Tim Ryan beating Nancy Pelosi on 11/30 is exactly what we need!

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75. I am all for Tim Ryan (or someone new) for House Minority Leader.

Like the pick of Keith Ellison for DNC Chair.

Do not like Schumer for Senate Minority Leader.

I will never forgive Pelosi for taking the impeachment of GW Bush "off the table".

The House (and Senate) hearings would have revealed more about Iraq and related matters and in a more timely manner rather than what has occurred and now down the memory whole or irrelevant.

We would be much better off today as a country and as the Democratic party.

http://www.nytimes.com/cq/2006/11/08/cq_1916.html

Pelosi: Bush Impeachment `Off the Table’

By Susan Ferrechio
Published: November 8, 2006

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi promised Wednesday that when her party takes over, the new majority will not attempt to remove President Bush from office, despite earlier pledges to the contrary from others in the caucus.

“I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table,” Pelosi, D-Calif., said during a news conference.
Pelosi also said Democrats, despite complaining about years of unfair treatment by the majority GOP, “are not about getting even” with Republicans.
She said the GOP, which frequently excluded Democrats from conference committee hearings and often blocked attempts to introduce amendments, would not suffer similar treatment.

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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/07/10/pelosi_dems_couldve_impeached_bush_was_not_something_i_wanted_to_put_the_country_through.html

Pelosi: Dems Could've Impeached Bush, "Was Not Something I Wanted To Put The Country Through"

Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date July 10, 2014

REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): The argument against President Bush was about a president and an administration that sent us into a war based on a false representation of a threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That's a major accusation against the president, and I, myself, said that at the time. You know, in 2002 when the bill came up. The intelligence does not support the threat that the president -- not the president, his administration is contending.

Having said that, it's not about impeaching the president. It's about putting the country through that. I thought what the Republicans did to President Clinton was shameful, irresponsible, and wrong for the country. And what he did was stupid, but it had nothing to do with public policy and his office, his responsibility and his office.

I do think people could have made a case about President Bush, but I did not want to go down that path because of what it would mean for the American people. We've just tried to impeach -- well, we did impeach but did not remove from office one president in a very irresponsible manner in my view on the part of the Republicans in the House at the time.

And I thought it was time for us to address -- try to end that war, which we voted to do, and the president vetoed our bill, but to deal with it in a policy way rather than take us down that path. So, for even the Republicans now to be talking about suing the president, what are we talking about here? Let's get to work. We are legislators. They're not effective legislators, so they're changing the subject all the time.

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