Ho, Ho, Hoyer
What’s all this then? The Democrats don’t want to debate Dennis Kucinich’s impeachment resolution against the Vice President? Why?
The U.S. House voted along party lines Tuesday to send a resolution calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney to the House Judiciary Committee, where it likely won’t see daylight any time soon.
The impeachment resolution, sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, an Ohio congressman, accuses Cheney of violating his pledge to protect the U.S. Constitution. It says that Cheney misled the public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and ties between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein’s regime, as well as by making threats against Iran “absent any real threat to the United States.”
The Democrats were working to bury this cat turd when the Republicans swung around and voted against the motion to table, thereby keeping Kucinich’s resolution alive for eventual debate. But what does Majority Leader Steny Hoyer say of their manuever?
“I am surprised that Republicans would treat an issue as important as the potential impeachment of a vice president of the United States as a petty political game,” he said. “It is beneath the dignity of this institution.”
Say, fuck you, jack. That resolution wasn’t a Republican idea; it was the byproduct of the fevered imagination of a Democratic Presidential candidate! One who shares the stage with all the others in your party pursuing the highest office. One who represents an alarmingly large number of lunatics infesting your party. Either you think Kucinich’s resolution is “important” or “petty,” but your lousy party shouldn’t get to keep him around like some sort of clown-assed mascot —convenient here, inconvenient there.
