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John Nichols: For republic's sake, Pelosi must ponder impeachment (Barf Alert)
The Capital Times (Madison Wi) - Via Wisconsin State Journal ^ | 11/09/06 | John Nichols - Associate Editor

Posted on 11/09/2006 12:32:20 PM PST by MplsSteve

When my friend Salli Martyniak heard that Nancy Pelosi would be featured on the CBS news program "60 Minutes," she got excited. Like a lot of professional women who have been turned into political activists by six years of Bush-Cheney-ism, Martyniak busied herself during the recently completed election campaign doing everything she could to end Republican control of the House. She put the right campaign signs in her yard, she hosted fundraising events, and she knocked on doors and made calls on behalf of the campaign to change the Congress. And she lit up at the prospect of the first female speaker of the House.

But when Pelosi's segment aired on "60 Minutes" three Sundays before the election, Martyniak said, "I was shouting at the television. How could she say that? How could she so miss the point of being an opposition leader?"

What was it that so infuriated my friend and millions of other Americans who want this election to be about holding an out-of-control presidency to account?

(Excerpt) Read more at madison.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: bush; bushimpeachment; impeachment; pelosi; presidentcheney
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To: tobyhill

I agree. And I hope that the DemonRats won't do it, for that very reason.


21 posted on 11/09/2006 12:53:22 PM PST by quikdrw (Life is tough....it's even tougher if you are stupid.)
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To: napscoordinator
Nancy MIGHT ponder, but she will NOT do it.

She won't, but John Conyers doesn't give a flip what Nancy Pelosi wants. And part of him wants to file articles of impeachment, and be on teevee every day.

If she even thinks about trying to crack the whip on him, he'll play the race card so fast, it'll make your head spin.
22 posted on 11/09/2006 1:00:00 PM PST by horse_doc
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To: MplsSteve
Nancy Pelosi would be featured on the CBS news program "60 Minutes

With all the hearings and investigations most likely coming up during her lovely reign, are they calling her:

'Queen Subpoena'?

23 posted on 11/09/2006 1:02:22 PM PST by beyond the sea ( Now that Nancy Pelosi Galore is in charge, it's never too late to start drinking.)
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To: MplsSteve
Nancy Pelosi would be featured on the CBS news program "60 Minutes

With all the hearings and investigations most likely coming up during her lovely reign, are they calling her:

'Queen Subpoena'?

24 posted on 11/09/2006 1:02:48 PM PST by beyond the sea ( Now that Nancy Pelosi Galore is in charge, it's never too late to start drinking.)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

And they are doing their best to do so....


25 posted on 11/09/2006 1:03:15 PM PST by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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To: MplsSteve

If it gets in the way of Bush's fevered wish to sign an amnesty-and-3rd-world-migration-explosion bill, then I welcome impeachment.


26 posted on 11/09/2006 1:03:39 PM PST by RodgerD
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To: brydic1

Wrongo..they'd go after Cheney next


27 posted on 11/09/2006 1:04:58 PM PST by Jeffrey_D.
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To: MplsSteve

I think the problem started back in 1998. The House knew that the Senate would not really take BJ's impeachment seriously. Then the press helped the Clintonistas convince everyone that impeachment was just a political ploy. The 'Rats are bound and determined to impeach someone (either Bush or the next GOP president), just to pay us back.


28 posted on 11/09/2006 1:07:59 PM PST by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: brydic1

Are you kidding?
They'll just figure out some insanely crazy way to "include" Cheney.
The media will be in total support of whatever totally illegal plan they come up with.


29 posted on 11/09/2006 1:08:25 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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To: kevkrom

Start documenting everything for her Impeachment. Then we need to start some type Citizens Class Action Lawsuit against them for Endangering National Security and the Security of the American People.


30 posted on 11/09/2006 1:11:06 PM PST by unkus
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To: pinick

EVIDENCE
The dims don't need no stinking evidence.
There's no evidence now to back up any of the claims against Bush now.
Why would that change?


31 posted on 11/09/2006 1:11:16 PM PST by smoketree (the insanity, the lunacy these days)
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To: MplsSteve

I still haven't figured out why they want to impeach Bush.

Oh, I forgot; no one dare cross the impeached Clinton. Sorry, Bubba; we all have your number. You and the Missus should be sitting in prison for all the crimes you have committed.


32 posted on 11/09/2006 1:18:30 PM PST by freekitty
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To: horse_doc

She may have a very hard two years with some of those dems she has to "lead". I think she might wish she did not have the position in about a couple months after January.


33 posted on 11/09/2006 1:21:44 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: brydic1

"Impeach him by all means and I hope all the conservative republican senators then vote to convict because we will have a President Cheney for the remainder of this term. That is why the democrats dare not impeach him."

Then again, if Bush AND Cheney get sucessfully impeached, you will have President Pelosi for the remainder.


34 posted on 11/09/2006 1:22:29 PM PST by scottchead
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To: Jeffrey_D.

Real republicans and there are at least 34 will block the conviction and removal of Cheney, not to worry


35 posted on 11/09/2006 1:26:11 PM PST by brydic1
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To: scottchead

They can impeach Cheney or Bush to hell but there is no way either can be removed without conservative republicans agreeing to same. It takes 67 votes in the senate to remove the president or vice president. No way, Jose. Unless, of course, the conservatives may wish to remove one or the other and no sane conservative would vote to remove Dick Cheney, about the only conservative left in the upper eschelons of this administration.


36 posted on 11/09/2006 1:31:42 PM PST by brydic1
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To: Charles Martel

The first person we call to testify: Slick Willie.


37 posted on 11/09/2006 1:33:10 PM PST by BunnySlippers (Never Forget)
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To: scottchead
Then again, if Bush AND Cheney get sucessfully impeached, you will have President Pelosi for the remainder.

It takes just over 50% of the vote in the House to impeach, but it takes over two thirds in the Senate to convict. This is extremely difficult to pull off, and an impeachment that is purely political risks a major voter backlash.

Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing this at all. There's no way that they could get Bush removed from office, and it would distract them from doing everything they can to screw America over the next two years.

38 posted on 11/09/2006 1:37:38 PM PST by 3niner (War is one game where the home team always loses.)
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To: MplsSteve

You have to understand that Nichols is the editor of The Madison Capitol-Times which proudly states on the front page that it is Wisconsin's Progressive Newspaper. He is an out and out socialist. Nichols would like to throw all elected Republicans in jail and ban conservatism. He will not say that, but from his past articles, it's what he most likely thinks.


39 posted on 11/09/2006 1:51:01 PM PST by driftless2
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To: MplsSteve

The Liberals won this election by promising their "base" that they would 1. End the war 2. Impeach Bush 3. End the Bush tax cuts. The base in return gave them millions of dollars and paid for a lot of lawyers to destroy any Republican they could.

Now it is pay up time. So this should be a very interesting 2 years. If the Democrats do as their base wants they will destroy the country. If they don't they will destroy their party. Who will bet which they will choose?


40 posted on 11/09/2006 2:25:08 PM PST by when the time is right
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