The latest from Nancy Pelosi: She is complaining that it’s just too darn hard for her to sit in her posh home and see Americans protesting outside. Oh, the poor, poor dear.
Memo to Pelosi - Get used to it. For as long as you continue to fail the American people, you will continue to see protesters on the sidewalk outside your breakfast window. The American people elected a Democratic majority to the House of Representatives in order to end the Iraq War, restore liberty to America, and impeach Bush. They have done none of this. Instead, they’ve helped make things worse, playing footsie with Bush and helping him to get the Protect America Act passed.
“I cannot speak for every Democrat, Independent, Green, or disenchanted Republican (and there are many) in America, but the consensus from my travels all over this country is that we put Democrats back in power in both Houses of Congress to be an opposition to the Bush Regime and to stop the annoying “bobble-headed, rubber-stamping” approval of all things criminal and murderous. We did not wish to keep heading in the same direction but desired to go another way, which would have required the Dems to finally step up and forcefully counter and stop the high crimes of BushCo. They have failed.
We are sick of excuses. We are tired of the blame being diffused on the Senate, the Blue Dog Dems, the Republicans, or even, incredibly, the people of Iraq. A true leader accepts responsibility in ways that are not even dreamed of by BushCo or Congress, Inc. A true leader would stand up and do what is intelligent and what is right and if he/she were a leader, then people would follow. A leader does not wait idly by for a crowd of sycophants to gather around her before she does her job with integrity and courage; a leader leads the way and the Democratic Congress with an approval rating even lower than George’s had better wake up to whom they need to follow: us!”
Cindy Sheehan is right. Nancy Pelosi is no leader. Pelosi betrayed the promise of 2006. She doesn’t even have enough backbone to stand up to a President with a 30 percent approval rating.
It’s time for Nancy Pelosi to go, and to be replaced with a real leader - Cindy Sheehan for Congress!
It didn’t take long for non-partisans to see that most of the the 2006 Democratic congressional candidates had no intention of acting strongly to confront the criminal behavior of George W. Bush. Many Democratic congressional candidates were just using anti-Bush, anti-war anger for their personal gain. Since the 2006 congressional election, we’ve seen the cost of the Democrats’ dedcation to self-interest above the good of the nation. Time and time again, the Democrats in Congress have caved in and given the Bush Republicans exactly what they wanted.
The Iraq War goes on and on. Our civil liberties are being hacked apart by laws like the Military Commissions Act, the Patriot Act and the Protect America Act. Alberto Gonzales remains in office, with more power than ever. Impeachment is off the table.
I found this video of Cindy Sheehan, talking in January, 2007, to be prescient. In the video, she predicts that the American people will need to push the Democrats to get anything done, and that the Democrats will begin to waffle and wimp out. It’s well worth a watch.
From Cindy Sheehan’s speech announcing her independent campaign for Congress, challenging Nancy Pelosi in 2008:
“A great majority of citizens in California’s 8th congressional district want the Bush regime impeached and want our troops home from the Middle East. I believe Ms. Pelosi has lost touch with the people of this district and America and it’s time for our reps that aren’t doing their jobs by upholding their sworn oaths to the Constitution to receive a wakeup call!”
Nancy Pelosi’s best response to this criticism is that she would be for impeachment if only she were not Speaker of the House. How convenient for Representative Pelosi. She’s only for doing something that matters when she doesn’t have the power accomplish much. What a useful excuse for submitting to the corrupt power of the Bush Administration.
If I were living in the 8th congressional district of California, I’d vote for Sheehan.
If you’re for impeachment, support Cindy Sheehan for Congress. Cindy Sheehan is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi.
Nancy Pelosi is best known, among activists struggling for the impeachment of George W. Bush for declaring that “impeachment is off the table”. Single-handedly, without bothering to investigate the alleged crimes of George W. Bush, or even taking a formal look at the evidence already available, without democratic debate in the Congress among all the members, Pelosi decided she would do whatever she could to prevent the impeachment of George W. Bush from happening.
Yesterday, “with a a heavy heart,” Cindy Sheehan declared,
“I announce my candidacy against Nancy Pelosi in California’s 8th. If anybody would dare think that I am not serious, I would hope that they would look back at the last three years of my life and everything that I have sacrificed to restore our nation to one that obeys the rule of law and can be looked up to with respect once again in the international community and not as the hated laughingstock on the block.”
There is not yet an official Cindy Sheehan for Congress web site. When it comes up, we’ll link there.
In the meantime, we’re adding a Cindy Sheehan for Congress section to our Imprison Bush shop, so that you can start to show your support for Sheehan as yet another way of moving toward the impeachment and imprisonment of George W. Bush
