Kucinich 'seriously thinking' about forcing vote on Cheney impeachment

[G_j]

Kucinich 'seriously thinking' about forcing vote on Cheney impeachment
Nick Juliano
Published: Friday September 28, 2007
http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Kucinich_seriously_thinking_about_forcing_vote_0928.html

Rep. Dennis Kucinich says he is so concerned about what he sees as the Bush administration's push for a war with Iran that he is considering using a parliamentary measure to force the House of Representatives to vote on impeaching Vice President Dick Cheney.

"We're preparing for another war, and they're going to destroy America," the Ohio Democrat said Thursday on the Ed Schultz show. "We have a government in place right now that has to be challenged. I'm seriously thinking about calling a privileged resolution on impeachment of the vice president and forcing a vote on the floor of the House."

A privileged resolution would force the full House to debate about whether to proceed with impeachment, but it remains unclear precisely how, when or whether Kucinich would be able to introduce such a resolution. Privileged measures "may be called up on the floor whenever another measure is not already pending" and the House agrees to consider it, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Privileged measures can include questions of House privileges or resolutions of inquiry, according to the CRS report.

A conservative site set up to push for former President Bill Clinton's impeachment lays out a strategy to bring such a measure to the House floor.

"According to Jerome Zeifman, however, it is possible that such a resolution could be called up for an immediate vote," the Conservative Caucus site observes. "But that option appears to be within the control of the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who took control after last year's Democratic takeover of Congress, maintained that impeachment is "off the table" as recently as this week in an interview with CNN.

Kucinich introduced a resolution calling for Cheney's impeachment this spring. Since then the bill has gained more than a dozen co-sponsors, but it seems to be dying a slow death in the House Judiciary Committee. It's chairman, John Conyers, has stood with Pelosi in refusing to debate the impeachment resolution or bring it to the House floor for a vote.

A Kucinich spokeswoman declined to comment when contacted by RAW STORY. An official in the House Parliamentarian's office did not return a call seeking comment.

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[bobthedrummer]

1. IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST

IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST

[G_j]

2. Best hope to avert an attack on Iran IMO

for Cheney is the main force behind it

[sueh]

3. K & R ...We have your back, Dennis. Do it!!

[bbgrunt]

4. What the hell is wrong with Conyers and Pelosi. If Dennis

is forced to do it alone, it will be a calamity. I want impeachment more than anything else, but the dems have to be united behind it. Without the leadership support, he will just be ignored--like polling agencies omits his name from dem contenders and like the corporate media fails to mention his strong stance on Iraq withdrawal when they report that the "top candidates" all waffle on withdrawal.

[scarletwoman]

5. Proud to be the 5th rec!

I have no hope, however, that the Dem leadership will -- in any way, shape or form -- do anything but obstruct and strangle this resolution.

:hug:
sw

[lonestarnot]

6. Duplicate thread, but sok wit me! Should I post it again?

[gateley]

7. If he does take action, any idea as to when it would happen? And this

reference:

A conservative site set up to push for former President Bill Clinton's impeachment lays out a strategy to bring such a measure to the House floor.


Those R's are so much better organized than we are -- there should be a Dem site like that right now. We lack their bloodlust which on one hand is a good thing (we're better human beings), but on the other hand we're open to let them continue to mow us down, and we should begin fighting fire with fire.

Rec.

[Exultant Democracy]

8. When Pelosi became the Speaker it made my eyes water with pride, now I have to brush my teeth

every time I think about her.

[Exultant Democracy]

9. dupe

[Desertrose]

10. K&R

:hi:G_j

[cgrindley]

11. So he's seriously considering looking like an assclown?

so he's going to press the issue even though it absolutely won't happen... why? just for the moral high ground? has he ever been in Washington? doesn't he know the place? has he been paying attention?

[bananarepublican]

12. With an approval rating lower than a turd blossom's belly a move to impeach would likely succeed. nt

[Swamp Rat]

13. Impeach him NOW.

[cgrindley]

15. Even with the historically low numbers, it won't happen

there's no will from mainline democrats to do it. And there are not enough votes in the senate to win. It won't happen and if Kucinich brings the matter up, he'll simply look shrill and garner ill will from his fellow democrats who will be forced to vote against him. Sure he'll end up on the moral high ground, but he'll be alone, and no one will congratulate him for it.

[G_j]

16. no, the only one who doesn't look like one!!

at least that is how most everyone I know sees it.

[G_j]

14. k