Hearings set to impeach V.P. Cheney.?

Question

http://kucinich.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=78044


what are your thoughts?

think this will go very far?

H.RES.799
Title: Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 11/6/2007) Cosponsors (None)
Related Bills: H.RES.333
Latest Major Action: 11/6/2007 House floor actions. Status: On motion to refer Agreed to by recorded vote: 218 - 194 (Roll no. 1039).


from the HoR website

Answer 1

I think this is the best thing since the creation of mayonaise... and that's pretty big. LOL

Seriously, I'm a huge Kucinich fan and only wish more Democrats thought like he did.

What I found odd was how it was the Republicans that voted against tabling 799 which ended up with it being sent to Committee hearings. I just hope that strategy backfires and the hearings show some good results = justifcation for impeachment.

Btw, the Republicans said they were trying to embarrass the Democrats... is why they voted to not table it. They wanted to have an hour debate on it.

Answer 2

Wow, you did notice that the Dem's as a party have kinda backed off from this?

And there are some good reasons for them to back off. Many republicans were and are ready to bring this issue to a full debate. Seems as thought the Dem's don't really desire to bring this into the public eye so much.
WHY?
Because they have no prove that can hold up in a court that says that anyone lied about WMD. Remember when they tried to hang Scooter Libby? Libby was going to sing like a bird and they were going to get Cheney and maybe even the big prize Bush.

Surprise. it didn't happen, Why? because there was nothing there, Then they went after Gonzales, Again this was going to take them all the way to the white house. Again they caught a little fish.

They are finally getting the idea that the American people want a government of legislators who will legislate instead of investigate, We have a judicial section of the government and its not in congress.

Answer 3

I thought it was shot down yesterday by Steny Hoyer and Nancy Pelosi and never reached the floor for a vote.

At the end of it, Kucinich cites the support of 22 comrades in the House of Representatives. Wow! 23 Representatives of 435 total supported this move. I can sure see Dick Cheny shaking in his boots!!!! Brrrrrrrrrrr.....

Kucinich should try this again in the galactic court of outer space where he communicates and collaborates with space aliens like Vulcans and Klingons!!! He may get better success.

Answer 4

It didn't.

Kucinich's Broadside At Cheney Is Foiled

On a day intended for moving long-overdue annual spending bills, the House instead spent a good chunk of yesterday wrangling over an entirely different endeavor: a motion to impeach Vice President Cheney.
For more than six months, Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio), a long-shot presidential candidate, has labored to bring to a vote his plan to send the vice president packing. Kucinich says Cheney lied to Americans in the run-up to the Iraq war, chiefly about evidence that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
But yesterday, the antiwar liberal's seemingly quixotic effort drew unexpected support from Republicans, who saw a golden opportunity to engage Democrats in a debate on the issue.
Kucinich's rambling, 18-page resolution bristles with citations of Cheney's public comments justifying the war. "The best option to prevent an unnecessary war with Iran," he said, "is to impeach the Vice President, the lead cheerleader of the war" in Iraq.
"The Constitution has been under attack by this administration," Kucinich told an reporter during the vote, and his effort is "part of a growing movement" to defend it.
"This isn't about my campaign," he said. "This isn't a Democratic-Republican issue."
But it became a partisan issue yesterday once Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) moved to table Kucinich's resolution. Hoyer and Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) have said they will not back such symbolic gestures, for fear of burnishing Congress's current do-nothing image.
During the subsequent vote, Republicans were far along toward helping kill the resolution when they began switching their "yes" votes to "no's," clearly hoping for a public debate that would have showcased the Democrats' most vocal lefties.

But in the end, Hoyer settled for sending the resolution to the Judiciary Committee. There it is destined for oblivion.
Cheney has not come under such direct legislative attack since June, when Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel (Ill.) pushed to cut funding for Cheney's office and residence, even his lawn service. But Emanuel's proposal was tongue-in-cheek, whereas Kucinich's resolution, as he said, was "urgent."

By Elizabeth Williamson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 7, 2007; Page A19

Answer 5

Nope, that got squashed last night when the rest of the Democrats decided that Kucinich was nuts, and sent the bill to the judiciary committee for "review".

Answer 6

it wont go far for two reasons: 1. Cheney hasnt doen anything illegal. 2. The democrats in power know that in a trial, they will look stupid because they have no evidence just wild accusation based in politics and nothing more. They have chosen to wage the impeachment campaign in the public because in the public, they do not have to prove anything to be effective.

Answer 7

If it were anyone but Rep. Dennis Kucinich, I would believe it. I cannot wait to see who endorses this.

Answer 8

I doubt it'll get off the ground, but goodness Kucinich is great..

Answer 9

No I don't think it'll go far, he is only in office for another year, it would take longer than that for him to be impeached.

Answer 10

Cheney's the man. To bad he's not running for Pres.


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