PELOSI CLASHES WITH IMPEACHMENT PROTESTERS

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By Jason Leopold and Alan Breslauer

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's appearance Wednesday at a West Los Angeles college to discuss her recently published book was marred by dozens of protestors and several angry outbursts by audience members who demanded Pelosi immediately authorize a House committee to hold impeachment hearings against President George W. Bush.

The Speaker made it clear she would not support any effort to hold impeachment hearings against President Bush saying that the president "will be gone in a hundred days."

Halfway through her discussion at The American University of Judaism, where more than 300 people paid $30 each to hear Pelosi speak about her upbringing and her family's impact on her political career as detailed in her book Know Your Power: A Message to America’s Daughters, the topic shifted to Congress's historically low approval rating and how it reflected on Pelosi’s tenure as Speaker.

American University of Judaism's Rabbi Robert Wexler, who led the 75 minute interview, asked Pelosi to analyze a recent Rasmussen poll that found nine percent of individuals polled believed Congress was doing a good job, far lower than President Bush's overall approval rating.

Pelosi responded by defending her performance and the performance of her Democratic colleagues in Congress.

"I preside over the greatest collection of integrity and idealism," Pelosi said.

Get the entire story, including many more remarkable quotes, at http://pubrecord.org/nationworld/1-nationworld/255-pelosi-clashes-with-protesters-over-impeachment.html

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[Freddie Stubbs]

30. DU is not a place to work for the defeat of Democratic candidates

Nancy Pelosi won her primary against a pro-impeachment Democrat by an 89%-11% margin. Apperently San Fransisco Democrats are a tad to moderate for your taste.

[peace13]

51. It is our obligation to speak out against those who do not protect the Constitution.

Sorry about your luck. She does not just represent SF at this point. You do understand the she is Speaker of all of our House now don't you.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Excellent. Fuck Speaker Pelosi and her "book tour."

:patriot:

[fascisthunter]

3. everyone of those democrats clapping for Pelosi is a fucking moron, and

a weak human being.

[Enrique]

26. they're not morons, and neither are the protestors

just people who disagree with each other.

[fascisthunter]

35. oh sorry... those clapping are enablers

[reichstag911]

55. When people hold an *opinion* or *belief*...

...wholly unsupported by actual facts, as those applauding Pelosi are/were, they are fucking morons.

[Enrique]

56. you don't know anything about their opinioins or beliefs

all you know is that they'd rather hear Pelosi speak than the protestors yell.

[madeline_con]

4. the president "will be gone in a hundred days."

That's just sorry. She sux.

[bjobotts]

10. hopefully she will go with him.The constitution is just a piece of paper to her

[bjobotts]

11. Only be remebered as the speaker who refused to imeach the most corrupt unpopula pres. in history

[bjobotts]

12. 2yrs of ignoring the voters because she didn't want to be bothered

[petgoat]

15. She's the one that makes the Constitution just a piece of paper.

When Bush defies the Constitution, it still exists.

When she refuses to hold him to the law, SHE destroys the Constitution.

[chervilant]

24. And, did you notice her angry assertion that

SHE "presides over the greatest collection of integrity and idealism"?!? How dare she make such an indefensible assertion?!?

[bdamomma]

29. and so will all his crimes be just forgotten, no way should this

regime be let off the hook for all the crimes that they have committed. Just disgusting.

[Mad_Dem_X]

32. True, he'll be gone in a hundred days, but

the effects of his criminal "presidency" will be felt for decades to come! Does she care *nothing* about this nation's future? Holy crap...

[BRLIB]

36. By that logic, the child rapist and murderer will be gone

someday (natural causes, whatever), so why bother to prosecute?

The bank president, who raided the vaults of the customer's life savings, is retiring next year. So why prosecute?

After all, not every breaking of the law is a crime, right?

[tekisui]

37. It's actually 160, unless she knows something we don't.

[usdemfolk]

47. She knows that the president can enforce marshall law

if in a national emergency which in return can cancel or suspend the constitution and cut government in half if he deems necessary. If he's impeached he'll prob nuke Iran and they'll retalliate with the same action giving him more power. I fuckin hate politicians, but another revolution will never happen because people now a days are conditioned like sheep.

[KillgoreTrout]

43. Justice, Anyone?

Yeah, that was pretty lame. Having bush gone is only part of the need for impeachment. We must send a message to future presidents that Congress does have the power to impeach and in fact is duty bound to do so when the executive branch abuses it's powers. This is also about justice for the crimes committed by this horrible administration.

[bluestateguy]

5. I will read this Jason Leopold article in 24 business hours

I still have not forgotten.

[mikelewis]

6. She's a fucking disgrace... a cheap opportunitistic whore who traded honor for power...

[liberal renegade]

8. Amen brother.

[kmac3]

38. Power crazed . . . . .

Amen . . . Amen . . . Amen

She's in love with power and her position.

Pelosi has not exercised that delegated power to defend and support the Constitution. She blatantly kept shouting "She took the oath", but that means nothing if you don't act on it.
Show me some positive action . . . I'm tired of strictly lip service!

[CitizenPatriot]

7. I love LA!

we know you took an oath Nancy, that is not the issue, the issue is that you are not UPHOLDING IT.

along with BUSH CEHNEY ROVE MUKASEY and you should all be IMPEACHED because of it.

[nc4bo]

9. Dammit the PEOPLE ARE SPEAKING!!!!!!

I haven't read the entire article yet and saw just the 1st 1/2 of video. These people standing up, telling the truth and taking it to her are outstanding and what they did was admirable.

[creeksneakers2]

13. Its nice to see Nancy getting a chance to respond

Protest is great but disruption isn't.

[organic produce]

23. Protest is disruption.

Protest is disruption... Are you still singing Britannia rules the waves?

[EnviroBat]

34. Bullshit.

Public disruption is the only way we are getting through to these arrogant morons. Pelosi has made it clear the we are beneath her, and she has failed miserably to get anything done that she WAS ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE TO DO. Good on the people that stood up to her bullshit. I will do the same if given the chance. I'm glad to see she's making such good use of her time writing books about how wonderful she thinks she is.

Fuck her.

[paparush]

40. Here Here! We need MORE public disrpution. The M$M ignores everything else.

[trthnd4jstc]

14. She said she took an Oath to uphold the Constitution, then uphold it. n.t.

[ejpoeta]

45. maybe she thought upholding the constitution meant to hold it up in the air.

use it as a kite? i don't know. i guess it depends on what the definition of upholding means. this whole idea that we should just ignore the crimes perpetrated by the administration for the past seven years because he'll be gone in 100 days is ridiculous. i know.... let's all try some of these reasonings with the cops and judges when we get into trouble. what do you think the odds are that they'll just let it go. hmm. not good, i'm thinking.

[liberalmuse]

16. Condescending, phony, useless bitch.

Did you hear the way she's talking down to people? She's worse than the Republicans. She needs to be impeached first. Once her ass is removed as Speaker, and then maybe we can start impeaching the bastards in the White House. She's nothing but an big fucking obstruction of justice. I wonder if impeachment will be on the table when Obama is President and the Republicans try to remove him? No doubt. HATE her.

[The Wizard]

42. But Obama is a communist Muslim

I heard it on C-SPAN this morning. And anyone who isn't a Christian Republican must be purged from public office.

[EFerrari]

17. I love you guys so much.

:woohoo:

[iconicgnom]

18. 9% !!!!!

The absolute arrogance of it, depending on the fact that the american people have no other viable choices at this time. If there were a viable 3rd party, one that was even a smidgen "to the left", this kind of scene just would not happen.

[Freddie Stubbs]

31. Her primary opponent recieved 11% of the vote against her this summer

It would appear that Democrats in one of the most liberal districts in one of America's most liberal cities like what Nancy Pelosi is doing.

[kmac3]

39. Vote percentages not always accurate in Bush's rein . . . .

"31. Her primary opponent recieved 11% of the vote against her this summer."

Was that an honest count or did we have someone tinkering with the Diebold machines? . . :shrug:

[Freddie Stubbs]

41. California voting machines produce a voter-verified paper trail

http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6430

[Montypython]

19. ????

Does she know something we don't?

Does Bush have something on her?

What would Bush do if the House started impeachment hearings?

Is there something about her past that we don't know?

How can we get rid her?

Who should be speaker?

[proReality]

20. I doubt that woman has ever read the Constitution, let alone...

knows what her oath of office actually says.

[bvar22]

21. Ed Shultz on his radio show today said....

...that Fancy Nancy has only sold 4,000 copies of her book.
:rofl:



"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

[KansDem]

48. Yeah, well, her book is off my (coffee) table...!!!

Never to appear there in the first place.


KansDem's coffee table...

[bvar22]

52. Grin

Thanks for the laugh!!!!

I may have to steal that line.
It would make a hilarious OP.
:toast:

[organic produce]

22. Pelosi is the devil incarnate

Worse than Bush/Cheney, she endorses them...Self interested, self serving and a warning to NEVER vote for someone based on their genitalia. Gen Italia.-)

[BigBearJohn]

25. DAYUMMM -- that's EXACTLY what we need LOTS more of. People speaking truth to power.

If I were there I probably would have lost it
and screamed, "DO YOUR FUCKING JOB, YOU SPINELESS MORON!!!!"

[BridgeTheGap]

27. The problem is who owns the media and how events (and people) are portrayed or what

is put in front of people as worthy of their attention.
Most of the Dems in Congress know this and fear for their power and position because of it.
Notable exceptions, like Kucinich, dare to challenge what's going on and get very little media attention as a result.
This started with Reagan and now has us on a steep slide toward fascism. Too many Congressional Dems are now to the right of Nixon as a result. What a crying shame.

[bdamomma]

28. yea, sure you took the oath of office to protect the Constitution

but she is not doing it. I have no trust in her whatsoever.

[KansDem]

49. Maybe she took the oath of office to protect post-Bush Constitution...?

And not that "goddamn piece of paper" that is soooo pre-Bush.

[hisownpetard]

33. "Don't tell me that I don't do that." WTF? Just because you took an oath does not mean that

you've upheld it. HEL-LO!!

She's as sorry an excuse for Speaker of the House as I've ever seen.

[The Wizard]

44. She complainds that the Republican minority

is blocking the majority from carrying out the will of the people, yet the Democratic minority couldn't stop the Republican majority from defying the will of the people when the Republicans tried their unsuccessful overthrow of the last duly elected president in 1998.
She's so good at making excuses and bad at looking out for the good of the country she could be a Republican.
Professor Irwin Corey is still around, and he'd be a breath of fresh air in Washington.

"From the late 1940s he cultivated his "Professor" character. Dressed in seedy formal wear and sneakers, with his bushy hair sprouting in all directions, Corey would amble on stage in a preoccupied manner, then begin his monologue with "However..." He created a new style of doublespeak comedy; instead of making up nonsense words like "krelman" and "trilloweg," like other comics, the professor would season his speech with many long and florid, but authentic, words. The professor would then launch into nonsensical observations about anything under the sun, but seldom actually making sense. Changing topics suddenly, he would wander around the stage, pontificating all the while. His very quick wit allowed him to hold his own against the most stubborn straight man, heckler or interviewer."
(Wikipedia)

[ExPatLeftist]

46. She is a sleazy politician with weak, illogical and immoral arguments.

They'll "be gone in a hundred days"

Bush and Cheney are two of the worst criminals of our time, and she just wants to wait for them to leave and then sweep it under the rug.
Can you imagine if someone said, "Yeah, that Charles Manson guy is pretty bad, but he's leaving town soon, so we don't need to do anything about him."

Wonder how her re-election chances would be then?


"The republicans in Congress would stop it..."
SO FUCKING WHAT. That just shows who is on the side of justice. Where would we be if the original Patriots had said, "Yeah, we hate King George and want to revolt, but his cronies might not approve so let's do NOTHING instead." Grow a fucking spine, Pelosi.


The more I see from this sorry excuse for a Democrat, the more I believe she is in cahoots with Bush/Cheney, is being blackmailed, or is getting a payoff - or that the whole electoral and political process in the States is just a sham.

Pelosi, you are as bad as Bush/Cheney by not taking them to task for what they have done. Might it fail? Sure - but unless you try you are a part of the problem. Doing the right thing is its own reward - we need people that stand up for justice despite the repercussions. Not those that play ball in the name of political expediency.


I cannot understand those that buy her bullshit.

[peace13]

50. Nancy is nuts if she thinks that she protects the Constitution.

I hate to tell you but she sounds exactly like my 71 year old fundie mother when she hollers back at the people. Unwilling to process information, demanding that we listen to her point of view. Sorry Nancy but your war funding and protecting the little murder in chief puts you in the no vote category.

[bertman]

53. Believe me, I really understand the frustration and anger of the protestors.

However, this type of disruption does nothing positive. Especially the overwrought emotional outburst from the one woman in the front.

How about another tactic? All of these protestors politely await their turns, raise their hands, and when called on ask the burning question that is on their mind-- In a calm, rational voice that is not threatening or reeks of condemnation.

Make the Speaker address each question. When she doesn't or can't she is exposed for the shill that she is.

If the protestors don't carry signs or shout out protestations no one will know if they are going to raise the proverbial "loaded question". And the more loaded questions that are asked and go unsatisfactorily answered, the worse Pelosi looks to everyone.

By screaming and yelling at her you elicit sympathy for her because she's being beat up on.

Just my $.02 worth.

[truedelphi]

54. The only oath of office that Ms Pelosi abides by is her

Agreement to be bought out!


Where do the hundreds of Millions of monies collected buy Di Feinstein's husband go?? Why is hthat Senator's husband even allowed to be part of the game - is there not conflict of interest?

On both sides of the aisle, no one says that Feinstein is guilty of conflict of interest. The way money works within high powered circles is as a lubricant to keep the wheels of injustice spinning.

Feisntein is allowed her monies as long as a certain amount is used to keep people like Pelosi from undermining this Administration.

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[Freddie Stubbs]

58. Pelosi's district is solidly Democratic and most of the Demcorats there support her

She won her primary 89%-11% against a pro-impeachment Kucinich supporter who actually had the resources to run radio and TV ads.