Crazy Denny's Impeachment Circus

The wackiest of the wacky left House Democrats has decided that it's time for impeachment, but not of Bush, but of Cheney:

Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich on Tuesday will announce articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney ahead of a series of protests this weekend calling for the impeachment of both Cheney and President Bush.

A spokeswoman for Kucinich, the most liberal member of the 2008 Democratic presidential candidate class, confirmed the congressman's plans but would not discuss why Kucinich was bringing up the impeachment articles now.

According to The Washington Post blog The Sleuth, Kucinich actually crafted the articles of impeachment before the Virginia Tech massacre, but held off introducing them immediately after the mass shooting.

What this tells me is that Kucinich has obviously fallen for the wacky left meme that Cheney is the real power behind the throne and Bush is just a puppet. It's nonsense, of course, but it gives a thrill to the lefties.

But could there be a deeper motive going on here? If Kucinich was actually able to impeach Cheney (which won't happen), that would remove Cheney from the line of succession and they could then go after Bush with the real prize being a Pelosi presidency. With Cheney still in office, impeaching Bush would only create a Cheney presidency which the left would consider even more objectionable than Bush.