It is a very open secret in Democratic circles that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) do not have the best of relationships. The pair were rivals for the speaker’s gavel after the Democrats took control of the House in 2006. Later, Pelosi backed the notoriously corrupt Jack Murtha (D-PA) for Majority Leader against Hoyer. Tensions have simmered beneath the surface ever since.
But now that Speaker Pelosi finds herself embroiled in a growing scandal over what she knew and when she knew it regarding the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on terrorist detainees, those tensions are about to boil over. Hoyer is backing an inquiry into the interrogations, sought by Pelosi, but said today that the Speaker herself should be a target of the investigation. [sub. req.]
House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer said Tuesday that investgations into the Bush Administration’s use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques should look at what congressional leaders, including Speaker Pelosi, knew about the use of the methods that have been criticized as torture. [...]
“Frankly, information about what was said, when it was said, who said it, that ought to be on the record so the American public knows.”
Welcome back from your trip, Madam Speaker.
Pelosi seems about to learn the true meaning of that old saying, “revenge is a dish best served cold.”. But there is another saying with which the Speaker may have a more intimate familiarity: payback is a [Pelosi].
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jburr (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 5:28PM EST (link)What goes around comes around. You cant leave a wake of enemies and one of them not come back and bite you.
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jburr (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 5:30PM EST (link)What goes around comes around. You cant leave a wake of enemies and one of them not come back and bite you. Now we get to laugh while watching her try and wiggle out of this one. Maybe she will get a little taste of what President Bush had to face from her cohorts over the last 8 years.
Move along, nothing to see here....
texas214 (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 7:18PM EST (link)this will quickly change the subject in Washington, and on MSNBC, NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC…. “torture” will never to be heard again.
Danger Danger Will Robinson
OneCleverCookie Tuesday, May 12th at 8:21PM EST (link)Sounds like the house Dems along with Leon Panetta have scrubbed Tokyo Ros Pelosi’s CIA briefing records. Repulicans should be very wary of going down this road of Show Trials.
People should always be aware that the Leftist aren’t interested in any facts, only “truths”. Their “truth”.
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
Winston Churchill
You Underestimate Democrats Propensity for Backstabbing & Infighting
IJB Tuesday, May 12th at 8:34PM EST (link)Occam’s Razor dictates that this isn’t some clever trap laid to ensnare Republicans, but is exactly what it seems – one Dem lieutenant gunning for his idiotic and corrupt Boss Lady’s job.
And, on that score, I’m of two minds – on the one hand, Nancy Pelosi is vile and repellent and I’d like to see her *gone*; but, on the other hand, she incompetent in ways that I’m afraid Hoyer would not be, which makes Hoyer too dangerous to be allowed to lead the Dems.
So, I hope this all serves to bloody and weaken Pelosi, while still leaving her in charge…
Too many copies...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 8:50PM EST (link)Pelosi’s only hope… The minutes of the briefings remain classified.
Besides, I can’t picture Leon Panetta placing his head in the noose just to protect Madame Doublespeak.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan
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avgamerican (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 11:03PM EST (link)Dick Cheney’s courage to speak out these last few days coupled with the revelation of Pelosi’s lying has in effect has thrown water all over the dems attempts to demonize the Bush Administration. Let Pelosi stew awhile. As I said the other night these dimwits in power are going to self-destruct.
“Repeat the lie often enough and soon the people begin to believe it.”
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Chief of Propoganda
I shoulda seen it. Her lips were moving.
6eorge Jetson (Diary) Tuesday, May 12th at 11:33PM EST (link)Good Idea
reaganiterepublicanresistance Wednesday, May 13th at 8:52AM EST (link)Apparently Pelosi and Obama forgot something: the CIA KILLS people… it’s in their job description. Did these two really think that these killers were going to take-one-for-the-team… when the team captain is a lying, incompetent, arrogant nebbish who has basically told them they need to kiss his ring? -please
Obama really kicked an ant hill with his ill-advised and politically motivated release of Bush Administration memos regarding EITs. Let’s have a hearing and get it all out there, shall we?
Then watch the rats scatter who attacked Bush for protecting the country from terrorist attack… but who clearly knew what was going on five years before we heard a peep out of them..
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Do you have plans to interview Pelosi?
antisocial (Diary) Wednesday, May 13th at 12:10PM EST (link)I remember you can cause career death.
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What is to be done?
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No. You can’t – Moe Lane
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The Emperor has no clothes!!!