Pelosi plans to reveal information about Gingrich 'when the time is right'

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[Sub-Driver]

Pelosi plans to reveal information about Gingrich 'when the time is right' By Alicia M. Cohn - 12/05/11 11:44 AM ET

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday.

“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … 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.”

Gingrich, who served as Speaker of the House, worked with Pelosi in Congress from 1987 to 1999. Pelosi also served on the ethics committee that investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations in the late ’90s.

Gingrich filmed an ad with then-House Speaker Pelosi in 2008 to urge action on climate change, which haunted him early in his presidential bid this year. Gingrich called the ad “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in recent years” last month.

Republicans in Congress have been slow to rally around Gingrich’s rise to front-runner status in the polls, with former GOP colleague Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) stating publicly over the weekend he is not “inclined to be a supporter” of Gingrich due to that past experience.

But Democrats such as the soon-to-retire Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) have suggested Gingrich as the GOP nominee would benefit the Democratic Party.

"He would be the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater," Frank said last week. Goldwater is credited with reviving Republican conservatism in the ’60s.

Pelosi told Talking Points Memo that Frank “spoke for a lot” of Democrats. “I like Barney Frank’s quote the best, where he said ‘I never thought I’d live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party,’ ” she said.

And Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who also served in Congress with Gingrich and now holds a position of power as assistant minority leader in the House, charged Gingrich on Monday with lacking the temperament to be president.

“He tends to fly off the handle. He will say almost anything in order to get a charge. I’m sure that he’s not serious when he says a lot of these things,” Clyburn said on MSNBC.

[XenaLee]

Sorry...but....it’s gotta be yet another Pelosi LIE. Nobody could survive being locked up with that hag for a year.

[XenaLee]

Sorry...but....it’s gotta be yet another Pelosi LIE. Nobody could survive being locked up with that hag for a year.

[catfish1957]

It’s high time that this bitch is destroyed.

[XenaLee]

Look out, Newt. Your “”good friend”” is about to stab you in the back AND kick you in the nads.

Thus proving....

you just can’t trust a leftist (duh).

[combat_boots]

“Democratic Party Profile: Nancy Pelosi: Mafia Princess”
January 13th, 2007 |http://shelleytherepublican.com/2007/01/13/democratic-profile-nancy-pelosi-mafia-princess.aspx

“WHO IS PAUL PELOSI-NANCY’S HUSBAND? WHO IS NANCY PELOSI HERSELF?”
vanity | 11/9/02 | myself
I_Love_My_Husband
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/786084/posts

Thursday, September 10, 2009
“Politics as usual - Nancy Pelosi - Mafia Princess”
http://illahalflife.blogspot.com/2009/09/politics-as-usual-nancy-pelosi-mafia.html

[combat_boots]

“IS THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AN ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE?” (this is, of course, a rhetorical question)
10-05-2011 3:20 pm - John W. Wallace

“As I am sure many of you may already know, Barack Obama’s Department of Energy just gave ANOTHER $1 Billion of your taxpayer dollars to so-called “green energy companies” and $737 million of that money went to a company called “Solar Reserve” with very close ties to Nancy Pelosi’s Brother-In-Law. What a surprise!

One of SolarReserve’s ‘investment partners’ is Pacific Corporate Group... PCG’s executive director is a fellow named Ron Pelosi, the brother of Nancy Pelosi’s husband. Suddenly, with this connnection now publically known, the deal makes a lot more sense than spending $737 million to create just forty-five jobs at a cost of over $16 million per job.”

http://www.libertynewsonline.com/article_301_31123.php

[combat_boots]

The comments below this article on Pelosi’s “disclosure” of the real estate values she hid are priceless.

“The Devil better watch out for Pelosi…when she dies she’ll be gunning for his job!”
http://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-filing-shows-financial-disclosure-loophole-213052828.html

[McGruff]

Bachmann would be winning by now if it weren’t for people thinking Sarah and only Sarah was going to save them.

Boy are you delusional. Sarah's been out for a month and Bachmann still doesn't register on the dial. She never had a chance. Probably never will.

[dools0007world]

This is nothing more than a Gingrich ploy to distance himself from Pelosi and convince RINO voters we should trust him. Why should I trust a guy who can’t keep it in his pants? The demrats have what they need on Gingrich to keep him in line. Anybody doubts that....

[af_vet_rr]

Perry,Bachmann or Santorum.What will we do after the Obama DNC Axie machine destroys them all?

Perry and Bachmann helped do themselves in, and strangely enough, neither Perry or Bachmann have been able to really capitalize on Cain's problems and make a comeback and they are fast running out of time. The folks who bailed on them have no interest in going back to them it seems.

As for Santorum, he probably can't even carry his own state, so they probably won't bother with him.

I don't like it, but it may come down Newt versus Romney. The media, including Fox News, wants it to be Romney vs Obama really bad. I think we can beat Romney since Romney is going nowhere fast and hasn't been really moving in the past several months, but God forbid, if Romney gets the nomination, a whole lot of us will be going third party or writing in names.

[nathanbedford]

Seriously?

I understand that Nancy Pelosi has already backed off from her threat. Newt Gingrich handled the matter masterfully, as expected, thanking Nancy Pelosi for giving him a Christmas present and demonstrating how utterly corrupt and politically motivated was the ethics investigation of about 15 years ago.

That is not to say that there will not be leaks in Washington but it is to say that it is not going to be so easy. First, I do not think any House member especially any House member who is a member of the ethics committee and participated in the investigation, will openly release such information. It will have to be done very carefully by leak.

I believe the entire house, the majority of which is Republican, will take very seriously leaking ethics committee proceedings. They will take it seriously for their own protection. If they negotiate a deal to end the affair they expect the affair to be ended. But Nancy Pelosi is threatening to break the rules of the house and that threatens every member of the House.

This was a judicial type rather than a legislative type proceeding conducted by the house. Most of these members are lawyers and they have a certain regard for the regularity of a judicial type process, especially when that process involves rules designed to protect them individually.

House members are lawyers who know that much of the information in these proceedings do not comply with the rules of evidence, such as uncorroborated hearsay, and which are not opened for rebuttal. We saw that for example in the investigation of Bill Clinton. They know that they will make themselves vulnerable to smears from unverified information if they do not put the lid on this.

There is another restraint operating on Nancy Pelosi. As bizarre as this sounds to us, she evidently still entertains aspirations to return as Speaker of the House. If she is exposed as having leaked such data even she must realize she would never become Speaker.

Having exposed herself publicly, no doubt out of ignorance, Nancy Pelosi now will be the first person suspected if there is a leak of the proceedings of the ethics committee. She must know that will, without actual evidence that she is the leaker, make it very difficult for her to become Speaker.

I do not claim that there cannot be a leak, but I think people will tread very carefully.

[Crucial]

Strange. Usually when Democrats drop a bomb, they don’t telegraph. They just drop it through one of their puppet media companies. Are they scared of Newt?

[newzjunkey]

If she had anything, it would've been used.

Now either she's going to say the ethics committee failed to do its job and didn't pursue Newt fully, which puts her own head on the chopping block, or will have to admit the final reports filed were true, accurate and Newt paid the price which is all public, well documented and ancient history.