Roll Call on Impeachment

This afternoon the U. S. House of Representatives voted at 3:08 EDT (12:08 PDT) today on House Resolution 1258, calling for the impeachment of President Bush.

Roll Call 401 indicated Ayes, 251 (including Kucinich and 226 other Democratic plus 24 Republican); Noes, 166 (all Republican).

The motion is now going to the Judiciary Committee, where it will - in all surety - die, since the Speaker of the House has declared impeachment "off the table". Nonetheless, continuing to call your representative, and to contact Nancy Pelosi at her new link ( contact the Speaker (thanks, Barry!)) or by snail mail / phone at:

Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-0100

can't hurt, and will at least register the opinion. And that is the first step. As Keith Olbermann said Tuesday talking with Constitutional Law Professor Jonathan Turley, who make his own excellent point:

Olbermann: “I’ve often argued here, that even if you don’t think the words aren’t lead to any actions, say the words anyway, simply to get them on the record for history and simply because, nothing has ever changed from bad to good in this country without somebody first saying, this is bad. Assess the importance of what Dennis Kucinich did last night.”

Turley: “You know, it is very important. The fact is, that this is not supposed to happen the way it’s happened in the last seven years. The framers, I think, would have been astonished by the absolute passivity, if not the collusion of the Democrats in protecting President Bush from impeachment. I mean, they created a system that was essentially idiot-proof, and God knows we’ve put that to the test in the past few years, but I don’t think they anticipated that so many members of the opposition would stand quietly in the face of clear presidential crimes.”