Nancy Pelosi questions GOP on DOMA contract ethics

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/20/11 | Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau

[SmithL]

House Dem leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco raised transparency and ethics questions about how the House GOP hired white-shoe lawyer Paul Clement of King and Spaulding at $520 an hour to defend DOMA in another, more threatening, letter to House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

Pelosi said the use of the special "Bipartisan Legal Advisory Group" to pursue the litigation "in no way diminished the need for normal oversight of the terms of any contract" that puts taxpayers on the hook for at least $500,000.

Pelosi said she and Dem whip Steny Hoyer, outvoted 2-3 on the so-called BLAG, as well as Democrats on the House Administration Committee, which authorized the contract, "were provided with no information about the contract prior to or, at the time of, its being signed on April 14th."

[Da Coyote]

Pelosi?

Ethics?

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choke, chortle, gasp, wheeze...........

[SmithL]

Nancy Pelosi is deeply disturbed!

[JPG]

Zip it, Pelosi, it's less than you dinged the taxpayers for your booze bill.

[Leo Farnsworth]

“Where are the jobs, Mr. President! Where are the JOBS!”

Nancy Pelosi, speaking on the well of the House Floor back when unemployment was a ‘horrific’ 5.0%.

WHERE ARE THE BRAINS, MS. PELOSI?! WHERE ARE THE BRAINS?

[newzjunkey]

Republicans better have their ethics ducks in a row. Ethical lapses helped install Pelosi as Speaker in 2007.

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From the article: "She [Pelosi] asked why Democrats were left out of the process.

You've got to be kidding.

[Godzilla]

she spent more on her gov’t jet trips back and forth as speakerette than this legal service.

[Jacquerie]

Pelosi said she (and Hoyer) "were provided with no information about the contract . . . "

This from the woman who sentenced the country to Obamacare without a single hearing, without consulting her own caucus or the House until hours before she demanded a vote. Breathtaking arrogance.

[FrankR]

Come on Nazi, er, I mean Nancy...don't just bluff and run your mouth, FILE SOME FREAKIN' CHARGES...walk your talk or shuttup.

[LibLieSlayer]

I smell the stench of brimstone... oh... pelosi’s breath.

LLS

[falcon99]

What a hypocrite Pelosi is. During her reign, Repubs didn’t get to see half the crud dems passed, and that which they did get to see was way late in the game. That woman is certifiable — but then she is from SanFrancisco