Nine Brave Republicans

By Ralph Lopez, OpEdNews.com
In a stunning development
which fell with the silence of a feather yesterday, nine Republicans broke
with their iron-fisted party to put country first, and voted to send Rep.
Dennis Kucinich's article of impeachment HR 1345 to the Judiciary, where
Chairman John Conyers will hold a hearings on abuses of power by the Bush
administration, according to the Congressional Quaterly's CQToday. The final
vote was: Yea 238 - Nay 180.

The Nine Republicans are:

Congressman Kevin Brady (TX)
Congressman Wayne Gilchrest (MD)
Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC) 
Congressman Don Manzullo (IL)
Congressman Tim Murphy (PA)
Congressman Ron Paul (TX)
Congressman Dave
Reichert (WA)
Congressman Christopher
Shays (CT) 
Congressman Mike Turner (OH)

One of the Republicans, Walter Jones, represents Camp
LeJeune in North Carolina, one of the largest Marine
bases in the country, and one which has borne heavily the sacrifice of the Iraq
War.

CQ said of Conyers'
hearings:

The
anticipated hearing would review more than a year of committee inquiry into
such matters as the firing of U.S.
attorneys, the leak of the identity of former CIA operative Valerie Plame and
the information provided to Congress in the run-up to the Iraq War.