Today, House Democrats defeated a measure brought up by Republicans that would have created a bi-partisan congressional panel that would investigate Pelosi's claims that the CIA had lied to her during briefings on national security matters, including enhanced interrogation techniques.
Pelosi has had so many different stories about this over the past few weeks, it is hard to tell which lie is her latest. One day, she changed her story three times.
If she is correct and the CIA misled her, she has a duty to hold an investigation to get to the bottom of it - lying to Congress is a serious offense, just ask Pelosi or Reid.
Or, if she wasn't present at the briefings, or she wasn't presented with enough information (both stories from her over the past two weeks), then she is incompetent.
Or, if she is lying, and the CIA is telling the truth, then she has committed an offense that should cost her the speakership, and also should bring impeachment proceedings. Past Speakers of the House have lost their positions for far less than that.
Once again, if the Democrats have nothing to hide, nothing to fear, and want the truth to come out, why do they continue to block all investigations into their behavoir? The answer is pretty obvious ... they want to keep their jobs and positions of power at any cost.
This is going to catch up with them ....
Update - at a press conference this morning (Friday), Pelosi defended her remarks about the CIA lying to her:
"I have made the statement that I'm going to make on this. I don't have any more to say on this. I stand by my comments. And what we are doing is staying on our course and not being distracted from it." - Nancy Pelosi, 5/22/09
In other words, she is telling the mainstream media to drop it and move on so she doesn't have to defend herself anymore.
"Speaker Pelosi stammered and filibustered around the elephant in the room because she knows full well that she has become a political liability to her fellow Democrats in Congress. Her obsession with the previous administration and her disdain for America's intelligence officials has reduced her to cheerleader status within the far left wing of her party and a distraction to the substantive debate over how to best move our economy forward." - Ken Spain, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman
Well said, Mr. Spain ....
Pelosi has had so many different stories about this over the past few weeks, it is hard to tell which lie is her latest. One day, she changed her story three times.
If she is correct and the CIA misled her, she has a duty to hold an investigation to get to the bottom of it - lying to Congress is a serious offense, just ask Pelosi or Reid.
Or, if she wasn't present at the briefings, or she wasn't presented with enough information (both stories from her over the past two weeks), then she is incompetent.
Or, if she is lying, and the CIA is telling the truth, then she has committed an offense that should cost her the speakership, and also should bring impeachment proceedings. Past Speakers of the House have lost their positions for far less than that.
Once again, if the Democrats have nothing to hide, nothing to fear, and want the truth to come out, why do they continue to block all investigations into their behavoir? The answer is pretty obvious ... they want to keep their jobs and positions of power at any cost.
This is going to catch up with them ....
Update - at a press conference this morning (Friday), Pelosi defended her remarks about the CIA lying to her:
"I have made the statement that I'm going to make on this. I don't have any more to say on this. I stand by my comments. And what we are doing is staying on our course and not being distracted from it." - Nancy Pelosi, 5/22/09
In other words, she is telling the mainstream media to drop it and move on so she doesn't have to defend herself anymore.
"Speaker Pelosi stammered and filibustered around the elephant in the room because she knows full well that she has become a political liability to her fellow Democrats in Congress. Her obsession with the previous administration and her disdain for America's intelligence officials has reduced her to cheerleader status within the far left wing of her party and a distraction to the substantive debate over how to best move our economy forward." - Ken Spain, National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman
Well said, Mr. Spain ....
1 comment:
Basically she ran her mouth and then how dare anyone throw it back at her. She seems to consider herself Queen of All She Surveys and the peasants are not to talk to the Queen.
Yeah, right.
Post a Comment