[Video] Ed Schultz’s impeachment interview with Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz

November 8, 2007 Bush Era, Florida, Impeachment News 2

Ed Schultz’s combative impeachment interview with Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz …
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Ed Shultz: I read your statement “Impeachment is a lengthy process which would divide Congress and the nation even more deeply than we are divided right now.” How much more divided can we get I guess is my question to start out with and what difference does it make if we’re divided?

Wasserman Schultz: Ed, you know “¦ A year ago yesterday the people in America voted to put the Democrats in the majority in Congress so that we could move the country in a new direction. And they asked to focus on withdrawing our troops from Iraq, on expanding health-care access, on making sure that we can refocus our efforts in terms of alternative energy and putting resources into that. You know, they did not ask us to spend any time on the impeachment of the Vice President. And knowing the mainstream media, like we do, and remembering back to the dark days when the Republican Congress pursued impeachment against President Clinton, that is all that the media will focus on, that is all the attention that would be focused on in Congress, and we would not be able to spend the next 13 months focusing on the issues that are important to the American people.
And then to what end? At the end of the day we impeach the Vice President. Let’s say that we go through the Judiciary process and I sit on the Judiciary Committee as well we go through the process and we impeach the vice president. And then what? We still have President Bush in office. So we replace the Vice President, and then we go through a confirmation process in the House of Representatives of confirming the new Vice President, and we will squander the opportunity to move this country in a new direction when what we should be focusing on are those issues I just listed and many others, and focusing our efforts on expanding the Democratic majority and electing a Democratic President.

Schultz: That’s what it’s all about
Wasserman Shultz: It is “¦

Schultz: November of oh-eight? I struggle with that.

Wasserman Shultz: I have to tell you that I would feel somewhat differently, but only somewhat differently, if there were two-and-a-half years left in the Bush Administration. But I think that we need to tough out the next 12 months and focus hard on the results-oriented Democratic Congress that we know we are and make sure that we deliver that new direction to the American people so that they reward us by electing more of our Democratic candidates to the 14 ““ now 14 ““ open Republican Congressional seats because they are giving up and bailing out. And to beating more of their Republican incumbents and then electing a Democratic President so that we can really get the job done. If we don’t focus on those things, Ed, then what will happen is we will spiral downward into “¦ and play right into the Republican hands. Why do you think they voted to table “¦ against tabling “¦ Kuncinich’s resolution the other day? Because they know that if impeachment happens, it will distract from the Republican failures and distract from our abilities to get the job done and move the country in a new direction. “¦

2 Comments

  1. Good interview, Ed, except that your effort to restrain yourself (admirable in itself) caused you to not mention your best argument for Impeachment, which you voiced several months ago on Chris Mathews’ show. It is that Impeachment is an indictment, a process, and its great advantage is that the Impeachment process forces all the issues to be investigated under oath (torture, lying about the war, Rove and Meiers refusing to honor congressional subpoenas, domestic spying, you-name-it). The impeachment proceedings would expose Cheney and Bush and save the Constitution, whether or not it ended in an up-and-down vote. Remember, Nixon resigned rather than face such an indictment. Impeachment is an indictment and an investigation and it is political by its very nature. It is not a “court case” that has to end with a “conviction”. It is a political process designed to protect the Constitution and ruin liars and cheaters and torturers and war profiteers. Impeachment must be initiated by patriots in Congress. We the people have had enough of spineless Democrats who only see Bush administrations failures, omissions and distortions as opportunities for themselves to win a seat or two in the next election. They just don’t see how seriously this administration has undermined America and everything it has and can and should stand for. Leadership is sadly what is lacking among wrong-thinking Democrats like Ms. Schultz, who think only in terms of “strategy” but do not understand what their waiting constituency desperately wants.

  2. They have had information on global warming and green house gasses for 40 years and they still fight over oil. Health care has been screwed up for 30 years in this country and if they “fix it” in 13 months, we’ll end up with the biggest insurance monopoly in history. Debbie claims if they pursue impeachment it will cause a media frenzy, but since Kucinich introduced the article, I’ve only seen about 45 seconds on impeachment in the main line media. The media is controlled by corporations like GE that make money on war, thanks to Bush’s drones in the FCC. Perhaps congress is afraid of what crimes Cheney was involved in, if they truly pursue it, or maybe they’re afraid of loosing their PACs !! It’s time congress realizes they may not cure this country’s woes in 13 months, but they may be able to save the Constitution and perhaps the world !!

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