If Ken Cuccinelli is the GOP’s next generation Alberto Gonzales, can Virginians impeach him?
Does everyone else in VA get a broom to sweep this ash heap dweller away? (Image by Getty Images via Daylife)
Where do they find these people?
Have you heard about Ken Cuccinelli, the state of Virginia’s Attorney General? He coasted into office in November under the gracious cover of Governor Bob McDonnell’s sunny, pragmatic Republican virtue. And now he’s dead-set on reminding Virginians and Americans that a lot of the GOP’s new standard-bearers come from the segment of the party that is out of its collective mind.
It started earlier this week when audio surfaced proving that Ken Cuccinelli is a flat-out birther. When a Virginian asked him about getting Obama’s birth certificate, he could have just said that Virginia’s Republicans have better things to do. Instead, he gave a detailed explanation of the only way he believed it possible for President Obama’s birth certificate to finally be revealed to prove that our fairly-elected 44th president is in fact an usurper (via Not Larry Sabato):
My Ken, it sounds like you’ve given this some thought. While Hawaii has decided it’s tired of dealing with birthers, apparently you’re going to print up t-shirts that read ‘Virginia is for Birthers‘.
But apparently Cuccinelli has even deeper thoughts in his mind about the scary feds. He worried aloud that perhaps he shouldn’t get his son a Social Security card because that way the feds wouldn’t be able to track his kid. No, really (via People for the American Way):
Perhaps Ken also feels that Virginians should dodge the Census collectors. I fully endorse this move if it means a reduced number of Congressional districts to represent batshit Virginians like their current Attorney General.
But then there is his latest game: threatening Speaker Nancy Pelosi with a lawsuit if Congress succeeds in passing health care reform. From the Washington Post:
March 17, 2010 The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Office of the Speaker H-232, U.S. Capitol Washington, D.C. Dear Speaker Pelosi: I am writing to urge you not to proceed with the Senate Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act under a so-called “deem and pass” rule because such a course of action would raise grave constitutional questions. Based upon media interviews and statements which I have seen, you are considering this approach because it might somehow shield members of Congress from taking a recorded vote on an overwhelmingly unpopular Senate bill. This is an improper purpose under the bicameralism requirements of Article I, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution, one of the purposes of which is to make our representatives fully accountable for their votes. Furthermore, to be validly enacted, the Senate bill would have to be accepted by the House in a form that is word-for-word identical (Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417 (1998)). Should you employ the deem and pass tactic, you expose any act which may pass to yet another constitutional challenge. A bill of this magnitude should not be passed using this maneuver. As the President noted last week, the American people are entitled to an up or down vote. Sincerely, Kenneth T. Cuccinelli, II Attorney General of Virginia
I’m sure there are real laws being broken in Virginia that need to be enforced by manner of prosecution on the part of an energized Attorney General’s office. But Cuccinelli’s attentions are being focused on Congressional deliberations. He is attempting to interfere in the federal government’s creation of laws by threatening suit against a bill that hasn’t been passed. His letter could have been written by a Republican National Committee operative, and it probably was. It’s a sign that Cuccinelli is nothing more than a partisan plant who is using law enforcement and a chief prosecutor’s privileged access to the judiciary in order to pursue national political combat by other means. I won’t even get into his antics related to federal regulation of greenhouse gases and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. There isn’t a conspiracy that elected a foreign-born Barack Obama president. But there is a conspiracy among national Republicans to cancel out the work of a legitimately-elected Democratic Congress and President by shouting ’state’s rights.’ Just the Dixiecrats et al tried to stop up the movement toward the protection of civil rights in the 60s. Ken Cuccinelli is intent on becoming its poster boy.
You see, this is where I see Cuccinelli going from obscure partisan backwater loon to an Attorney General who like Alberto Gonzales committed offenses in office that were probably impeachable. The Virginia state constitution holds that the commonwealth’s elected officials can be impeached if they commit ‘malfeasance in office.’ And if the stark politicization of the Justice Department and the posts of US Attorney were potentially impeachable offenses on Gonzales’s part, then Cuccinelli’s transformation of Virginia’s Office of the Attorney General into an organ of the Republican Party is certain malfeasance. If anyone in Virginia can hear me, please contact your delegate and ask them to draw up Articles of Impeachment against this partisan operative who managed to have himself elected your state’s chief law enforcement officer.
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RE:When a Virginian asked him about getting Obama’s birth certificate, he could have just said that Virginia’s Republicans have better things to do. Instead, he gave a detailed explanation of the only way he believed it possible for President Obama’s birth certificate to finally be revealed to prove that our fairly-elected 44th president is in fact an usurper
Obama has hid his birth certificate….and they are rushing to take it out of play for 2012
Micheal, if Al Gonzales was a democrat…you would be hanging the medal of freedom around his neck for being an all around great brown american
Andy,
I think if you go to this site you will find a copy of Obama’s birth certificate.
http://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/graphics/birthCertObama.jpg
It is very boring document.
By the way I was born in New Jersey and found it difficult to get my birth certificate seems that people like to steal birth certificates so they can like create new identities, to like avoid taxes and in some cases prison and avoid things like a sticky arrest for fondling your neighbor’s nine year old. There are books published in the old days about how to do this. I think Lone Star Press used to have a book about it. Might still be out there, I think I bought one once.
Anyway seems that this identity theft thing caught on and lots of states have cracked down on just sending out birth certificates willy nilly to anyone asking for one. So like I had to get the church to produce my Baptism certificate that helped them convince them, with my diver’s license and social security number…see I wanted a passport…it was such a pain.
But there it is…So Hawaii has its rules…but what the hell who is nuts enough to claim he is Obama?
Now Andy I’m sure you’re going to ask why it isn’t creased and did it come from the mother or father or some other weird ass shit…so maybe you can go to Hawaii, I’ve never been, but some say it’s nice…you can write it off as a political junket, you can ask people if they can show their birth certificates and compare…of course it could have all been planned in 1961, you know make everyone in the State have bad ones so it matched Obama’s or maybe you can go to Kenya…never been, but a friend says they have nice beaches there too…and track down the dad’s tribe and get the real story.
I look forward to your research and hope someday to visit your home country of Beckistan.
In response to another comment. See in context »If that’s the birth certificate, then what did Gov Lindle seal, when she sealed Obama’s birth certificate from public view? and why is Hawaii working on a law this very minute to punish those who repeatedly request obama’s birth certificate….?
In response to another comment. See in context »All birth certificates in Hawaii are “sealed”…read above. That is the law and has nothing to do with the governor. I enjoy a number of fantasies none involve birth records.
In response to another comment. See in context »Libtree09….that ain’t the birth certificate…..but if you want to
In response to another comment. See in context »believe it is…enjoy your fantasy
hey andy… Joseph Childers has a post on “The Pettiness of Conservatism”, on how you right-wing extremists will believe anything, ANYTHING, no matter how stupid, insane, or completely disproved bullshit it is, as long as you think (= are told by your masters) that it pisses off Liberals. Kain, or Johnson has a similar post. What’dya think of that? Seems to me like you just proved them right.
(Sorry, all. Little bit of chasing the pet troll.)
In response to another comment. See in context »You must have missed the part where I said that Van Jones was asking for it and that Democrats were engaging in their own self-immolation by keeping Charlie Rangel atop the House Ways and Means Committee back in November. That’s no surprise. As Libtree said below, you seem to have the secret Legend of Zelda map to Beckistan and that’s where you spend all of your time.
In response to another comment. See in context »A certified copy printed on the front page of the NY Times wouldn’t convince the birthers. Never let facts interfere with a good conspiracy theory. Cognitive dissonance at it’s finest.
It would…but where would the NYT get a certified copy of Obama’s sealed birth certificate…which only two people on earth have claimed to have seen….both hawaiian public officials
Gov Lindle has sealed obama’s long form birth certificate….and only two officials in her office have claimed to have seen it….no else on earth claims to have seen his hawaiian long form birth certificate
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