Once again, I find myself all worked up over a political issue with no one to yell at. Like everyone else, I've got one House member. Unlike most, mine pretty much rocks. Not only did Rep. Tammy Baldwin vote to debate the impeachment of Dick Cheney, but she was a cosponsor of the resolution introduced by Dennis Kucinich yesterday.
I'll send her my support, but it'd be more entertaining and emotionally satisfying to fire off an email that contains the phrase "what the Hell is wrong with you?" to a holdout congress critter. Oh well, I guess I'll have to settle for good government.
The general feeling so far is that the Cheney impeachment will be buried in committee and never again see the light of day. It's hard to see what the majority's reasoning was here for their votes-- dem or GOP. It was the Republicans who voted to keep the resolution alive and the Democrats who finally decided to send it to committee for review before a floor debate. GOPers apparently feel that the resolution would hurt Democrats with voters. That's hard to figure. Maybe they're so close to it that they think the average voter knows all about Dick Cheney's various abuses and are fine with it.
But the fact is that the big story on any given day is almost never the newest abuse by the White House. Yesterday wasn't the day that a historic impeachment resolution for Cheney was brought to the House -- not in the mainstream media, anyway. For most outlets, yesterday was the Hollywood Writers' strike, day 2. Maybe Republicans have bought their own "liberal media" rhetoric and have forgotten how successful they've been at keeping most White House scandals to page three...
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