The Weekly Standard has the latest.
Michelle Malkin has been liveblogging all day.
The Republicans outmaneuver the Pelosi Congress:
Update at 3:43 p.m. ET: At least 149 Republicans have voted in favor of considering the impeachment resolution. Hoyer's motion, which would have blocked a vote, looks like its going to fail by at least 31 votes.The White House reacted to the latest Democratic shenanigans:
Update at 3:53 p.m. ET: The 15-minute vote began at 2:53 p.m. ET. It's been an hour, and they're still voting. The tally stands at 170-242 right now. Hoyer needed 218 votes to push the bill off the agenda. He's 72 votes short.
Update at 4:02 p.m. ET: Hoyer's motion failed 251-162. The House is now voting on whether to vote on whether the resolution should be sent to the Judiciary Committee.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino criticized Democrats in Congress for spending time on this debate rather than focusing on health care for children and veterans.The articles will now go to the House Judiciary Committee for review.
"This Congress has not sent a single appropriations bill to the president’s desk this year – a new record of failure," Perino said.
"Yet, they find time to spend an entire work period on futile votes to impeach the vice president or to pass contempt citations against the president’s chief of staff and former counsel. It is this behavior that leaves the American people shaking their head in wonder at this Congress,” Perino added.
Dennis Kucinish savored the sweet victory as his impeachment inquiry moved to committee:
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.Hat Tip Juandos
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.
Kucinich "is on a quest of his own. He sees flying saucers and he acts like one," Hastings said.
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ReplyDeleteCongress, huh.. what is it good
for.. absolutely nothin'.. gah!!
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Does anyone buy this reasoning as reported by the Hill? The vote to table the privileged resolution, offered by Ohio Democrat Dennis Kucinch, began as a largely party-line vote to kill the measure, but Republicans developed a strategy to force Democrats to debate the resolution by supporting Kucinich. GOP leaders felt as though it was in their interest to debate the measure because it would make Democrats look bad
ReplyDeleteLine of the day courtesy of Alcee Hastings: Kucinich is on a quest of his own. He sees flying saucers and he acts like one...LOL!
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ReplyDeletehey juandos.. you ought to know by now that they'll twist & spin anything & everything to make it appear to be the REPUBLICANS fault no matter how far they have to shove their heads up their you know what's..
re: Kucinich, that is funny!! :D
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Had a lot of fun over here on this, watching the delusion reaction of Zoo Animals. They were wondering where their coverage was so I told them:
ReplyDeleteThe MSM is burying this story because the leader of their beloved Democrats in power put on a show that would have embarrassed the Keystone Kops. It looked like she was trying to herd feral cats and the GOP threw a big, hungry pit bull into the mix.
And she’s third in line for the Presidency??
The republicans DID try to force a debate on this. Initially, they voted to table the impeachment proceedings. Confident it would not make it to debate, the Dems voted in favor of proceeding.
ReplyDeleteThen, the Republicans largely changed their votes from In Favor of tabling, to Opposed to tabling, and the Democrats realized they'd have to stand up and debate the baseless articles of impeachment presented by one of their own party's presidential candidates. In a panic, most of the Democrats then switched THEIR votes, from Opposed to tabling, to In Favor of tabling.
It was a clever trick by the Republicans, who would have loved to have a chance to debate this on the floor. In the end, they forced the Dems into voting to table a motion to proceed to debate articles of impeachment against Cheney. That had to sting the Dems, and had to infuriate the fringe left to no end.
For once, the media got things pretty accurate.
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ReplyDeletethe Leftist WaPO says..
[The House voted today to send a resolution considering the impeachment of Vice President Cheney to the Judiciary Committee, a move that embarrassed Democratic leaders who were forced into the parliamentary tactic to avoid a floor debate on impeachment.
Led by Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the long-shot anti-war candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, scores of Democrats were joined by scores of Republicans in initially supporting a Kucinich resolution that would have prompted a full debate on impeaching Cheney.
Democratic leaders long ago rejected any consideration of impeaching Cheney and President Bush as an irresponsible move supported only by the far left, so they tried today to table Kucinich's impeachment resolution. After initially having more than enough votes to kill the resolution - the "yea" tally to table impeachment topped out at 291 - Republicans decided they had a chance to politically shame Democrats into a full debate on the sensitive issue. Republicans gleefully said they wanted the debate to show the public how many Democrats would actually support impeaching Cheney, which they consider a move supported only by a fringe element of anti-war activists.]
THANK GOD SOMEONE IN CONGRESS FINALLY TRIED TO "FORCE A DEBATE" VS DEMOCRATS "TABLING" YET ANOTHER BILL!!
gee, i thought Congresscritters "loved to debate".. thought "that's what they do".. only nothing ever gets settled.. well, except for injecting billions of dollars in PORK BARREL PROJECTS, on that topic, there is no debate.. obviously "we the people" don't get a say.. obviously "we the people" are not activists where it counts.. what comes out of our pocketbooks & goes directly into their panderings for votes.. it's a vicious cycle.. remember that they billions each year on their "pet projects" next time they claim "we don't have enough money for (fill in the blank)", you know, the important stuff like National Security, Education, Healthcare, Social Security, Roads & Bridges, etc.. gah!!
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ReplyDeletere bg @ 11:58AM:
they SPEND billions
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