Kucinich's Impeachment of Cheney Killed By Dems?

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Help me out here. I'm paraphrasing from a comment on Reddit: As I understand what happened today - by referring to committee they are taking away the ability of the full house to debate or vote on the issue. It is now up to committee leadership to deal with, and they can literally do nothing on it - ever.

Bottom line is Kucinich got his ass handed to him by his own party. If the Republicans had voted to table it, the Democrats could have pointed fingers and could have come out looking good.

It looks like the Republicans realized the Democrats were invertebrates on this issue, and voted to force discussion on the topic. The Democrats then had to send it to committee to bury it so that no discussion or debate could happen.

Is this an accurate description?