This afternoon Dennis Kucinich took to the House floor to press his case for the impeachment of Vice President Cheney. A little while later, and as expected, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer moved to table the resolution without a debate. At 2:53 (according to C-SPAN) the House began a 15 minute vote on whether to table. It seemed that a decisive majority of Republicans and Democrats would vote to kill the resolution until, at the last minute, Republicans began to switch votes against tabling it. That is, they voted to give Kucinich the chance to make his case. Now, more than an hour later, Democrats have just closed the vote–with the House voting against tabling the measure. Stay tuned for more updates. And check out Michelle Malkin (who is live-blogging the travesty) and Hot Air, as well. Michelle says:
The current tally now shows 170 yeas, 242 nays, and 21 not voting. The nays now include 164 Republicans. It does indeed seem to me that the GOP is maneuvering to embarrass the House leadership and defeat Hoyer’s motion to table the nutroots impeachment resolution. If you’re in the know, correct me if I’m wrong.
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