First, leaders aren't clairvoyant. They don't know how the opposition is going to vote until they vote, and these votes can stay open for hours, so they'll find a certain number of Republican to vote a certain to insure failure or passage, if they can. Of course, if you understood how the legislative process worked, I wouldn't have to explain that, but you probably wouldn't have made the comment in the first place
Second, do you remember Bush being impeached? Do you remember any hearings about Bush's impeachment?
Since the answer is NO to both questions, I'm not sure how you can say it was a wrong choice. Kucinich was shut down. It's not complicated.
The fact that Castle voted for this bill gives the appearance of supporting impeachment. I don’t claim to know what was in his heart during this process.
What I do know is that today, because of his weak voting record on other issues that are important to conservatives, his vote on the Kookcinich bill raises serious questions.
Did Castle actually support impeachment? Was his vote calculated only to appease the Rat voters in his state? Or didn’t he have enough integrity to say “no” to his Republican leadership? Did he feel so secure in his position of power that he felt he could simply play the political game with no future consequences?