Speaker Pelosi’s Fear of the Presidency

Do the Democrats want to win the 2008 Presidential election? Of course they do, and unfortunately, that is a major reason Speaker Pelosi has taken “impeachment off the table.” It appears the Democrats are playing politics with our lives, knowing that if nothing changes course, Iraq will be in as bad, if not worse shape by the time the 2008 Presidential elections take place; if George W. Bush is still mired in Iraq, the Democrats can claim it was all his fault, which to a large part it is, and guarantee that a Democrat will win the elections in 2008.

It’s actually a well thought-out strategy, however, Speaker Pelosi “assumes” that by 2008, we won’t be in a full-scale war with Iran – which would allow the Bush administration to declare Martial Law and effectively quash any further action by Congress – which would effectively halt any further elections until martial law (sic) was lifted. Further, the economic damage that Bush is subjecting the United States to has us on the path to bankruptcy – we are cutting vital educational programs, health care, you name it, and the people of America are suffering and paying for a war that our grandchildren with be indebted for at our current rate of spending. What about Social Security and Medicare? We are looking at the economic collapse of the country if we don’t step-in and stop the madness – and finally, Speaker Pelosi is being pressed hard to change her stance on impeachment:

Pelosi pressed to put impeachment back on table

04/25/2007 @ 8:27 am

Filed by Michael Roston

When the California Democratic Convention begins this weekend, party progressives both inside and outside the San Diego Convention Center will be pressing hard to bring impeachment back on the table as a means of holding the presidency of George W. Bush accountable for crimes they allege have been committed since 2001.

"I've been blown away by the response. People are wanting to organize and rally behind one single thing at the convention, and that's impeachment," said Joye Swan of the Progressive Caucus of the California Democratic Party, who is helping lead an effort to pass a resolution expressing the California Democratic Party's support for impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

But the fight will be complicated by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's unwillingness to hear their message and the encouragement that her stance may give opponents of the impeachment measure within the California Democratic Party leadership.

Pro-impeachment actions planned

The 2007 California Democratic Convention kicks off on Friday, and its agenda shows there is a lot of ground to cover. But a significant number of activists are eager to make the impeachment of the President a focal point of activity.

"Be it Resolved, that George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney, by such conduct, warrant impeachment and trial, and removal from office and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States," reads a resolution that Swan, a Democratic delegate from California's 42nd Assembly District in Los Angeles, will introduce, with the hopes it will be adopted as the party's position.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Californians_prepare_to_confront_Pelosi_Democrats_0425.html

Speaker Pelosi further stated:

"I totally oppose the impeachment of the President," she explained to RAW STORY on Tuesday. "We have to use our energies to end this war. I don't think the popular support is there for such a move, I don't think we can get any Republican votes to move forward."

Pelosi added, "In some ways, it's a wonderful advocacy piece for those who want to use it outside, to express rejection of the President's policies, but from the standpoint of the time of the Congress of the United States, the American people are with us in ending the war and that's what they want us to do."

I have to disagree with Speaker Pelosi, and I do believe the popular support IS there to successfully  impeach Bush/Cheney  – and once the nation is advised just how many Americans do support impeachment on both sides of the isle, the tide would turn drastically! The MSM does not express the true will of the people and actually plays-down the calls for impeachment that reverberate throughout the United States – and the Democrats are complicit in the deception of America, simply because right now, even they don’t want the Presidency!

If Bush/Cheney were impeached simultaneously, Speaker Pelosi would ascend to the Presidency – and immediately be in charge of getting us out of Iraq. That in itself is the reason “impeachment if off the table” – because then “President Pelosi” would have to effectuate a redeployment of our troops in a manner that would have the least impact for the citizens of Iraq, and guaranteeing that our redeployment would not allow Iraq to fall into the hands of Al Queda. Bush hasn’t figured out how to correct the quagmire he created in Iraq, and neither have the Democrats; We know there will be an upsurge of sectarian violence when we leave, and which way the country will swing politically is anyone’s guess – but most analysts see the emergence of a government that is sympathetic, if not downright supportive of the Iranians. 

Iraq is not a situation that will rectify itself by the time the 2008 Presidential elections roll around, no matter who is in charge – and the Democrats fear they would be blamed for the carnage, effectively placing a Republican in the Presidency in 2008. It will take years if not decades to repair the damage the Bush administration has wrought upon America, and while the future may be rocky, the country is tired of “politics” and now we expect action – not broken promises or a failure to act because the future is so uncertain. The strategy is one of cowardice - refusing to accept the responsibility that America bestowed on the Democrats in the 2006 elections – and if Speaker Pelosi refuses to honor the will of the people, it’s possible that a Republican may still win in 2008, simply because the electorate is tired of broken promises and politicians that place “politics” above the welfare of “we the people” who voted them into their positions of leadership.