Letters to the Editor
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Cold comfort?
If you assume that when the Republicans were willing to vote not to table Kucinich's call for impeachment, there were 251 votes not to table, doesn't that mean there were over 80 solid votes to impeach the VP? That seems a big number to me. I'd love to see where the 80 plus votes to impeach come from geographically.
If things don't go well in Central Asia and the Middle East and/or the credit problems get worse and not better, sending this motion to committee may not mean it is dead at all. If I were Cheney or Bush I do not believe I would be taking a great deal of comfort from this.
I think the beltway media is misreading this. I hope they are not because I think there is marginally less risk in allowing the LSOS in the Oval Office and Cheney to finish their terms than it is to kick them out. However, if things continue to deteriorate the voters may feel differently about the balance of that equation (See poll reference from July in article). As we get closer to the election that feeling of the voters may begin to be felt by the Congress and Senate.
I see Pelosi's problem. If Bush and Cheney go she theoretically benefits. I can see why she has to publicly disavow any impeachment movement. However, she and the rest of the leadership could loss control of this.