NANCY PELOSI, YOU TAKE YOURSELF WAY TOO SERIOUSLY!
Like Al Gore in 2000, you are falling victim to STUFFED SHIRT SYNDROME.
VP Gore was SO WORRIED ABOUT LOSING the election of 2000, that he walked on egg-shells, refusing to highlight Texas Governor George W. Bush's dismal record of budget deficits, CORRUPTION scandals in Texas state contracts, and Governor Bush's SIGNATURE SLASHING or pre-school, after-school, and health-care (insurance) programs for CHILDREN... while Gov. Bush gave Texas' wealthiest corporations and individuals huge, multi-million dollar TAX CUTS and outright tax-funded subsidies. (In what would become the infamous Halliburton/Blackwater/Enron/Carlyle model of rewarding crony donors with billion-dollar government contracts.)
SEVEN YEARS LATER, following Vice President Gore's cowering example, the DEMOCRATS ARE STILL UNABLE to push forward the fight to PROVIDE HEALTH INSURANCE TO CHILDREN despite Republican obstructionism and control of media message (propaganda)!
WHAT did Al Gore get for all of his timif RESTRAINT in 2000?
answer- he will go down in history as the candidate who WON THE ELECTION, only to have it STOLEN OUT FROM UNDER HIM.
Al Gore will go down in history as the President of the Senate (sitting Vice President) who GAVELED the Black Democratic Congressional Caucus INTO SUBMISSION, NOT ONE damn Democratic Senator signing on to the Black Congressional Caucus demand for ONE SENATOR to co-sponsor a CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO MASSIVE VOTER DISENFRANCHISEMENT (by Republican authorities, i.e. Katherine Harris, Jeb Bush, & co.) in Florida in 2000 - despite ALMOST EVERY Democratic Senator having won their elections to office by depending to at least some extent on Black and minority voters! FIFTY Democratic Senator and a sitting Democratic Vice President; ZERO votes in support of VOTING FAIRNESS and JUSTICE - a mere request for an investigation! FOR SHAME!
Vice President Gore put PROCESS and 'dignity'- a blemish-free inauguration for George Bush & Dick Cheney and their Right-Wing "moral values" supporters despite the stolen votes of election 2000 - AHEAD OF THE VOTING RIGHTS of THOUSANDS of Black and minority voters DISENFRANCHISED in Florida in 2000. As atrocioius at the media portrayals of Al Gore through the summer of 2000 were (led by Maureen Dowd, Wllm Safire, and the Lying Editors of the New York Slimes), Mr. Gore DID GIVE THOSE COMMENTATORS more than just a GRAIN OF TRUTH in their "Gore is a pompous elitist who will sell out common Americans" running commentary!
NANCY PELOSI IS FOLLOWING IN AL GORE's MISBEGOTTEN FOOTSTEPS!
She is too full of herself to realize that, given the balance of 49 Republican seats in the Senate, a CONGRESSIONAL IMPEACHMENT INQUIREY will ONLY RESULT IN A HUNG JURY, that it would be in effect NO MORE THAN A CENSURE.
NANCY PELOSI is ROBBING MILLIONS OF AMERICANS of even THAT SYMBOLIC gesture, effectively only a censure INVESTIGATION, based on her perception of political expediency!
LIKE AL GORE in 2000, she will SELL THOUSANDS OF DISENFRANCHISED AMERICANS DOWN THE RIVER, rather than CONFRONT the Bush-Cheney dirty tricks, bordering on UNCONSTITUTIONAL powers and abuse of Bill of Rights NIGHTMARE!
Nancy Pelosi, FOR SHAME! You are ROBBING YOUR OWN GRANDCHILDREN of CONSTITUTIONAL RESTRAINTS over a president and vice president who have NO RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION in the first place.
FOR SHAME!
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Radio hosts slam top Democrats for reluctance to consider impeachment Jason Rhyne
Published:
Raw Story
Monday October 15, 2007
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Radio_hosts_slam_top__Democrats_1015.html
Reid: Impeachment is a 'foolish idea;' Pelosi doesn't see justification
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) -- the top Democratic leaders from each of their respective chambers of Congress -- are drawing fire for a pair of recent radio appearances in which they reiterated their opposition to pursuing the impeachment of President George W. Bush.
In an interview Oct. 9 with nationally syndicated liberal radio host Ed Schultz, Pelosi defended previous statements in which she had promised that "impeachment was off the table."
"I don't see a connection between this and impeachment," Pelosi said, asked about a newly released secret memo on US interrogation tactics. A moment later, she side-stepped a repeat of the same question by elaborating on her goal to "bring the country behind a return to an America that honors the vision of our founders."
"I don't see that impeachment is in furtherance of bringing the people together in that way," she said.
"If somebody else out there has reason to think that they have evidence that the president has committed an impeachable offense that can pass the Congress, please let me know that," she continued, "but at the present time, I don't think that the justification is there for that."
Late Friday, Schultz told RAW STORY that the speaker's unwillingness to realistically discuss the impeachment option -- or even to entertain a theoretical scenario in which it might merit real consideration -- was tantamount to giving President Bush a "license to do whatever he wants to do."
"I think the Democratic leadership has signaled to the American people that there is no set of facts, no turn of events that would rise to the level of impeachment," Schultz said, adding that he thought the party's leaders had "pretty much given up."
"Our callers are extremely passionate about the truth," he continued. "They're extremely passionate about the Constitution, and poor Democrats feel like the leadership is letting them down."
Reid, too, dismisses impeachment
For those Democratic voters who believed a majority in Congress might have greased the wheels for possible action on impeachment, another recent interview with top Senate Majority Lead Harry Reid did little to kindle hope.
In a recent Q&A with left-leaning host Christiane Brown of Reno's KJFK radio, Reid dismissed the notion as a "waste of time" that would succeed only in handing the White House to Vice President Dick Cheney.
"The clincher of it all," added Reid, "is that we'd end up with Cheney as president. Does anybody want that?"
"What people want to know is why do we want to wait for more deaths over the next year because we say our hands are tied," said Brown of the war in Iraq, adding that Cheney could be impeached as well.
"Well, I respectfully suggest to anyone that suggests impeachment," the senator replied, "that it's a very foolish idea."
Brown, however, who shot back on-air that "respectfully, I disagree and I know there are a lot of people that do," told RAW STORY that she couldn't grasp Reid's "strange thinking."
"It just seems to me that they've already made their mind up that impeachment isn't an option," she said of Reid and other Democrats, like Pelosi, that brush off even the notion of impeachment.
"We just hear a lot of excuses all the time," Brown said, citing Reid's insistence on her program that the trappings of an impeachment would be an unneeded distraction that served little effective purpose in the waning days of Bush's final term.
"None of these arguments stand up," she continued. "You have to do what's right...I think Americans want to see some accountability, and we're now being told that we're foolish to even consider it. It seems like [Congress] is looking for every reason not to get rid of this president."
'It's all about '08'
The logic, Brown says, doesn't play out. She theorizes that "maybe they think that having Bush in power is going to help them with their numbers in 2008."
According to impeachment activist David Swanson, that's precisely the reason. Co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, and the Washington director of Democrats.com and ImpeachPAC.org, Swanson believes that reluctance among Democratic leaders has nothing to do with the a lack of justification for drafting impeachment articles and everything to do with politics.
"The Bush Administration is throwing out impeachable offense after impeachable offense," Swanson said. He counts Bush's "refusal to honor subpoenas," frequent signing statements and controversial intelligence gathering techniques as part of a roster of administration actions that warrant impeachment.
But Congress, in his opinion, isn't making a push for the president's removal because "Nancy Pelosi actually believes the best way to win elections is to keep Bush in office."
In Swanson's view, top Democrats have quietly committed to an electoral strategy that seeks to hang the albatross of an unpopular but still-serving President Bush around the necks of 2008 GOP contenders -- both the eventual Republican presidential nominee as well as the party's House and Senate candidates down ticket.
"And there's a view of history that says that isn't only morally disgusting, it's also wrong politically," he continued, adding that not only did Democrats have a responsibility to prosecute what he considers impeachable offenses, but also that impeachment itself wasn't inherently detrimental politically.
"Never has a party suffered for bringing impeachment," Swanson said, going on to mention that impeachment measures led by Democrats against former President Richard Nixon actually preceded a landslide victory for congressional Democrats in the 1974 mid-term elections.
Even after impeachment against President Bill Clinton, a very unpopular impeachment Swanson points out, Republicans lost fewer seats in the 2000 election than historical norms for a six-term congressional majority.
"They held onto both houses and the White House," he said. "Democrats should be thankful to suffer that kind of fate."
Schultz enthusiastically agrees. He believes that looming election concerns are powering much of the reluctance among House and Senate leadership.
"It's all about '08," he said. "They want the White House. They can't turn the country around unless they have the White House. They're serious about change, they're concerned about the country, but they think it would divide the country's future if impeachment were brought. And they're not willing to roll those dice."
