When CNN and Digg teamed up to interview House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with questions from the general public, I thought it was a stroke of genius.

I was quickly slapped back into reality when question after question was met with Ms. Pelosi's rendition of the same old tired status quo performance we've seen Nancy perform with stunning consistency. With no follow up questions and a very short time frame in which to squeeze as many different issues as possible, the interview went as well as could be expected.

Unfortunately, not one word of impeachment was mentioned. And though Ms. Pelosi offered every excuse she could think of to wave away the stench of failure in her fights with Bush, she failed to mention the one victory she could claim. Prior to her ascension to the throne of power in the House, Ms. Pelosi declared with determination that "impeachment was off the table." And despite all of the revelations that continue to emerge about the diabolical machinations of this administration and in spite of all the efforts of her fellow Democrats (led by Dennis Kucinich), Ms. Pelosi has been successful in keeping the impeachment issue and processes off the front pages of the nation's newspapers. And she, along with her comrade Conyers, have together been able to do to the American people what she has failed repeatedly to do with Bush - defeat every effort we have tried to impeach and remove an abusive Commander in Chief and his vice president.

I applaud Ms. Pelosi for venturing forth to address the issues concerning the people who helped put her in her seat of power. And to CNN's and Digg's credit, the questions were tougher than I gather Pelosi is accustomed.

However, the elephant in the room seemed frightened by the Mouse Speaker's brazen attempt to lord over us the many battles she and her lackluster congressional Dems have fought against the president and the Republicans in the House and Senate. Pelosi offered time and again the point(less) notion that the Democrats were battling tooth and nail (and losing) on virtually every issue under the sun.

She finally admitted that she realized the mandate (and most important reason) she and her cohorts were ushered into Congress in such heavy numbers in the previous election was to end the war in Iraq. Pelosi admitted failure on that front as well.

Her finale was simply to admit that they were trying and that the only way to truly succeed would be to elect Barack Obama president.

That makes this veteran want to impeach the House Speaker. How DARE she offer such platitudes to try and placate the public when people are being injured and killed each day that she sits in Congress and refuses to impeach the Commander in Chief who abuses his power and the courageous troops who depend on Pelosi and company to protect their back from such abuse.

Ms. Pelosi did not once broach the subject of impeachment. The truth is that both she and her cohort, House Judiciary Committee Chair John Conyers, have done all they could to defeat their fellow Democrats and the American public in every attempt to hold the Commander in Chief and his vice president responsible for the injuries and deaths of more than a million people.

I would like to see CNN host a Town Hall on impeachment. I would like to see discussions and debates with Dennis Kucinich, Scott McClellan, Vincent Bugliosi, the Senate Intelligence Committee Chair and representatives from a number of prominent grassroots organizations who are raising legitimate questions and offering very legitimate arguments for impeaching this administration.

I'd like to see this Town Hall conducted with invitations to every member of Congress.

In this age of information, CNN ought to be able to conduct a national Town Hall on the subject that Ms. Pelosi admitted was THE most important subject on the minds of all Americans ... the war in Iraq. But, the truth is that the war in Iraq is too general. The American people have demonstrated through poll results, protests, organized grassroots campaigns, even at the polls that we want this Commander in Chief removed from office, along with his vice president and cabinet.

There is no question that if the media would even begin to bring to the forefront the question of impeachment, it would be the fulcrum upon which this election would balance.

Give that impeachment proceedings are ongoing (investigation by the House Judiciary Committee) despite all efforts by Pelosi, Conyers and the mainstream media to ignore it and play it down, there is little doubt that this issue is newsworthy. But it has failed to make it to the front pages and the editorial pages of major newspapers and magazines. It has failed to become the major defining issue that the war in iraq has become.

And that isn't accidental. It's tough to keep quiet an issue that the entire nation is talking about.

So, I'm asking CNN to break its moratorium on the impeachment issue. I'm asking CNN to shed its silence and speak up LOUD on this issue.

I'm asking CNN to lead the way with a Town Hall on impeachment. If there's no real issue here and no real justification, then let the people discuss it in the court of public opinion.

You've got the best lawyer in the nation calling for the prosecution of the president for murder. You've got a five-year investigation conducted by the Senate. You've got former White House insiders ready to testify that there was and is conspiracy to defraud and deceive the American people.

You've got a congressman who has tirelessly sought to bring the issues to light that are condemning according to the president's and vice president's OWN WORDS!

You've got drama in the House Judiciary Committee during the testimonies of Bugliosi and Kucinich.

And in light of all of that, you've got Mouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi claiming she can't, won't and couldn't ever impeach George W. Bush.

If not you, CNN, then who? Who else will air this American historical drama that has been hushed?

HBO?