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Offline Chris_

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House waves off impeachment measure against Bush
« on: June 12, 2008, 07:38:29 AM »
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House waves off impeachment measure against Bush

WASHINGTON - The House has voted to send articles of impeachment against President Bush to a committee that is not likely to hold hearings before the end of his term.

By 251-166, House members dispatched the measure to a committee on Wednesday — a procedure often used to kill legislation.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long ago declared the prospects for impeachment proceedings "off the table."

Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who ran for president earlier this year, insists that his resolution deserves more consideration. He spent more than four hours Monday night reading his 35 articles of impeachment into the record, including charges that Bush manufactured a false case for going to war against Iraq.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Tuesday that the Democratic-led Congress was holding the Bush administration accountable and questioned spending time on impeachment in the "waning months of this administration's tenure."

An election looms in which every House seat, a third of those in the Senate and the presidency are up for grabs. House leaders are staunchly against spending the remaining time in the abbreviated legislative schedule on impeachment proceedings.

The House vote sent the impeachment articles to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., who had once vowed to hold impeachment hearings. He wouldn't immediately comment on the articles' prospects for hearings.

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Republicans, seeing a chance to force Democrats into an embarrassing debate, voted to bring up the resolution. Democrats countered by pushing through a motion to scuttle the bill from the floor.

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Called their bluff!  I love it.  I can just hear it now...Kooksnitch telling his constituents..." I did everything I could to impeach Booooosh".  Meanwhile Republican Congresscritters can tell theirs, "Yeah we even 'reached across the aisle' to the dims to no avail.  We tried to help them out and they scattered like cockroaches in the bright light".    :rotf:

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Re: House waves off impeachment measure against Bush
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2008, 09:50:19 AM »
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who ran for president earlier this year, insists that his resolution deserves more consideration. He spent more than four hours Monday night reading his 35 articles of impeachment into the record, including charges that Bush manufactured a false case for going to war against Iraq.

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Kucinich Presents 35 Articles Of Impeachment Against Bush

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It's almost 5 mins long and rather boring.  I can't imagine anyone suffering thru 4 hours of this crap.  I did however get a kick out of Kookinich getting pissy because everyone is leaving at the beginning of his rant.   
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Re: House waves off impeachment measure against Bush
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2008, 10:22:46 AM »
I especially love the one article where President Bush failed to properly equip the troops.

Given that as a yard stick, then FDR should have been impeached in 1940 for failing to properly equip the U.S. military for the fight he knew was coming.
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Re: House waves off impeachment measure against Bush
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2008, 02:38:41 PM »
Hey, Kookboy, no one gives a shit.  :rotf: :tongue: :loser:
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Re: House waves off impeachment measure against Bush
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2008, 02:43:09 PM »
I am waiting for the DUmmies to praise the Republican who tried to force this measure out on the floor, or an explaination of why their blessed democrats thwarted the Republican effort.  I want a full explaination!
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Re: House waves off impeachment measure against Bush
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2008, 05:20:45 PM »
Quote from: Dixie*Darling on June 12, 2008, 09:50:19 AM
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio, who ran for president earlier this year, insists that his resolution deserves more consideration. He spent more than four hours Monday night reading his 35 articles of impeachment into the record, including charges that Bush manufactured a false case for going to war against Iraq.

 :mental:

Kucinich Presents 35 Articles Of Impeachment Against Bush

[youtube=425,350]BDZ8seg4Nr4[/youtube]

It's almost 5 mins long and rather boring.  I can't imagine anyone suffering thru 4 hours of this crap.  I did however get a kick out of Kookinich getting pissy because everyone is leaving at the beginning of his rant.   

I thought he made the clerk do that.  I remember seeing the House clerk reading the bill on CSPAN the other day.
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Re: House waves off impeachment measure against Bush
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2008, 05:25:00 PM »
Quote from: Chris on June 12, 2008, 05:20:45 PM

I thought he made the clerk do that.  I remember seeing the House clerk reading the bill on CSPAN the other day.

The clerk had to read it as it was written into the record for verification...so it was actually the readback you saw.
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