Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s attempt to impeach U.S. President George W. Bush was referred on Wednesday to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.

The House voted 251-166 to send the impeachment resolution to committee, thus allowing the Democratic leadership to freeze the measure indefinitely. The House Democratic leaders had made it perfectly clear and official that they wouldn’t consider any effort to remove Bush from office. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on more than one occasion that an impeachment move against Bush was unlikely to succeed and would be divisive.

All 166 votes in favor of the resolution came from Republicans, while 225 Democrats voted to punt the measure to committee. The Republican move showed how eager they are to show the Democrats as political creatures in a time of serious issues.

Kucinich had a similar attempt in April 2007 when he tried to impeach Vice president Dick Cheney. The outspoken Iraq war critic failed to move that resolution forward.

Kucinich, a former presidential candidate, proposed more than two dozen articles against Bush on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. He accused the current U.S. President of implementing a "calculated and wide-ranging strategy" to mislead U.S. citizens and Congress into believing that Iraq posed an imminent threat to our nation and that Saddam Hussein had ties with the 9/11 attacks.

The impeachment resolution also accuses the Bush administration of endangering 9/11 first responders and misleading the public about climate change.

The White House has been denying numerous charges coming from many Democrats and civil liberties groups, who accused Bush of providing misleading information before the 2003 Iraq invasion.