By Dave Lindorff





House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has refused since taking power in the House to let impeachment go anywhere in that body, recently said on "The View" that "If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story.”

All she would have had to do was watch a little of last Friday's hearing on impeachment in the hearing room of the House Judiciary Committee--a hearing she herself helped to arrange.

The dramatic and long delayed session chaired by Judiciary Chair John Conyers (D-MI) was both a staged farce, and at the same time, a powerful demonstration of the power of a grassroots movement in defense of the Constitution. It was at once both testimony to the cowardice and self-inflicted impotence of Congress and of the Democratic Party that technically controls that body, and to the enormity of the damage that has been wrought to the nation’s democracy by two aspiring tyrants in the White House.





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