A hell of her own--Pelosi has a nemesis
It seems like a long shot...Nancy Pelosi's short reign as She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed is being challenged by peace activist Cindy Sheehan. Ms. Sheehan gave Ms. Pelosi until the end of July to begin impeachment proceedings against President Bush or Sheehan would challenge her for her seat. Ms. Pelosi has not done so.
The odds against Ms. Sheehan winning (as an independent no less) are roughly the same as of me winning the Kentucky Derby this year--as a horse. But, part of me wants to see her win. Not because I know enough about Sheehan to want her in office, but because I am sick and tired of the Democratic Congressional leaders, including most especially Nancy Pelosi.
These "career politicians" whined for years about how Bush was getting away with this or that. War in Iraq, blah, blah, Anthrax, blah, surveillance of Americans, blah, blah. Yet now that they've had a chance to do something about it, the well-dressed narcissistic little mommies' boys and girls are demurring. Too fastidious to fight and too self-serving to care, they have had their opportunity to reach up out of the fiery pit that's their personal hell and grab for the firmament of ethics that could save them, but no matter how loud that salvation knocks, they are deaf. The Democratic Congress are cowards. Their rubber stamp approval of Bush's warrantless wiretapping authorization this week damns them for what they are.
I do not demand or even expect an impeachment, but I am tired of politically motivated complaisance after six years of power tactics by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and Rove so naked and on display that Gypsy Rose Lee would have blushed.
Perhaps they need a wakeup call. If Cindy Sheehan were to be elected, that might be an elbow in the sleeper's ribs. I'm afraid that what they really need is to be gone, gone, gone. We need to elect real leaders and show these puffing egomaniacs the door, or at least trap them in a room full of mirrors, where they would be unable to leave, constantly preening and posturing to their own graying reflection.
Posted on August 10, 2007
