His resolution will say that Bush and Cheney made intentionally false statements about Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction and misled the public into believing Saddam Hussein had ties to Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda. …A second censure resolution will deal with a warrantless surveillance program, policies regarding torture and detainees, politically motivated firings of U.S. attorneys, and issuing presidential signing statements….

Hinchey’s resolution is seen by many as a sop to the fringe elements in his district, which includes the city of Ithaca, who are demanding that the President and Vice President be impeached. Earlier this year, the Ithaca City Council voted in favor of impeachment, despite objections of some that it was a waste of time, taxpayer money and outside the City’s jurisdiction.

The censure measure, however, may be insufficient for the extremists in his district, especially given Hinchey’s prior promises to have Bush and Cheney impeached:

[Hinchey] said last year to an applauding audience, according to the Ithaca Journal, that impeachment proceedings should begin once the Democrats take over the House.

As a result, at least one local newspaper, the Ithaca Times, is asking “whether Hinchey is ‘letting down his base,’ by not being one of the co-sponsors of House Resolution 333, sponsored by Ohio Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.”

While Hinchey is, in some respects, a minor player in Congress, he is not alone in his troubles with his Democrat “base.” Congressional Democrats nationwide, including House House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have recently come under fire by far-left radicals, such as Cindy Sheehan. These radicals, reports indicate, feel betrayed by the Democrats for not immediately surrendering in Iraq and for not having begun impeachment proceedings, as promised in the run-up to the 2006 election.

This sense of betrayal, is in many ways, the Democrats’ own fault. The radical left was courted and praised by the Democratic leadership when it was seen as a way to regain power in Washington. But now that the Democrats have that power they find themselves at the mercy of those same radicals, demanding their promised payback.

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