From Common Dreams, Cindy Sheehan speaking at Cal State San Marcos:
Sheehan criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-San Francisco, for not taking steps to impeach President Bush, who she said misled the country into a protracted conflict with Iraq and condoned the torture of prisoners of war.
Sheehan’s goal is to unseat Pelosi in November. Pelosi has represented San Francisco since 1987.
Asked whether she supports any of the presidential candidates, Sheehan, who left the Democratic Party on Memorial Day, said she does not have any hope in them.
“But I have a lot of hope in the American people,” she said.
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill said that Pelosi, too, is frustrated with the ongoing war in Iraq but believes that impeachment would be divisive and distract Congress from improving the lives of working families.
It's that last bit from Pelosi's spokesperson that makes me want to spit nails.
Please somebody tell me exactly what Congress has done to improve the lives of working families. How do you improve the lives of working families by letting the guy who is ruining them stay in office??? Mr. Ether has been unemployed since August. One of the premiere employers in our area -- SubZero/Wolff, manufacturers of high end kitchen appliances and a company that paid union wages -- laid off close to 300 people this week because, guess what: the bottom has fallen out of the building/remodeling industry. Same reason Mr. Ether isn't working.
As I've said so often, BushCo has done nothing that I didn't expect of them. The democrats however, have simply done
nothing, while our lives fall apart. I am so angry.
Pity the poor earnest young man, trying to earn some summer cash by canvassing door-to-door for the Democratic National Committee. He just came to my door. He got an earful. He got two ears full. And a doggy bag.
