Priceless: GOP turns impeachment resolution against Dems

Published: November 7, 2007, 1:03 pm

This is priceless! Giving Democrats the treatment they have been giving Republicans for decades. I love this! Payback is a bitch, huh? The best part about this was slapping that space case Dennis Kucinich, the partisan, political pot smoking hack, right across the kisser! House Republicans on Tuesday nearly forced Democratic leaders to vote on a resolution to impeach Vice President Cheney. Anti-war presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) introduced a privileged resolution, used to circumvent the committee process, to get his impeachment measure to the House floor. The vote to kill Kucinch's privileged resolution began as a largely party-line affair, but halfway through the vote, Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) persuaded Republican leaders to get rank-and-file GOP lawmakers to change their votes to force the debate. At one point, the vote to table the motion stood at 246-165. Once Republicans began switching their votes, momentum swung the other way. When the vote stood

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