Nancy Pelosi Is Breaking Campaign Promises
Apparently, according to certain Democrat members of Congress, Speaker Pelosi is working “quietly” and “effectively” to gather votes for an impeachment of the President. Yet when she and the rest of her party were campaigning for the majority in Congress in 2006 she promised that impeachment wasn’t an option.
(05-13) 04:00 PDT Washington—House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco has told her caucus that the idea of impeaching President Bush isn’t in the cards if the party takes over the House in November’s elections.
Pelosi, who Republicans have charged intends to lead an impeachment effort, dismissed the idea when she spoke Wednesday morning at a closed-door caucus of the House’s 201 Democrats. Pelosi also restated her opposition to the idea of censuring Bush over his decision to invade Iraq in March 2003.
“We want oversight and checks and balances,’’ Pelosi spokesman Brendan Daly said she told the caucus. “That certainly isn’t being done in this Congress (under Republican control). Impeachment was never her interest.’’
If Pelosi and the Democrats do impeach, they’ll be criticized for lying on the campaign trail right? In the lead-up to the 2006 election poll after poll showed that Americans didn’t favor impeaching the President. So the Democrats told voters they wouldn’t do that.
But hey, with an 11% approval rating, what do they have to lose right? Who cares about campaign promises, it’s get Bush time.
Which makes me wonder what the Democrats are going to do with themselves once Bush isn’t in office any more. One gets the idea that there will be a lot of very confused liberal voters who go to the booths looking to pull the lever against Bush only to find that it isn’t an option.












