Posted by
arandomguy on Sunday, December 10, 2006 12:49:49 AM
When I first saw the headline for this story, it was "Outgoing Congresswoman Introduces Bill to Impeach Bush." I immediately thought Cynthia McKinney and amazingly, I was right. In her final hours in office, McKinney introduced a bill that charges Bush of usurping executive power (which Cynthia McKinney would have none of), lying to congress, and breaking the privacy of ordinary Americans. This, honestly is quite amusing since none of it is true.
Though the bill has not an ice cube's chance in helI of passing, it is a jab at both Republicans, the President, and Democratic leaders. Incoming Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has made it clear that she will not contemplate resolutions set to sanction Bush or impeach him - to which, if she keeps her word, she must be given some amount of credit for.
Watching Cynthia McKinney is amusing. I'd almost like to see her stick around, so we can get another 2 years of laughs out of her. However, since the Democrats won, to think of this woman with any *real* power is frightening to say the least. It is a good thing the good people of Georgia finally decided this woman is a lunatic.
She has long entertained 9/11 conspiracy theories. She has hosted panels that have concluded that 9/11 was an inside job and that Bush knew about it so that he could make war on the Middle East. Furthermore, even after President Bush proved he could get elected "on his own," in 2004, McKinney still accuses him of being an illegal president - not elected. Never mind that the supreme court decided he won.
If decisions by the Supreme court aren't good enough for you Ms. McKinney, what exactly is? Wait don't answer that. I don't want to know.
Furthermore, she has repeatedly accused - especially after being voted out of office - the Democrats of bowing to the Republicans and "following their lead." Anybody who's paid even a miniscule amount of attention to political events any time in the last 4 years knows that Democrats did anything but. If they had, perhaps this war would have been won, and perhaps something substantial would have come out of this congress.
Cynthia McKinney is a classic example of an angry liberal. She is like that crazy girl in high school that was always preaching the gospel of Marx. Unfortunately for Ms. McKinney, she has apparently never left high school (or the typical petty brawls - as when she assaulted a Capitol Police officer when he refused her admission).