All aboard the impeachment bandwagon: Cheney first, Bush next; Update: Dem House leader Steny Hoyer to block Kucinich resolution; Update 1:37pm Eastern: Kucinich on the House floor; Update 2:58pm Eastern Hoyer moves to table the resolution; Update 3:43pm Eastern: Vote still underway, flurry of vote-changing; Update: Hoyer motion fails; Denny K’s nutroots measure moves forward, the impeachment circus will “get its day in court;” Update: The Democrat switch-a-roonies; Update 7:45pm Eastern: What will Conyers do?
Update 7:21am Eastern 11/7. A Daily Kossack suggests that Kucinich to do it over and over and over again.”
Update 8:00pm Eastern: Quip of the night goes to corruptocrat Alcee Hastings. Gotta love the blue-on-blue action:
Kucinich “is on a quest of his own. He sees flying saucers and he acts like one,” Hastings said.
Update 7:45pm Eastern. What’s next? Fox is reporting that Kucinich claims House Judiciary Committee chairnut John Conyers told him the resolution is alive. Conyers is playing coy (hat tip – Paul M.):
Kucinich savored the victory, saying that Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers
had reassured him and backers of the resolution “that he would in fact launch an impeachment inquiry.” But Conyers told FOX News that he would announce his decision on Wednesday after speaking with House Democratic leaders.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has previously stated that she did not want the impeachment articles to come to a vote. High-ranking Democratic Rep. Alcee Hastings, who was himself impeached while a judge in Florida, said he was not happy with Kucinich’s attempts to raise the matter on the floor in an attempt to circumvent the normal legislative process.
Update. The Hill reports that Rep. John Shadegg gets credit for outmaneuvering the Dems.
Who were the Democrat switch-a-roonies? Brian Faughnan:
There were 81 Democrats who voted to have an impeachment debate when they were pretty sure it would be tabled, then turned around and voted to prevent a debate when it was clear one might occur. Those opportunists are:
Neil Abercrombie
Tom Allen
Joe Baca
Tammy Baldwin
Bruce Braley
Lois Capps
Mike Capuano
Yvette Clarke
Bill Clay
Emanuel Cleaver
Steve Cohen
John Conyers
Joe Crowley
Elijah Cummings
Danny Davis
Pete DeFazio
Norm Dicks
Lloyd Doggett
Mike Doyle
Keith Ellison
Sam Farr
Al Green
Gene Green
Raul Grijalva
Luis Gutierrez
Phil Hare
Maurice Hinchey
Mazie Hirono
Paul Hodes
Rush Holt
Mike Honda
Darlene Hooley
Jay Inslee
Jesse Jackson
Sheila Jackson-Lee
Hank Johnson
Stephanie Tubbs Jones
Paul Kanjorski
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Barbara Lee
John Lewis
Dave Loebsack
Carolyn Maloney
Betty McCollum
Jim McDermott
Greg Meeks
Mike Michaud
Brad Miller
Gwen Moore
Jim Moran
Grace Napolitano
Solomon Ortiz
Mike Pallone
Bill Pascrell
Ed Perlmutter
David Price
Charlie Rangel
Laura Richardson
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Bobby Rush
Jan Schakowsky
Bobby Scott
Jose Serrano
Carol Shea-Porter
Brad Sherman
Louise Slaughter
Hilda Solis
Pete Stark
Bart Stupak
Betty Sutton
Mike Thompson
John Tierney
Ed Towns
Nydia Velázquez
Mel Watt
Anthony Weiner
Peter Welch
Bob Wexler
Lynn Woolsey
David Wu
Albert Wynn
Update 4:52pm Eastern. Rolls are not up yet, but they’ll be here. Word is that Denny K’s measure is effectively dead because the Dems won’t act on it in the Judiciary Committee. Brian Faughnan at the Weekly Standard observes:
4:31 Update: Looks like the Democrats successfully regrouped after that first vote surprised them. The House just voted 218-194 to send Kucinich’s impeachment resolution to the Judiciary Committee. This effectively kills the bill, preventing a debate on impeachment.
It’s interesting that on such a weighty question as impeaching the vice president of the United States, votes can change so quickly. While the roll calls are not yet available, it seems there were plenty of Democrats who voted to go forward with impeachment when they thought it would fail, who suddenly voted against impeachment when it mattered. I guess it was all just about politics after all — even for the supposed ‘true believers.’
Indeed. I’ll post the roll calls when they become available.
Update 4:35pm Eastern. “The House just voted, 218-194, to send the resolution to the Judiciary Committee. That should end today’s debate- but it does keep the resolution at least technically alive.”
AP:
GOP Forces Debate on Cheney Impeachment
House Republicans, changing course midway through a vote, tried to force Democrats into a debate on a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney on the grounds he purposely led the country into war against Iraq.
The GOP tactics reversed what had been expected to an overwhelming vote to table, or kill, the resolution by longshot Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
Midway through the vote, with instructions from the GOP leadership, Republicans one by one changed their votes from yes _ to kill the resolution _ to no, trying to force the chamber into a debate and an up-or-down vote on the proposal.
At one point there were 290 votes to table. After the turnaround, the final vote was 251-162 against tabling, with 165 Republicans voting against it.
“We’re going to help them out, to explain themselves,” said Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas. “We’re going to give them their day in court.”
Heh.
Update 4:30pm Eastern. Chaos! Steny Hoyer’s motion to table the Denny K resolution fails 251-162.
Update 3:52pm Eastern. The current tally now shows 170 yeas, 242 nays, and 21 not voting. The nays now include 164 Republicans. It does indeed seem to me that the GOP is maneuvering to embarrass the House leadership and defeat Hoyer’s motion to table the nutroots impeachment resolution.
If you’re in the know, correct me if I’m wrong.
This is the first of four votes. We’re over an hour into a vote that was supposed to take 15 minutes.
An MSM blogger notices the developments on the floor:
At first, a whole bunch of Republicans voted with Hoyer to kill the resolution. Then they came to their senses and are in the process of switching their votes before the gavel comes down.
*** Update *** Now we are being treated to the spectacle of Democrats who had voted to table/kill the measure changing THEIR votes. They don’t want to be in a postion of defending Dick Cheney if they don’t have to.
Update 3:43pm Eastern. The vote to kill Kucinich’s impeachment resolution is wrapping up. C-SPAN’s tally shows 207 yeas (to kill), 204 nays (to support), and 22 not voting.
The nays include 133 Republicans.
Not sure what’s going on. Maybe Republicans want it to pass to embarrass the House leadership?
Lots of last-minute switching…now it’s 204 yea, 207 nay…192 yea, 219 nay…189 yea, 222, nay…
A simple majority is needed to kill the resolution. 218 is the magic number.
Update 2:58pm Eastern. Steny Hoyer just made his motion to table Kucinich’s resolution.
Update 2:54pm Eastern. If you’re in the mood for a quick trip to fantasy land, the video of Denny K is up at Hot Air.
Update 1:37pm Eastern Nutroots-mania on the House floor! Kucinich is now reading his impeachment resolution.
Update 1:27pm Eastern. This report claiming Steny Hoyer will block Kucinich’s impeachment resolution is attributed to Dow Jones…haven’t seen it anywhere else yet…so FWIW…
U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said Tuesday he will block an effort to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio has announced he will try to force a vote on Cheney’s impeachment. Hoyer said he will use parliamentary tactics to table that effort.
“Impeachment is not on the agenda,” Hoyer said.
Hoyer said his decision was not based upon the merits of the impeachment effort, but rather because the new Democratic majority had more important issues to resolve.
The wire dispatch is also on NASDAQ (via reader William Amos)…
Update 11:50am Eastern. Here’s the Kucinich campaign video about his impeachment crusade on YouTube. It’s self-parodying. At the end of the video, a Kucinich staffer announces a nationwide raffle to win the chance to spend an evening with Kucinich’s beautiful moonbat wife and watch the next Democrat debate with her while sticking pins in Bush and Cheney voo-doo dolls. Okay, I made that last part up about the voo-doo dolls:
Update 11:23am Eastern. Oh, crikey, they actually have an “Impeach Cheney First” song.
And I guess this little logo at the official Impeach Cheney site is for non-English speakers. Or something:
Reader Steve e-mails:
The peach that they are using in the logo at the official Impeach Cheney site is the logo from Sage Software’s Peachtree Accounting software. I just happen to have the box on my desk while I’m installing their latest version. I wonder if Sage Software (one of the largest accounting software firms) might have an issue with the nutroots using their logo.
Here’s a reference. It’s the three little droplets of water that give it away as being stolen.
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I told you on Friday about Dennis Kucinich’s privileged resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Well, today’s the day. The UFO-spotter will hold a press conference at 3pm Eastern. The After Downing Street mob is singing a new left-wing tune: All we are saying is give impeachment a chance.
Kucinich’s co-sponsors are Jan Schakowsky, Maxine Waters, Hank Johnson, Keith Ellison, Lynn Woolsey, Barbara Lee, Albert Wynn, William Lacy Clay, Dennis Kucinich, Yvette Clarke, Jim McDermott, Jim Moran, Bob Filner, Sam Farr, Robert Brady, Tammy Baldwin, Donald Payne, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Ed Towns, Diane Watson.
There was supposed to be a conference call last night about the resolution, but so many unhinged members of the nutroots community called in, that they apparently crashed the lines:
Democratic Presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich is planning to re-schedule a nationwide conference call to discuss Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Richard B. Cheney after tonight’s planned event encountered technical problems stemming largely from the overwhelming volume of calls from interested citizens.
The Kucinich campaign apologized for the snafu, explaining that staff had significantly underestimated the number of call-ins, and public interest in the issue exceeded technological capacity. The call will be re-scheduled within the next few days.
Kucinich, author and prime sponsor of the impeachment measure against Cheney, will be introducing a privileged resolution to the House tomorrow (Tuesday) to force a vote on the matter of impeachment.
LB at Don’t Go Into the Light cracks: “…perhaps he couldn’t establish an up-link with the mother ship.”
Here’s the text of the resolution:
RESOLUTION
Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Resolved, That Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, is impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate:
Articles of impeachment exhibited by the House of Representatives of the United States of America in the name of itself and of the people of the United States of America, against Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States of America, in maintenance and support of its impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors.
Article I
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has 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 United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, to wit:
(1) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Vice President actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction:
(A) `We know they have biological and chemical weapons.’ March 17, 2002, Press Conference by Vice President Dick Cheney and His Highness Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain at Shaikh Hamad Palace.
(B) `. . . and we know they are pursuing nuclear weapons.’ March 19, 2002, Press Briefing by Vice President Dick Cheney and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Jerusalem.
(C) `And he is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time . . .’ March 24, 2002, CNN Late Edition interview with Vice President Cheney.
(D) `We know he’s got chemicals and biological and we know he’s working on nuclear.’ May 19, 2002, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(E) `But we now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons . . . Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.’ August 26, 2002, Speech of Vice President Cheney at VFW 103rd National Convention.
(F) `Based on intelligence that’s becoming available, some of it has been made public, more of it hopefully will be, that he has indeed stepped up his capacity to produce and deliver biological weapons, that he has reconstituted his nuclear program to develop a nuclear weapon, that there are efforts under way inside Iraq to significantly expand his capability.’ September 8, 2002, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(G) `He is, in fact, actively and aggressively seeking to acquire nuclear weapons.’ September 8, 2002, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(H) `And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.’ March 16, 2003, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(2) Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq the Vice President was fully informed that no legitimate evidence existed of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The Vice President pressured the intelligence community to change their findings to enable the deception of the citizens and Congress of the United States.
(A) Vice President Cheney and his Chief of Staff, Lewis Libby, made multiple trips to the CIA in 2002 to question analysts studying Iraq’s weapons programs and alleged links to al Qaeda, creating an environment in which analysts felt they were being pressured to make their assessments fit with the Bush administration’s policy objectives accounts.
(B) Vice President Cheney sought out unverified and ultimately inaccurate raw intelligence to prove his preconceived beliefs. This strategy of cherry picking was employed to influence the interpretation of the intelligence.
(3) The Vice President’s actions corrupted or attempted to corrupt the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, an intelligence document issued on October 1, 2002, and carefully considered by Congress prior to the October 10, 2002, vote to authorize the use of force. The Vice President’s actions prevented the necessary reconciliation of facts for the National Intelligence Estimate which resulted in a high number of dissenting opinions from technical experts in two Federal agencies.
(A) The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research dissenting view in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate stated `Lacking persuasive evidence that Baghdad has launched a coherent effort to reconstitute it’s nuclear weapons program INR is unwilling to speculate that such an effort began soon after the departure of UN inspectors or to project a timeline for the completion of activities it does not now see happening. As a result INR is unable to predict that Iraq could acquire a nuclear device or weapon.’.
(B) The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research dissenting view in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate also stated that `Finally, the claims of Iraqi pursuit of natural uranium in Africa are, in INR’s assessment, highly dubious.’.
(C) The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research dissenting view in the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate references a Department of Energy opinion by stating that `INR accepts the judgment of technical experts at the US Department of Energy (DOE) who have concluded that the tubes Iraq seeks to acquire are poorly suited for use in gas centrifuges to be used for uranium enrichment and finds unpersuasive the arguments advanced by others to make the case that they are intended for that purpose.’.
The Vice President subverted the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 3300 United States service members; the loss of 650,000 Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $500 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq.
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States. Wherefore, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
Article II
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in order to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests, to wit:
(1) Despite all evidence to the contrary, the Vice President actively and systematically sought to deceive the citizens and the Congress of the United States about an alleged relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda:
(A) `His regime has had high-level contacts with Al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to Al Qaeda terrorists.’ December 2, 2002, Speech of Vice President Cheney at the Air National Guard Senior Leadership Conference.
(B) `His regime aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda. He could decide secretly to provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists for use against us.’ January 30, 2003, Speech of Vice President Cheney to 30th Political Action Conference in Arlington, Virginia.
(C) `We know he’s out trying once again to produce nuclear weapons and we know that he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the Al Qaeda organization.’ March 16, 2003, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(D) `We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the ’90s, that it involved training, for example, on biological weapons and chemical weapons . . .’ September 14, 2003, NBC Meet the Press interview with Vice President Cheney.
(E) `Al Qaeda had a base of operation there up in Northeastern Iraq where they ran a large poisons factory for attacks against Europeans and U.S. forces.’ October 3, 2003, Speech of Vice President Cheney at Bush-Cheney ‘04 Fundraiser in Iowa.
(F) `He also had an established relationship with Al Qaeda providing training to Al Qaeda members in areas of poisons, gases, and conventional bombs.’ October 10, 2003, Speech of Vice President Cheney to the Heritage Foundation.
(G) `Al Qaeda and the Iraqi intelligence services have worked together on a number of occasions.’ January 9, 2004, Rocky Mountain News interview with Vice President Cheney.
(H) `I think there’s overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.’ January 22, 2004, NPR: Morning Edition interview with Vice President Cheney.
(I) `First of all, on the question of–of whether or not there was any kind of relationship, there clearly was a relationship. It’s been testified to; the evidence is overwhelming.’ June 17, 2004, CNBC: Capital Report interview with Vice President Cheney.
(2) Preceding the March 2003 invasion of Iraq the Vice President was fully informed that no credible evidence existed of a working relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda, a fact articulated in several official documents, including:
(A) A classified Presidential Daily Briefing ten days after the September 11, 2001, attacks indicating that the United States intelligence community had no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the September 11th attacks and that there was `scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda’.
(B) Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary No. 044-02, issued in February 2002 by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency, which challenged the credibility of information gleaned from captured al Qaeda leader al-Libi. The DIA report also cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy: `Saddam’s regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements. Moreover, Baghdad is unlikely to provide assistance to a group it cannot control.’.
(C) A January 2003 British intelligence classified report on Iraq that concluded that `there are no current links between the Iraqi regime and the al-Qaeda network’.
The Vice President subverted the national security interests of the United States by setting the stage for the loss of more than 3,300 United States service members; the loss of 650,000 Iraqi citizens since the United States invasion; the loss of approximately $500 billion in war costs which has increased our Federal debt; the loss of military readiness within the United States Armed Services due to overextension, lack of training and lack of equipment; the loss of United States credibility in world affairs; and the decades of likely blowback created by the invasion of Iraq.
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, is guilty of an impeachable offense warranting removal from office.
Article III
In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States, and done so with the United States proven capability to carry out such threats, thus undermining the national security of the United States, to wit:
(1) Despite no evidence that Iran has the intention or the capability of attacking the United States and despite the turmoil created by United States invasion of Iraq, the Vice President has openly threatened aggression against Iran as evidenced by the following:
(A) `For our part, the United States is keeping all options on the table in addressing the irresponsible conduct of the regime. And we join other nations in sending that regime a clear message: We will not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.’ March 7, 2006, Speech of Vice President Cheney to American Israel Public Affairs Committee 2006 Policy Conference.
(B) `But we’ve also made it clear that all options are on the table.’ January 24, 2007, CNN Situation Room interview with Vice President Cheney.
(C) `When we–as the President did, for example, recently–deploy another aircraft carrier task force to the Gulf, that sends a very strong signal to everybody in the region that the United States is here to stay, that we clearly have significant capabilities, and that we are working with friends and allies as well as the international organizations to deal with the Iranian threat.’ January 29, 2007, Newsweek interview with Vice President Cheney.
(D) `But I’ve also made the point and the President has made the point that all options are still on the table.’ February 24, 2007, Vice President Cheney at Press Briefing with Australian Prime Minister in Sydney, Australia.
(2) The Vice President, who repeatedly and falsely claimed to have had specific, detailed knowledge of Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction capabilities, is no doubt fully aware of evidence that demonstrates Iran poses no real threat to the United States as evidenced by the following:
(A) `I know that what we see in Iran right now is not the industrial capacity you can [use to develop a] bomb.’ Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, February 19, 2007.
(B) Iran indicated its `full readiness and willingness to negotiate on the modality for the resolution of the outstanding issues with the IAEA, subject to the assurances for dealing with the issues in the framework of the Agency, without the interference of the United Nations Security Council’. IAEA Board Report, February 22, 2007.
(C) `. . . so whatever they have, what we have seen today, is not the kind of capacity that would enable them to make bombs.’ Mohamed El Baradei, Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency, February 19, 2007.
(3) The Vice President is fully aware of the actions taken by the United States towards Iran that are further destabilizing the world as evidenced by the following:
(A) The United States has refused to engage in meaningful diplomatic relations with Iran since 2002, rebuffing both bilateral and multilateral offers to dialogue.
(B) The United States is currently engaged in a military buildup in the Middle East that includes the increased presence of the United States Navy in the waters near Iran, significant United States Armed Forces in two nations neighboring to Iran, and the installation of anti-missile technology in the region.
(C) News accounts have indicated that military planners have considered the B61-11, a tactical nuclear weapon, as one of the options to strike underground bunkers in Iran.
(D) The United States has been linked to anti-Iranian organizations that are attempting to destabilize the Iranian government, in particular the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), even though the state department has branded it a terrorist organization.
(E) News accounts indicate that United States troops have been ordered into Iran to collect data and establish contact with anti-government groups.
(4) In the last three years the Vice President has repeatedly threatened Iran. However, the Vice President is legally bound by the U.S. Constitution’s adherence to international law that prohibits threats of use of force.
(A) Article VI of the United States Constitution states, `This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land.’ Any provision of an international treaty ratified by the United States becomes the law of the United States.
(B) The United States is a signatory to the United Nations Charter, a treaty among the nations of the world. Article II, Section 4 of the United Nations Charter states, `All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.’ The threat of force is illegal.
(C) Article 51 lays out the only exception, `Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security.’ Iran has not attacked the United States; therefore any threat against Iran by the United States is illegal.
The Vice President’s deception upon the citizens and Congress of the United States that enabled the failed United States invasion of Iraq forcibly altered the rules of diplomacy such that the Vice President’s recent belligerent actions towards Iran are destabilizing and counterproductive to the national security of the United States.
In all of this, Vice President Richard B. Cheney has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Vice President, and subversive of constitutional government, to the prejudice of the cause of law and justice and the manifest injury of the people of the United States.
Wherefore Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrants impeachment and trial, and removal from office.
And that is just the beginning.
Kucinich called up a left-wing blogger to let him know that Bush is next:
Congressman Dennis Kucinich said on a conference call Monday evening that after moving to impeach Vice President Cheney on Tuesday he will also introduce, at a future date, a resolution to impeach President Bush. Or rather, he would have said that on the conference call if not for several technical SNAFUs.
The call was advertised as a one-way call on which only Kucinich could speak, but Kucinich was unable to get through because of the incredible number of people on the call (I have no count yet, but the dings of the new people coming on were a steady stream of noise for half an hour).
So Kucinich phoned me, and I held one of my phones up to another so that everyone on the call could hear him. That was working fine for about 20 seconds, until the geniuses running the call chose that moment to mute everyone except Dennis (without stopping to realize that by muting me they were muting Dennis). So, Kucinich gave a nice speech through my phones, but I was the only one listening.
What will Nancy “Impeachment is off the table” Pelosi do?
Stay tuned for the day-long circus.
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I think that they are voting “nay” to the tabling vote — so it will be up for a real vote. Then they can really stick it to the Dems and make them take a position. I think it’s actually a good idea. Or am I missing something?
what a CIRCUS!
Man. This is a baaaaaddd day for the Democrats. They got gamed on Mukasey and now the GOP just gamed them into debating their idiocy. Too funny.
15 minute voye taking over an hour so far.
vote , opps
Is it over? I just connected to cspan radio, and they were talking about food safety — or something.
The DhimmiCrats are imploding: AGAIN.
not yet lan
There is a GOD!
what a clusterf___.
I would be in favor of that!!!
Thay all should be in clown suits.
Image of a Congressional Clusterf*ck: Teddy saying he’ll grab the horns. Biden wants to go first. Kucinich …oh never mind.
they geez
I love this. Please let this become a huge issue. Oh god in heaven please.
I was obviously thinking of a Congressional goatf*ck
How do you spell K-a-b-o-o-m, Dennis?
This is like Chris Darden getting OJ to put the gloves on in front of the jury……disastrous.
LOL !!!!!
WHOO HOO. That last part, Hoyner was trying really hard to keep it together and Bohner gamed him.
Oh man the Nutroots at the DU are SCREAMING at the Democrats not to table this. The Dem leadership is getting it from all sides LOL
todays crapweasels
I mean Congress
D-I-M-O-C-R-A-P
LOL AJ, we’re still not worthy!
yes, the republican leadership changed the votes to nay, so that they can debate the issue.. it was a calculated strategy by the Republican Leader..
Its live on CSpan now
Impeachment debate
My God they have Kucinich on and its HILLARIOUS
The reporter asked him why Republicans are voting with him on this bill and he said this PROVES its not a partisan issue that even republicans are fed up with Bush.
The man is CLUELESS
The global temperature is going to go up 10 degrees from the friction due to MSM spin. I used to think GW had nothing to do with man. Between the spin friction and hot air, I have changed my position.
Doppy won round 1 – LOL!
They think it is about people wanting to impeach the VP. Nope, we want them on record!
thegreatbeast
Thank you. Trust me, I can’t wait until the day comes when the American people and the world actually are forced to accept the truth about Iraq.
It’s amazing that the “connect the dots” question is used to question why we didn’t see 9/11 coming but when it comes to the pieces of the puzzle afterwards…the left runs around with a big eraser to wipe out the dots.
Saddam DID have WMD’s and AlQaeda was operating in Iraq BEFORE we invaded. Does the name Zarquawi ring a bell to any of you brain dead liberals? Just once I would like to see a liberal use FACTS, truth, and reality in their argument instead of false information, fantasy, and outright lies.
This whole day spent on nonsense is the final capitulation of the House Democrats. It’s the final admission of what everyone already suspected: “We know we can’t do our jobs – including passing even a single budget bill – so let’s just have a vote on how much we hate Dick Cheney!”
Shortly after the 2006 election I saw a poll indicating that a concern of voters – that went across party lines – was that the Democrats would overplay their hand and waste time investigating and attacking the administration instead of getting anything done.
The prophecy has come true.
What more eloquent testimony, aside from this exercise in ridiculousness, can there be that today’s Democrat party is simply unfit to govern? They can’t even govern their negative emotions, not to mention a country.
Then they would be Republicans hatelibs.
Fox news is reporting that John Conyers is telling dems this “Impeachment is a waste of Congresses time”
I swear its awesome !
It’s like I said before, Dennis screwed his own party with this one.
Personally, if the blocking motion fails, then I think the Republicans should take this one step further by REFUSING to debate the issue – yield all their time to the Democrats. Let Democrats debate each other about it.
This will show the nutroots that it’s not the Republicans keeping the VP from being impeached – it’s their own party!
Democrats get what they deserve.
This is what you get when you pander to your nutty base for votes and money. Democrats were desperate and so they’ve allowed a lot of nonsense to fester knowing all along it was bogus and nonsense.
TIP
Whatever their smoking dont let you’re kids get their hands on any of it.
I think they were able to able it with EXACTLY 218 votes.
lol, tip in general not you tipper. lol
ajmontana
Good point
aj, decorum, please. That’s fustercluck.
Weekly standard says
Result? Democrats loose.
I say that every single Demoncrap that voted for not tabling the impeachment…..should turn in their next paycheck.
WE want a refund for doing Nothing.
There, fixed it for ya!
Keep your cameraphones ready, someone’s head is going to explode. But watch out for the tinfoil and copper mesh shrapnel.
It brings back memories though, of those days on the elmentary school playground, voices shouting, “Are too, am not, are too, am not…”
Dennis please report to Peloi’s office and wait for your mother(ship) to take you home.
To quote soap…
“There is a God!
You can’t trust any politician that hangs out with Shirley Mclaine and see alien spaceships who decide to impeach the VP and President!
I nominate southernboy as “Gentlist Troll of the Year”
If the blocking motion did fail, then the Republicans should exclaim that the Democrats are afraid to debate the issue because they don’t want the truth to get out!
ROFL
The liberals in the office here are cheering – Cheney is impeached. I gave them the facts and asked:
Soap: Did you read the resolution.
Donk: No
Soap: I’ll send you a copy
Donk: I’ll hear it on the news tonight. Cheney was impeached
Soap: No, he was not
Donk: I was just listening to it on the radio
Soap: *rolls eyes*
lonewolf:
At least he is funnier than lgm
whats an lgm
loser gone mad?
Soap
I actually feel sort of sorry for Donk tonight.
Maybe he’s one of the on strike writers that was just here trolling for material…
Ok, Ok. You’re right.
They got to put up or shut up.
KooKucinich!
I am in an office full libs thinking the VP should be impeached. It should have been Donks!
Night all. Off to hospital to see if I will be papa-soap in the morning!
We shall fight another day!
Papa Soap!!!
Good luck to you and Mama Soap.
Well thats weird the bill is up on the congressional site but not the role call.
ITS HR 799 but this is what I get about the bill (even though later bills are there)
Ok, it gets even funnier. Conyers has had it since May 4th.
HR 333 it is was referred to committee for consideration on May 4th.
Link
The Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is one of five subcommittees of the United States House Committee on the Judiciary.
Dennis Kucinich: Shot what was left of his Loser political wad on a dead duck bill.
Not ready for prime time. Got his VeeDub blown apart by a Republican tank before he could lift it out of the garage.
L-o-S-e-R.
Impeach that. Now go get an ear job so you can look just like yer daddy again. You hurt him when you got yours clipped so you could get murried. Whatever happened to Vulcan pride?
Now Pelosi is going to have to spank your tawdry patoot.
Hey I know. Why not audition for Jay Leno’s lap puppet.
“Hi! I’m Monty Kucinich. Er- I mean Freddy Kucinich. Errrr- Billy Barty! No wait! I used to know who I was until I tried to impeach what’s his face!!!”
And into obscurity he will go.
All said, Kucinich is about the only lefty in Congress that I respect, simply because he has been, and is steadfast in his beliefs, as nutty as they may be…..and has NOT flip flopped after testing the winds.
The most amazing thing about this (although not surprising) – I have been cross-checking the CNN website, and there isn’t *any mention* of this! Attempting to impeach the vice president *isn’t newsworthy*?
Just more evidence, if you needed it, that the MSM is providing cover for the most loony of the liberals.
I just want to know when Kucinich is going to introduce the UFO /alien diplomacy bill and a resolution to admonish Russia for shooting at them?
or was this earmarked onto the end of the Impeachment resolution?
Read this, via wacko afterdowningstreet (not going to link, because they are wackos)
So basically, only 5 Democrats voted in favor of moving forward with impeachment?!?
I love it!!!
FAUX NEWS ALERT!
Dennis Kucinich has signed a book deal with Aplomb Publishing. He will pen his memoirs as a novella entitled “The Story of Corky Westerhauser”.
Good luck, Dinky Denny!
Actually, that refund should date back to January, since the Dumbocrats have basically done nothing since they regained the majority.
Keep this up and they could easily become the minority again, should the Republican cogress critters (and the RNC) ALL use their spines and brains on a regular basis.
It is very bad for the Republic that the Democrats, one of our two major parties, are this feckless and incompetent. The Republicans have not exactly distinguished themselves lately as examples of statesmanship either. It makes it much harder to export democratic values to authoritarian or totalitarian cultures when the example we offer is so unfortunate. This also makes it much more dangerous for our troops and indeed for all Americans everywhere.
All Circus acts and carnies aside, I get your drift LifeoftheMind.
#352 Fat Tone: I agree…same thing I think can be said in the senate for a man I’ve never agreed with on anything (that I know of). I’m not sure Kennedy has ever flip-flopped (well ‘cept when swimming).
When the Republicans wanted to impeach Bill Clinton for perjury, they were serious and got it done. The Democrats wanted to impeach Cheney (for what?) just for the sake of saying they wanted to impeach.
If anything, I’m glad our government is not a Parliament with its votes of confidence. That looks like what the Democrats want. I’m not always happy with the Republican party, but I just can’t stand the Democrats. There are so few principled Democrats I could support even when there are issues with which I disagree.
Where have you gone, Daniel Moynihan? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you …
bear..lol. that word brings to mind bad visuals!
Let’s wait and see how the media plays this one, before declaring things like a Democrat implosion.
The media has a way of describing day as night, and apples as neutron stars.
Today’s performance makes me nostalgic for vaudeville.
Heh. Man, democrats are the absolute worst… Talk about wolves in the hen house.
oh not me, yum fair food… lol
then the ferris wheel!
feebs.gotta disagree with you as far as taxpayers lose. As far as I can tell, if they weren’t doing this, they would be doing something really damaging to the taxpayer. I think the taxpayers won today.
Nothing is so wasteful as doing the wrong thing well.
#367-AJ – it appears you neglected to check out WHO was cooking your fair food….
blahhkkk!
at least the republican taxpayers won today in terms of votes gained next year… IMHO.
Feebie if I gazed into kitchens anywhere I’d prolly never eat again…
“dont look, dont tell”
from the Weekly Standard piece.
And it’s so much more than interesting, it is DISGUSTING, it is Cowardly, unethical, embarrassing, without honor and? it IS the left wing democrats of the Clinton era and beyond.
This is the Clinton legacy.
.
Watch your backs, everybody, the Clinton mob isn’t ‘even’ yet. There undoubtedly will be much more blood…real and imagined.
Oh Feebie! I know it’s so. We used to have a “Peach Festival” every year in the small village I lived in back in the 80s when I was farmin.
OMG. The village would contract the ride and games portion to some absolutely vile outfit from Kentucky.
The gene pool was goulash city for starters. And then the way these trollish fellas would come right up to the womenfolk and “entice” them to ride.
Had to b-slap one once. It was nasty.
Pink popcorn!!!!!!!!!!!!! Red sodies!!!!!
Every time I see Kucinich I am reminded of the carnie slime factor.
#354….I think I heard Sheila Jackson Lee (I think that’s who it was but I’m not certain) saying something about the UFO’s too…something about them playing capture the flag with the one that Apollo astronauts put on the moon. Maybe I got that wrong, it was the Martians doing that when we put our little mars rovers out there…. We could Kucinich to straighten it all out for us.
#374
Kucinich needs his little moon unit re-orbited far from here.
Carnies in space.
from way back at #28. one D ten T comment.
The Clinton crime syndicate will be known, eventually.
Bush actually will go down as a hero to the middle east, providing the Shill doesn’t ruin it all… if elected.
geez, hearing you guys describe it, I think I’m having delayed food poisoning from 2005.
#371 – AJ – its a scary way to live, aint it.
#373-Bear – all i have to say is in June, Pleasanton is over-run by the carnies in their trailers for the Alameda County Fair,,,its not just at the fair they are harassin’ lady folk. They use to sit out side a dive on main street….serious slime factor!
Bear:
Why would you go to North Beach Pizza when you could be dining on the very best pizza in the Bay Area…Blondies!!
Oh man…I am drooling at the thought of a big slab of that chewy cheesy pizza right now. It tastes so good after battling all the pan-handlers and junkies to get there too. Mmmmm…
And Rusty…it is just amazing to me that you can even possibly believe HALF of the crud you are spewing. you are talking in generalizations and listing things that are nothing more than pure emotional drivel spewed forth from the DU and kosbots. Your statements show you have a very basic misunderstanding and ignorance as to the entire picture of what has been happening in Iraq for the last 20 years. To think that you feel he was not a threat to his neighbors, immediate or otherwise, is just one of the most ignorant and uninformed things anyone could say. You would probably have said the same about Hitler as he eyed the Sudetanland and Poland. He had more than once demonstrated that he was unstable, and each and every time he lit up our planes with his radar or fired anti-aircraft weaponry at them were each individual acts of war. We had been justified, just based on that, for 12 years. Not to mention how justified we were to go in in 1998 when he expelled the inspectors.
As for not finding anything once we were there, whether we did or not is completely IRRELEVANT!!! You people were against us going in BEFORE we did, thus whether or not we found anything would have made no difference. The simple fact is, EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE was under the belief, for over 12 years, that he had nuke capability, was trying to obtain nuke capability and all the WMD’s illgotten oil money could buy. We only found out AFTER WE WENT IN that they had been buried/moved somewhere and could not be found. had we not gone in, EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE would still believe he had them.. What Bush did was what the inspectors were taking too long to find out. He did their job and got rid of a dangerous, murderous, raping tyrant in the process. The Mission was Completed. He was thrown out. What is going on now is something TOTALLY DIFFERENT and is no longer about WMD’s.
You and those of your ilk need glass navels to see where you are going, because your heads are so far up there with all your tired out worn out 60’s hippie love and no war crap that the whole big picture of how everything in the Middle East is all tied together and all about loose cannon dictators and islamic thugs completely and totally escapes all of you. The simple fact that you are capable of believing those that would see your head rolling on the ground before your lifeless bodies and disavow and disbelieve those with truly only good intentions and the safety and securit of your own home country and the world is astonishing and depressing all at the same time.
What you and all Liberals and Lefties need to do is to sit down and re-evaluate your priorities and your honor. you need to rethink just why you think and feel the way you do, then actually go out and study geo-political happenings and see the error and injustice of your thought processes and actions, for they are truly backwards and anti-American at the basest levels.
No, I do not question Liberals patiotism. They have none to question.
still no roll for this vote? probably trying to figure out who what where and when. what a mess.
RetFireman:
Nice rant, Dude.
It’s interesting that some of the bill’s cosponsors changed their vote to avoid debate. Cowards.
Jim C
Besides- methinks crossin the bridge for pizza would be insane.
No ‘fense.
I’m gonna be quoting your line about liberal patriotism. The oxymoronic irony of it all.
All right ladies and gentaminz….Bear is out and about. Time to exercise! And then- ‘Za down!
Happy trails.
Whispers to feebie: “carnieeeeeeeee…carnieeeeee….carnieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”
The five Democratic Heros who voted to proceed with impeachment;
Kucinich
Kaptur
Filner
Waters
Watson
I assume that the nutroots will work to defeat all the other Democratic House members.
Some of them? Only five of them were serious.