Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) is quoted as saying he gets “one call after another” ....to impeach

[Flabbergasted]

the president, but he goes on to say impeachment would be “a very divisive thing…and at this point I don’t see that happening.”


April 6, 2007 at 10:45:09

Impeachment's Back in the News

by Dave Lindorff

http://www.opednews.com





You’d have to call it progress when impeachment, which for almost a year has been a banned word in the corporate media and the halls of Congress, starts being discussed as a serious matter, even if it is only to say that it shouldn’t be done.


In an April 5 article, the Washington Times interviewed several members of Congress, noting along the way that Congressional Democrats report that “constituents are clamoring” for impeachment of the president.


Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) is quoted as saying he gets “one call after another” calling on him to impeach the president, but he goes on to say impeachment would be “a very divisive thing…and at this point I don’t see that happening.”



Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), one of the House’s most liberal members, reportedly calls impeachment pointless and a distraction from the presidential election.


Diane Watson (D-CA), another of the most liberal members of Congress, says she gets calls for impeachment from every crowd she speaks to, and says that while she would support impeachment herself, it’s “not a strategy our new leadership would want to start with.”


That comment, of course, really gets to the heart of it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), has for almost a year been hammering home her opposition to impeachment, saying repeatedly that it is “off the table” and (as she said again last week on NBC’s “Meet the Press”) that “Democrats are not about impeachment.”


Pelosi has enforced her will on this issue by not so subtly threatening pro-impeachment members of the Democratic caucus with loss of desired committee assignments or even committee chair postings--likely the reason that a leading impeachment advocate in 2004-6, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), has for months retreated into an embarrassed silence on the issue.


Lately, however, there are signs that even Conyers, whose obeisance got him the chairmanship of the House Judiciary Committee that should have been his by virtue of seniority alone, is chafing a bit at Pelosi’s strictures.


http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_dave_lin_070406_impeachment_s_back_i.htm

[WiseButAngrySara]

1. "I don’t see that happening” It needs to happen! Past time. ....n/t

[Bluerthanblue]

3. "If you build it -they will come". believing is seeing in this case- ...eom

[Sherman A1]

2. I would love to see it, but perhaps

Murtha is right on this issue. The investigations will continue and at this point (and I suspect from now on) The Esteemed Mr. Bush will not be able to buy a good headline. He is just marking time now until his term ends.