I don’t talk much about national politics, but I had C-SPAN on yesterday and was shocked to see them voting on a bill to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. Well, they actually never quite got to voting on the bill.

What happened is this: Presidential-hopeful Dennis Kucinich and 22 co-sponsors brought forth House Resolution 799, which is a bill calling for the impeachment of the Vice President. Immediately, there was a motion to table the bill. It looked like that would be the end of it, but then the Republicans in the House decided that they’d like to have a debate on the issue and get the Democrats on record as to whether they support impeachment or not. So halfway through the voting time, the Republicans changed their votes and the bill was not tabled.

Well, the Democrat leaders were not prepared for a public debate on the merits of the bill, so they then moved to send the bill to the Judiciary Committee. That passed, and the House moved on to other business.

The Journal Star printed nothing about it today, which surprised me. Major newspapers covered it. You can read about it in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has said the Democrats will not consider impeaching Bush or Cheney over the war, and it looks like the Democrats, for the most part, are toeing the party line.