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Speaker Defarge* Keeps Digging; Hoyer Eyes Her Job

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Pelosi says Bush team misled her on waterboarding.  Trotting out the standard Democratic response.  When caught in a lie or facing a problem, blame Bush.  Nancy’s only making things worse for herself and better for Republicans.

Waiting in the wings, Steny Hoyer must be smiling.  He’s licking his chops at the prospect of an investigation. For the record, he’ll say it’s to clear her name (UPDATE:  well, it’s not clear what he’s saying for the record), but deep down, he knows it’s about taking her job.  She should have known better than to run her scandal-plagued man against him for Majority Leader.

*See this post.

UPDATE: Karl Rove: “The political persecution of Bush administration officials [Pelosi] has been pushing may now ensnare her.”

UP-UPDATE: Jim Geraghty doesn’t think Mrs. Pelosi will face any consequences for her dishonesty:

Are House Democrats going to lead the charge to remove her from the speakership? A push from the Obama team? Calls for her resignation from the mainstream press? I am skeptical. The Post editorial board will rough her up a little, the Times will write that the lack of evidence “raises troubling questions,” and Time and Newsweek will conclude that they don’t have enough space to get into it.

UP-UP-UPDATE John Hinderaker wonders if Pelosi can survive and cites the Washington Post’s Chris Civilizza who contends the Spaker “would not have held this sort of press conference unless she and her inner circle believed that she was losing altitude — politically — on the issue.”

Comments

  1. “By his actions and with his testimony yesterday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has lost the trust of the American people. The nation cannot have a chief law enforcement officer whose candor and judgment are in serious question. The president should restore credibility to the office of the attorney general. Alberto Gonzales must resign.”

    Pelosi 2007

    She’s lost the trust (whatever she had) of the American people and her candor and judgement are in serious question. The credibility of the Speaker of the House position must be restored.

    Granny Botox must resign.

  3. I remember when former Governor George Romney, when thinking of running against LBJ, toured Vietnam on a fact finding tour. He came back and started to describe how he had been “brain washed” by pro war administration officers and officials. His career blew up immediately. The press mocked the prospective Presidential candidate. Was he too dumb to see things for himself or what? And Romney was barely heard from again. Now we see how the same type thing is almost worn as a badge of courage by a Democrat. Democrat Speaker Pelosi’s defense if I’m not mistaken is…..I was too stupid to know what was going on or the CIA misled and brain washed me. Only a Democrat can wear such a mantra with pride. hehe Most all Democrats were for the war until it got sticky. They didn’t have the onions to stay the course until our brave troops won the day. Democrats were for water boarding and more until the situation got sticky. Then they started carping in hindsight. The conservative press should use the FOI freedom of information act to see what the Democrats knew and when they knew it. If Pelosi is lying maybe Obama and Biden are as well. If the Democrat in the White House wants to out CIA agents and techniques, and weaken our defenses, maybe we can find out how much Feinstein, Pelosi, Hoyer and the like knew early on. Notice how quiet by the way, Mr Rockefeller has been. hehe

  4. From the AP article on AOL:

    “But Pelosi defended her own lack of action on the issue, saying her focus at the time was on wresting congressional control from Republicans so her party could change course.

    “No letter could change the policy. It was clear we had to change the leadership in Congress and in the White House. That was my job — the Congress part,” Pelosi said.”

    Power hungry woman. Unfit for office.

  5. I watched Democrat Pelosi’s entire press conference. Man what a dolt. Is there any wonder why these Democrats use a teleprompter to ask for coffee in the morning? She was a stumbling bumbling mass of contridictions. Let’s begin the investigation. But meanwhile I hope the FBI and CIA keep their eye on the ball and continue to protect innocent Americans despite Obama and Pelosi.
    I am grateful that the Obamateleprompter administration took former VP Cheneys advise and did not release any more inflammatory pictures that would have cost the lives of hundreds of our troops overseas. I’m one who thinks when the Obamaites get in trouble, the adults, the former administration adults should try to help them out like Cheney did.
    (BTW have you seen any of the leftist Democrat apologists in here?)

  8. #7 now if any Republican accused of lying or dissembling, had a performance like MS Pelosi, when exactly would the unbiased press start screaming questions and shouting leading statements at the podium?

  9. “But Pelosi defended her own lack of action on the issue…

    Putting the nation first, as always.

    Why be surprised? What else would one expect from someone who’s dumb, power-hungry, and dishonest? Gotta love it.

  11. #10 – Me too, Casey. That is, until I can get the requisite pitchfork/torch assembly set. (It’s sold next to the do-it-yourself-tar-and-feather starter kit.)

    If Madame Botoxi had any brains (again, we’re talking hypothetically here), she’d deep-six herself and do like Joe “Plugs” Biden did and disappear for a while in Europe or something.

    Then again, we ARE talking the Dhimmicrats here.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  12. Now, Peter, there are decent Democrats out there. Take Evan Bayh, for example, or Phil Bredesen, or even the governor of the great state of Ohio, Ted Strickland.

    While I’m not 100% alongside Ted’s ideas (he seems rather fond of taxes, as opposed to cuts, but no where in Obama’s league), you have to admire a national-level Democrat who’s as strong on gun right as he is.

    There’s also countable number of “red state” Democrats who came in during the ’06 or ’08 elections, and are not nearly as “liberal” as the Berkeleyites. As best I can tell, President Obama, Pelosi, and their DC mafia are pretty much blowing these people off. Alas, Barry -coming from Chicago- hasn’t seemed to grasp concepts like the fact that one obliged to listen to everyone at the table, if even if “we won.” He seems unfamiliar with the idea that one needs a broad, healthy coalition to get serious work done, and may yet regret ignoring the more centrist newbies in the Democratic Party.