November 6, 2007 (LPAC)--Today, as promised, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Oh) defied the ghost of Nancy Pelosi by introducing a privileged resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the House. Lyndon LaRouche, who has campaigned for the impeachment of Cheney and has called for Pelosi's ouster as Speaker of the House for her conscious obstruction of Cheney's impeachment, said afterwards that today's developments augur the early downfall of Nancy Pelosi.

As is well known, LaRouche has called for her downfall on this very issue. LaRouche said that today's result pleases him much. It is a good thing. We created the situation in which not only Democrats, but also the Republicans, who were decisive in today's developments, could act.

Kucinich has explained that he decided to bring the resolution now, because of the danger that Cheney, who got the U.S. into Iraq through lies, is now using similar lies to justify a preemptive war against Iran. He read the full text of the resolution on the House floor. The resolution is similar to HR 333, which Kucinich introduced in April, but has languished in the Judiciary Committee, headed by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) until now. The HR333 now has 22 cosponsors, the latest Rep. Danny Davis (D-ILL). The resolution introduced today by Kucinich indicts Cheney for having lied that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and that the Iraq government worked closely with Al Qaeda, both of which accusations he knew to be false. The resolution also accuses Cheney of violating the Constitution by threatening to use force against Iran, when Iran poses no threat to the U.S.

Although Nancy Pelosi was not visibly present on the floor of the House during the entire procedure, once the resolution was introduced, House Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md) made a motion at her behest to table, i.e., kill the resolution. Echoing Pelosi, who has repeatedly said that impeachment is "off the table" Hoyer told Fox News: "Impeachment is not on our agenda, We have some major priorities. We need to focus on those."

Initially it looked as if the motion to table would easily succeed. At one point in the voting it had 290 votes. However, a decision was made by the Republican leadership to instruct party members to change their votes and vote against tabling the measure. The final vote was 251 against tabling to 162 in favor of tabling. 165 Republicans voted against tabling, as did 86 Democrats, with at least 17 Democrats also changing their votes at the very end to also vote against tabling the motion in clear defiance of Pelosi.

With this vote, the impeachment of Dick Cheney is clearly no longer "off the table" as Nancy Pelosi has insisted. Her protection of Cheney's war policy has been thoroughly unmasked.

Next, Hoyer moved to refer the resolution to the Judiciary Committee. The procedural vote as to whether to vote on the motion to refer to committee succeeded by a margin of 218 to 194, with the Republicans once again voting against Hoyer in order to force a quick one-hour debate on the house floor.

The actual motion to refer to committee won by the same margin 218 to 194.

As Lyndon LaRouche emphasized, the resolution to impeach Cheney is now "a live bomb sitting in the middle of the process. Instead of being killed, it has been kept alive: mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is now the fairest of them all?"