The Aroma Of Burning Bridges
Cindy Sheehan got her attention-starved self arrested today. It even got the media, who cheerfully pushed her as the absolute moral authority on ending the war, upset enough to momentarily undo her unperson status.
WASHINGTON — Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat's refusal to try to impeach President Bush.
Sheehan was taken into custody inside Rep. John Conyers' office, where she had spent an hour imploring him to launch impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Conyers, D-Mich., chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment effort would have to begin.
"The Democrats will not hold this administration accountable, so we have to hold the Democrats accountable," Sheehan said outside of Conyers' office after the meeting. "And I for one am going to step up to the plate and run against Nancy Pelosi."
Sheehan and about 200 other protesters had walked to Conyers' office from Arlington National Cemetery. She said Conyers told her there weren't enough votes for impeachment to move forward on the issue.
Forty-five of Sheehan's fellow protesters also were arrested……
The Democrats and the media (ok, that's basically redundant, I know) has ceaselessly hyped the likes of Sheehan. Now she is coming back around to haunt them. Call it Frankenstein with a bad hairdo. Sheehan is, frankly, an idiot if she thinks she can unseat Pelosi – Cindy will not be getting any good press from the media. How much have you actually heard about the attention-seeking march she just completed? (Hint: correct answer is nothing). The media have her pegged as an unperson. She will not get any headlines unless she acts like a psycho stalker. Oh, gee. That's what she did today, isn't it?
Say goodnight, Cindy.
By Bleepless, July 23, 2007 @ 7:42 pm
If Windy Cindy retains the slightest vestige of sanity, she knows that she cannot defeat anybody. However, it frequently is and has been the role of such candidates to scare the crap out of their opposition by taking away enough votes to show that, unless they are coddled, the insurgents can throw things to the hated Bad Guys. Remember McCarthy v. LBJ?
By Purple Avenger, July 23, 2007 @ 11:37 pm
She should have never started in with the truther and commie snuggling stuff. They dropped her like a hot potato after that started surfacing.
Still, I’m fully behind any effort that will give the Pelosi heartburn and cause her to burn campaign cash. I believe it will be a real lesson for the democrats to see how much a liability the hard left can be to them.
By FedUp, July 24, 2007 @ 7:04 am
I don’t think Cindy has a snowball’s chance, but it will be fun to sit back and watch. If nothing else, it’ll generate a tiny bit of attention from her Queenliness! Now, can we find someone to do the same for dirty Harry?