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Why Pelosi took impeachment "off the table"

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Posted by Mike 2008-08-06 09:09|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Vanden Heuvel is truly an intellectual midget, rich and self-assured of her elitist status among her peers, and an idiot in any factual debate. Hitchens tore her a new one last time I saw her on the tube. She was a blithering fool, and by the end, even she realized it

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-08-06 09:25|| 2008-08-06 09:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Now I could paint this as Soc Dem vs Progressive - Van Den Heuvel putting intolerant partisanship and the criminalizing of policy differences, and hatred for US foreign and security policy on top, while Pelose prioritizes socio-economic concerns, IE Van Den Heuvel as the paradigm "Progressive"/ Fellow Traveler, while Pelosi is the gritty Soc Dem.

Except I dont think Pelosi is all that serious about it. Reality is that its silly waste political capital on this with Bush a lame duck, and KVDH is totally a space cadet if she thinks impeachment would be rewarded by voters (I think she really likes it PRECISELY because of the dilemma it would present to non-moonbat Dems) Pelosi is only covering political pragmatism with the only thing she can that enables her to "outleft" KDVH, and thats the economic thing.

Posted by superstitiousGalitizianer 2008-08-06 09:58|| 2008-08-06 09:58|| Front Page Top

#3 Her answer: she wants Democrats to control the House for many years to come, in order to stop the wealthiest 1% from "sucking the money out of the middle class" and creating a "caste system."

Damn right, Nancy! It's the friggin rich screwing "middle class" folks like me and you!

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is the wealthiest of the top congressional leaders, with total assets valued at somewhere between $30 million and $131 million, according to federal financial disclosure statements.

During calendar year 2007, Pelosi owned four pieces of commercial property valued at between $1 million and $5 million each in San Francisco, Norden, San Anselmo, and Rutherford, all in California. She owns another piece of commercial property valued at between $5 million and $25 million.

The speaker had stock valued at between $5 million and $25 million in Apple Computers. She also owns a vineyard on Zinfandel Lane Street in Helena, Calif., valued at between $5 million and $25 million. She also owns between $500,000 and $1 million in E-Bay.

She has two investments valued at between $1 million and $5 million each in real estate partnerships in California, another investment valued at that same amount in Forty-Five Belden Corp., a San Francisco investment company, and Piatti Restaurant in Tiburon, Calif.

Oh, hey. It looks like you're rich too. But you must be one of the "good rich" looking out for me...

Posted by tu3031 2008-08-06 10:28|| 2008-08-06 10:28|| Front Page Top

#4 Don't forget her investment in tuna on Samoa(?), where she excluded herself from paying an increased minimum wage to the workers.

Posted by Danielle 2008-08-06 11:16|| 2008-08-06 11:16|| Front Page Top

#5 The top 1% pays more taxes than the "middle class".

Posted by OldSpook 2008-08-06 12:50|| 2008-08-06 12:50|| Front Page Top

#6 And the evil Exxon Mobil pays as much tax as the bottom 50% combined.
Nancy better figure out that that you can't eat the goose and give away the eggs indefinately...

Posted by Capsu78 2008-08-06 13:26|| 2008-08-06 13:26|| Front Page Top

#7 I always thought the most effective way to suck money out of the middle class was to raise taxes and that sounds more like a donk thing.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2008-08-06 15:38|| 2008-08-06 15:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Given tu3031's information, I imagine the honourable Representative Pelosi isn't worth nearly as much as she was a year ago, although she likely hasn't quite reached middle class status just yet.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-08-06 19:14|| 2008-08-06 19:14|| Front Page Top

#9 since when is being a poor a requirement to support progressive taxation. They called FDR a traitor to his class, and the people loved him for it.

and make no mistake, Pelosi is no FDR.

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-08-06 20:19|| 2008-08-06 20:19|| Front Page Top

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