Why has this petition to Nancy Pelosi only gotten 62 signatures??

[Maraya1969]

I feel like I am in Democratic country. Oh wait...yes I am. :argh:

Ask Speaker Pelosi to take a vote to "defund" the war or resign as Speaker of the House

62 Signatures

Created by Jenna Meighen on Oct 02, 2007
Category: Politics
Region: GLOBAL
Target: United States
Description/History:


Nancy Pelosi was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer on September 30th. During this interview she was ask as to why not use the power of the purse to stop the war. Her response:

“I wish the speaker had all the power you just describe. I certainly could do that. That doesn't bar the minority from bringing up a funding resolution. They have their parliamentary prerogative as well.

So what we have done is to send bills that limit the mission, to limit the time there, to redeploy the troops. And last week, I believe, was a turning point in the congressional debate on Iraq. I think we changed it going in by putting a bill on the president's desk.

Since May until now, we haven't been able to put something on the president's desk.”

We want her to stop making excuses about why there is no vote on (defunding) stopping the war. We want Speaker Pelosi to step up and do what she failed to do for 9 months.


Petition:


A vote on stopping the war is important to go into the record of history. A vote to end the "war" would place a statement that the American citizens do not find George Bush’s continuation of the occupation of Iraq acceptable. We need Speaker Pelosi to voice the feelings of the American Public and call an end to the occupation of Iraq. If she feels this action is useless, then we ask that Nancy Pelosi resign as Speaker of the House and allow someone to step up to the position who is not afraid to speak for the majority of American citizens.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/pelosi-do-your-job-or-resign.html

[Ken Burch]

1. ...A lot of people don't want to get on the bad side of the Speaker, I'd guess.

Unless somebody actually got the votes to depose her(and I don't see that happening soon), a lot of Democratic Congresscritters would see this as political suicide, guaranteeing they'd never get anything they wanted up for a vote as long as Pelosi stayed in the saddle.

That's my take, anyway.

[Maraya1969]

2. She needs a message sent to her. I am fairly sure she is not going anywhere

at least in the short while but she needs to see how many people are sooooo disgusted with her and the Dems in Washington and how wonderful they are at DOING NOTHING.

Now that jackass is actually vetoing children's health care and downright saying he doesn't want to "federalize it". Isn't that the platform that the Dems and some Repubs are running on? Health care as a freaking right as a citizen in this country!

[Buzz Clik]

3. A bill to stop all funding for the war would fail.

A bill the "end the war" would fail. The Democrats vote in overwhelming numbers to condemn MoveOn yet won't agree on non-binding resolutions against the war. Pelosi could introduce legislation to end the war, and it would be crushed.

Why are we blaming Pelosi?

[Bodhi BloodWave]

4. quite simple actually

Its human nature to want somebody to blame for trouble, by focusing it on one person there is no need to actually do something about the real reasons

[Buzz Clik]

7. That really sums it up. We could make a long, long list of people DU wrongly blame.

-- Rahm Emmanuel
-- Ralph Nader
-- Karl Rove
-- Harry Reid
-- Nance Pelosi
-- Hillary Clinton

etc etc etc

[redirish28]

5. The important thing is to have a Defunding vote to have for the record

Besides as Speaker of the house She can set the agenda for the house. She could have a vote EVERY WEEK even EVERY Day on defunding. BESIDES wasn't the reason we voted them into power to get us out of the war? Didn't they promise to stop it?

As Speaker she is the leader and should be setting an example and trying to live up to the promises.

[Bitwit1234]

6. I have come to the conclusion petitions don't matter

I have started calling the politican in DC.

[SaveElmer]

8. Because it is a stupid idea...

And apparently alot of people see it as that...

[robcon]

9. Let's see.. maybe a lot of people disagree with dumping Nancy????

I thought that would be obvious, but maybe just stating the obvious will be enough to answer the question.

[jmp]

10. On-line petitions get ignored. (nm)

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