Had you turned on C-SPAN yesterday evening, you would have seen Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) rise on House floor to read his 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush. Five hours later he finished.

In terms of C-SPAN viewing excitement, this event ranked slightly ahead of last week's eight-hour reading of the 491-page Boxer amendment to the climate change bill. Sometime during hour five, after reading 25 articles about Iraq and the war on terror, and six articles regarding such allegations as destroying Medicare and mishandling Katrina, Kucinich made his 32nd point of the night: President Bush should be impeached for "systematically undermining efforts to address global climate change."

You'll have to scroll down to page 18 in this excerpt of the Congressional Record to get to Article XXXII about climate change, but here's the crux of the former presidential candidate's argument:

"[President Bush] has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates, together with the Vice President, ignored the peril to life and property posed by global climate change, manipulated scientific information and mishandled protective policy, constituting nonfeasance and malfeasance in office, abuse of power, dereliction of duty, and deception of Congress and the American people."

Since Kucinich did this without the blessing of Democratic leadership, this will probably be the last you hear of the story. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has said before that impeachment is "off the table." That's code for "this is going nowhere in committee." Besides, Congress only impeaches presidents these days for lying about affairs with interns.