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.
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/2006.05.01_arch.html#1147121300397
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?
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....
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?
"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.
These guys sure can't get over their rapist President being impeached, if that's what you want to call it.
I am really tired of their bs and that is what it is. It's like they have all been fed calf manna and anyone that has fed their livestock this product, although a very good product, knows the end result stinks to high heaven. I would say Nancy Pelosi probably ranks the highest on the stink meter. She must be overloading herself with the stuff.
Its all Bush's fault... The Democrats will sell the country down the river... Terror attacks in the future will all be blamed on Bush.... If this country is too dumb to see that then many will deserve what happens to them....
These people are nuts.
And lets not forget that Charlie Rangel would chair the House Ways and Means Committee. The thought of the Dems taking over is a nightmare.
If this RAT slut thinks the DemocRATS are going to "bring the country together" if they regain power over the taxpayers' wallet, she is in for a rude awakening. We Republicans are not going to forget what has been going on since Bush got elected in 2000. PAYBACK is going to be a ....
HuH?
What about judicial nominees?
The Democrats are anything but scared.
With the help of the MSM they are empowered.
Why not say the truth? Nancy Pelosi is a bald-faced liar. And not a very good one.
If the moonbats think the majority of Americans want MORE partisan witch hunts and boring Congressional hearings interrupting "General Hospital" and "CSI"....they are sadly (but true to form) mistaken.
Bring it on, Nancy!
No, he didn't.
...or if he broke the law in ordering the National Security Agency to spy on Americans (which he admits he did).
Admiting to something legal is not a problem, except maybe for a demonrat.
Thanks for the article and the links. These people seem to be living in a world of their own. They have a whole plan worked out but they have forgotten that the American people won't take kindly to fabricated reasons for the attempted impeachment for our President. Should the Dems take control of the House, which I doubt seriously, for them to even attempt it will come back to bite them.
If worse comes to worst, I could live with that.