Posted by
flagwaver on Friday, May 15, 2009 11:56:09 AM
Watching Nancy Pelosi squirm on the dais at her press conference yesterday was absolutely priceless! She stumbled, she stuttered, she rambled, she sounded like a person going through the early onset of dementia, and she proved herself to be a total and complete liar. I mean, she was working on what...her fifth version of this story? First she wasn't briefed, then she was but couldn't so anything about, then she just heard about the briefing, then she recieved a second hand account of the briefing, and now she claims that she could not do anything about any harsh interrogation techniques short of electing Obama. That, my friends, is Democratic leadership at it's very best!!!
But what is even richer than watching Pelosi stumble around trying to find the place in her statement that spells out what she heard about waterboarding, was listening to Democrat apologists trying to blame this on everyone but Madame Pelosi. The Pelosi camp is putting out statements from other Democrats that claim the CIA misled them in the past to burnish her claims of the CIA having lied to her (at one of those briefings she didn't attend, I suppose) and then the apologists have gone to their ace-in-the-hole argument...the Republicans set her up!
Now this is the same GOP that couldn't get Colin Powell to endorse or vote for his wet dream GOP candidate in 2008, that has lost more races than Kyle Petty, and that was just declared DOA in every mainstream media outlet for the last two months or so...right? This is the same GOP that endorses Charlie "Lil' Specter" Crist in the Florida senatorial race, thinks that John McCain is a statesman, and that is working overtime to take the Dems advice to move left on order to survive. And this group of nincompoops is alleged to have dreamed up a scheme to entrap Nancy Pelosi...in her own words, no less...to turn the heat away from themselves? Are we really supposed to believe that the GOP leadership is that smart or effective? I think not!
The problem that Madame Speaker is having is that she has been caught in her own net and her own web of lies and misstatements. And she has accused the CIA of being a criminal organization that has broken the law by lying to Congress, even though not even other Democrats are backing up her claim. The GOP has been handed, gift wrapped with a bow, a way to beat the living hell out of the Democrats and Madame Speaker on the issue of national security and they seem inclined to do it, for a change. Kit Bond has been all over the place, as well as Pete Hoekstra endorsing the idea of some type of hearing or truth commission that would have members of Congress being called as witnessess as to what the CIA had to say about waterboarding in those briefings...and Madame Speaker would be a star witness in the proceedings. And wouldn't that be delicious...watching Madame Speaker have to take an oath and tell the real truth about what she knew and when she knew it!
And it was fun to see the media on the attack against a Democrat for a change, I must admit. It was obvious that Madame Speaker was not getting any breaks from the assembled press and she literally fled the scene when the questioning got tough! Suddenly the media remembered what it is there for; to hold the politically powerful accountable for their words and deeds. And their questions of Madame Pelosi were well thought out and were backed up with great follow up questions...which is why Madame Speaker felt the need to get the hell outta Dodge!
Madame Speaker has just found out what it's like to be caught up in your own lies, and it's not fun at all. If she would have just been honest...or kept her mouth shut...she would have been just fine. But you can bet your bottom dollar that the CIA is not going to be accused of lying to Congress and not respond, and when they start to fire back the heat is going to ratchet up even higher on Madame Speaker. And it is going to be a sight to see Madame Speaker trying to refute the black and white evidence of her knowledge of the interrogation techniques that find their way into the press, especially if that performance yesterday was how she handles pressure!
The people of California must be so proud...NOT!!!