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To: LindyBill who wrote (183310)	10/19/2006 9:31:40 AM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

If the Democrats follow through with their threat of impeachment, we face the prospect of elevating "Grandma" Pelosi. Commentary: Don Surber: Speaker? Pelosi could be president WHEN Sen. Sam Ervin, D-N.C., headed the committee that investigated Watergate, he called himself just a country lawyer. Even used that as the title of his autobiography. His counterpart, Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., said every time Ervin called himself an old country lawyer, Baker reached for his wallet. I check my wallet when I read or hear someone refer to Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco as a grandmother of five. Democrats are trying to soft-pedal Grandma Pelosi to House Speaker. Republicans are the extremists, they say, implying that she somehow is centrist. Some Democrats even want to take it a step further than making her speaker. They want to take control of Congress and impeach and remove President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. American rules of presidential succession would place the Speaker of the House in the White House. That would be Grandma Pelosi. She is the leader of the Democrats in the House. They plan to make her speaker, replacing Dennis Hastert. Well, that would be one way to stop Hillary in 2008. Now Pelosi has denied that impeachment is on her agenda, saying, "We don't have time for that." So who is Grandma Pelosi? According to the liberal Center for Responsive Politics, her net worth in 2005 was between $14,746,108 and $55,085,000, thanks to her real-estate holdings in the San Francisco area. As far as I can tell, that would make her the richest speaker in U.S. history. First woman, too. Pelosi is worth two to three times as much as President Bush, according to the center's figures. Given that the richest member of the House is also a Democrat and the three richest senators are all Democrats, I get a chuckle any time a liberal refers to Republicans as the party of the rich. How bad would Grandma Pelosi be as House speaker? She is rated 100 percent by NARAL, the pro-abortion group. She gets an F from the National Rifle Association. She gets a 100 percent rating from the National Education Association. She gets a 0 percent rating from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which wants to crack down on illegal immigration. Then she turns around and calls Republicans extremists. I do not want to portray her as a caricature of a San Francisco liberal, but that is how she votes. A TV sitcom would reject as cliched a script that gave a San Francisco congresswomen such a voting record. I do not disagree with her on every matter. For example, gay adoption does not bother me. But how can Republicans work with a person who holds so many extreme positions and will not budge an inch? Good gravy, she voted against adding prescription coverage to Medicare because she did not get her way. After that, how can anyone on Medicare ever vote for her again? Then there is energy. She opposed making it easier to build new refineries, she opposed drilling in the arctic, and she opposed even having a Web site promoting the use of Yucca Mountain, Nev., as a nuclear waste dump. On top of that, she wants to regulate energy prices. This is liberalism that has not matured from its sit-in-the-dark-and-freeze-to-death energy policies of the 1970s. Legislation is built on compromise. For six years, too many Democrats like Pelosi have preferred that Congress do nothing rather than address the problems the nation faces. This has helped plunge public approval of Congress below that of the unpopular president. My grandmothers were not perfect, but they never would destroy a house like that just to get power. Frankly, I would prefer to see Shelley Moore Capito get the honor of being the first woman Speaker of the House someday. Don Surber may be reached at donsurber@dailymail.com. dailymail.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (183310)	10/19/2006 11:05:42 AM
From: JDN	Respond to of 793958

Wouldnt surprise me in the least IF THIS country enters into a Civil War if those Crazy Democrats get power. People are getting FED UP with politics in general. jdn

To: LindyBill who wrote (183310)	10/19/2006 11:53:07 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793958

The whole Conyers story is literally sickening. To think of our America peopled by such disgusting bits of refuse like this is no different than being ruled by total thugs....ANSWER needs to be stamped out. The committed activists Conyers spoke of include: * International ANSWER; * its founder, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark (who has advised Conyers on impeachment issues); * Center for Constitutional Rights lawyer Barbara Olshansky, who advises Conyers on impeachment related issues and wrote a book on impeaching Bush that has served as a template for H.R.635; * the National Lawyers Guild; * Veterans for Peace; * Workers World Party; and * most of the 911 'truth' movement. But the most committed and influential of those pro-impeachment groups, and the ones that gathered most of the signatures that Conyers uses as his justification for H.R.635, are AfterDowningStreet and ImpeachPAC. Both are directed by a rising star of the radical Left, David Swanson. David Swanson was failed presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich's press secretary. He is also one of the principal organizers of the AfterDowningStreet- CensureBush coalition and the director of MeetWithCindy and KatrinaMarch. A Progressive Democrats of America board member, Swanson also directs Democrats.com and has beaten the pro-impeachment drum for the Huffington Post. His ImpeachPAC website is a high-traffic clearinghouse for the impeach-Bush movement. Its stated purpose is “electing a Congress to Impeach Bush and Cheney.”