Why Nancy Pelosi is Pulling Her Punches [View All]

There has been much discussion about what is perceived to be the mealy-mouth impotence on the part of House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, regarding the issue of impeachment. If anyone had the opportunity to see Meet the Press this A.M., they would understand her game.

Newt Gingrich never missed a beat referring to her and Howard Dean as leaders of a far-left, out of touch party that is incapable of making a Contract with America. Painting Democrats as kooky liberals is a time-honored traditional Republican ploy. Look for it in an election near you.

Ms. Pelosi made it clear that Democrats would initiate investigations of this administration, and if that leads to impeachment - so be it. Why isn't that enough? Playing down the paranoid incessant questions about impeachment is strategy.

Gingrich launched a series of lies starting with NSA spying without a warrant to immigration, in rapid-fire sequence; this guy is dangerous. The good news is that he has a hard-on for punitive consequences for illegal immigrants. He flat-out lied trying to scare Americans, saying there are 30-50 million illegal immigrants when there are really only 12-13 million.

It is clear what the hard work is going to be for the Democrats. We must get out ahead of the lies. We are against warrantless, illegal wiretapping. We do not support blanket amnesty but rather a compassionate course of citizenship. We need to start speaking the truth, correcting the lies, loudly and often.

And, most of all, we need to stop lying here at DU, or at least stop telling half-truths. While we're slamming Hillary for taking Murdoch's money, let's also tell the truth and that is that Democratic Senators Reid, Schumer, Boxer, and Kennedy and Democratic Representatives Pelosi, Dingell, Nadler, and Rangel also have accepted money from Murdoch. Surely some of those names pass the sniff test with people here.

The Republicans are preying on the anti-Hillary sentiment that burns here at DU. I am ashamed to say that I (thanks to the ever-astute SaveElmer) actually mindlessly parroted a particular tidbit of anti-Hillary rhetoric that I have read over and over again here at DU. I am so ashamed! But that proves to me how insidious the half-truths are.

Those at DU really need to ask themselves if they are prepared to pull up their socks and be honest. We need to reach down and muster the common sense, the reason, the integrity to go forward en masse and kick the shit out of the lying, manipulative, corrupt Republicans.

Rant over. Flame away.