The 22

Cheers to Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) for introducing a House resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney for "high crimes and misdemeanors." Cheers also to the 21 co-sponsors of this bill:

Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Bob Brady (D-PA)
Yvette Clarke (D-NY)
Bill Clay (D-MO)
Steve Cohen (D-TN)
Keith Ellison (D-MN)
Sam Farr (D-CA)
Bob Filner (D-CA)
Sheila Jackson (D-TX)
Hank Johnson (D-GA)
Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI)
Barbara Lee (D-CA)
Jim McDermott (D-WA)
Jim Moran (D-VA)
Donald Payne (D-NJ)
Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
Edolphus Towns (D-NY)
Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Diane Watson (D-CA)
Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)
Albert Wynn (D-MD)

I have no idea what's wrong with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who blocked discussion of the bill in the House Judiciary Committee. All this time I thought that the Democratic leadership got the message of last winter's elections. I guess not.

I also have no idea what's wrong with Senators Chuck Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, who caved in this week and vowed to support Bush's nominee for Attorney General, Michael Mukasey, who won't even tell us whether waterboarding is torture. Not that he thinks it is or isn't--that he doesn't know. Sure he doesn't.

So thanks, Chuck, thanks, Diane, for giving this lame-duck, know-nothing president exactly what he wants--more obfuscation, more confusion, and a blank check to continue to do whatever he wants. Thanks for caring more about driving the Democrats further toward the mythical "center," a moronic strategy that has killed you since 1980, than about serving the people you purport to represent.

It's up to this party to demonstrate somehow, in some way, that they understand. This criminal, destructive, useless war must end NOW.

When the Dems call to ask me for money these days, I tell them that I won't send any. Not unless they grow a spine.