GenRolly Speaking:
Political insights by columnist Paul Rolly.

 

Monday, October 23, 2006

Lead by Example?
An e-mail apparently has been sent throughout the 2nd Congressional District signed by 21 Republican Utah legislators asking for campaign contributions for GOP Congressional candidate LaVar Christensen, who is challenging incumbent Democrat Jim Matheson.

The e-mail is as a shrill warning about how life will be destroyed if Democrats take control of Congress and House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi becomes speaker.

But one warning jumped out at me: If Pelosi becomes speaker, the Democrats "would initiate frivolous impeachment proceedings against the president . . . "

First of all, Pelosi has said publicly (most recently on CBS' "60 Minutes" Sunday) that the Democrats would not initiate impeachment proceedings against President Bush.

But despite that, think about that warning from Republicans for a minute.

They are worried Congress would initiate frivolous impeachment proceedings against the president. Roll that phrase over in your mind: "frivolous impeachment proceedings against the president." The Republicans are now saying they are against such a thing.

Frivolous impeachment proceedings. Frivolous impeachment proceedings.

Does that bring back any faint memories.

Does anyone remember a few years ago when Clinton was president.

Frivolous impeachment proceedings.

In other words, the e-mail is saying, if you give the Democrats the majority in Congress, they might do what the Republicans did.

For horrors.

Cheers,
Paul Rolly

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Paul Rolly grew up in Salt Lake City, graduating from Skyline High School and earning a B.S. in political science at the University of Utah. He began working at The Salt Lake Tribune in 1973 as a copy boy. He worked his way up the ladder, covering police, local government, community affairs and business. He left The Tribune in 1982 to work for United Press International where he was the Utah political reporter and later Salt Lake City bureau chief. He returned to the Tribune in 1985, covering the Utah Legislature and later, taking over as business editor. He began the Rolly&Wells column in 2001 with JoAnn Wells and continues the column alone since her retirement. He also writes a political column that runs in The Tribune's Sunday opinion section. He is married to Dawn House, a reporter at The Tribune.


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