Posted on 05/03/2010 12:03:17 PM PDT by speciallybland
Nearly two years after the Wall Street meltdown drove the U.S. economy to the brink of collapse, and forced the U.S. government to prop up major financial institutions with hundreds of billions of dollars, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now claims that the Bush Administration prohibited its own top officials who were handling the emerging crisis from briefing Congress until a complete financial collapse was only hours away.
In little-noticed statements to reporters over the last few weeks, Pelosi has alleged that the Bush administration knew well in advance of its intervention that the financial crisis would hit, and that Congress would need to authorize a historic and unpopular bailout - but that top officials, including then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, told her that they had been barred from briefing Congress about true extent of the crisis.
If accurate, the allegation could constitute a major indictment of the Bush administration, which may have worsened the crisis and resulting economic fallout by delaying the call for congressional action. Pelosi says the admissions from Bush administration officials that they had kept Congress in the dark came in private conversations between her and those officials in person and by phone. None of the other parties to those conversations would comment for this story. Nor is it clear if the Administration's alleged decision not to brief Congress earlier was a calculated strategy to avoid spooking the already shaky financial markets thus hastening the crisis or, as Pelosi suggests, a political calculation in advance of the 2008 presidential elections, or a combination of the two.
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She must be getting desperate to pull that out of her ass.
Die women die!
just like her claim that she was never advised of waterboarding by the cia....she IS as dumb as she thinks we are....good grief...
Thanksgiving turkeys don’t fill up with as much crap as Pelosi is capable of stuffing into herself.
HMM that’s strange because there are videos out there of democrats saying there was no problem with Freddie and Fannie which we all know now was the cause of most of our problems. Sorry Nancy no one believes a word of what you say!
Yeah, like I believe a word Pelosi says. Man, I’d love to slap the botox outta her face.”
How many months do you estimate that would take?
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhh!!!
TRANSLATION: It’s STILL Bush’s fault!!
What a vision....the San Francisco botox spill..
Aw, c'mon, it's the only thing keeping her dentures in her mouth.
Could take awhile. Maybe it would be easier just to let the Hazmat guys take care of it.
And if frogs had wings, there a$$es wouldn't hit the ground when they jumped.
Boy, does this sound familiar! I say bring on the investigation and get all those ratbastards on the stand.........
“Botoxed, psychotic, and vicious is no way to go through life, girl...”
The National Enquirer is now starting to run stories about the one’s adultery.
Who do you think is telling the truth at this point in time, the National Enquirer, or the MSM who won’t touch this story?
Who reported the story about the Breck-girl when no MSM news source would touch it?
Let’s not forget that these allegations are coming from the same Speaker of the House who claims to have not been informed by the CIA of the special interrogation methods that they were using on certain detainees — the briefings that others in the House leadership have confirmed WERE given with the Speaker present.
I wouldn’t trust anything this Speaker says, especially when it’s an accusation about the Bush Administration.
Just more BS by Pelosi, the liar personified.
Briefing Congress?!? Congress holds the purse strings, Congress created Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, CONGRESS CAUSED THE CRISIS.
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