Gore Vidal on Bush, Cheney, Kucinich and the Demise of the Republic

Anyone who follows the news closely– er, maybe that should be “Anyone who seeks out the news that only a few bother to report”, know about Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s “Articles of Impeachment for President George W. Bush” presented to the House on June 9th of this year. Rep Kucinich listed some 30-odd articles describing impeachable offenses committed by the president and vice president.

In the always passionate and insightful Mr. Gore Vidal’s most recent article, he observes, “Although this is the most important motion made in Congress in the 21st century, it was also the most significant plea for a restoration of the republic, which had been swept to one side by the mad antics of a president bent on great crime. And as I listened with awe to Kucinich, I realized that no newspaper in the U.S., no broadcast or cable network, would pay much notice to the fact that a highly respected member of Congress was asking for the president and vice president to be tried for crimes which were carefully listed by Kucinich in his articles requesting impeachment… It is Le Monde, a French newspaper, that told a story the next day hardly touched by The New York Times or The Washington Post or The Wall Street Journal or, in fact, any other major American media outlet.”

Go here to read “Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment” in its entirety. 

Justice, indeed.