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About a year ago I posted an article titled, Impeachment Threats, From the Left or From the Right: The Most Dangerous Trend in U.S. Politics.
Evidently a lot of people on both sides of the aisle felt the same way, because here it is, a year later, and the tactic has evolved. Last May Pelosi stated that impeachment is off the table:
Seeking to choke off a Republican rallying cry, the House's top Democrat has told colleagues that the party will not seek to impeach President Bush even if it gains control of the House in November's elections, her office said last night.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) told her caucus members during their weekly closed meeting Wednesday "that impeachment is off the table; she is not interested in pursuing it," spokesman Brendan Daly said.
The Democrats have been true to the letter, but not to the implied spirit, of Pelosi's promise: they have produced a new variation on this dangerous political trend. While Dems says that impeachment is off the table, they are still launching efforts to use the legal system to attack the presidency, and to attempt to paralyze efforts by that presidency to run the country:
A House Judiciary subcommittee approved today the first in what is expected to be an avalanche of subpoenas to Bush administration officials. They will likely explore corruption and mismanagement allegations on everything from pre-war Iraq intelligence to the mishandling of the response to Hurricane Katrina.
As I posted last March:
...Both parties must stop this harassment of sitting Presidents. We cannot afford to distract our Presidents from the business of keeping America safe.
Who knows if Clinton might have done a better job against Al Qaeda if he hadn't been preoccupied with similar legal attacks from the Republicans? Who knows what terrorist attacks against the U.S. may be successful if GWB is tied up in investigations which have no purpose other than to make political hay?
Pelosi was persuaded to promise that there would be no attempt to impeach GWB, but she is still launching the kinds of legal attacks which are used to prepare for impeachment. Democrat and Republican leaders alike must be persuaded that this tactic is too dangerous to the safety of the nation to be tolerated.
Progress towards a hydrogen car engine.
