Nancy Pelosi

What has Nancy Pelosi done to protect the frontal assault on the Constitution that the Bush Administration has waged? any comment on NSPD51?? FISA?
The congress appears to be in an utter coma as Bush strips our rights so methodically ... so similar to the fascist regimes of the past... At her own assessment, Bush has been a disaster... so why has she done so little, if anything, to stop him?

I predict Speaker Pelosi’s comment that “Impeachment is off the table” as she took over the gavel in November 2006 will live in infamy as the complete history of this lawless administration becomes known. Her arguments against impeachment are not based on principle but on supposed practical considerations and the specious claim that it would be a distraction. Both of these justifications have been definitively demolished by conservative Republican lawyer Bruce Fein - the same person who drafted, by the way, the impeachment article against President Clinton. Fein has the intellectual honesty not only to recognize but also to act forcefully upon the realization that if Clinton merited impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice, then how much more so do Bush and Cheney deserve removal from office for their very many profoundly more serious transgressions. And these transgressions have been detailed ad nauseam in expose after expose: Charlie Savage’s “Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy” (now just let the full implication of that title sink in a moment), which uncovers Bush’s infamous abuse of “signing statements” to undermine the law; Eric Lichtblau’s “Bush’s Law: The Remaking of American Justice,” which exposes the foul evisceration of the Fourth Amendment through illegal, secret domestic wiretapping; Michael Isikoff and David Corn’s “Hubris,” Thomas Ricks’s “Fiasco,” and Vincent Bugliosi’s “The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,” revealing the blatant expansion of executive authority, lies, and manipulation that underlay the start of the Iraq War; Jeremy Scahill’s “Blackwater,” the frightening story of extra-legal mercenaries supported by the Bush administration in Iraq; and most recently Jane Mayer’s “The Dark Side,” telling the shameless story of how torture became the law of our land.

What more do we need? Abu Ghraib; Katrina; Walter Reed; politicization of the Justice Department through illegal, ideologically-based hiring practices; illegal firings of U.S. attorneys; the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson as vicious retribution for questioning the administration’s rationale for the Iraq War; stifling of NASA’s James Hansen from speaking out about global heating; committing contempt of Congress by ignoring subpoenas – the list goes on and on. The only thing missing, sad to say, is a good old-fashioned sex scandal. Speaker Pelosi’s supposed practical argument against impeachment would suddenly evaporate if Bush or Cheney were caught in some lurid indiscretion or - for example, can we even say it? – with child pornography. Then all of a sudden the great moral paladins of the political world would emerge from the shadows and fall over themselves to see these two impeached. Never mind impeachment for starting a war under false pretenses, in which tens of thousands have died needlessly and hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted; no, far worse for them to have been caught red-handed committing some sexual peccadillo. Such is the state of our conservative-fashioned morality today.

In the end, we have Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader Harry Reid, and a host of other Democrats to thank for handing over to President Bush with nary an eyeblink virtually unlimited power that would be the envy of any king, pharaoh, emperor, or dictator who has ever lived, all in the name of “national security.” Do we really have the right to impose our brand of “democracy” on places like Iraq – at the point of a gun – when it is being so obviously eroded right here at home? In this regard, the terrorists have already “won” this ill-defined “war.” They have made us meekly acquiesce in the dissolution of many of the values this country supposedly was founded upon and that have served as beacon lights to oppressed people throughout the world. Milquetoast Democrats have much to be accountable for in appeasing this lawless president and his lawless administration, and it seems to me Speaker Pelosi in particular could have done a lot more to prevent it. And cheers to Rep. Dennis Kucinich for having the courage to do what’s right

Nancy Pelosi says, "When the house has been set afire you don't worry about prosecuting the arsonist."

Thank you, thank you, Madame Speaker, for the perfect sense (which I have completely paraphrased) that you expressed on WBUR with Tom Ashbrook on July 30. That sense had escaped me in my anger.

Clearly it will take, and it deserves, a slowly achieved national consensus to decide how to make sure a bored criminal can never set the American house on fire again.

with all due respect to madam speaker Pelosi I have to say her tenure has been a huge disappointment. The Democrats act like whipping post more than an opposition.

Carl Rove is now officially being held in contempt of Congress. Will the Madam speaker respectfully have him arrested? I think not.

The impeachment of Vice President Cheney is highly in order.
While I am at it lets add David S. Addington, Alberto R. Gonzales, and Rumsfeld to the list of criminals.

I have to also suggest to the Democrats to look back to the Nixon era to get their mojo back.

It seems to me the only people who have a spine are congressmen such Dennis Kucinich.

Speaker Pelosi is in direct, flagrant of her oath of office, for refusing to investigate articles of impeachment of this highly corrupt, abusive white house. I would like to know if she intends to step down, or if she feels that she herself should be impeached for refusing to abide by her oath?

As for how I would rate her, I would say "Very poorly." Not only has she allowed a criminally corrupt white house to continue to abuse power and violate federal and constitutional laws, she has refused to carry forth a progressive agenda, not the least of which would be to end the illegal occupation of Iraq.

While I respect the position that the speaker has reached in her career, and commend her for breaking a significant glass ceiling, I feel that she has done a grand disservice, not only to women, not only to democrats and progressives, but to the entire nation and world. She has disgraced herself by refusing to carry out her oath of office, and for that, history will not be kind, I sincerely hope.

Pelosi is a partisan hack. She is the number one reason why congress rates in the single digits. End of story.

"Pelosi is a partisan hack."

This doesn't make any sense. If she were a "partisan hack," wouldn't she have brought impeachment forward, even without there being substantive evidence to support it?




"She is the number one reason why congress rates in the single digits. "

I would offer that the vast, unimaginable corruption of republicans, republican obstructionism, AND Pelosi/Reid's decision to refuse to hold this filthy corrupt white house accountable for their crimes have ALL contributed to this congress' abysmal approval ratings.

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