Dear Madam Speaker,

I was happy to sit in my driveway to listen to you being interviewed on "All Things Considered" today. Imagine my consternation when I considered your answer to the opening question:


That being the case Madam Speaker, or should I say My Damn Speaker, please explain to me and the rest of my fellow citizens why Impeachment is off the table?

I won't begin to address the rest of your comments, which I recommend everyone read or listen to the rest as I found it robust exercise to my vascular system.

It occurred to me that you have no clue as to how much real power you have. You have committees with long outstanding unanswered subpoenas, why has anything moved in the House while this is so?

Will you please either stand up or stand aside?

-Hoot

A better question is what happened to the table?

Why is the Democratic majority consigned to eating scraps on the floor?

What kind of hold does Bush** have on you?

I'm now convinced she truly doesn't know how much power she wields.

-Hoot

It is clear that they are genuinely afraid of him.

She and the rest of Congress are under the threat of another Reichstag Fi^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H attack by terrorists giving Bush**ler a pretext to invoke all of those executive orders and complete the transition to hard fascism.

and kick him squarely in the nuts.

-Hoot

as it is about to be eaten.

IMPEACHTHEM.COM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGwvSwOP7Ow

The first step is admitting that you are powerless over Bush - and that the world has become unmanageable.

But you did make me laugh.

-Hoot

He seems ruined as far as having any chance at being a human being. :(

But you do understand the analogy.. ;)

I merely want to see him punished.

-Hoot

Thank you, that was amusing. You can always amuse a former 12 stepper with that stuff. I guess we are just way too easily amused. At least those of us who actually did the work.

k&r

And a Rec.

:shrug:

how do we get enough support for impeachment?

thus far!?! - Her position should be evaluated on and replaced asap!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

have said the same or have been even more critical.

The difference is you would think she has the power to get more done.

that too many in our party were/are incompetent...or worse :(

They just want * to go away quietly.

Congress needs a SERIOUS housecleaning.

Her words, not ours.

Her failure to object/accuse/impeach is complicity -- approval -- exoneration for a war criminal regime that she herself claims erodes our safety each and every day.

Would that someone this deluded could have the grace to stand aside.

She MUST be pushed. Keep screaming patriots. The damn could break at any time.

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I'm shakin that bush boss!

-Hoot

If you honestly feel so strongly about it put Impeachment back on the friggin table already.

Sheesh1

and acts and votes supporting King George all the way.

Despicable cannot even closely describe this persons actions and so-called "morals".

If you actually care Madam Speaker then forsake your comfort for your (figurative) bayonet.

No progress will come without a serious fight.

:applause: :patriot:

Lead, Follow or get the fuck out of the way!

Not necessarily ready for primetime but pretty much sums up how I feel about her behavior.

Excellent way of putting it! K&R

. . .she could go down in history as the most notorious woman in American politics.



So, in her role as one of "We the People" she would be calling for impeachment, but for some inexplicable reason she has concluded that her role as a Representative of the People somehow precludes her from advocating impeachment? (Even though an overwhelming 60% of her district voted for Proposition J -- A call to impeach Bush/Cheney?) As "the http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/05/MNGUVNDH0V1.DTL&type=politics">the most powerful woman ever in American politics, second in the line of succession to the presidency," she chooses to abuse her power to block the enforcement of the Constitution through impeachment?

People who violate the law don't destroy our legal system. Law enforcement agencies and courts exist to deal with them. Only corrupt officials within the executive or judiciary can break the system.

Corrupt officials can break the system, but they can't destroy it either because we gave the legislative branch the duty, and the power, to impeach and remove them. The power to impeach is of absolute necessity to maintaining the integrity of our government. It is our ultimate trump card -- and our ultimate defense. It is the means by which we enforce our sovereign authority over the officials we "hire" to serve us.

In the end, it is only the failure of the men and women we charge with removing officiuals who pose a threat that can destory our constitutional democracy. We can point the finger at the torturers, we can point the finger at the press, we can point the finger at the Americans who have lost hope and opted out, but ultimately the buck stops with Pelosi.

As painful as the truth may be, Pelosi's abuse of power to keep impeachment "off the table" is the fatal blow. Bushncheney are violating our common contract, but it is Pelosi's refusal to respond that is allowing "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" to "perish from the earth."

As long as there are people willing to fight, there is hope of resurrection, but if Pelosi is able to enforce her "off the table" edict through the end of the 110th Congress, we "could never exaggerate the extent of the damage."

You are a coward and an opportunistic piece of crap!:grr:

:hi:

Peace.

Long time.

:hi:

-Hoot

you would need 18 republican Senators to impeach. as the far as the war goes bush could take money from any program to fight the war, Why bad mouth Democrats. Remember 2/3 majority to impeach, Republicans don't commit suicide, look at John Dean, John McCain and Jim Hightower, and a few others. Republicans are more of a Mafia than a political party. open your eyes shut your mouth vote Democratic, :nuke:

the repukes will try to impeach over whatever lie they can make up.

You need zero repubs to impeach. No one is asking Madame Squeaker to guarantee removal at a Senate trial. Such a defeatist concern is above her pay grade. That's why the founders created 2 stages -- accusation/impeachment then trial/removal.

And GOP Senators may not see it as "committing suicide" to cut loose the biggest drag on their party's electoral prospects ever.

In fact, they've rejected bushcheney criminality before.

All that is necessary is to force them to do it again.

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:puke:

handle this job. She should go home and be a grandmother where she belongs. We need a fighter as the speaker of the house and Pelosi is not even close to being in the running. She is scared out of her wits which are few enough to begin with.

They have the power to steal our votes, to do recess appointments, veto bills and they KNOW for sure that "Impeachment is Not Going To Touch That Nasty old Table!"

So, without even a whimper, not even a bully cry, not a sound that even looks like a move in the direction of anything that would make the Boy King upset, we go down without a VOICE!

Where do you stand Democrats? Take a stand or stand for nothing.
This is the 11th hour!

that somebody, somewhere, has aimed at the one's who were our 'saviors' a year ago.
Vulnerable children. Other loved ones.
Who knows?
I say, "Shit, or get off the pot!"
well, actually, that's what my dad used to say in this kind of circumstance. seems appropriate here.

daily to live up to her oath!

fly

should have bad ratings!

Those were not her exact words but she looked like a deer in headlights when she spoke.

It makes me want to cry ~ basically she was agreeing with GW and admitting that the Democrats were going to keep going along to get along.

Where is the FIRE!?

I simply do not understand because I was thrilled to see her elected, I adore Nancy P. but I am worried that they have gotten to her in a serious way,