The impeachment movement against Vice President Dick Cheney took a huge step forward in Washington D.C. this week.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - When Congressman Dennis Kucinich attempted to force a discussion on impeachment yesterday, it at first seemed that both the Republican Party and the Democratic leadership would agree to table the resolution.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to shirk her constitutional duties and assert that impeachment is "off the table."
But in a surprise move, knowing that the Democratic Party leadership did not want to take responsibility for impeachment -- even though its base constituency supports it -- the Republican Party conducted a parliamentary maneuver and changed their vote to help defeat the motion to table.
But the motion to table the impeachment resolution failed. By day's end, the anti-impeachment Democrats were able to maneuver out of an open discussion of Kucinich's resolution. Instead they were able to pass a motion that required Kucinich's resolution go to the House Judiciary Committee "for further study."
Kucinich's resolution said that Cheney, "in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of vice president," had "purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the U.S. Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests." The 11-page resolution also charged that Cheney intentionally deceived the country about a supposed relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida and has "openly threatened aggression against the Republic of Iran absent any real threat to the United States."
It seems the impeachment is on the move and making progress that was out of reach just a few months ago.
The video below features Kucinich's reading of the Impeachment Articles, courtesy of CapNews.net and YouTube
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Here is Keith Olberman's interview with Rachel Maddow on the Impeachment of Dick Cheney, courtesy of MSNBC and YouTube
Articles of Impeachment Presented Against Dick Cheney (VIDEO)Salem-News.com