Nadler Is Blocking Impeachment

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Nadler Is Blocking Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on January 23, 2008 - 9:01pm. ImpeachForChange
By David Swanson

A private off-the-record meeting was held on Capitol Hill on Wednesday that included House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Subcommittee on the Constitution Chairman Jerrold Nadler, Judiciary Committee Member and advocate for opening Cheney impeachment hearings Robert Wexler, and several other committee members, activists, staffers, and former staffers from the Watergate days. I wasn't there, so I'm free to talk about what happened.

Wexler proposed opening impeachment hearings on Cheney. Conyers committee staffer Perry Appelbaum laid out instead a schedule for non-impeachment hearings over the coming 11 months. Conyers' notion is to hold non-impeachment hearings on "the imperial presidency" and run out the clock. I guess that would be sort of like a dozen police officers paying a non-arresting visit to the home of a mass murderer. Seriously? An "imperial" president, and you don't impeach him, and you don't retire or commit suicide? This baffles me.

Now, there are topics that have not been touched in congressional investigations over the past 12 months, such as the Iraq war lies. But a lot of the other topics have already been gone over, just absent the I word. What will differentiate the new non-impeachment hearings from the past year's worth of non-impeachment hearings? Of course, getting witnesses to show up and testify would be a change, but without impeachment, nothing will compel any witnesses to testify who have previously refused.

more at:
http://www.democrats.com/node/15492

[fascisthunter]

1. Well... There's Our Democratic Party

all their outrage at Bush and the GOP will be weighed by their cowardice and maybe even complicity in not impeaching either Bush or Cheney. So from here on out, to those in our Party who express dislike and outrage at the Bush Administration, forever hold your tongue, because words are meaningless unless they are backed up by action.

Note to Democrats: You let them do what they have done, and when you had the chance to stop them, you did nothing but make up excuses. We now know you are OWNED!

[midnight]

2. Some information I found interesting: The last sentence

begs the question of why? Why is he blocking the law to impeach? http://www.house.gov/nadler/biography.shtml

Congressman Nadler was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1992 after serving for 16 years in the New York State Assembly. He was re-elected to his seventh full term in 2004 with a resounding 80 percent of the vote. Throughout his career he has championed civil rights, civil liberties, efficient transportation, and a host of progressive issues such as access to health care, support for the arts and protection of the Social Security system. He is considered an unapologetic defender of those who might otherwise be forgotten by American law or the economy

[Possumpoint]

3. Maybe

he should read the 935 reasons why he should change his mind.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Story already in GD here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2753494&mesg_id=2753494

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5. If this it true - it proves JOHN CONYERS is a fucking LIAR...

he's lost any suppor I've ever had for him...

he's another daschle - good riddance to him...

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6. K&R The old-timers like Nadler and Conyers are poisoning ...

... the political waters, and We the People are forced to drink it. For now, anyway!