On Friday's Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, John Conyers was asked if he did nor did not support the impeachment of George Bush at a recent Capitol Hill demonstration in which he said the American people could/should fire the president. Conyers wimped out.
On Democracy Now's Friday edition, John Conyers took the wimp's way out when asked if he did or did not call for and support the impeachment of George Bush at a recent D.C. rally; Amy Goodman played a tape of Conyers calling for the 'firing' of President Bush at that rally, and asked him if he indeed had called for impeachment. Conyers did not address her question, and instead, obfuscated in the finest tradition of a GOP politican, throwing out as much smoke as any intellectually dishonest politican could possibly do.
Conyers threw this fog out: that unless Democrats were elected in 2008, we would never see the end of the Iraq war, and that this was the key issue, not to absorb America in an impeachment hearing for Bush. Thus: we have to wait until Dems are in power in 2008 for anything substantive to happen regarding Iraq, and other key issues. Conyers downplayed holding Bush accountable for any impeachable offenses. Incredible!
So the sales pitch from Conyers is: Democrats won't and can't do anything unless a Democrat is elected president in 2008.
Sounds to me like we, progressives, are held hostage by the party we struggled so hard to vote into power last November: unless we elect Democrats in 2008, well, nothing will happen until then.
This is intellectual and political blackmail. Time to call these people out.
We should send a message to Pelosi, Reid, and Conyers that UNLESS they grow some backbone now,today, this month, not 2008, we will not elect them or their peers to any office in 2008.
Please: write to Conyers, Reid, and Pelosi to tell them that this kind of intellectual blackmail will not work, and to get on with what they promised to do prior to Nov. 2007.