Why Don't We Impeach Nancy Pelosi?

This evening, Dennis Kucinich stood before Congress for a few hours reading off an extensive list (thirty-five, to be exact) of charges against President Bush, and in the process formed what I thought to be a reasonable argument to support impeachment of the President. After watching this, it occurred to me that even though C-SPAN was carrying the coverage live for hours, and even though the story had been picked up by all the major wire services, the story hadn't made it to the front page or politics sections of any of the major news web sites. It made me wonder why.

Has the Bush administration successfully manipulated the major media such that the only stories they're willing to publish have to do with his succession rather than the actual news of the day? That can't be the case because only a couple of the major networks have a glaringly conservative and pro-Bush leaning... You know which ones they are, I needn't tell you.

Then I remembered something. Kucinich presented similar charges against Vice President Cheney a while back. These charges received a little more attention by the press than today's story, but Nancy Pelosi again reminded us that she has no intention of leveling impeachment charges against the current administration. Her claim is that such charges would be divisive and likely unsuccessful. Divisive for whom? The American people? Congress? The Democratic Party?

I've long believed that the Democratic party, while appearing to be sympathetic to the American people, are no better than their Republican counterparts in that their only duty is to themselves. The only major difference between the two parties is that at least Republicans don't pretend to care, so you can take them for their word (as ridiculous as their words may be).

On the other hand, it's quite obvious that Nancy Pelosi acts neither on behalf of the will of her party nor that of the American People. I seem to recall that a couple of years ago, the American People chose to overthrow Republican rule of the Congress to expedite an end to the war and a return to sanity in American politics. What happened to those promises? Why have the Democrats failed us and who is left in American politics that we can trust? I fear not a single person.

So I think the simple answer to my original question is that the mainstream media is ignoring the story because they know that any efforts to impeach members of the current administration will be completely wasted to afford members of the Democratic party more leverage in the coming election. Because of the Democrats' failures over the last few years, the race will be very close, and so their party can't afford to alienate independent voters and those Republicans who are so fed up with their party that they might be willing to jump ship for a couple of years.

Having just written this, I can't believe I had to. I'm reporting on politics as usual, and so I should have known better. We should all know better by now.

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