Pelosi threatened Conyer's chairmanship if he pushed impeachment?

[Canuckistanian]

Is this true?

I just heard it on Thom Hartmann's show.

[Cant trust em]

1. I'm not too surprised by that.

Buck the leadership and find out what happens. Nancy's got to use something to get people to toe the line.

[Moochy]

5. "toe the line"

as opposed to "enforce the law"

[Canuckistanian]

6. Actually, I just found truth2tell's post on this subject

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3432742

[CountAllVotes]

9. thanks for the link ...

it has that bizarro mafioso odor to it.

i.e. it stinks to high heavens and the smell ain't good!

:kick: !!

[mikelgb]

2. That's it I want a fucking leadership vote in the house

time for a coup

blue dogs can keep on humping bush's leg

[leftofcool]

4. Me too and it looks like we didn't get it in 2006

[Cant trust em]

8. "blue dogs can keep on humping bush's leg"

Awesome.

[Freddie Stubbs]

11. Kucinich has the power to make a prilvedged motion to declare the office of Speaker vacant

Does have have the balls to do it?

[mikelgb]

16. Please Explain. I am not informed on ousting a Speaker...

[Freddie Stubbs]

19. Nancy Pelosi is currently the Speaker

Any member may make a motion declaring that the office of Speaker is vacant. If passed, Pelosi would no longer be Speaker. A vacancy in the Speakership would require a vote to elect a new Speaker.

[rocktivity]

3. I heard it on Randi's show quite a while ago.

I still say that Bush is holding something over her--possibly something that he can turn into complicity?

:headbang:
rocknation

[Canuckistanian]

7. Randi said they ARE complicit

Because they've probably all been briefed on every detail.

By not saying anything at the time of the briefing, that spells complicity.

[Wizard777]

12. We have a fox in the hen house. That much is for sure.

As for the Congressional group the Bush administration met with and made privy to his spying and interogation policies. That meeting was TOP SECRET along with anything discussed in it. They were threatened with prosecution if they divulged anything from the meeting. This was at a time that the Republicans would scream TREASON if you even suggested the possibility that Iraq did not have WMD's. So their silence was the result of extreme duress from threat of legal peril. Lets not forget that.

[Freddie Stubbs]

10. BS. She doesn't have the power to remove him

It would take a majority of the House to do that. Is John Conyers afraid of the majority of the House?

[EFerrari]

14. Do a majority of House Dems want to cross Pelosi?

I don't think so.

It also seems unlikely to me that she made this threat. She doesn't need to.

[Freddie Stubbs]

20. She serves at their pleasure

A majority can remove her at any time.

[EFerrari]

21. In the same way it can impeach the President? n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

22. Yes, IF that is what the majority wants to do

So far, the majority has not shown any inclination to do either.

[EFerrari]

24. Which shows how out of step those inclinations are with their electorates. n/t

[Freddie Stubbs]

25. So far, only one Democrat in the House has lost his primary this year

In fact, Nancy Pelosi won her primary by a landslide against an opponent who ran TV and radio ads about impeachment.

[DogPoundPup]

13. Read ...Aug. 2007 Slate.com article...The Heart of Queens

http://www.slate.com/id/2172547/nav/tap1/

[DogPoundPup]

15. Speaker Must Be Removed For Her Illegal Position on Impeachment Investigation

The Constitution does not delegate any power to the Speaker to decide impeachment issues. That power was only delegated to the House of Representatives.

Speaker Pelosi is confused. She is (for now) Speaker, not the Constitutionally recognized chamber. The Speaker has no power to impeach; and no legal authority to compel the House not to investigate and not to debate articles of impeachment.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/

[Canuckistanian]

18. Thanks

Oh, by Bruce Fein, too. He's one of those rare "sane conservatives" who still believe in quaint things like the Constitution.

[goodhue]

17. that was last year I believe

[Cleita]

23. One more person to phone, email and snail mail, Nancy Pelosi.

Remind her that impeding justice and the Judiciary Committee in doing their job during an election year, where she is being challenged by two other candidates, could be political suicide for her.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. I heard that he was offered the Chairmanship only if he didn't pursue Impeachment.