A curious media black hole

There have been several recommended diaries about the call by House Judiciary committee members Robert Wexler, Tammy Baldwin and Luis Gutierrez for the committee to actually begin hearings on the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney.

But don't you find it curious that there's been literally no traditional media coverage of it? Three Members of Congress, all on the Judiciary Committee, call outright for impeachment hearings, and no one reports it?

The three even wrote an op-ed together explaining their reasoning and offered it to the New York Times, the Washington Post, etc. No one has yet agreed to run it.

Isn't that interesting, in and of itself? I mean, say what you want about impeachment, but when three members of the Judiciary Committee sign on to a positive call for it, that's worth a little news blurb, don't you think?

Of course, it should also be noted that they wrote a 700+ word op-ed inspired by Dennis Kucinich's impeachment resolution without ever mentioning Dennis Kucinich, but that's perhaps a subject for another day.

In the meantime, Wexler's gathering signatures to gauge support for their call for hearings. Interested? Drop him a line, won't you? Don't be embarrassed. Your neighbors certainly won't read about it in the paper.