The Gift That Keeps On Giving
The Democrats running for the highest office in the land keep providing much needed fodder for the GOP. First, it was Hillary's non-response during the debate. Of course this is a move to pacify the far left wing of the Democratic Party. Move On and Code Pink were pissed enough when Nancy said impeachment was "off the table. Her statement caused media whore Nancy Sheenhan to vow to challenge Pelosi for her San Francisco seat if Nancy didn't bring articles of impeachment against Bush Cheney. This move is clearly a feint by a no shot President to please the left-wing.
Dennis Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment for Vice President Cheney for high crimes and misdemeanors. Evidently his high crime was believing intelligence from no less than 3 foreign intelligence agencies. According to sources, Republicans changed their votes to kill the measure and force the Democrats to take a position on impeaching the Vice President.
Republican lawmakers and aides credited Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) for coming up with the idea.
-Update at 4:30 p.m. ET:

Perhaps we should pause to explain. When most Republicans unexpectedly -- and on orders of GOP leadership, the AP is reporting -- switched sides and voted against tabling the measure, they essentially forced Democrats to keep talking about it on the floor. Tabling the measure would have killed it.
Debate over Cheney's impeachment is in direct opposition to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's wishes. She has repeatedly said an impeachment of Cheney or President Bush is off the table. Thus, failing to table this measure is a essentially a jab in Pelosi's ribs.

The White House struck back at the do-nothing Congress;

"It is one thing for Congressman Kucinich to use this political ploy in his presidential campaign. It is another thing to do so on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Democrat-led Congress still has not sent the President a single appropriations bill. It's time to do so, our troops are waiting," Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said.

White House press secretary Dana Perino said:

"This Congress has not sent a single appropriations bill to the presidents
desk this year... yet, they find time to spend an entire work period on futile
votes to impeach the vice president or to pass contempt citations against the
president's chief of staff and former counsel," referring to House efforts to
issue citations to former White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former counsel Harriet Miers for failing to respond to subpoenas.