Sua Culpa

The Speaker of the House still thinks protecting and defending the Constitution is not a high priority:

“It was my belief that an impeachment of the Vice President or the President … would be very divisive in our country,... It should have come to [sic] no surprise when I became Speaker I said it again, and I continue to hold that view.”

In the Speaker’s special world, the unity and harmony we enjoy now, across the country and in Congress, is simply too valuable to tamper with.

In truth, the only divide impeachment proceedings will create is between those who honor the Constitution and its claims and obligations, and those who do not. Nancy Pelosi has chosen her side.

Failing to act to impeach Bush and Cheney makes her fully complicit in their crimes. By ensuring that unprecedented executive powers are passed on to the next president, she must also bear a full measure of responsibility for the future harm to the country such powers must bring. By turning a blind eye to the criminal conduct of the executive branch she has established a precedent that will make undoing this harm all but impossible.

Bush and Cheney have damaged the republic. Nancy Pelosi will be remembered as the person most responsible for making that damage irreparable.