Just wondering if anyone else has wasted time posting a comment on CNN's Cafferty Files? I sent a comment to the question: What does it mean when Congress refuses to even consider 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush? And it was one of the ones read on air, but my entire comment was not read. And my comment, in it's entirety, has been deleted from the list of all comments.
Here's the entire blog:
The House of Representatives has voted to send an impeachment resolution against President Bush to committee – where it’s likely to die.
Congressman Dennis Kucinich introduced the 35 articles of impeachment this week. Most of the resolution focuses on the Iraq war but also charges the president with illegally detaining both U.S. citizens and foreign captives, condoning torture and mishandling the response to Hurricane Katrina.
But Congress doesn’t want to hear it. They voted largely along party lines – 255 to 166 – to send the resolution to the House Judiciary Committee. This is exactly what happened to Kucinich’s impeachment articles against Vice President Cheney last year. Congress sent that resolution to this same committee in November. So far, no action has been taken. Congress continues to refuse to exercise its constitutional responsibility of oversight of the executive branch of government.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi long ago made it known that impeachment is "off the table." This is a joke. We have a president who has abused the power of his office over and over again. It’s what got the Democrats elected to the majority in Congress in 2006. Now it’s election time again, and every member of the House is up for re-election in November. The Democrats are probably worried what it will look like to many voters if they spend time on impeachment.
Which is why Republicans voted yesterday to bring Kucinich’s resolution up for debate immediately – to make the Democrats look silly for focusing on this instead of gas prices, the economy, etc.
Here’s my question to you:What does it mean when Congress refuses to even consider 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush?
The part of my comment that was aired was this: I wouldn’t mind seeing the Democrats debating impeachment and it wouldn’t seem like a waste of time to me, even at this late date. Seems to me it would be better to make a statement that we will not allow another inept president to run this country and our Constitution into the ground.
Here's the REST OF THE COMMENT: And I don't think that the Republicans COULD make Democrats look silly. After all, how many millions did the Republicans spend investigating the "high crimes" of our last President, only to find out he had just lied about having an affair?
Has anyone else bothered to comment and had this happen? Or do you just never watch CNN anymore?