by Jim Meyers
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has dropped a bombshell by reversing course and suggesting that the Judiciary Committee might take up the issue of impeaching President Bush.
Pelosi’s change of heart comes after Rep. Dennis Kucinich moved a “privileged resolution” to force the House to consider whether Bush should be impeached for, according to the Ohio Democrat, lying to Congress and the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq.
Pelosi had previously declared impeachment to be “off the table” before the 2006 election. But she now believes hearings on the impeachment issue are “a distinct possibility,” according to The Nation magazine.
Pelosi told reporters on Thursday: “My expectation is that there will be some review of that in the committee. This is a Judiciary Committee matter, and I believe we will see some attention being paid to it by the Judiciary Committee.”
Rep. John Conyers, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the committee, has said he is reviewing the articles of impeachment Kucinich has proposed. Previously he had felt constrained by the Speaker’s “off the table” comment.
“Whether her new line opens the door for hearings before the end of the Bush-Cheney presidency remains to be seen,” The Nation observes.
Two members of the Judiciary Committee, Florida Democrat Robert Wexler and Wisconsin Democrat Tammy Baldwin, have co-sponsored Kucinich’s articles of impeachment.
Kucinich told Fox News on Friday: “I think the Republicans were basically daring the Democrats to move forward with it, sensing that there were some in the Democratic leadership who, at the time, had no stomach for a real debate.
“But I think that's changed, and I think it's changed because the war grinds on.”
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What you said - government operating on a mixture of consent and faith hedged by fear, is the front side smoke and mirrors job. There is a similar job going on at the back side, but it is one that the people generally are not allowed to see. Just like the people cower before their government, their government cowers before those whom they fear, but the people are generally not allowed to be aware of this.
The sweet spot of Lindsey Wagner's revelations comes during part 6 of 8..... this is 9 minutes and 51 seconds standing between you and the truth of why your government cannot tell you the truth behind the national debt and the collapsing dollar. He explains why we are not allowed to be aware of what, and at who's behest, our government truly fears. Is there any truth in what he says? Obviously there is. Is there truth in all that he says? I dunno, but the truths that he speaks which are evident certainly are compelling ..... "they will make up any reason they can think of to convince us that Iran must be dealt with EXCEPT the one they don't want you to know.... many other nations have a nuclear bomb... why aren't they going after North Korea, or Israel or China. Why only Iran?.....".
The sweet spot in in part 6 but there are a few additional tasty morsels in the closing part 8. Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbwMOvV6ctg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC61X78-OI0&feature=related
It was clearly spelled out for us in the founding of our country. It is, in the vision of our founders, not only our right but our patriotic duty:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government . . ."