Ms. Pelosi, if impeachment is off the table, so is re-election.

seafan

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Thu Dec-13-07 04:53 PM
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Ms. Pelosi, if impeachment is off the table, so is re-election.

Edited on Thu Dec-13-07 05:02 PM by seafan

It has been one year since we, the voters, sent you Democrats back to Washington, DC to take majority control of both houses of Congress.

We had high expectations of you, The People's Representatives.

We wanted you to get us out of Bush's illegal invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq.

We wanted you to examine the myriad ways this Executive and his Vice President have deceived the American people and to take action to stop them from further destruction of the US Constitution and behaving as dictators.

After one year of taking majority control of both Houses of Congress in 2006, what do you have to show for it?

Bush is wiretapping our electronic communications, telephone calls and opening our mail with impunity. You have not stopped him.

Bush is pouring billions more of our taxpayer money into the bloody mess in Iraq. You have not stopped him.

Bush created over a thousand "signing statements" to bypass Congressional legislation in order to rule as a despot. You have not stopped him.

Bush/Cheney deliberately lied about nonexistent weapons in Iraq, so that Americans would not object when he proclaimed that he wanted to invade that country. Now, he is beating bellicose drums to invade Iran, in the face of no ongoing program in Iran to develop nuclear weapons. You have not stopped him.

Bush/Cheney repudiate our troops by cutting their pay, slashing their health benefits, ignoring their injuries and sending them on repeated deployments into harm's way. You have not stopped him.

Bush/Cheney have emptied out our Treasury in the biggest heist in our history, giving our treasure to his cronies, while Americans suffer terribly in our country from the aftermath of Katrina, from poverty, from substandard education, and denial of basic health care. You have not stopped him.

Bush/Cheney violate international law by ordering human torture of prisoners, after first stripping them of any and all rights to face their accusers and view the evidence against them. You have not stopped him.

A look at a few headlines of the past two days:

After losing spending battle, Pelosi points to 2008 election, December 13, 2007

Congressional Democrats have lost their end-of-the-year showdown with President Bush, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) countered Thursday that the House succeeded in showing what Democrats can do, and would do, if a Democrat were in the White House.

�We signaled change. We made a difference,� Pelosi said. �Now, in order to get more done � we can get some of it done this year � but we need a Democratic president.�

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On Iraq in particular, Pelosi acknowledged at her Thursday news conference she�d misjudged the resolve of Republicans.

�They like this war,� she said. �They want this war to continue. That was a revelation to me. I had thought they would listen to their constituents and change their position.�

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Democrats Blaming Each Other For Failures, December 13, 2007

When Democrats took control of Congress in January, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to jointly push an ambitious agenda to counter 12 years of Republican control.

Now, as Congress struggles to adjourn for Christmas, relations between House Democrats and their colleagues in the Senate have devolved into finger-pointing.

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Reid, in turn, has taken to the Senate floor to criticize what he called the speaker's "iron hand" style of governance.

Democrats in each chamber are now blaming their colleagues in the other for the mess in which they find themselves. The predicament caused the majority party yesterday surrender to President Bush on domestic spending levels, drop a cherished renewable-energy mandate and move toward leaving a raft of high-profile legislation, from addressing the mortgage crisis to providing middle-class tax relief, undone or incomplete.

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This bill passed yesterday in the US House of Representatives:

H RES 847 YEA-AND-NAY 11-Dec-2007 7:02 PM

BILL TITLE: Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith.

Ms. Pelosi, it is painfully apparent that your "iron hand" is inadequate.

As George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney drive our country into the ground, the ONE TOOL YOU HAVE TO STOP THEM, YOU REFUSE TO WIELD.

It's not that you 'do not have the votes'.

It's that you do not have the courage.