CQ TODAY PRINT EDITION
– CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS
June 11, 2008 – 3:43 p.m.
Impeachment Articles Referred to Judiciary Panel
By Molly K. Hooper, CQ Staff
The House sent articles of impeachment against President Bush to the Judiciary Committee Wednesday on a mostly party-line vote: 251-166.
Dennis J. Kucinich , D-Ohio, said he introduced the measure (
Kucinich previously introduced impeachment measures against Vice President Dick Cheney (
The Judiciary Committee has allowed those to languish without any committee consideration.
Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. , D-Mich., has not said whether he will convene hearings on the latest impeachment effort, which Democratic leaders consider an unnecessary election year distraction.
Kucinich said that if the Judiciary Committee does not act within 30 days, he intends to introduce another, longer version of the articles of impeachment, with 60 counts instead of 35.
“I am not going to let this go. I am not going to let it go. I’ll just keep coming back and they can pile these things up in committee but I’ll keep coming back,” Kucinich said. “I’ll bring it up again, and there will be more. There will be more.”
Though Conyers was careful not to comment on Kucinich’s threat or his own intentions, he did say Kucinich had asked for a meeting with the Judiciary chairman. “I’d be happy to do that,” Conyers said.
There was no debate before Wednesday’s vote, but the issue did get some floor time.
The entire 58-page text was read out loud on the floor by the clerk, which took three hours and 45 minutes Tuesday night. On Monday night, Kucinich read the text on the House floor. It took him an hour longer.
Michael Steel, spokesman for House Minority Leader John A. Boehner , R-Ohio, said that most Republicans voted against referring the resolution to committee to make a point about wasted time.
“This is just another example of the Democratic leadership in the House indulging trivial and silly conspiracy theories, rather than working with Republicans to deal with the real issues facing the American people,” he said.
Comments
The abuses Bush & his Administration committed are not trivial. They are criminal. Bush & Cheney have betrayed American citizens and should be impeached. Kuncinich is right in persuing these actions against this administration.
Dennis Kucinich must be running a special sale on tin foil hats. His impeachment charges against President are ludicrous. The Democratic Party establishment, however, made far broader claims about Saddam the Murderer before the liberation of Iraq. After the Loony Left weighed in, the Democrats forgot about their own DIRECT involvement in promoting the liberation of Iraq. Now all we hear is "Bush lied," etc. Too bad that the Democratic Party is now the official repository of retreat and defeat. Indeed, the Democratic Party has much too answer for, but Dennis Kucinich . . . politically speaking, he is a political moonbat!
The Congressional voting record on the matter of the Bush Impeachment gives American voters a punch-list to help decide who will get pink slipped in the next election.
Remember how the Republicans resisted the trivial and went for the real issues when it came to Monica? How can anyone take these bozos seriously? And Pelosi et al are not doing the American public a favor by not defending the Constitution. They are all bozos on the bus of big money. Is that a conspiracy theory?
The Republicans spent the most of their energy to attack the Clinton Administration on personal issues during the 8 year term. The American people have the right to know what has occurred during the most secretive and abusive administration in recent history.
Moonbat tin foil hats? Congressional and partisan complicity does not detract from the merit of Kucinich's charge. It may be the most waranted of any of those mentioned and deserves FULL consideration, not silly imagery.
It is WAY past time to hold these criminals accountable for their gross violations of Constitutional and criminal law. Pelosi is a waste of skin and guilty of cover-up as much as any. Her leadership disgust and insults DEMOCRACY and our Party. Lying us into war and gutting our judicial system should not stand as ACCEPTABLE conduct for ANY elected official.
Write or call your State Representives and ask them to cosponsor Mr. Kucinich's Bill HR 1258. It only takes a few minutes and if there are enough cosponsors then even Nancy Pelosi won't be able to ignore it. The Bush crowd make Nixon look downright saintly.Imagine That!
I guess what the republicans are saying is the the pretext for war and thousands of dead soldiers are not a real issue facing Americans. Its up there in plain black and white. Bush need to be dropped of by herself in the middle of iraq to fend for himself. Plus Doesnt bush profit in the oil industry from being at war, that shoudl be a crime too. Goes beyond inside information, basically he is setting his own profits by selling lies to Americans. Id be willing to not eat or sleep for a whole week to see his but impeached and tried and hung liek he did to saddam.
I never knew that the American people were so stupid, to let this administration stay in office was the worst thing to do. All the problems that they have caused, it makes me want to leave the country I love, because people don't care about how are government does it's job. They just think about how rich they can get, what happened to honest people, what happened to the people who would die for the rights of people, we don't have that any more we have fools running around that are calling them self"s Americans what a joke.
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