Dick Cheney and President Bush can draw a sigh of relief this morning as Chris Daly's resolution calling for the impeachment of the President was scuttled off to committee by Sean Elsbernd. The resolution directs the Clerk of the Board of Supes to send copies of the resolution to statewide political leaders, the Democratic National Committee, and members of the House Judiciary Committee where it will probably sit in a very large in-box on all of their respective desks along-side credit card offers, Value Pak coupons, and pleas from Hurricane Katrina victims for more money to keep them from being evicted. more ›

While most of us have gotten over the previous election, even moving past both the four stages of mourning and the drunken depressed stupor stage, there are some people out there still fighting. Yesterday a rally was held in front of Sen. Barbara Boxer’s San Francisco office urging her to stand up and challenge the election results because of all the charges of fraud and disenfranchisement in Ohio. Tomorrow, members of congress will join together to certify the vote and already several House Democrats, including ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, have said they will try and contest the counting of the Ohio electors. Conyers and others are hoping to talk other Democratic members of congress, including Barbara Boxer, to join in. To help their cause, Conyer’s committee today issued a report detailing all of the problems in the election. As for John Kerry, who as a Senator is supposed to vote on all this, he decided that he’d rather duck bullets and bombs in the Middle East than vote for his defeat. more ›