The Democrats get beotch-slapped... again!
Posted on 11/06/2007 1:19:35 PM PST by SmithL
House Republicans, changing course midway through a vote, tried to force Democrats into a debate on a resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney on the grounds he purposely led the country into war against Iraq.
The GOP tactics reversed what had been expected to an overwhelming vote to table, or kill, the resolution by longshot Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich.
Midway through the vote, with instructions from the GOP leadership, Republicans one by one changed their votes from yes — to kill the resolution — to no, trying to force the chamber into a debate and an up-or-down vote on the proposal.
At one point there were 290 votes to table. After the turnaround, the final vote was 251-162 against tabling, with 165 Republicans voting against it.
"We're going to help them out, to explain themselves," said Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas. "We're going to give them their day in court."
Kucinich, an anti-war Democrat from Ohio, has long pushed for a vote to impeach Cheney, but has failed to win the backing of the Democratic leadership. After Kucinich introduced the resolution, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., immediately moved to table it.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi "has said that impeachment is off the table and that the new direction Congress is focused on responsibly and honorably redeploying our troops out of Iraq, covering 10 million uninsured children and meeting our national priorities long neglected by the Bush Administration,"
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“meeting our national priorities long neglected by the Bush Administration”
Good thing she was specific.
ROTFLMAO-Awesome move!
Did the GOP finally get a brain to go with a spine?
All those dems tried to placate the moonbats- thinking there is no way this will pass, then the GOP pulls a vote switch trapping the dems-BRILLIANT!
This is brilliant. They should vote for it. Talk about turning congress into a circuss.
I think it would be hillarious to see democratic senators suddenly voting against it and republicans voting for it.
It would get thrown out in the senate but the debate would be fun to watch.
I just hope they sit back and laugh their backside off as the Evil Elf provides the “evidence” for impeachment in the debate.
Forcing the debate now, when the MoveOn/KOS spin machine isn’t prepared for said debate, is quite clever.
Yeah! The GOP gets it right!
The Democrats get beotch-slapped... again!
LOL, can’t wait to hear the testimony. First up, we hear from Hillary Matters and excerpts from her Senate floor speech ... and — Then ...
Why not, this could be a riot.
That's funny as hell!
Maybe that UFO told him the evidence against Cheney!! These Dems are NOT ready for Prime Time!
If it gets to the Senate, Joe Lieberman will talk for hours about how GREAT and TERRIFIC and UPSTANDING Dick Cheney is....and then vote FOR impeachment!
If you listened to Rush today there was a caller named Moe that could testify! He found out that Dick Cheney, Condi and President Bush all bought insurance on the twin towers just before 9/11. So they could make money on it. Really.
The DUmmies, HuffandBlows, KosKids, Morons and etc. must be scratching their pea-brained heads in amazement!
It will be interesting to see how the media spins this vote. They will probably try to blame President Bush for the vote to impeach Cheney.
LOL Way to call the Dems bluff.
Cheney is gulity of Governing while Republican.
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