Nancy Pelosi broke her Oath of Office

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Sunday July 15, 2007 · 10:51 AM PDT

2007/07/15 · 10:51

Nancy Pelosi and all high level federal officials take an oath of office to uphold the constitution. The clip below

is from Tough Talk on Impeachment, this week's Bill Moyer's Journal show. Watch the whole show.

Near the end of the show the following is said.

JOHN NICHOLS: Bill Moyers, you are making a mistake. You are making a mistake that too many people make.

BILL MOYERS: Yes.

JOHN NICHOLS: You are seeing impeachment as a constitutional crisis. Impeachment is the cure for a constitutional crisis. Don't mistake the medicine for the disease. When you have a constitutional crisis, the founders are very clear. They said there is a way to deal with this. We don't have to have a war. We don't have to raise an army and go to Washington. We have procedures in place where we can sanction a president appropriately, do what needs to be done up to the point of removing him from office and continue the republic. So we're not talking here about taking an ax to government. Quite the opposite. We are talking about applying some necessary strong medicine that may cure not merely the crisis of the moment but, done right-

BRUCE FEIN: Moreover, it's--

JOHN NICHOLS: --might actually cure--

BRUCE FEIN: It's not an attack on Bush and Cheney in the sense of their personal-- attacks. Listen, if you impeach them, they can live happily ever after into their-

JOHN NICHOLS: And go to San Clemente.

BRUCE FEIN: Yes, go to San Clemente or go back to the ranch or whatever. But it's saying no, it's the Constitution that's more important than your aggrandizing of power. And not just for you because the precedent that would be set would bind every successor in the presidency as well, no matter Republican, Democrat, Independent, or otherwise.

We are in a constitutional crisis and impeachment is the cure. Without the cure the next president, may be worse. We democrats will be responsible if Nancy Pelosi does not perform her duty and start impeachment hearings. Otherwise the US is entered the land of Orwell's 1984, perpetual war.

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