by Jack Lee
It’s time to call for the resignation of Nancy Pelosi for lying and incompetence.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi led the charge to prosecute those who approved the policy on water boarding, but now the Congressional records show Pelosi was on the committee that approved the water boarding and rough interrogation tactics. We have in evidence a number of memo’s as well as gov. witnesses testifying under oath that she knew seven years ago what was going on! Personally, I never bought her story for a second. Nancy Pelosi is an expert on torture, heck, she’s been torturing “W” for years! Now, conservatives are getting some satisfaction as they watch Madam Speaker squirm before a barrage of uncomfortable questions by the media.
Pelosi’ best defense in the past has been to go on the offense. So, it should come as no surprise that she has responded by attacking the CIA, run by Leon Penetta-D from California. She’s calling his agency a bunch of liars, “Yes, I am saying that we in the Congress were misled by the CIA…they mislead us all the time!”, decried Pelosi yesterday on NBC. A weak response to growing criticism that she was well aware of the water boarding for years.
In the past few days Pelosi has given several babbling and confused press talks about what she knew and when she knew it, which only made her look less credible. Those on the left that would normally be 100% behind Pelosi are now ticked off at her because she knew about the water boarding, yet kept quiet because it was apparently politically expedient.
Lindsey Graham-R said, “She can’t have it both ways, she was part of it.”
I have many other issues with Madame Speaker that go back to an overall abuse of power and a number of tactical mistakes that have undermined the credibility of Congress. When Pelosi took over as Speaker of the House she claimed she would be more bi-partisan and cooperative for the good of the nation. But, almost immediately after taking power Pelosi attempted to subvert the White House with a $124 billion emergency wartime spending bill crafted to micromanage the Iraq war, which she vehemently opposed.
Pelosi abused the power of her position when she tried to run Washington’s foreign policy by her embarrassing peace trip to Damascus for talks with Bashir Assad, Syria’s president. This failed trip exposed how ignorant and ill-equipped she was to deal with international affairs. Pelosi showed poor judgement and comprehension of the facts and her trip went less than nowhere. In the process of exposing her own shortcomings this event reflected poorly on the United States and muddied the peace talks with Israel and her Arab neighbors.
Glass Houses: Remember when Pelosi attacked Tom DeLay-R for not reporting travel expenses paid by lobbyists? This backfired when it unexpectedly exposed a number of her fellow democrat lawmakers who were also doing it. Later, it came out that Pelosi herself had outside funding for travel expenses that went unreported, a violation of the House ethics rules. Nancy repaired her travel records and dodged further criticism by dropping the subject.
More recently Speaker Pelosi threw a hissy fit because her personal taxpayer provided air force jet and crew was too small to fly non-stop coast to coast in weekly trips home from her 3 day work week. She demanded and got a larger air force jet…anything for the Queen! This is totally out of synch with a nation in the worst recession since 1929. And a week later she was chastising Detroit’s Car Execs for taking corporate jets to DC?
Pelosi has not brought leadership, she has brought dissention. She had not inspired, she has disillusioned. She has not fostered trust, she has created distrust. She has not worked towards bi-partisan team building, she has only created acrimony between the parties. And now she attempts to bring discredit upon the CIA charging the agency of lying only because SHE is trying to slip away from another mess of her own creation!
Pelosi is putting politics ahead of our national security and this simply can’t be ignored anymore!
Whatever reasons the Democrats had for backing Pelosi, those days are now over. She has become a drag on the party and it looks like Dems may be forced to call for her resignation. She’s obviously not up to the job and she’s bringing down the party… and most importantly she’s hurting the security of the United States.