Dean, Reid and Pelosi may step in

Yes, please! Reid and Pelosi hint that the party’s leaders will seek a way that will help put and end to this quixotic primary fight, via the HuffingtonPost:

Reid said he would consider writing a joint letter with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demanding that superdelegates make their endorsements public.

“The three of us, we may write a joint letter [to superdelegates],” said Reid. “We might do individual letters, we are in contact with each other.”…

However, when asked by a reporter if he would be forced to intervene if the undecided superdelegates did not make up their minds, Reid replied “I might have to.”

At this point even I, someone that’s strongly interested in politics, am eager to arrive at a resolution. So, yes, please, pressure the so-called superdelegates to make up their mind long before the convention.

Again, What Liberal Media!?

Great catch by Crooks and Liars:

Look at this Yahoo headline of a Reuters story:

Bomb kills 15, Bush critic Pelosi visits Baghdad

"Bush critic"?  That’s the best descriptive Yahoo can think of to give Pelosi?

Not "Speaker of the House" Pelosi? Not "Third in Line for the Presidency" Pelosi?

Not even "California Congresswoman" Pelosi?

But, yes, all you lurking Freepers, keep crying that the media is liberal.

Tell you what, when Yahoo News refers to Bush as "Constitution Ignorer" George W. Bush or "Human Rights Violator" George W. Bush, you might just have a point.  

The Case for Impeachment

The new incoming Speaker of the House, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, has made it abundantly clear that Bush’s impeachment is off the table. Her reasoning and the reasoning of many close political observers is obvious: Democrats have only 2007 to solidify their electoral gains by demonstrating that they, in fact, have a practical agenda to solve the many problems catastrophes that Republicans have left behind. Moreover, establishment Washington and pary insiders have convinced elected Democrats that the American public would not tolerate impeachment at this time. Frankly, I’m sympathetic to the practical and "rational" reasons against impeachment: Democrats will have a lot on their plate over the next year and, of course, media pundits and establishment Washington would jump down their throats if they got wind that Democrats were seriously considering Bush’s impeachment.

And then… I come across items like this, and think, Damn it, he’s right:

Impeachment: you think the world is not watching?

So it’s not politically convenient to try to impeach?

So there will be no price paid for being the worst president ever, apart for the promise of the judgement of history?

So Democrats also think it’s okay to go invade another country, to get several hundred thousand of its inhabitants killed, to proudly practice and promote torture around the world, to tear up the Geneva Conventions and a whole load of international treaties, and to go grab random foreigners around the world to put them in Guantanamo and throw away the key?

So not only was Bush reelected with a real majority, but the opposition essentially says that what he did is not so profoundly illegal that it deserves to be duly sanctioned?

Way to go.

The world is watching. And it will not forget. Our current leaders may be cowards, but they won’t always be there. Haven’t you noticed how being anti-American makes you a popular politician and makes you win elections around the world?

Fear will not be enough when the whole world is convinced that America will not correct its current ways, and that the problem is not just the current administration.