For economy's sake, Pelosi needs to push for impeachment now -- Rochelle Riley

[Bozita]

http://www.freep.com/article/20081125/COL10/81125018

For economy's sake, Pelosi needs to push for impeachment now
BY ROCHELLE RILEY • FREE PRESS COLUMNIST • NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s ineffectiveness became clear the day she became Speaker of the House and immediately announced that there would be no impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.

Guided by politics, she said leading investigations into just how much the Bush administration did – and did wrong – would be divisive. What she didn’t express was her worry that too many Democrats faced elimination from the House if they took on the difficult task of proving who knew what, when.

But Congress is running out of time to finally make the Bush administration own up to its actions for eight years. If Congress isn’t careful, the president who already has issued 171 pardons could also pardon every appointee and employee he has ever had – and their dogs. And then Americans will never find out what happened to our country over the past eight years.

Pelosi wouldn’t have to start from scratch: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the bravest member of Congress, introduced legislation 11 months ago to impeach the president and vice president. Last January, the House gave a first reading of one of those articles of impeachment. Our own Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, joined 38 other representatives to sponsor HR 635, which would form a committee to look into whether there are grounds for impeachment. Revive that effort!

Last week, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, submitted a resolution demanding that Bush stop issuing “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”

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[pnwmom]

1. Nobody could stop Bush from pardoning his administration immediately,

if he felt threatened by the possibility of impeachment. He could do it in the time it takes to sign a single document.

[Old Codger]

2. BUT

He cannot pardon himself or anyone else who is under impeachment.. She won't so it and she should lose her job along with useless reid .... :grr:

[Richardo]

3. Rochelle is embarrassing herself

She sounds like a GD regular, though.