Bwahahahahaha! Anti-Bush Democrats are learning not to trust their party. They are getting what we conservatives get all the time, promises of action during the election and then they don’t act when elected because they are afraid to lose power. Will they punish them the way the conservatives punished the Republicans?

If U.S. Rep. John Conyers is bluffing, it’s a good one.

The Detroit Democrat, who as ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee wrote a bill to consider impeachment hearings against President George W. Bush, now says he won’t push for that if he gets the committee chairmanship.

The soon-to-be House speaker and fellow Democrat, Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, has said repeatedly that no impeachment hearings will be held.

“I am in total agreement with her on this issue,” Conyers said in a statement Thursday. “Impeachment is off the table.” He was not available for further comment.

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Some Democrats who won by slim margins Tuesday could lose in 2008 if Conyers holds unpopular impeachment hearings, Arthur said. And if that happened, he said, “Mr. Conyers would lose his gavel as quickly as he got it.”

Even without impeachment, Conyers is expected to investigate the Bush administration aggressively, said Ron Walters, a political science professor at the University of Maryland.

In his statement, Conyers said election reform would be a priority for him. He’d likely focus on 2004 presidential election irregularities in Ohio and on Bush’s domestic spying program.

Well, they may not want to do anything but their base is going to try to force the issue. They are already working to impeach Bush themselves:

Impeach for Peace, a Minnesota-based impeachment group, has researched a method for impeaching the president using a little known and rarely used part of the Rules of the House of Representatives (“Jefferson’s Manual”). This document actually empowers individual citizens to initiate the impeachment process themselves.

“Jefferson’s Manual” is an interpretive guide to parliamentary procedure, and is included (along with the Constitution) in the bound volumes of the Rules of the House of Representatives. It is ratified by each congress (including the current one), and has been updated continuously through the history of our democracy. The section covering impeachment lists the acceptable vehicles for bringing impeachment motions to the floor of the House.
Before the House Judiciary Committee can put together the Articles of Impeachment, someone must initiate the impeachment procedure. Most often, this occurs when members of the House pass a resolution. Another method outlined in the manual, however, is for individual citizens to submit a memorial for impeachment.

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Hold on to the other copy of the letter until Jan. 15th (after the new congress) when we’re having everyone send them in.

That’s right – to make a big impact, we’re having everyone send it in on the same date (Over 300,000 downloads so far representing over 1 million mailings). We hope to flood the congress with sacks of mail and cause a newsworthy event to further pressure them to act on the memorials. Although, it’s important to keep in mind that in the 1830 precedent, impeachment resulted as a result of a single memorial. Yours might be the one.

Bush Derangement Syndrome is a powerful thing and these people are not going to go quietly and sit on the sidelines and allow those they worked very hard to elect to dash their dreams. They will be very focal in their opposition. This should be fun to watch.