Anything can happen in San Francisco, including Sheehan vs. Pelosi
Sheehan says she'll run against Pelosi unless Bush impeachment sought
By ANGELA K. BROWN, The Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas - Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.
Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group's war protest site near Bush's Crawford ranch.
"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "We hired them to bring an end to the war. I'm not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money."
Messages left with Pelosi's staff were not immediately returned.
Sheehan announced in May that she was leaving the anti-war movement and selling her 5-acre Crawford lot. She said that she felt her efforts had been in vain and that she had endured smear tactics and hatred from the left, as well as the right.
(The article is here.)
By ANGELA K. BROWN, The Associated Press
CRAWFORD, Texas - Six weeks after announcing her departure from the peace movement, Cindy Sheehan said Sunday that she plans to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unless she introduces articles of impeachment against President Bush in the next two weeks.
Sheehan said she will run against the San Francisco Democrat in 2008 as an independent if Pelosi does not seek by July 23 to impeach Bush. That's when Sheehan and her supporters are to arrive in Washington, D.C., after a 13-day caravan and walking tour starting next week from the group's war protest site near Bush's Crawford ranch.
"Democrats and Americans feel betrayed by the Democratic leadership," Sheehan told The Associated Press. "We hired them to bring an end to the war. I'm not too far from San Francisco, so it wouldn't be too big of a move for me. I would give her a run for her money."
Messages left with Pelosi's staff were not immediately returned.
Sheehan announced in May that she was leaving the anti-war movement and selling her 5-acre Crawford lot. She said that she felt her efforts had been in vain and that she had endured smear tactics and hatred from the left, as well as the right.
(The article is here.)
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So, Sheehan wants Pelosi to bring articles of impeachment against the President. It's one thing to disagree with the President, but failed foreign policy or going to war do not rise to the level of 'high crimes and misdemeanors'. I happen to think that the Islamic terrorist attacks on 9/11 forever changed the way we conduct foreign policy and what powers the federal government has to fight an enemy without declaring war. And I also think the current laws we have have legal holes in dealing with terrorism which is why I don't think what Bush has done rises to the level of impeachable offenses. Seriously, what crime has he personally committed or what crime has he authorized? Maybe someone knows and can answer that for me, so please say so!
Even the wire-tapping and the separate judicial system for the enemy combatants have met with mixed philosophies about their legality - a certain grey area to be sure.
I was not convinced of Clinton's impeachment 9 years ago which was very tenuous, in my opinion. But, Clinton's personal troubles could have been fodder for blackmail and that could have been a serious consequence to his actions.
Perhaps the impeachment of Clinton has lowered the bar so much that now mere disagreements between the Executive and Legislative branches of government might lead to more impeachment talk in the future.
The Republicans certainly opened the door for this to happen by impeaching Clinton. And Bush's series of foreign policy missteps and pushing the envelope on post 9/11 activities has opened it a little further. If we get in to the cycle of impeachment during every presidency, the wheels of government will grind to a halt because a president will not dare take a stand on something lest they get impeached over it.
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