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For Economy's Sake, Pelosi Needs to Push for Impeachment Now
For economy's sake, Pelosi needs to push for impeachment now
BY Rochelle Riley | Freep.com
Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s ineffectiveness became clear the day she became Speaker of the House and immediately announced that there would be no impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.
Guided by politics, she said leading investigations into just how much the Bush administration did – and did wrong – would be divisive. What she didn’t express was her worry that too many Democrats faced elimination from the House if they took on the difficult task of proving who knew what, when.
But Congress is running out of time to finally make the Bush administration own up to its actions for eight years. If Congress isn’t careful, the president who already has issued 171 pardons could also pardon every appointee and employee he has ever had – and their dogs. And then Americans will never find out what happened to our country over the past eight years.
Pelosi wouldn’t have to start from scratch: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the bravest member of Congress, introduced legislation 11 months ago to impeach the president and vice president. Last January, the House gave a first reading of one of those articles of impeachment. Our own Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, joined 38 other representatives to sponsor HR 635, which would form a committee to look into whether there are grounds for impeachment. Revive that effort!
Last week, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, submitted a resolution demanding that Bush stop issuing “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”
Nadler said in news reports that he was moved to action by the president’s “widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution” and that he wanted to prevent the “undeserved pardons of officials who may have been co-conspirators in the president’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants.”
Nadler is storming the beach; others should join him.
If Congress moves quickly and forces the president to focus on impeachment, then he won’t have so much time to push through last-minute regulatory changes that will continue to hurt our country and our ideals. He already has pushed deregulation that would allow employers to talk directly with employees’ doctors and allow power companies to build polluting facilities close to national parks.
Anyone worried that our congressional representatives can’t tie their shoes and chew gum at the same time, or cannot focus on the economic crisis and impeachment hearings at the same time, will find that many answers to our economic and global defense problems will come from those hearings.
The only question I have for Nancy Pelosi is this: What are we waiting for?
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Pro-impeachment activists are justifiably suffering fatigue. But we cannot give up.
Articles like this need to be kept near the top of all of our websites longer
, for a few days at least so we will all see that it is still possible, and that some media outlets are starting to give impeachment some credibility. Perhaps impeachments time has come.
We have a lame duck House session starting I am told on Dec. 8th.
We all need to start mass emailing our lists and getting people to call, write and fax all Democratic congressmen,
Conyers, Kucinich, Wexler,
and the rest of the Judiciary Committee
and ask for "start of impeachment hearings now".
We can do this, fatigue or not.
one more time into the breech people. Don't give up.
John H Kennedy, Denver CO,
43 yr Democratic voter and organizer of
Impeach Colorado Coalition http://ImpeachCO.com
PS: our website is down due to a server crash, back up soon.
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All I can say is wow. You folks really have no clue.
"have no clue?"
The people of San Francisco have brought shame upon their city and saddled us with the Wicked Witch of the West for another two years. Pelosi will not let Bush be impeached. We can call for accountability, but Nancy is one of them and she knows it.
4Peace
But I'm in it to win it. I'm not going to rest until we all see justice for the crimes this Presidency has wrought. Count me in. I'll be back on the phones and Emailing everyone I know. I'll blog til they ban me and then just go back again. I will tire the media out before they do me! Tired? Yes, of course, but my country's worth to much to quit now.
"Storming the beach"?
"moved to action by the president’s 'widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution'"?
Hardly.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008:
Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Rights, held a hearing dealing with the torture of detainees in U.S. custody. The hearing featured the testimony of Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson not only confirmed that more than 100 detainees had died in U.S. custody, but also that at least 25 of these deaths have been classified as homicides by American investigators.
Despite learning that stunning information, Nadler has remained steadfast against an impeachment investigation. But we're supposed to take him seriously when he offers up a toothless resolution "demanding" no pre-emptive pardons?
Please. If there weren't so much blood already on that coward's hands, the prospect would be laughable.
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No corporate media has, to my knowledge, asked Pelosi to explain what she means by "divisive". What evidence is she pointing to for her position? Seems to me, most Americans would not argue impeachment shouldn't go forward for shredding our Constitution, for spying on all Americans, for invasion/occupation of sovereign nations, for genocide, for murder, for torture. Who's willing to defend such actions? Especially the latest raping and pillaging of our economy on the pretense of saving our financial system. Why would anyone want to save a failed financial system, as opposed to switching to a financial system that serves all of us? Framing the argument should be addressed, and who better than Pelosi, by explaining just where she got her facts about what she means by "divisive"?