By Louise, June 12 at 9:04 am #
I once had great respect for Nancy Pelosi. She had the courage to draw a line in the sand. Challenge the repub controlled congress. Demand explanations for dishonesty and blatant abuse of power. That line defined her. But that was then and this is now and Nancy busily brushes till no sign of the line remains. Confident control in November is a sure thing, so the “distraction” of real accountability, holds no account.
Hoyer tells us “we are holding him accountable” and we search in vain to find one example of Bush accounting. “We have held a lot of hearings.” And the reality of how little things have changed in spite of those hearings, assaults our reality. He says the administration has one of the worst, if not the absolute worst record, then reminds us the Democrats have conducted wide-ranging oversight. And we remind him, we too have been looking on as this goes on and on.
Hoyer asks does it make sense spending time on impeachment in “the waning months” of the Bush administration? Should we reply of course not, how many more will die anyway?
Does that make it OK?
Does our candidate for president still talk about “the urgency of now” these days?
A few courageous representatives have decided to honor their oath to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic, and stand against the orders of “not now, not ever” from dem leadership. Kucinich is running for re-election too you know. But he’s placed his concern for preserving Constitutional Law above preserving his warm seat in a cuddly congress. Do you suppose the rest of them get it?
A few do and one at least besides Kucinich, has the courage to tell us so. Congressman Robert Wexler (D-Fla.)
Meanwhile we stand dumbfounded. Not by the offensive march of cowardice, but that apparently many representatives elevated to the Committee of the Judicial have already judged, and found they really don’t want to bother. We too judge. And we find they as well as Bush, need to face accounting.
Who would have thought, as we suffered through the final days of the Bush administration, even the right guys on the left side of the aisle would chose to look the other way?
Who would have thought, the day would come when Bush’s former spokesman would look more like someone coming to the rescue than the democrat pillars in congress?
Who would have thought, that to see honest resolve peeking through a crack in the armor we might suggest the body congress, look at the credible, incredible Mr. McClellan for an example of courage? A man who has decided better now than never.
Who ever would have thought?To show the party cares more about getting out of Iraq than how we got there, dem leaders waste capital holding down their people on impeachment. Yet the war goes on and efforts to end it look more like efforts to keep it going, and we rarely hear it mentioned anymore. Except when McCain tells us it’s simply splendid.
And last night, another eight names - killed in Iraq - rolled down the screen on PBS.
When WILL US troops come home? “That’s not too important” McCain tells us. Demonstrating his capacity to see nothing, not even life and death as “too important.” But he is a republican after all.
What explains the democrats?
Kucinich himself made the motion to send his Articles of Impeachment to the committee, saying his detailed allegations should be weighed in a hearing. He said that if Judiciary does not schedule a hearing, he will introduce a longer version of his Bush impeachment resolution in 30 days, and again 30 days after that.
Will Judiciary hold a hearing? I don’t know, lets ask them:
http://judiciary.house.gov/Meanwhile kudos to Kucinich, and raspberries to leaders and followers who hold each other up because they cant stand on their principles anymore. They need to know, we’re not paying for their crutches, and they are there only because we gave them PERMISSION to be!
That can change.
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