Pelosi: Impeachment Talk Just a 'Poverty of Ideas'

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) today called any talk of impeachment “a poverty of ideas” on the part of Republicans.

“I didn’t hear any of them talking about when we went into the Iraq War on the basis of a misrepresentation about what the motivation was for that war, and the thousands of Americans who died and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who died,” Pelosi said on MSNBC.

“But putting that aside, because that’s, again, a side show, let’s be serious about this. The fact is the talking points are what is the consensus is that the intelligence community state. All of them come together and agree on consensus talking points based on the information that each of them has at any given time. But we should even be talking about talking points when four people died and the point is our intelligence community, our diplomats, they promote our values. They also protect our people by gaining intelligence to prevent other conflict.”

Pelosi criticized the GOP for wanting “to focus on Secretary Clinton, who did such a magnificent job as secretary of State,” and not on jobs.

Blaming the media for this, she complained “that when you go to a show, everybody wants to talk about Benghazi.”

She called the IRS targeting of conservative groups “an opportunity.”

“As we look at this and we should — and I think it’s very wrong that they would have targeted them. We should be saying what are these groups — let’s have transparency, disclosure. Who are these contributors, A? B, let’s have accountability for what this is. This is a very vague law. We need a clear definition of what a 501-C4 is, that someone could give them money and they don’t have to pay taxes on it,” she said.

She was also asked about campaign fundraising, and Sen. Chris Murphy’s (D-Conn.) recent comments that running for office is a “soul-crushing” experience of becoming “a telemarketer for 24 months” as you beg for money.

“I think it’s easier to ask a total stranger than your friend, myself. I try to avoid that. I still have some friends. But the fact is that there are people who care about a progressive agenda in our country who are willing to help,” Pelosi said.