Posted on 12/06/2011 7:44:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What a difference a day makes — and a counterthreat. On Friday, Nancy Pelosi bragged to TPM’s Brian Beutler that she had access to “a thousand pages” of investigatory material on Newt Gingrich, implying that she would “talk” later in the campaign if Gingrich won the nomination. However, after Gingrich blasted her a few hours later and called for an ethics probe into Pelosi’s threat, her office suddenly developed a case of amnesia about those thousand pages:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi now says she is not sitting on a trove of opposition research on former House Speaker-turned-GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich. …
Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, suggested that her comments have been misconstrued beyond the leader’s intent.
“Leader Pelosi was clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware,” Hammill wrote in a statement.
Er … sure she was. This is what she told Beutler:
Pelosi didn’t go into detail about Gingrich’s past transgressions, but she tipped her hand. “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
How exactly was that “misconstrued”? The public has been aware of the official committee report for more than a decade, and it got very wide play in the media at the time. No one doubts that this report will be rehashed again and again if Gingrich wins the nomination. Part of that conversation, though, will be the IRS’ report clearing Gingrich more than a year later of any wrongdoing, a development that goes a long way to support Gingrich’s contention yesterday that the entire ethics probe was as politicized as Pelosi’s unveiled threat yesterday to reveal sealed records in the probe. That exoneration didn’t get anywhere near the media coverage that the Ethics Committee report did at the time, either.
Pelosi’s backpedaling shows that she knows that she overplayed her hand, and if Gingrich wins the nomination (which is still a pretty big if, recent polling aside), that line of attack has been compromised by her inability to keep from bragging about her access to it. As Gingrich said, it’s an early Christmas gift — and more reason why Republicans can make Pelosi a central issue in House races next fall.
yep, that’s one of my problems with Newt right there.
It’s a trick. She is now saying that she doesn’t have anything but she will somehow get it into the hands of the media with her hands clean. She is nasty. People say she is dumb but I don’t think so. She is dangerous and Newt should never have gotten involved with her.
He reached across the aisle...and she bit his hand. Happens every time.
Sounds like piglousy realized that Newt knows a lot more filth and corruption on her than she has on him.
Axelrod is like a hound dog. He will sniff out those sealed records and will deem them unsealed. The RATs will get those files unsealed one way or another. Bank on it. They have ZERO morals and had no problem leaking VERY classified information throughout Bush’s 8 years.
Newt should go forward with what he knows about Pelosi, anyway.
Not sure I follow you. We finally have a candidate who is not afraid to go after MSM or the left wing losers out there, and you knock him.
It’s refreshing to have someone with guts running for the presidency, and who unashamedly loyal to this country and a conservative.
I’ve decided on Newt four weeks ago, and as yet have no remorse despite the crap that is posted on him daily on this forum.
It’s called blackmail for Queen Pelosi to even threaten the release.
Newt needs to make it clear that he doesn’t buy the globul warming crap and that the first line of business when he’s elected will be drill baby, drill.
I think most of it is public record, isn’t it. It’s just a matter of knowing where to look. She can point the media in the right direction.
That's what they did in Illinois to get Obama elected.
Don’t get me wrong. My problems with Newt are far and few between. I think Newt can win. That’s what counts.
She is nasty.
She is pure evil. Any conservative that would lower themselves to have two words with her needs their head examined. I hope she reaps what she sows while I’m alive to witness it!
The old Battle-Ax has gone completely around the bend.
But she was stiill able to make Newtie’s head spin.
She must have given him a quick flash of her Depends.
Well, that's a very rude thing to do, promise a Christmas gift and then take it back. Just plain RUDE of her.
Oh, Nancy, let us not lie about our love! Yes, your smile is as fake as a $3 string of pearls, but let the truth of our love shine like a thousand suns! How I long to hold your hands and say the words I’ve dreamt of saying for so long, “I’ve got her hands! Let’s get the straitjacket on her now!”
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