the American People in an Attempt to Destroy Medicare.
Article XXXI
Katrina: Failure to Plan for the Predicted Disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Failure to Respond to a Civil Emergency.
And there's other items relating to the lead up to the Iraq War that could have been combined. While I agree that the above and other articles described things that the President shouldn't have done, many people, including myself, are not going to consider these items reason for impeachment.
Unfortunately, this less serious stuff is being lumped in with the really serious stuff (misleading the country into war, torture, wiretapping, signing statements) that would have constituted an articles of impeachment that could be seriously debated. This will get shot done not so much because of the serious articles but because of all the other articles that representatives can understandably disagree with.
I would have split up the articles or just put the main articles in the resolution.
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