Yesterday, Congressmember Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) fulfilled his duty according to that oath by listing articles of impeachment before the House of Representatives that detailed the serial and blatant Constitutional violations by our current President. Kucinich made a prima facie case, but that's not news to anyone with an attention span greater than a goldfish.

What's news is that Congress is obliged by their primary duty — to which they took a solemn oath before God — to defend the Constitution; and that means voting to impeach anyone who has blatantly undermined it at every turn. The reason only a handful of Democrats will do so is that the Democratic Party leadership — which has enabled the Bush administration at every turn by refusing to take action or even investigate most of these crimes and misdemeanors — is more interested in winning elections than they are doing their sworn duty.

Today, Congress will refuse to even hear these articles of impeachment.

While Democrats have played out this cynical strategy, the US government has continued to kidnap and torture people, kill, wound, harass, and displace millions of Iraqis, Afghans, etc… but that human misery and those rivers of blood don't mean jack-shit to the leadership of the Democratic Party, because they have A Strategy. To them, these horrors only represent an opportunity… let Bush run free, give him enough rope… and don't think about whose being water-boarded, or gunned down by some macho lunatic with Blackwater, or being raped then shot, or watching their parents slaughtered in front of them, or of the caskets that keep showing up at Dover, or of the limbless, disoriented legions of 20-somethings now moving among us.

They will be seen for the cheap con-artists that they are; and they have blood on their hands.

Law professor and constitutional law expert Jonathan Turley says that America's founders "would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion, of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment."

Sensing the increasingly sour mood of the country, Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced a measure earlier this week to initiate impeachment proceedings against President Bush. Within moments of his speech on the House floor, however, leaders in his own party moved to effectively kill the bill by sending it to the Judiciary Committee, a dark and terrifying circle-jerk of rhetoric where not even light can escape. As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi later explained, they were compelled to block the impeachment bill, not because they felt the President should get away with the rampant fraud, corruption and incompetence that has become a hallmark of his administration, but because doctors have determined that the George W. Bush lacks the mental faculties to stand trial.

After listening to him rave about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq for the last five years, any reasonable person would conclude that Bush is, at the very least, highly delusional if not legally insane- like a child who has been repeatedly told that there is no monster in his closet and then, after destroying that closet with firebombs and subsequently burning the rest of the house down, still insisting that a monster exists in the scorched patch of ground where the closet once stood.