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Worthy of its own thread, me thinks. This is an interesting little reminiscence, on a number of levels. It even hints at a possible reason for why the impeachment of GWB is 'off the table'. I'm even starting to think that there might be a speck of truth in the RR Creed: The Parties are just the same. Oh, My! 1974: Hillary lost Judiciary Committee job after trying to block Nixon impeachment. Jerry Zeifman Hillary as I new her in 1974
At the time of Watergate I had overall supervisory authority over the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment Inquiry staff that included Hillary Rodham -- who was later to become First Lady in the Clinton White House.
During that period I kept a private diary of the behind the scenes congressional activities. My original tape recordings of the diary and other materials related to the Nixon impeachment provided the basis for my prior book Without Honor and are now available for inspection in the George Washington University Library.
After President Nixon's resignation a young lawyer, who shared an office with Hillary, confided in me that he was dismayed by her erroneous legal opinions and efforts to deny Nixon representation by counsel -- as well as an unwillingness to investigate Nixon. In my diary of August 12, 1974 I noted the following:
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There certainly are vile people in both parties. What differentiates the two in my mind is the core objectives to which those vile people direct their programs. However ineffectively those programs are administered.
Tiptoes up to the Off Topic area but since you mention it in your post, I'm working on the assumption that the Speaker accepts that in the current Senate, conviction under Articles of Impeachment will be impossible (Mitch McConnell will not let them be convicted; whatever it takes to hold the line on that two-thirds majority thing). I think the Speaker has determined that the House has more useful things to do than to engage in a symbolic act that will be twisted by the GOP and most of the media into a partisan act.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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Shouldn't the Speaker of the House "allow" the "process" to decide the impeachment issue - instead of her looking down the road and coming to her own conclusion independently?
If it turns out she was correct all along - then kudos for her ability to read tea leaves - else, the "process" works as it should.
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She has. A bill was introduced. The bill was voted on and approved and assigned to committee. She simply hasn't done anything to push the matter or thrown her weight as Speaker behind the effort to impeach.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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Shouldn't the Speaker of the House "allow" the "process" to decide the impeachment issue - instead of her looking down the road and coming to her own conclusion independently? It's the same philosophy the Democrats have used in every hassle with Bush since they became the majority in both houses. We don't have enough votes to override a veto, so we might as well give him what he wants. PS I'd be voting against him every time and forcing a veto before I'd give up.
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I'd be voting against him every time and forcing a veto before I'd give up. I agree. Just so that you know, there is a move in San Francisco not to re-elect Nancy Pelosi to her District. I whole-heartedly agree with those trying to not re-elect Speaker Pelosi. As my grandpa would say: Nancy Pelosi is as useful as teets on a bore.
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