Kucinich, impeachment: All you need to know....

On the subject of Dennis Kucinich and the impeachment of President Bush, where do we start? For one, it's not going anywhere. So if that is your standard for extracurricular reading, stop here.

But, if you are curious why it's not going anywhere, read on. And definitely continue if you want to click ahead to find in one place just what the arguments are for impeachment--as presented by Kucinich and as summarized by Marie Cocco, in a concise, look at the 35 articles of impeachment introduced in Congress by the representative of a working-class district in Cleveland.

Cocco writes for the Washington Post Writers Group. She presents Kucinich--whose Democratic presidential campaign made him something of a Ron Paul of the left this year--as a gnat in the Democratic cloakroom. "His party leaders may well agree with in substance," Cocco writes, but...

...he gets swatted away because his ideas are "too politically risky."

And that brings us to the subject of impeachment, which, she writes, has "no chance of being taken seriously in Congress" because "there is no benefit in throwing the country onto the pyre of partisan flames with Bush set to go quietly away to Crawford in just seven months."

Nevertheless, Kucinich has laid out his reasons for impeachment in 35 articles. For Cocco's take on them, click here. For the actual articles of impeachment, click here.

And for yet more buzz on the topic: Take a look at Al Jazeera's website. It scored an interview with Kucinich, and said his "articles of impeachment include charges that Bush manufactured a false case for going to war against Iraq."

Waste of time? Perhaps. It notes: "The House Judiciary Committee is not likely to hold hearings before the end of Bush's term in January. The prospect of impeaching Bush was long ago declared 'off the table' by Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat and the leader of the House."

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