They’re getting crazier by the minute.

1) The Swift Boat Vets. 200+ of John Kerry’s wartime colleagues banded together to oppose his Presidency, and the MSM lowballed it. The Swifties created a perfect opportunity for a juicy story—and the MSM deliberately averted its eyes. It wasn’t until the Swifties started running their commercials that the story got legs.
2) Doug Feith’s book War and Decision. In the early months of 2008, I remember hearing how Feith’s book, once it appeared, would force the MSM to look (for a little bit at least) at the Iraq War from Team Bush 43′s side of the story.

Oh no. Instead, most MSM organs ignored the book. To the shock of many longtime pundits, key MSM organizations either refused to review the book or only gave it a perfunctory review. Feith never got to fully tell his side of the story, because the MSM refused to allow any meaningful conversation to take place.

THIS is why we need to keep talking about Pelosigate. It’s a story that will resonate with many Americans. And, for that reason, we should expect that many in the MSM will try to starve it of oxygen.

1) Knowing what you know now, will you vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker in 2011, when the new Congress convenes?
2) Do you agree with the Speaker, that the CIA regularly misled the Congress during the Iraq War years?
3) The stimulus bill passed with votes to spare in the House—did you support that bill? (For sitting members of Congress): If not, why didn’t you vote against it? (The Dem leadership didn’t need your vote to pass it anyway).
4) (For sitting members of Congress): Did you read the stimulus bill before you voted on it? Now, that you’ve had a chance to read it (and see some of its impact), would you still have voted for it?
5) (For sitting members of Congress): The most recent budget bill had thousands of earmarks. It passed with a comfortable margin in the House. Did you support that bill?

Record their answers. If they don’t answer, ask again, and keep asking.

All of this is siege artillery.

she has ruled the House with an iron fist

IIRC, many of the new “Blue Dogs” elected in 2006 had to promise to vote for Pelosi as Speaker, before the Dem Party threw their weight behind their candidacies.

The Dem Party not only willingly, but deliberately, decided to put this person:
- in charge of the flow of legislation in the House—because no meaningful piece of legislation goes anywhere in the House if the Speaker doesn’t want it to.
- third in line for the Presidency, in time of war.

Now, it’s one thing to be led by a bare-knuckles, brawler type when you’re an out-of-power minority in the House.

But, when you’re on the verge of power, you should ask yourself “OK, who should lead us if we do, indeed, take charge of half of the legislative branch of the world’s most powerful democracy.” Perhaps the traits that made for a good leader when you were fighting for scraps aren’t the same ones we’d look for in, arguably, the most influential legislative leadership position on Earth.

And, when they had the chance, for that position of positions, the Democrats picked…Nancy Pelosi.

As we continue to hammer the Speaker over the weeks and months ahead, let’s be sure to make that point. Over and over and over again.

nice try, we’ve covered the “torture” lie/meme already

[Troll Torture dismissal Form-Comment, I keep this handy since it always comes up]

Many Diaries exist see here covering all that including how water-boarding is NOT torture and the UN agreement the US is part of, how Democrats still do NOT pass a law to declare it such and/or PROHIBIT it (even as an EIT), the memos diversion, and on and on…

Again, if you want it to be known as Torture your lefty loons in Congress could so make it so by passing a new Law stating that it would now be considered Torture… They have NOT attempted to do so since they took power in 2006… Nor will they now… They know it is a LOSER and they will NOT give up the EIT’s under a Democrat despite their BS rhetoric about it. You waste time and space with that easily refuted crap and we are NOT going to waste our time when we’ve covered it countless times already (see the above link to other RS links).

There are many Diaries here at RedState that already refute all the Democrat Talking-points contentions and I am sorry but I do not have the time to cover that ground again. A simple google search within RedState will yield that information and I invite you, and hope you will, look over the many thoughtful Articles that provide some additional Facts, Quotes, Links, etc, (on top of this one and maybe even some from the same author of the Diary this conversation is taking place in) on this topic and/or the things you (parroted) brought up (Election Issues recap [with links]).

If you pause, and give the enemy time to regroup, you most likely lose that advantage.

Hence, the “exploitation.” In an “exploitation,” you keep pressure on your enemy. You keep them disorganized, and you try to disorganize them further.

Moreover, by staying on the attack, you keep the initiative for yourself. You dictate the action on the battlefield. You make them react to you.

The Dems apparently hope to pass a major restructuring of our national health care system this summer. Specifically, they want to do it while we’re distracted on our summer vacations. That requires a cohesive, well-coordinated and smoothly-running political machine.

Nancy Pelosi is very good at running such a machine—unless she’s running for her life instead.

The MSM will want to declare this old news and move on. We should not let them. Pelosi has made shocking charges that she can’t simply walk away from. We should not let her, and we should not let the MSM let her.

On the road from Petersburg to Appomattox, Grant wrote Lincoln: “If the thing is pressed, I think Lee will surrender.”

Lincoln’s timeless reply: “Let the THING be PRESSED.”

Keep after ‘em, House and Senate GOP. I can feel their lines breaking…

It might be Nancy didn’t know how far the argument had progressed. She might have been caught flatfooted.

Bad staff work. Never let the boss get surprised. Especially a boss that will most likely not think twice about tossing you under any bus she sees if she’s displeased.

We could have one holy and splendid mess of talking heads chattering on and on about this. And, each day this happens, Speaker Pelosi looks a little bit worse.

Siege artillery works best when you have the freedom to pound, pound, pound your foe, day in and day out, into dust.

Does anyone see a way in which Pelosi gets in front of this news cycle? Any way that she can seize the initiative here, and shape the story to her benefit? I didn’t think so.

All those MSM types who are so openly sympathetic to Democratic politics, must be thinking to themselves “Hey, this nut’s gotta go. Otherwise the GOP might—UGH—regain control of the House!”

I think there are key people at the NYT, WaPo and LAT who are silently unleashing their staff hounds of Heck on hapless Nan. Once she goes, Steny can take charge and start building the lasting Democratic majority in the House that is our MSM’s dream.

Pelosi, on the other hand, might screw up things for everybody.

Flip Flop Flip Flop Flip

For starters, she is on the wrong side of public opinion on this. Majority believes that the EITs should be employed in limited circumstances (whether or not you cateogrize the techniques as torture).

But Pelosi is so blinded by her bloodlust for the Bush administration, and she is so confident that the press will give her cover that she decided to plunge forward anyway. I think she is flabbergasted at how it has backfired on her.

Her argument yesterday was laughable. Trotting out Iraq and WMDs and trying to frame the EIT argument around it was weak. She figured that argument worked for them in the 2006 elections, so why not now? People are not that gullible Nancy. When you change your story for the umpteenth time, people aren’t going to believe you. Also, people are not buying her line that she knew about the techniques but didn’t know they were being used. If you were so offended, you would have sounded off about them then. Lame, lame, lame.

writing new column tonight on this

hint on themes

don’t let investigation chant be a moving the goalpost vehicle to let pelosi and dems off the hook

No joke.

As an aside, anyone interested in testing their outrageometer for conductivity and durability should read this seen on hotair:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=aB2p31qRJH6k&refer=politics

Ace should open link only if he has a soothing cup of tea or something a little stronger, handy.