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Let The Impeachment Of Dick Cheney Begin!

by Buck • 6:01 pm

BREAKING:

[VP Dick Cheney] purposely altered intelligence gathering to justify the use of the Armed Forces in Iraq in a manner damaging to national security. The vice president also is accused of using the intelligence process to deceive citizens and Congress about the tie between Iraq and Al Qaeda in a manner damaging to the United States.

-2008 presidential candidate, Rep. Dennis Kucinich

Dennis Kucinich Kucinich made a procedural maneuver to bring up his resolution on impeachment articles against Vice President Dick Cheney moments ago. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer tried to kill the resolution. But republicans, who at first also wanted to kill the resolution, changed tactics and began voting against Hoyer. Hoyer’s motion lost on a 162-251 vote.

Something about this smells funny. Top democrats voted against the articles of impeachment, while republicans voted for it. Why? Am I missing something?

From the article:

Bringing a vote on the impeachment resolution would put Democrats on record over impeachment, a move that Republicans see as a political advantage in a year that has been marked by little progress in a Democrat-led Congress, even as they vowed to rise above partisanship.

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