Impeach Pelosi?

[FlyingSquirrel]

The petition to remove Pelosi is nice and everything, but don't we already have one with 250,000+ asking for hearings? Screw this. She is complicit, she is also sworn to protect the Constitution and she has violated that oath.

[ColbertWatcher]

1. No. k+r n/t

[Swamp Rat]

2. She swore to uphold the U.S. Constitution.

[Dark]

3. She is a fine Democrat. She has helped mitigate the last two years of Bush.

What do you expect? An instant transformation?

Impeachment, if it happened, would lose in the senate.

Meaning Bush would be absolved of his crimes. He would leave the Senate with an acquittal.

How is that holding him accountable?

/Not to mention the seats lost in the election.
//And the four more years of Bush policy with McCain.

[DJ13]

6. I think the problem is her publicly stating no impeachment

She shouldnt take that stand as the Dem leader of the House.

Using her position to influence the House members on a matter of defending the Constitution shouldnt be acceptable.

[FlyingSquirrel]

15. Was Clinton "absolved of his crimes" or did he leave with a stain on his record?

No pun intended. You have no way of knowing whether the Senate would actually acquit. But even if he was acquitted, it would be nice to show the world that we at least TRIED and that we still believe in our own Constitution.

[RB TexLa]

4. There is no impeachment process for members of Congress.

[L. Coyote]

5. That won't stop the Dem bashers. I say tombstone them!

Let them go back to the freeper boards.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Sorry to say this, but she is not doing her job

and she is not because of the secret prison tour of 2002

Facts is not bashing

[L. Coyote]

12. She is doing her job. People disagree on how she should do her job

and that is no excuse for the sort of innuendo a Pat Robertson uses.

There are a bunch of disruptive posters here going outside the bounds of reason.
I'm taking exception to their bashings, not to the facts.
For example, fact is you can't impeach a Congress person.

[DJ13]

16. My oops N/T

[Swamp Rat]

17. ME TOO!!

SEND THEM TO SIBERIA!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. You cannot impeach a member of congress... or the senate

you can only vote them out

Now this is california, and a recall of a FEDERAL official has never been tried, and I can bet it would end in the USSC

[Patchuli]

10. Whatever, she can be sent HOME!

That's what the original Revolution was fought for and by God, I can refuse to pay the salary of a official who does not do my bidding.

[MonkeyFunk]

14. only by failing to reelect her or having expelled from the house

and she'll handily win re-election and she'll never be expelled.

How you guys can hate Pelosi with such passion and love Obama and Howard Dean, who share the same position she does, is just insane.

[Patchuli]

24. I don't hate a soul on this planet,

Mr. Funk. Not even *. I am sadly disappointed in Ms. Pelosi, however. It's not Obama's place to do a thing about her, either at this point in time.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Legally you can vote her out

her challenger didn't even get 12%

People bitch and moan but they don't vote for challengers

Incidentally mine got 10%

That is the only way that legally you can send her home, and I am all but pleased with Madam Speaker

So be ready to vote against her if you live in her district, or donate heavily to challengers, or she retires

[Patchuli]

25. I don't live in her district

but I am very pleased with Mike Thompson who is my Congressman after his 'Yea' vote on DK's Resolution.

[Freddie Stubbs]

23. She just won her primary 89%-11% last week

In the November, there are only joke candidates running against her:

[rwenos]

11. It's Been Tried -- Unsuccessfully

There was a move to "recall" Dianne Feinstein when she was first elected to the Senate. Outcome: the big Zip. The CONSTITUTION sets the only requirements for federal office. The California constitution, which includes the recall mechanism, has NO APPLICABILITY.

When the initiative backers heard that (it was in 1992, I believe), they dropped their effort.

The Framers set up the House so elections would be only every two years -- the only realistic remedy, short of the House voting to remove a member, is voting them out of office.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. EXACTLY , either that or they retire or they die while in office

now I think that if that was tried again, it would end in the USSC...

By the way... on a logistics matter, do you have an extra million? That is what it takes on average to do this.

[Patchuli]

9. Hell YES!

If she won't respect and uphold the Constitution she SWORE to uphold, send her the hell home!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[opihimoimoi]

13. No.... she is doing what she thinks is best for the Dem Party

Too many negs distracts from the real focus....get the White House to turn Blue

[seemslikeadream]

18. She can not be impeached but

if she is complicit in war crimes then what?

oh and btw she has no constitutional power to stop impeachment

[ColbertWatcher]

21. Exactly.

She only said impeachment is off the table, as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Remember when she said she voted for John Murtha to be Majority Leader?

Remember?

She knows that as Speaker, she has to be "above the fray" and that other Congressmen/women will vote the way they want.

Hell, as far as I can see, no one has yet to vote for or against impeachment.

Yet.

[bowens43]

22. she hasn't violated any oath, she has done nothing unlawful.

she is complicit in nothing.