According to Congressman Hinchey’s website, he and Senator Feingold of Wisconsin “have introduced two censure resolutions in their respective chambers condemning the president, vice president and the attorney general for misconduct regarding our military involvement in Iraq and for their repeated assaults on the rule of law at home.” As has been reported by the Oneonta Daily Star, both the Delaware County Democratic Committee and the Otsego County Democratic Committee have passed resolutions either directly calling for impeachment or an impeachment investigation of both the President and the Vice-president.

The Otsego County Democratic Committee voted last week to urge two area members of Congress to support an impeachment study focused on President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

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By a two-to-one margin in June, the Delaware County Democratic Committee passed a resolution that called for the initiation of impeachment proceedings.

You can read the resolution passed by the Delaware County Democratic Committee here.

According to Mr. Hinchey:

“From misleading this country into invading Iraq to establishing a warrantless domestic spy program, this White House has continuously misled and deceived the American people while disregarding the rule of law that guides our democracy,” Hinchey said. “The Bush administration has placed an extraordinary burden on this and future generations to recover from the damage done to our Constitution and national security. While it will take time to get our country back on the right track, we in Congress can act now by passing these censure resolutions to hold the White House accountable and to let the historical record show that an equal branch of government found the actions of this administration undeniably reprehensible. I am honored to be working with Senator Feingold on these censure resolutions and look forward to gathering support in order to pass them in both chambers.”

Considering that Congress just voted to expand some of the illegal spying activities of the Bush Administration, I would like to note that all of Delaware County’s congressional representation voted against giving our dubious Attorney General more authority to conduct spying. Vote tally for the Senate. Vote tally for the House. Kudos to Senators Clinton and Schumer and Representatives Hinchey and Gillibrand.