From CQ Today: 'Impeach Cheney' Not a Battle Cry Democrats Are Ready to Embrace

By Martin Kady II, CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY
Published: April 24, 2007

His quixotic bid for the White House has rarely caused headaches for Democratic leaders in Congress because it's been largely ignored. But now Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich is giving Speaker Nancy Pelosi a reason to reach for the aspirin.

Months after Pelosi, D-Calif., defused impeachment talk from the left wing of her party, Kucinich, D-Ohio, plans to file articles of impeachment Tuesday against Vice President Dick Cheney.

Pelosi's office isn't amused. "Nothing's changed. It's off the table," insisted Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami. "We're focusing on tough issues like bringing the war in Iraq to a responsible end and energy independence."

Kucinich gave a preview of his impeachment crusade on YouTube in March, when he accused the Bush administration of illegally "threatening aggressive war" against Iran in violation of the U.N. charter.

Kucinich press secretary Natalie Laber declined to say which "high crimes or misdemeanors" would serve as the constitutional basis for Cheney's impeachment, and she would not release the documents her boss plans to file.


http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2007/04/24/cq_2619.html