"In violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States," started US representative Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio, and today MPR's favorite politician) yesterday in the Capitol as he began his introduction of a bill to introduce articles of impeachment against George W. Bush.

Congressman Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) co-sponsored the articles, stating emphatically that "President Bush deliberately created a massive propaganda campaign to sell the war in Iraq to the American people and the charges detailed in this impeachment resolution indicate an unprecedented abuse of executive power." Wexler was the co-chair of Barack Obama's Florida campaign, and with the co-sponsoring, today one can only wonder if Wexler secretly hates America. And if, by extension, Obama does as well.

What, you may ask, is Kucinich's measure any good for, anyway, what with seven months left in Bush's term of office and last year's impeachment attempt by Kucinich against Dick Cheney fallen by the wayside?

Why, cottage industries, of course!

Folks like American Research Group, Inc. have been cranking out opinion polls on Bush's imminent impeachment (yeah, surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre) for years now, going so far as to create a link to IMPEACHMENT on the homepage. What did a November poll tell Americans about what Americans want to tell other Americans?

A total of 64% of American voters say that President George W. Bush has abused his powers as president. Of the 64%, 14% (9% of all voters) say the abuses are not serious enough to warrant impeachment, 33% (21% of all voters) say the abuses rise to the level of impeachable offenses, but he should not be impeached, and 53% (34% of all voters) say the abuses rise to the level of impeachable offenses and Mr. Bush should be impeached and removed from office.

It's good to know that so many American citizens are experts on Constitutional theory and law, eh?

Meanwhile, Kucinich's maneuver gave MPR some idle time to surf - I mean, to research some related domains on the subject.

Naturally, ImpeachBush.org is going strong and now has surpassed 1,000,000 signatures on its referendum to - ah, you know. Surprisingly, ImpeachBush.com "expired on 05/25/2008 and is pending renewal or deletion." The latter, we think.

Meanwhile, folks in all camps are already bunkering down online for some introduction of articles 'round about January 21, 2009. While ImpeachHillary.com has been reduced to a single scary photo's worth of content (hey, it's worth 1,000 words), ImpeachMcCain.com is up with Google Adsense in place and is even stocking up on "McCainisms."

Funniest of all, however, has got to be ImpeachObama.org, brought to you by the same folk(s) who put up IHateObama.com. Though currently consisting of just a single entry declared Obama - get this - a communist, it's well worth a read. Is this the sort of rube that comprises McCain's constituency?

As for MPR, we're thinking long-term and working on registering a few domain names ourselves ... y'know, stuff like ImpeachJebBush.com, ImpeachCondoleeza.org, ImpeachChelsea.edu...