Raw Story reports it happened quietly Sunday night:

Ranking House Judiciary Democrat Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) has introduced a motion to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney for providing misleading information to Congress in advance of the Iraq war, failing to respond to written questions and potential violations of international law, RAW STORY has learned.

The resolutions were quietly introduced Sunday evening along with a third resolution (HR 635) to create a Select Committee to investigate the administration’s intent to go to war prior to congressional authorization. The committee would also be charged with examining manipulation of pre-war intelligence, thwarting Congressional oversight and retaliatory attacks against critics. As part of this resolution, House Judiciary Democrats seek also to explore violations of international law as pertaining to detainee abuse and torture of prisoners of war.

Raw Story has links to the resolutions....

• to create an investigative body to determine if offenses are impeachable (.pdf)
• to censure President George W. Bush (.pdf)
• to censure Vice President Dick Cheney (.pdf)

I can hear the howling from the right already. It's to be expected. Their fearless Crusader is under political fire.

But they have to face that Bush has made his own bed here. He has acted with more arrogance and abuse of executive power than any other president in history, including Nixon. (Lincoln may be close, but do we want to measure executive standards by an era when slavery was not only legal, but people fought and died for the privilege of enslaving others?)

Disclosure: I didn't like it when President Clinton pushed for more executive powers at the expense of citizens' rights, either. Interesting how the right wingers hated it when Clinton did it, but fall all over themselves to defend neo-fascist actions when their Crusader does ten times worse. Then again, it's no secret that, for them, Party comes before country -- and, now that they (ostensibly) control the government, the State comes before the People. To them, "We the People" represent what's worst about America.

Here's the reality: The Republicans control the White House. The Republicans control Congress. The Republicans have packed the judiciary with their own brand of activist judges determined to undo the past 80 years of progress in America.

If Bush has nothing to hide, then the Republicans and their knee-jerk defenders have nothing to worry about. After all, isn't that the rationale they keep offering us while they strip the Bill of Rights down to a non-binding position paper on "quaint notions of democracy"?

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