Right in the northern pocket of Red-blooded Ohio sits blue Cleveland, home to two of the most popular congressional members of the Democratic Party who make national headlines:  Stephanie Tubbs Jones, because of her commitment as one of Hillary Clinton’s most vocal supporters, and Dennis Kucinich, the former Presidential hopeful.

      Yet even though the ’08 Presidential Election race has already kicked off one Clevelander still has their eyes on the presidency: Representative Kucinich – but he has his aim pointed at the White House for another reason.  Last month, Mr. Kucinich filed 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush.  This month Kucinich filed just one article.

      With a wildly unpopular president some might laud this as the man who will finally put the final nail in the coffin of a declining Bush presidency.  Others have describes this effort as quixotic and perhaps counter-intuitive to the Democratic Party who could suffer from such a move when they hold a majority in an unpopular congress.  Others may just question, “Why?”  Bush’s presidency will expire in six months.

      In the tradition of Marvel Comics it also begs the question, “What if… Bush is impeached?”  Cheney would then be president in the meantime – would that be a better solution?  Citing Kucinich, the idea isn’t necessarily that the effort is “too little too late” but rather that he wishes to have Bush’s “war crimes” put down on paper and historically cited.  Since President Bush has predicted it will take at the least forty years for the public to accurately measure if the Iraq War and the War on Terror have been successful, it could be Kucinich’s preemptive “I told you so,” just in case they aren’t.

      Another criticism thrown at Dennis Kucinich is from his challenger for the congressional seat in November, Republican Jim Trakas, who says Kucinich is wasting American tax dollars in bringing these proposals to congress while also neglecting his constituents in Cleveland because he spends so much time with these seemingly impossible legislation acts.

      But is Mr. Kucinich wrong?  The Iraq War, too, is becoming increasingly unpopular and there is a debate going on whether or not Iraq is the correct front to conduct the War on Terror.  The Bush administration’s efforts in the Middle East have seem more reactionary than strategized as Bush has suggested he makes his decisions based partly on his own intuition.  

      Then again the impeachment efforts have strangely become not uncommon in present day politics as it goes back to President Clinton.  Depending on which side of the party lines you fall, some would argue that either of these impeachment accusations are totally legit while others would just say they are pandering to party politics.

      Although Speaker Pelosi has hinted that this latest attempt to impeach Bush may see some hearing time the impression one would gather from the media is that not many take it seriously.  It seems more like whenever the media needs a good chuckle they throw one of Kucinich’s craaaazy schemes out there.  But Kucinich shouldn’t always be cast aside as the crazy liberal schemer considering his other efforts, such as a sub-committee he chairs that recently found that thousands of vets may have been mispaid or denied pay from the government.

      I do think that Congressman Kucinich does have a point – just because President Bush only has six months left in office does not mean that we should stop caring about what he does with that remaining time.  Ever since the McCain/Obama train has been rolling Bush has become a mere blurb but his policies of the past eight years have become the issues of this year’s election.  So indeed, as President Bush has inferred, time will be the decider (political pun soo intended!) but it doesn’t necessarily mean that Congressman Kucinich is in the wrong for protesting or bringing his motions to congress.