Kucinich talks, no one listens.

Dennis Kucinich is delivering a speech outlining 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush as I write this. It's almost midnight on the east coast; I've been listening to him for awhile now, and I haven't heard one thing that I understand to be incorrect. It's the dirty laundry list of the idiocy of the president's politicization of his terms in office, choosing politics over doing the right thing every time at the least--and downright thuggery, lies, and gross negligence at the worst.

Some items may or may not be impeachable, but they're disgusting. Other items on the list are irrefutably true and completely worthy of impeachment hearings, like the Katrina response, reports of voting irregularities in Ohio in 2004, suspending posse comitatus and habeas corpus, ignoring intelligence warnings preceding 9/11, and cooking up a war to sell to frightened people who were still mad about 9/11, even though Iraq had nothing to do with that.

I'm sure the media will not cover this story, or if they do, they will marginalize it, per usual, pulling out "that kooky Kucinich" line again. CSPAN carried the whole speech, and I watched the last 40 minutes of it. Dennis seemed sober and very serious. He presented supporting evidence with each item on his list.

Excellent television, to be sure.