Nancy Pelosi is the Death of Justice

By taking impeachment off the table, she effectively gave Bush and company a free pass to do what they wanted.  She publicly announced that there would be no investigations, and confirmed that she would disrupt our government’s natural system of checks and balances by ensuring that there was none for Bush.  History will likely judge her as one of the key people in this grand scheme of Bush’s lies who could have done something about it all, but didn’t.  What evidence, you ask?

She promoted the wiretapping bill as a good bill. I still cannot understand why FISA was not good enough – anyone who studies the arguments sees Bush’s motives were not true.  The FISA court already provided great latitude.

Bush and company will not face consequences for the attorney general scandal. As one commentator pointed out earlier today on NPR, we can no longer say that an investigation by the AG office is not politically motivated.

There are frankly so many reasons now why Bush should be impeached that it’s a full time job.  The Iraq war alone provided a half dozen legitimate reasons for both impeachment and war crimes tribunals (and no, not by Kucinich’s ridiculous list).  Perhaps that’s why Pelosi took it off the table – she didn’t have the time.

But no, we know it’s because she saw it as difficult and messy.  But the simple truth is that bringing justice, in proportion to the injustice, is never easy.