The Why-Haven’t-You Impeached-the-President Tour

Setting out to promote her new motivational book, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi found herself under siege by people unhappy that she has not been motivated to try to throw President Bush out of office

Carl Hulse, New York Times

Submitted by Evergreene Digest Contributing Editor Ken Mitchell

When House Speaker Nancy Pelosi set out to promote her new motivational book this month, she simultaneously touched off her national why-haven't-you-impeached-the-president tour.

As she made the coast-to-coast rounds of lectures, television interviews and radio chats the past two weeks (Aug 1-15), Ms. Pelosi found herself under siege by people unhappy that she has not been motivated to try to throw President Bush out of office – even if only a few months remain before he leaves voluntarily.

In Manhattan and Los Angeles, at stops in between, on network television and on her home turf of Northern California, Ms. Pelosi has been forced to defend her pronouncement before the 2006 mid-term elections that impeachment over the administration’s push for war in Iraq was off the table.

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