Here you go!
Posted on 05/13/2009 7:18:42 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bad morning for Pelosi @ 9:53 am by Eric Zimmermann
Two new developments in the "what did Pelosi know about waterboarding" series spell trouble for the Speaker.
First, CNN reports that an aide told Pelosi in February 2003 that waterboarding had been used on Abu Zubaydah. This contradicts Pelosi's assertion that she only knew about the legal rationale for waterboarding, not that it had been used.
Sheehy attended a briefing in which waterboarding was discussed in February 2003, with Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, who took over Pelosi's spot as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
This source says Pelosi didn't object when she learned that waterboarding was being used because she had not been personally briefed about it — only her aide had been told.
This looks pretty bad for Pelosi, as though she avoided any "personal briefing" to maintain deniability.
Second, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is now reluctantly admitting that Congressional hearings on the matter should include questions about what Pelosi knew.
The first of those hearings is today, a Senate Judiciary Committee that starts in, oh, about 5 minutes. The witness lineup today means the Pelosi issue probably won't take center stage, but that might change with future hearings.
“Moisturize me!”
And now for that sixties hit by the Knickerbockers...
If he wants to get her, I say we wish the old socialist luck, pop some popcorn and watch the blood fly.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Just think what Pelosi and her hoidy toidy friends say in private about Mechelle and her, um, fashion statements. Catty to the 10th degree I would bet...
She is sounding more senile every day.
Harmon has no love for Nancy, after the Speaker yanked her from her committee chairmanship..and Hoyer, well, remember, he originally ran AGAINST her, and anyone who doesn’t think that ole Steny wouldn’t liek to be Speaker..well..
Ah yes, the “last human in the universe”...
An orgasm?
Ugh. Two words that do NOT belong together: “Pelosi” and “orgasm.”
You’re bad.
The second says "That's nothing. I had a guy who lost both legs in an accident and I reattached them and last week he won the Olympic Gold medal in the 100 meter dash."
The third surgeon says "You guys are both pikers. I had a drunk woman who was riding a horse across some railroad tracks when she got hit by a freight train traveling 80 miles per hour. All I had left to work with was a hunk of hair and a horses' ass, and now she's Speaker of the House."
Wouldn’t it be zany if this were all orchestrated by Great Leader as a way to get out from underneath Dom-Pelosi’s stilleto?
Here you go!
Sitting here wondering: If it’s shown Nancy Pelosi (as well as others) knew about the waterboarding, will the definition of torture slowly shift back to the traditional meaning?
Not really. Pelosi losing credibility will benefit Opossum. He and Rahm are entirely behind her political demise.
“... Majority Leader Steny Hoyer is now reluctantly admitting that Congressional hearings on the matter should include questions about what Pelosi knew.”
Reluctantly ? My foot! Hoyer and Pelosi have had a deep-seated hatred for each other since their college days when they were Congressional interns. And, gee whiz, who’s second in line to the Speaker?
hahaha, this is too good for words. Bring on the popcorn.
Second dimwit in charge of house. Should have been speaker but Nancy stiffed him out of the job. Seems he is going after blood but trying to make it seem as if he is all for Pukeosi.
VERY interesting point...the fact that I missed it cold reinforces the fact that I was not meant for high-stakes politics. Thanks for sharing your insight (you don’t sound like too much of a yokel to me...).
That's what I'm starting to think. Obama released the memo to keep the Bush/Cheney scapegoat alive, but also to replace Pelosi with his hand picked successor.
Is Barry really that Machiavellian?
That is his starting point.
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