07 Nov 07 Kucinich calls for articles of impeachment against Cheney
Now maybe I don’t understand politics or Congressional procedures as much as I think I do, but I’m really confused. If the Republicans wanted to force a debate on the bill, why wouldn’t Democrats want to do that? Can’t they back up their claim?
From what I can tell, if a debate was forced on the floor it creates a straight “yes or no” vote on the bill, rather than forwarding it to committee (which it did I believe.) That way Republicans could effectively kill the bill right then and there on the floor of Congress.
Now, it took me reading multiple versions of this story to figure all of that out. ABC failed at reporting the story clearly, and only a few other papers made what actually happened make sense to normal people. This is the problem with some modern political reporting.
Anyway, good luck Kucinich.
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