CNN's Cafferty Calls for Impeachment

You just knew that when the Supremes blew the Gitmo decision that it would get the lefties all worked up. Jack Cafferty of CNN has decided that it's a good time to encourage Congress to take up Dennis Kucinich's impeachment resolution:

The House of Representatives has voted to send an impeachment resolution against President Bush to committee – where it’s likely to die.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced the 35 articles of impeachment this week. Most of the resolution focuses on the Iraq war but also charges the president with illegally detaining both U.S. citizens and foreign captives, condoning torture and mishandling the response to Hurricane Katrina.

But Congress doesn’t want to hear it. They voted largely along party lines – 255 to 166 – to send the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee. This is exactly what happened to Kucinich’s impeachment articles against Vice President Cheney last year. Congress sent that resolution to this same committee in November. So far, no action has been taken. Congress continues to refuse to exercise its constitutional responsibility of oversight of the executive branch of government.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long ago made it known that impeachment is “off the table.” This is a joke. We have a president who has abused the power of his office over and over again. It’s what got the Democrats elected to the majority in Congress in 2006. Now it’s election time again, and every member of the House is up for re-election in November. The Democrats are probably worried what it will look like to many voters if they spend time on impeachment.

Which is why Republicans voted yesterday to bring Kucinich’s resolution up for debate immediately – to make the Democrats look silly for focusing on this instead of gas prices, the economy, etc.

Here’s my question to you:What does it mean when Congress refuses to even consider 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush?

Here's the answer that I posted on the CNN website (assuming the moderator allows it):

Because with only seven months to go in the Bush administration impeachment would be seen for what it is - revenge, not justice. There isn’t time for the investigations that would be required to even pretend it was a fair hearing. It’s a pipe dream of the left that they will be able to “get” Bush and Cheney. They won’t.

The beauty of this whole situation is the lefties will go nuts demanding impeachment, the Dem leadership won't dare touch it thus sending the lefties into further paroxysms of mouth-foaming. It's almost like a perpetual motion machine.

UPDATE: I guess my comment didn't fit CNN's "mad lefty" template and wasn't approved. Imagine my surprise.