Pelosi and Reid have failed America
By Michael Payne Online Journal Contributing Writer
By now it should be crystal clear that Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are totally unfit for the leadership positions that they hold in Congress; and so the members of the House and Senate should take immediate steps to force them to resign or to remove them from their positions. Their stonewalling of the American people can no longer be tolerated. Both now have proven that they no longer represent the best interests of this nation.
The people of America have watched the charade that has been taking place in this Congress since the decisive elections of 2006 when the Democratic Party took control of both the House and the Senate. At that point, the majority of Americans had had enough of the insane Iraq War, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, the neocons’ madness, tax cuts for the wealthy, scandal after scandal in this administration and the Republican Party. Americans wanted change, a new direction, a new vision, an end to the blatant attempts to negate the Constitution of the United States.
Regardless of these strong desires for swift, positive change Americans received no positive actions from the newly installed Democratic Party majority in both the House and the Senate — what they did get was Pelosi and Reid, the absolute worst possible combination that could have been created to lead the critical movement to turn our nation from the disastrous course that was leading to the destruction of our democracy. They needed patriotic courage, conviction, strong, unrelenting leadership, ideas and, above all, leaders who would show America that a new day had dawned. It just did not happen.
Pelosi and Reid soon showed their true nature as they assumed the roles of passive “special assistants to the White House.” Pelosi immediately took impeachment off the table and continues to indicate that she will never do what clearly needs to be done. Reid, as well as our ever-smiling speaker, warned time after time that they were through giving Bush a blank check without a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq, but every single time that Bush waved his veto pen, they completely caved in and retreated into the shadows. [more]