Reply #49: We might be better served if the Speaker were silent on the issue of impeachment

[Jack Rabbit]

Everybody knows that both Bush and Cheney are targets for impeachment and that the only real question is not whether either of them have committed impeachable offenses, but whether enough Republicans will be honest enough to admit it. One who saya that Bush or Cheney did not manipulate intelligence to fabricate a case for war against Iraq or that Cheney did not conspire to unmask a covert agent or that Bush was unaware of Justice Department schemes to remove honest US Attorneys and replace then with voter-caging hacks has no more credibility than one who says that the Earth is flat and motionless.

This raises a not very remote possibility that, for the first time in US history, the Speaker of the House will be elevated to the presidency.

Ms. Pelosi cannot keep this thing bottled up any longer. Impeachment is on the table as of this weekend. She have to learn to live with it although it puts her in an awkward position. She cannot be seen to be coveting the presidency. Frankly, I doubt she wants to be president. She would much rather spend her twilight years looking after grandchildren and great-grandchildren than looking after lunatics like Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Nevertheless, she can object until she's blue in the face, few will believe her denials of aspiring to power.

So it will be up to Conyers and Waxman and committee chairs to lead the assault.

Let the games begin.