NY Sun: Conyers Hones A Case Against President Bush

[Hissyspit]

http://www.nysun.com/article/42109

October 24, 2006 Edition

Conyers Hones A Case Against President Bush
BY ELI LAKE - Staff Reporter of the Sun
October 24, 2006

WASHINGTON — The Democratic leader of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is promising that her party has no plans to pursue impeachment of President Bush if it wins a majority in next month's elections. But she intends to allow the House Judiciary Committee to be headed by a lawmaker who has been preparing the grounds for impeachment for two years.

John Conyers, a Democrat of Michigan, is now in line to become the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which has the authority to begin hearings and an investigation into whether the planning and selling of the Iraq war was a constitutional crime. Last week, the Washington Post first reported that if Ms. Pelosi, a Democrat of California, becomes House majority leader, she will keep the seniority system intact for selecting committee chairmen in Congress. An aide to Ms. Pelosi confirmed the report yesterday.

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Ten months ago, Mr. Conyers introduced legislation to form a "select committee to investigate the administration's intent to go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible impeachment."

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But it is the beginning of this discovery process that has caused some worry for Ms. Pelosi and the House Democratic leadership. Last spring, Ms. Pelosi personally appealed with more liberal Democrats to end their support for the Conyers resolution. Today, that resolution has only 37 co-sponsors.

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David Swanson, the Washington director of a political action committee that raises money for pro-impeachment candidates, ImpeachPAC, said he was disappointed in Ms. Pelosi: "I think it is not the place of the broadcast media to demand that our elected officials take positions against protecting our Constitution," Mr. Swanson said. "It is not the place of Congresswoman Pelosi to claim to know where investigations might lead when overwhelming evidence of impeachable offenses is already public knowledge.

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[truthisfreedom]

1. no fighting before the election! calm down and win. then do whatever

you want.

[OneBlueSky]

2. I give Rep. Conyers high props for taking it upon himself . . .

to build the BushCo dossier . . .

he doesn't have to do this . . . but, obviously, no one else in Congress is bothering . . . and Conyers knows what's at stake, and he knows that eventually we're all going to have to learn the whole sordid tale . . .

so he's making sure that the evidence is in place and fully documented for when that time comes . . . both to punish the guilty, and to make sure this never happens again . . .

thanks, Congressman Conyers . . . you're one of the very few heroes in this fight . . .

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[magellan]

7. Me too

Mr. Conyers has been a most diligent investigator and record-keeper. Even if the Repugs did something in character like take a torch to Conyers' office, he has his published records and witnesses aplenty. Thank god for him, because without him any investigation would take years and might still never reach the level of information he's gathered.

[Swamp Rat]

3. k&r

:kick:

[rodeodance]

5. oh gee, the SUN connected the dots. te he.

[TomClash]

6. In my excitement I forgot to read the Sun nt

[Pachamama]

8. I support Conyers and Pelosi...

I think John Conyers is an amazing man and I have had the honor of meeting him and I know that he will become the next Judiciary Committee Chairman and will do what's right by our country.

I also believe that Nancy Pelosi will become the 1st Woman Speaker of the House and will be fantastic and do the right thing for our country and uphold her oath to defend the Constitution. She's being careful right now because of the elections and all the GOP fear tactics about her. She also is in an awkward position - she's prospectively 3rd in line in the future for the Presidency and if she was to seek the impeachment of Bush and Cheney, it might look self-serving. I take Pelosi's comments about impeachment as political posturing and they are non-binding.

If Conyers and the House Judiciary Committee hold investigations and actual criminal activity from this White House is revealed, I assure that Madame Speaker of the House will support what our Constitution and the PEOPLE state to be done!

:kick:

[gully]

9. Pelosi is no dummy

she's not going to allow talk of impeachment to turn out the neanderthals.

[bluedeminredstate]

10. Not while the media

is portraying the Democrats that will be committee chairs as wild-eyed, rabid, blinded-by-Bush-hate libruls. I mean you'd think it was a national tragedy to hear the talk of Henry Waxman - one of the cleanest and most decent members of Congress - head the Gov't Reform Committee. Be very afraid...BOO!!

Yeah, how awful to have a man who hates waste of taxpayer money take over the body that keeps track of incompetence and waste! How will we endure such a thing?
:sarcasm:

[gully]

11. Indeed, isn't that hilarious?

Oh no! What will we do if "Pelosi" is speaker of the house?!