House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is still dead set against impeachment hearings for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, his handler. She says such proceedings would be divisive. Is she freaking kidding? How can the situation become more divisive than it already is? The American people deserve to know the truth behind Junior Boy's presidency. We deserve to know how and why he lied us into war. We need to know the truth behind Cheney's secret energy planning. We need to hold these criminals responsible for the rape and pillage of the National Treasury and the Constitution. Pelosi's continual opposition to the citizenry learning the truth calls her motives into question. But then again, maybe she thinks we can't handle the truth. Maybe it really is much worse than we think.

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.

Many Democrats and civil liberties groups have accused the Bush administration of misleading the United States into the Iraq war and violating the rights of U.S. citizens with its warrantless surveillance program. The White House denies the charges.

Speaking with reporters, she recalled that she wanted to focus on unifying the nation, passing the Democrats’ legislative agenda — not picking an impeachment fight with the White House.

“It was my belief that an impeachment of the Vice President or the President … would be very divisive in our country, and that is what I believed then,” Pelosi said. “It should have come to no surprise when I became Speaker I said it again, and I continue to hold that view.”