Impeachment Hearings Are Looking Like a Strong Possibility

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Now the hope of the Democratic leadership is that this means Kucinich’s impeachment bill will continue to be safely bottled up in a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. But it may not work out that way for them.

Whatever the explanation, this impeachment bill has been endorsed by a floor vote of the full House, with bipartisan support.For the Judiciary Committee to sit on it now and not schedule a hearing would be a gross travesty of parliamentary procedure and custom.

Indeed, some House members not associated with Kucinich’s resolution are now openly calling for immediate hearings into Cheney’s impeachable actions—specifically lying the country into a war in Iraq, and threatening war with Iran.
One indication of the change in the political climate in the House is the announcement by Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), a six-term congressman and a member of the House Judiciary Committee, that he will call for the Judiciary Committee to take up Kucinich’s impeachment bill. This is significant because Wexler, no left-wing hothead, is not a co-signer of the Kucinich bill.

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Also calling for prompt action by the Judiciary Committee in the wake of the Tuesday House vote was Carol Shea-Porter, a first-term Democrat from New Hampshire, who also is not a sponsor of the Kucinich measure. She characterized the resolution sending the bill to the Judiciary Committee a “strongly bi-partisan vote.”

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With these kinds of endorsements and calls for action, it is clear both that Speaker Pelosi is looking increasingly pathetic and out of touch with her “impeachment is off the table” mantra, and also that Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI), who seems to have been intimidated by the Speaker for the past year, but who earlier had been a leader in exposing the crimes of the Bush/Cheney administration, is getting strong support for taking a bolder stand.

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It may not be long before we start to see bills of impeachment filed against President Bush too.



more at very informitve link: http://baltimorechronicle.com/2007/110807Lindorff.shtml

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1. I'm still holding on to my prediction that we will not see....

...Motherfucker George Bush or Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face at the State of the Union address come January.

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3. Things can happen fast, when they get going.

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6. Mods - Please delete the above post - a coworker had my computer for a couple of hours

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2. On what basis does one characterize the vote to refer to committee as strongly bi-partisan?

It was supported by exactly 4 repubs and opposed by 189. That's "strongly bi-partisan"?

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5. Hey, if the MSM's screw-up convinces the sheeple that even the

Republicans are FOR impeachment, I'm not going to complain.....