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Once again Nancy Pelosi has shown us that our over paid members of Congress can only handle one task at a time. Or is it that Nancy Pelosi missed the meaning of Speaker of the House and her duty to the American public. Pelosi has decided that while Congress and Bush put together a stimulus package in a bipartisan fashion, the contempt charges against White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers are set aside.

Pelosi has delayed bring these contempt charges to the floor since July 25 when Conyers and the Judiciary Committee approved them. What irritates me is that Pelosi was encouraged by John Conyers to hold off. What’s up with that? Conyers has been calling for impeachment and investigation for years. Now that he has the power to do something he sits in the corner. Maybe it’s time for Conyers to go.

Pelosi believes that voting on the contempt charges would “step on their message” of bipartisan unity in the midst of the stimulus package talks. It obviously doesn’t bother Pelosi when Bush steps on the Constitution or the American people. I now get her message!

Now a few things go through my head; 1) Pelosi is again bowing to Bush so he can get his way on both the too little too late economic package and for his corruption be over looked; and 2) Pelosi has proven her point that our Congress can only focus on one thing at a time. Impeachment is off the table because Congress has too many things to cover so now contempt is obviously off the table because Congress has another task.

Worthless I tell you, the whole lot of them. Pelosi needs to be removed as Speaker of the House since she can not seem to get it through her head that Congress can multi task. Not everyone in Congress is working on the stimulus package, at this time only the leaders are. The leg work for contempt charges have been done so a vote wouldn’t occupy much of their time. Congress seemed to find the time to pass bullshit legislation like H.Res 847: Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith or dedicating post offices. Obviously Pelosi doesn’t grasp the value of the word leadership or Constitution.

By the way the economy has been tanking for some time now, foreclosures have been ongoing, job loss has been ongoing and the Fed has been putting band aids on the economy for several years. So for Pelosi to act like this is an emergency that happened while she and the rest of Congress where on their many vacations is absurd. Pelosi and Reid should have been dealing with this all along.

Senior Democrats have decided that holding a controversial vote on the contempt citations, which have already been approved by the House Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, would “step on their message” of bipartisan unity in the midst of the stimulus package talks.

“Right now, we’re focused on working in a bipartisan fashion on [the] stimulus,” said House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), indicating that the contempt vote is not expected for weeks, depending on how quickly the stimulus package moves.

Brendan Daly, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), said “no decision has been made” as to when a criminal contempt vote would be held by the House.

The Judiciary Committee approved contempt citations against Bolten and Miers on July 25, but Pelosi has yet to bring the measures to the floor.

The lack of leadership that exists in both houses of Congress is beyond disappointing. Chris Dodd should challenge Reid and get some serious work accomplished. Pelosi should be challenged by member like Wexler who understand the meaning of our Constitution and the duties of Congress. While were on this topic of congressional incompetence, what the heck does Steny H. Hoyer do? He blocked Kucinich’s impeachment of Cheney and sent that to committee. Now he thinks it’s a good idea to send contempt charges to the Pelosi table of things never to be seen again.

We no longer need the old guard in Washington to pander to each other for capital and political gains. Pelosi is the perfect example of everything wrong in Congress. The days of go along with Bush to get along need to come to a halt. Unfortunately that won’t happen with Pelosi and Reid and their misguided direction of leadership. We need to change them both.

Posted by nytexan January 23rd, 2008 | Category: Congress, Constitution, Contempt, Conyers, Democrat, Harriet Miers, House of Representatives, Joshua Bolten, Politics | Subscribe to comments | Leave a comment | Trackback URL