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Presidential Candidate and “FLILF Hunter” Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced a resolution Tuesday to bring about the impeachment process against Vice President Dick Cheney. Of course- there’s not actually going to be an impeachment, but still…
House Democrats on Tuesday beat back a Republican attempt to force them to vote on a divisive resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney for “fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction” to justify the war in Iraq.The 218-194 party-line vote waylaying the measure by sending it to the judiciary committee capped a remarkable afternoon in which Republicans tried to outfox Democrats, switching their votes in a strategy that could have triggered an immediate vote.
Wow… So rather than actually go ahead and vote on the damn thing, they decide to back out and tuck tail to maintain as wide a political base as they can. Nice.
That referral effectively shelved the issue for now, but not before the resolution’s sponsor, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich, a far-left Ohio Democrat running for president, had a chance to read into the record three articles of impeachment against the vice president.
The resolution said that Cheney, “in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of vice president,” had “purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests.”The 11-page resolution also charged that Cheney purposely deceived the nation about an alleged relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda and has also “openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States.”
Of course- it’s not purely cowardice that saw Democrats shelving the issue.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) agreed that it was not in Pelosi’s interest to advance the articles of impeachment. “If she were to let this thing out of the box, considering the number of legislative issues we have pending . . . it could create a split that could affect our productivity for the rest of the Congress,” Conyers told Fox News.
“Impeachment is not on our agenda,” said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.). “We have some major priorities. We need to focus on those.”
Hoyer issued a statement chiding Republicans for turning the potential impeachment of a vice president into “a petty political game.”Insisting that House leaders have their eye on the ball, he added, “Speaker Pelosi and I have made it clear that this Congress is not going to proceed with impeachment, and is going to focus on critical issues facing our nation, such as healthcare for children and the war in Iraq.”
Yes, all the issues that they’ve been making so much progress with already. Good call.
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