What should be the standard for pursuing an impeachment article? Should Congress tie up Dennis Kucinich’s Article of Impeachment because it could affect the economy negatively, waste a great deal of time and money and create even more division between the major two parties? Or should Congress pursue impeachment regardless of the consequences if there appears to be enough evidence to formally make a charge that President George W. Bush has committed treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors?

Tuesday the House of Representatives voted 238 to 180, with nine Republicans voting ‘yea’, to send Congressman Kucinich’s Article of Impeachment to a Judiciary Committee hearing. This ‘introduction‘ isn’t quite the first step to removing the leader of the United States from office (this article may never make it out of committee), but it’s close and it’s certainly something that deserves to be on the front page of every newspaper in the country. Yet, for some reason, it isn’t.