What Happened to Kerry's Impeachment Crusade?

Let's take a moment to review:

Friday, June 3

Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"When I go back [to Washington] on Monday, I am going to raise the issue," Kerry said, referring to the Downing Street Memo in an interview with Massachusetts' Standard Times newspaper.

"I think it's a stunning, unbelievably simple and understandable statement of the truth and a profoundly important document that raises stunning issues here at home."

Actually, as the link above details, the DSM is rubbish that substantiates nothing of what the enemies of George W. Bush (and Tony Blair) are rabidly, irrationally convinced must be true about his motivations and actions in the runup to the liberation of Iraq. And the same goes for its successors. But that reality has been established for months by now, and it didn't prevent Lurch from talking up the DSM not even three weeks ago.

So...what happened to his crusade?

[Kerry] has since publicly held his tongue on the matter. Instead, [he] has been enlisting other senators to sign onto a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee seeking answers about the memo, aides said.

Wow, if this is his idea of "confronting Congress," can you imagine what a disaster he'd have been as Commander-in-Chief in a time of war?

Not that he doesn't still talk a good game...through his imbecile underlings:

Kerry spokesman David Wade insisted the Administration needs to answer questions about the memo.

"It's not too much for Americans to expect a thorough explanation of the Downing Street memo,'' he said. "The Administration and the Washington Republicans who control Congress scoff at the idea of congressional oversight, and insult Americans by brushing off even the most basic questions about pre-war intelligence and planning for the aftermath of war.''

Note how Kerry, through Wade, lectures us on how we don't have the "right" expectations, as though the White House and "Washington Republicans" are obligated to bow & curtsy to every half-baked conspiracy theory from the Moore-onic crowd, and then calls it an insult to us when they don't waste their time doing so.

But it's telling that Kerry isn't walking his talk. That's what John Conyers and his troupe of House impeachment players did last week, and that portion of the exercise which wasn't odiously anti-Semitic was flaccidly pathetic.

Hmmm; maybe this pell-mell retreat wasn't ill-considered after all....