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The Peterson PerspectiveThe Failure of US House Leader Nancy Pelosi & The Judiciary Committee"Impeachment is off the table!"By Rosalind Peterson
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God." All members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Members of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, take this "Oath of Office" to support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. Whether Republicans, Democrats or Independents, they are required to uphold the laws of the United States. In stating that "impeachment is off the table", Speaker Nancy Pelosi guaranteed that the U.S. House of Representatives would no longer uphold the laws of the United States and in so doing gave President Bush and Vice-President Cheney unprecedented powers to allegedly violate the Constitution, the Amendments to the Constitution, and other laws of the United States. In addition, it allegedly allowed the Bush Administration to lie to Congress, on more than one occasion, about Iraq. Many impeachment resolutions are now lined up on the U.S. House of Representatives’ docket awaiting action by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and Speaker Pelosi. With her words “impeachment is off the table”, it means that Speaker Pelosi has allegedly been colluding with the Bush Administration to stop any investigations into their alleged violations of U.S. laws, the failure to enforce said laws (signing statements), and the undermining of the U.S. Constitution. In addition, the power she wields also has allegedly stopped the U.S. House Judiciary Committee from acting to order an investigation into the charges contained in several impeachment resolutions. It is alleged that the U.S. House Judiciary Committee members are now in violation of their constitutional oath to faithfully execute their responsibility under the laws of the United States, and, to the best of their ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of their constitutional duty under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed…” Impeachment gives Congress the power to deter and to punish abuse of power by officers of the executive and judicial branches. In November 2008, Speaker Pelosi, and all 40 members of the U.S. Judiciary Committee, will be up for re-election to the U.S. House. The question for all voters: Can we re-elect those who refuse to uphold the laws of the United States and the U.S. Constitution? Whether Republican, Democrat, or Independent, the answer is clearly “No”. When crimes against the people of the United States and the U.S. Constitution are at stake we cannot afford to re-elect those who refuse to even investigate, through the impeachment process, the allegations of criminal behavior by the Bush Administration, specifically President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, and a wayward U.S. Justice Department. If Speaker Pelosi and the Members of the Judiciary Committee allow the abuses of power and criminal behavior to continue, then future Presidents, of either party, will be in a position to further violate those same laws and undermine our Constitution even more. The future of our “Republic” is at stake. Speaker Pelosi and the members of the Judiciary Committee have an obligation to the people of the United States to uphold their “oath of office”, our Constitution, and the laws of the United States. If the House Judiciary Committee and Chairman John Conyers do not vote for an investigation into impeachment charges in September, they should be voted out of office in November 2008, for this abject failure of their responsibilities and duties. Note: The Democrats told us that if we elected them to office they would end the War in Iraq. A majority were elected to both the U.S. House and Senate. Now Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats have failed in delivering on this promise. Speaker Pelosi, who controls all bills that are brought before the U.S. House, the same as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, have both allowed the funding for the war in Iraq to escalate, refused to fund the war without borrowing more money from foreign countries for this purpose, and have allowed the Iraq war budget to escalate along with the massive deaths and injuries to American soldiers fighting in Iraq. Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid have accomplished the escalations in war funding, American deaths, and injuries, in alleged collusion with the Bush Administration and almost all members of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate: Republicans, Independents, and Democrats. The loss of habeas corpus and allowing the funding for renditions and torture were just stepping stones in a long list of Congressional failures. (One Senator, in a speech on the floor of the Senate, was not upset about torture being conducted at Abu Ghraib…he just wanted to prosecute those who released the pictures of this torture.) It is time to vote them all out of office…for their failures to uphold the laws and Constitution of the United States and their failure to end the War in Iraq by refusing to fund the War. Adding insult to the above injuries to the U.S. Constitution and our right to vote, California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein has introduced U.S. Senate Bill #3212 - legislation that will not require states to use an independent paper trail to determine if electronic and other types of voting machines are counting our votes correctly. It allows these six choices for states to independently choose to verify if their voting machines are working…only one of which is a paper trail. Listing A-F below gives the list of independently produced records that will be allowed under this bill…which one do you think will be the most reliable and accurate and which ones do you think will be used to defraud voters, all of us, in the future?
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Those five words often repeated by U.S. House of Representatives Congresswoman, Nancy Pelosi, guaranteed that she would be become Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. This statement is also in direct conflict with the duties and responsibilities of the Speaker of the House and the "Oath of Office", which states: