Impeachment Back on the Table?

clipped from rawstory.com After insisting for nearly two years that impeachment was strictly "off the table," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may be changing her tune. The Democratic leader said Thursday that the House Judiciary Committee could be holding hearings on impeachment articles introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) sometime in the near future. After introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush last month, Kucinich is planning to introduce another single article Thursday, accusing the president of misleading the country into war with Iraq. "This is a Judiciary Committee matter, and I believe we will see some attention being paid to it by the Judiciary Committee," Pelosi told reporters. "Not necessarily taking up the articles of impeachment because that would have to be approved on the floor, but to have some hearings on the subject." Pelosi added: "My expectation is that there will be some review of that in the committee."

Better late than never, but this is really late. Is Pelosi throwing the base a bone to get them off her back? She sure needs to -- she's may be the worst dem speaker to ever wield the gavel and almost no one is happy with her.

Maybe she figures that the clock will run out on this before it finishes. If so, what she doesn't reckon on are criminal charges for Bush after he leaves office. Once you're out of the White House, you're not automatically off the hook.