tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23460707.post7777297550605644997..comments2023-06-13T04:19:36.351-07:00Comments on Thinking Out Loud: Congress must hold the Vice President accountable. You can hold Congress accountable. Call or fax your representative today!Gail Jonashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01112450907788303779noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23460707.post-28314782360242766512007-11-07T10:38:00.000-08:002007-11-07T10:38:00.000-08:00Here's what NYT had to say:WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — It...Here's what NYT had to say:<BR/><BR/>WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 — It is hard to know which effort has longer odds, the bid by Representative Dennis J. Kucinich, Democrat of Ohio, to become president of the United States, or his bid to unseat Vice President Dick Cheney by impeaching him.<BR/><BR/>Both efforts got a brief burst of publicity on Tuesday when Mr. Kucinich brought his bill to impeach Mr. Cheney to the House floor and, with the surprise help of Republicans aiming to embarrass Democratic Congressional leaders, nearly succeeded in securing an hour of debate.<BR/><BR/>After a motion to table Mr. Kucinich’s bill failed, the majority leader, Steny H. Hoyer, Democrat of Maryland, stepped in with a motion to refer the bill back to the House Judiciary Committee. That motion succeeded, by a near-party-line vote of 218 to 194, and spared the Democrats a potentially embarrassing distraction.<BR/><BR/>House Republicans initially opposed the effort to debate Mr. Kucinich’s impeachment measure, and briefly there were 290 votes in favor of tabling it.<BR/><BR/>But then the Republicans sensed an opportunity to irritate the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi of California, who has said the Democrats have no interest in impeaching Mr. Cheney or President Bush over the Iraq war. The Republicans began changing their votes, and by the end, the tally was 251 to 162 not to table it, with 165 Republicans voting no. <BR/><BR/><BR/>JanieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23460707.post-79730870469701152932007-11-06T06:26:00.000-08:002007-11-06T06:26:00.000-08:00Gail. We pay taxes. We're all guilty.My brother ...Gail. We pay taxes. We're all guilty.<BR/><BR/>My brother may very well go to Kuwait and likely be making shipments into Iraq. He could die.<BR/><BR/>Still. I pay taxes. So does he.<BR/><BR/>I think that it is not possible for anyone who has remained an American over the past seven years, to escape the curse that has been leveled on this land by this administration.<BR/><BR/>It would seem that no penance is great enough. I think this is why such a profound ignorance is cultivated by the citizens of this country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23460707.post-19748248645515610032007-11-05T23:13:00.000-08:002007-11-05T23:13:00.000-08:00Long overdue!Long overdue!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com