Posted on 05/14/2006 2:49:05 AM PDT by MaineVoter2002
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and House Minority Leader who would likely replace Rep. Dennis Hastert in November if Democrats succeed in taking over the House of Representatives, made a snarky comment on...
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Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat and House Minority Leader who would likely replace Rep. Dennis Hastert in November if Democrats succeed in taking over the House of Representatives, made a snarky comment on NBC over the weekend when asked about impeachment and about Rep. John Conyers, who would head the Judiciary Committee in a Democratic House.
Asked by "Meet the Press's" Tim Russert about impeachment talk, Pelosi reportedly said, "Democrats are not about impeachment--Democrats are about bringing the country together."
Reminded that Conyers has all but invited submission of a bill of impeachment on his watch, having already filed his own bill calling for a select committee to investigate possible impeachable acts by the president, Pelosi said the Judiciary Committee is "not where the [impeachment] decision would be made" and added (sounding an awful lot like the Great Decider himself), "I am the leader. Our caucus will decide where we're going…I don't see us going to a place of impeachment."
Pelosi is in for a big surprise.
She and the rest of the Democratic leadership (if they can really even be called such), are so scared of their shadows, so scared of challenging Republicans on anything but stem cells and Social Security, that impeachment has them cowering under rocks. The public is way out front on this, however, and if the party, despite its seeming death-wish desire to nominate Hillary Clinton for the presidency, somehow manages to win the House in November, there will be a clamor for Bush's head which will drag them along behind it.
All it takes is one rogue member of the House submitting a bill of impeachment to initiate the process in the Judiciary Committee, and if enough red-blooded Democrats come out and vote to oust Republicans this November, it would be political suicide for Pelosi and her spineless compatriots to try to kill that bill.
Several polls have made it clear that a majority of Americans, and even a fair number of Republicans, think that President Bush should face impeachment if he lied about the reasons for going to war in Iraq (as he indeed did) or if he broke the law in ordering the National Security Agency to spy on Americans (which he admits he did). (See my March 7 Article "Groundswell for Impeachment," on the 2006 archives page.)
Most Democrats, and I dare say most independents, aren't in a mood for conciliation with this president. They certainly aren't going to be electing Democrats in hopes that a new Democratic Congress will start compromising with Bush.
If voters do turn out the Republicans in Congress this fall, it will be because they are in the mood for reversing five years of corruption, war-mongering, nation-wrecking, lying, Constitution trashing, abuse of power and religious posing.
Impeachment will be red meat for these voters; compromise a red flag.
Besides, if Pelosi thinks she and her accommodationist minions--after all the abuse that has been heaped on them by Republicans since 2000--will be able to accomplish anything by cozying up to the president and his party, they are delusional.
The president has made his utter contempt for Congress and the legislative process abundantly clear by issuing an astonishing 750 "signing statements" even as he has signed that many acts of Congress into law, declaring in each case that as "commander in chief" he is not bound to enforce or obey those laws. What this means is that Democrats can pass all the bills they want after they win control of Congress, but unless they remove or neuter this president via impeachment hearings, they’re wasting their time.
Pelosi may be uncomfortable with the role of oppositionist, but an increasingly restive electorate looks increasingly likely to force her hand.
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A post to show you what the democRATS are planning
Who are these people? The Dims are insane. I think they'd like to kill the country. They're too stupid to even vote for the survival of their own country.
What would these type of people have done during WWII?
He did?
How dare you use the scare tactic of showing what will happen if the Republicans lose power. Shame on you. ;)
This article seems to be complaining that Pelosi may be a bit too...conservative for them. YIKES!
This writer is in for a big surprise. Firstly, Pelosi will not be the majority leader. But, if through some weird circumstance she was, there would be no impeachment. The public would be against it if there was.
Pelosi a leader? She comes across to me more as a crackpot than anything else....
But even if they dont get him on this, they'll try to impeach him for trying to connect the dots and if they fail on that they'll try to impeach him for failing to connect dots. They're nasty!
Listen people, this is okay. The reason it's okay is that it is about Bizarro World and not about the planet or universe which we inhabit. There Dubya is from the dark side and attends Mazola parties with Janet Reno and Helen Thomas.
In OUR universe the majority of Americans have not yet lost their minds, and the president has not admitted to breaking any laws.
They didn't mind when Clinton actually did these things, why worry now when it's just a figment of their imaginations?
Yes, but the MSM has done an incredible job of setting the agenda and getting the WH on the defensive about WMD. It's easy to look up the often repeated reasons for the invasion but it all comes down to "You said there were WMD and there were no WMD."
But even if they dont get him on this, they'll try to impeach him for trying to connect the dots and if they fail on that they'll try to impeach him for failing to connect dots. They're nasty!
That's as perfect a summation of their tactics as I've seen. Look at the NSA wiretap stories; they amount to very little, but their frequency of appearance is such that the average American thinks "wiretaps" and thinks "Bush is doing something wrong." Look at Katrina, same deal.
One of Bush's major and repeated failures was in choosing and then not firing Ari Fleisher and Scott McLellan as press secretaries. He needed a Tony Snow right from the start--personable but not afraid to correct the blatant lies of the MSM (which will demonize him very quickly).
Someone so savvy about politics as Rove has to have some flaws, and his has been a major one: The choice of spokeman for this Administration.
All or at least almost all of Bush's problems as president can be traced to his inability to get his side of the story accepted by a majority of the American people. When the experts in message are all on the other side, you are doomed.
If the Dems take over in the next election, I will assume that Bush is very likely to be pushed out of office. The Dems know this and are trying not to get it out. But their supporters are so overflowing with hatred for the man that they see this as their third shot at him after 2000 and 2004, their third and last shot at him. And they want blood.
Every time any demo pol says they want to bring the country together, I know what they mean--they want to bring the country into democrat misery. They all mean the country together as long as its democrat policy, democrat judges, democrat taxes, democrat PC, democrat--you name the socialist program--and then they figure the country is together. We're all declining together.
Exactly! And when Bush does wrong (and it hasn't been often I'm not afraid to say it. I've been very upset over the immigration deal, but this WMD BS is just that. Pure lies. And the American media now has Saddam, Bin Laden and now the Iranian leader parroting them on the so-called "WMD Lies".
I'm not the first here to suggest that if the RNC doesn't put out ads comparing the Dems talking points to the terrorists', they're fools. Of course, I'm no media expert and that could cause a backlash...but I think it's worth the risk to tell the TRUTH about these people.
I was never, ever this incindiary against the Dems until post 9-11. The Dems are blatantly working to oppose our President to the point where they are a major ally of the terrorists whether they intend to be or not. I mean, I don't even have to provide evidence, do I? Just compare any UBL taped speech with any number of comments from Dean, Kennedy, and various Congressional Dems.
The WH must, MUST take control of its message--that is the only way out of Bush's tailspin in the polls.
"Besides...Pelosi...and her...minions...are delusional. "There.
Thanks, MV. Let's just make sure the Leftists and their Political Machine (the Democrat Party) and their Propaganda Machine (the "Mainstream Newsmedia") continue to get their message out! That's the best defense that the U.S.A., Western Civilization, liberty, justice, and The American Dream have against them, their delusions, and their decadence.
Every time Pelosi, Dean, Kennedy, Kerry, et al. appear on T.V., more Americans resolve to Vote Republican.
Well, let's pray Tony Snow will do just that.
In the meantime I will continue to do battle with the RATS in USENET / GOOGLE Political Newsgroups
Thanks for the links, will check those out.
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