Raw Story: Radio Hosts Slam Top Dems For Reluctance To Consider Impeachment (David Swanson Quoted)

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Radio hosts slam top Democrats for reluctance to consider impeachment
Jason Rhyne
Published: Monday October 15, 2007

Reid: Impeachment is a 'foolish idea;' Pelosi doesn't see justification

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) -- the top Democratic leaders from each of their respective chambers of Congress -- are drawing fire for a pair of recent radio appearances in which they reiterated their opposition to pursuing the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

In an interview Oct. 9 with nationally syndicated liberal radio host Ed Schultz, Pelosi defended previous statements in which she had promised that "impeachment was off the table."

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Brown, however, who shot back on-air that "respectfully, I disagree and I know there are a lot of people that do," told RAW STORY that she couldn't grasp Reid's "strange thinking."

"It just seems to me that they've already made their mind up that impeachment isn't an option," she said of Reid and other Democrats, like Pelosi, that brush off even the notion of impeachment. "We just hear a lot of excuses all the time," Brown said, citing Reid's insistence on her program that the trappings of an impeachment would be an unneeded distraction that served little effective purpose in the waning days of Bush's final term.

"None of these arguments stand up," she continued. "You have to do what's right...I think Americans want to see some accountability, and we're now being told that we're foolish to even consider it. It seems like is looking for every reason not to get rid of this president."

'It's all about '08'

The logic, Brown says, doesn't play out. She theorizes that "maybe they think that having Bush in power is going to help them with their numbers in 2008."

According to impeachment activist David Swanson, that's precisely the reason. Co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org , and the Washington director of Democrats.com and ImpeachPAC.org, Swanson believes that reluctance among Democratic leaders has nothing to do with the a lack of justification for drafting impeachment articles and everything to do with politics.

"The Bush Administration is throwing out impeachable offense after impeachable offense," Swanson said. He counts Bush's "refusal to honor subpoenas," frequent signing statements and controversial intelligence gathering techniques as part of a roster of administration actions that warrant impeachment.

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I fail to understand the stupidity of so many - Impeachment should be the next step PERIOD! This man has been getting away with anything and everything for way too long and he continues with few roadblocks to his movements. Shame on this country!

Talk about a "foolish idea."

It's got to cause some mental illness to have been in such dire need of Cranial-Rectoscopy for a full six years.

But Madame Squeaker's no better with her bizarre statement:
So, she would choose NOT to enable torture and war crimes if only it were NOT her duty to do so.

Sure, why would opposing torture and challenging monarchical, "Unitary" power bring the American People together?

It's not like the "vision of our founders" included freedom from warrantless searches or adherence to treaty obligations.

On the other hand, they did use those exact words. So, mileage may vary.

Failure to impeach is complicity -- approval -- exoneration of the regime.

We allow it at our peril. (Especially Dem party peril in '08.)

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