It's the accountability, stupid!

Today, as we savor the fact that one year from today, our long national nightmare of the Bush/Cheney regime will at last (we hope) be over, someone needs to give Nancy Pelosi a clue that impeachment is no longer about removal from office, it's about documenting for the sake of history (and to prevent forgetting the past):

U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she’s drawing heat from fellow Democratic lawmakers as well as people across the nation for refusing to move to impeach President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.

“I go through airports, and people have buttons as if they knew I was coming,” Pelosi said with a smile, mimicking a protester pointing to an “Impeach” button on their chest.

But the California Democrat said she is sticking to her position that trying to remove Bush or Cheney would be divisive, and she added, most likely unsuccessful. If the House voted to impeach Bush and Cheney, a two-thirds vote would be needed in the closely divided Senate to oust them.

That's not the point, and she should realize that. As far as trying to remove BushCheney being divisive, that's the biggest insult of all, and it goes a long way to explain why she has caved to the Bush Administration in absolutely everything -- because she doesn't want to be "divisive." Well, divisiveness where today's Republican party consists of anything that varies one iota from marching in lockstep with the most insane elements of the party.

A two-party system is sometimes going to be divisive, especially where issues in which the parties are so far apart are concerned. If she's so afraid of divisiveness, then let her step aside for someone who has the guts to do the right thing for the country and the Constitution.

Barack Obama, take note.