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Pelosi Should Step Down

5.22.09 @ 1:26PM

This call for Speaker Pelosi to step down has just been released:

Edwin Meese, former Attorney General
David Keene, Chairman, American Conservative Union
Frank J. Gaffney, President, Center for Security Policy
Wendy Wright, President, Concerned Women of America
Alfred Regnery, Publisher, American Spectator
Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform
Brent Bozell, President, Media Research Center
Richard Viguerie, Chairman, ConservativeHQ.com
Becky Norton Dunlop, President, Council for National Policy
William Wilson, President, Americans for Limited Government
Ken Blackwell, former U.S. Ambassador, U.N. Human Rights Commission

NATIONAL LEADERS CALL ON SPEAKER PELOSI TO STEP DOWN: CONGRESS SHOULD INVESTIGATE

When Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi accuses the intelligence community of lying, more is at stake than what she was told, who briefed her, or even the substance of the briefings she had with the CIA. Speaker Pelosi is endangering the national security of the United States.

Speaker Pelosi has chosen to politicize the CIA and to demoralize its employees in order to take one more parting shot at the Bush administration, and to try to distract the public from her potentially career-ending exercise of bad judgment. By politicizing the intelligence community, Speaker Pelosi is reviving one of Washington's most tired and ugly old ways.

SPEAKER PELOSI IS SECOND IN LINE TO SUCCEED TO THE PRESIDENCY

Were Pelosi simply another member of the House of Representatives the problem would be less serious. But as Speaker of the House, she is second in line to succeed to the presidency and thus at the peak of government power. In accusing the CIA officers who briefed her on sensitive intelligence issues of lying, Speaker Pelosi has damaged the Agency's morale and denigrated its reputation in the eyes of our allies and of the American people.

CIA Director Leon Panetta, a former member of Congress who also served on the House Intelligence Committee with Pelosi, and a Democrat, has emphasized that “It is not our policy to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values.”

SPEAKER PELOSI SHOULD STEP ASIDE & CONGRESS SHOULD INVESTIGATE

The national security of the United States is more important than politics. It is time that Congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration stop trying to protect Pelosi at the expense of national security.

We ask that Speaker Pelosi voluntarily step aside from her duties, and that the Congress appoint a bi-partisan Select Intelligence Committee to investigate and determine what Speaker Pelosi knew and when she knew it.

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Murphy| 5.22.09 @ 1:36PM

Hilarious.

So Meese thinks Pelosi should step down?

The earth shakes.

Old Texican| 5.22.09 @ 1:46PM

That broad can't step down.

She has already stepped as low as one can go.

She IS pretty good at stepping IN IT though Heh!

What is pretty funny to me though is that she has "led" a Congress with much lower approval ratings than even ole'evil Dick Cheny.

Oldefarte| 5.22.09 @ 1:46PM

Murphy, you are correct in that THE EARTH SHAKES IN FEAR OF WHAT NEXT THESE RADICALS [IE PILOSI AND OBAMA] WILL DO NEXT! I think that she should step down as Speaker; required to repeat her lying words under oath and then, tried in the House for same!!!!!!

ncatty| 5.22.09 @ 2:05PM

Never fear, Joe Biden is first in the line of succession.

L. Ross| 5.22.09 @ 2:10PM

I must say, watching that fumbling, stumbling harridan hold a press conference where she couldn't get out a coherent sentence was the highlight of my month. However, I think you will have to pull the speaker's gavel from her cold, dead hand. The old broad ain't steppin' down.

Tim| 5.22.09 @ 2:16PM

Why knock her out?
In a horse race it helps if your opponent is riding a three legged beast.

NavyBrat| 5.22.09 @ 2:47PM

Tim. I agree. Leave the albatross around their necks. It just gives us one more thing to beat them about the head, neck, & ears come next year. This Botox ruined harpy will do much of our work for us.

For those interested, I've started an anti tax group, named in Nancy's honor. It's called:

Citizens Undermining New Taxes

All are welcome to join, & will receive a free sweatshirt with Nancy's picture, & the acronym of the organization. Perfect stocking stuffer.

notmypresident09| 5.22.09 @ 3:12PM

leave the incompetent dolt in office. If we protest too much they might replace her with someone competent.

Smitty| 5.22.09 @ 3:16PM

Pelosi should be tarred and feathered for her scurrilous attacks on the CIA. I can't believe a Speaker of the House would undermine her country during a time of war. Liberals are traitors.

NavyBrat| 5.22.09 @ 3:27PM

Smitty. "Traitor" is an appropriate word. Here's a good definition of a traitor (and very eerily descriptive of the crew running the country today).

"A nation can survive its fools, & even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known & carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, & he wears their face & their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly & unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague."...Marcus Tullius Cicero

Old Texican| 5.22.09 @ 3:39PM

Navy Brat
I wish these comments sections had room for BIG BOLD letters.
Thank you for THAT quote.

Daisy| 5.22.09 @ 4:12PM

The liberal traitors in our midst don't even pretend to be patriots anymore. Their treachery is overt.

Rebecca| 5.22.09 @ 5:35PM

If Pelosi is telling the truth, that would indicate that the CIA is a rogue organization. What is it?, and does the press care to find out? The accusation of this as an example of unfair "sidetracking" by the Speaker is especially insulting seeing how she started the whole episode.

If Pelosi stays, I will assume the CIA is guilty.

Warrior| 5.22.09 @ 6:05PM

In her press conference today, the only thing missing was a closeup of her squeezing Steni Hoyers nuts while she was speaking.

If she is correct, then President Bush did not lie. His intelligence community lied to him. Leave it to the dimwit to unknowingly exonerate her biggest scapegoat and best MSM fodder.

Smitty| 5.22.09 @ 7:23PM

Reminds me of Rush's reference to Hillary Clinton as the 'holder of the testicle lock box'.

c. j. acworth| 5.22.09 @ 7:30PM

I vote with those of you who want to leave Pelosi right where she is. She's an open sore on the Donkey's butt and we should just keep picking at the scab.

Spicy Joker| 5.23.09 @ 12:46AM

The goal isn't to make Nancy Pelousy resign. The goal is to make her the next Tom Dasshole.

Murphy| 5.23.09 @ 2:17AM

Boring comments. Stupid story.

There's absolutely no reason why Pelosi should resign. Pelosi's story was once again confirmed this week when the CIA admitted that the staffer it had claimed was present at these briefings was not present because he lacked the security clearance.

Face it folks. While the Republicans did a pretty good job changing the subject for a little while, there's no substance to this issue.

Even if Pelosi knew about the administration's approval of torture, it does not exonerate the administration -- or the nation.

The true traitors to the country are those who betrayed its highest values in a time of crisis -- the trembling poltroons who endorsed foul and contemptible maltreatment of incarcerated people.

The next story to come out -- believe it -- is going to be what happened to children in the custody of American soldiers and CIA agents. When that breaks -- and the Republicans know this -- there will be no more soft-peddling these issues.

Spicy Joker| 5.23.09 @ 2:55AM

Liberals are out of their minds if they think pouring a little water on the faces of three unlawful combatants to extract intelligence from them - "foul and contemptible maltreatment of incarcerated people" - is a betrayal of one of America's "highest values." The values liberals are talking about are not American values but Eurosocialist values. In reality, liberals are not Americans at all. Instead, they are internationalists who see themselves as "citizens of the world" and view patriotism only as a tool to get elected.

Murphy| 5.23.09 @ 12:36PM

Spicy Joker --

Clearly you're not working with the facts.

The abuse of prisoners has included -- in addition to water-boarding, a form of torture -- beatings, rapes (even now, we learn, of children), sexual humiliation, stress positions, sleep deprivation (believe it, torture), and a whole regime of dehumanizing tactics like forcing prisoners to soil themselves. One senator who saw the video tapes at issue two weeks ago said watching them was "like descending into a wing of hell."

If you think this sort of thing is consistent with American values, then I'd say you're just ignorant. If you like this sort of thing, and get off thinking about it, then I'd say you're a sociopath.

The definition of evil is enjoying the suffering of others. There is no greater evil -- no, not even terrorism -- than torture, because it stokes the sadistic drive and brutalizes not only its victims, but its practitioners.

Years from now we are going to be living with the awful consequences of these policies as the agents and soldiers who carried them out return to our society scarred and traumatized by having committed atrocities. Alcoholism, domestic abuse, assault, drug addiction, squalid depression, and PTSD will accompany history's judgment against us for having allowed these things to take place.

Murphy| 5.23.09 @ 1:25PM

The American Way.

ruth| 5.23.09 @ 3:02PM

I love my country and I am so proud and grateful to be an American. I want to thank all of those men and women who have served our nation, who have fought on our behalf and especially those who have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we may live in freedom. Thank you once again from the bottom of my heart. God bless you warriors and God bless our beloved country!

Basil Plumley| 5.23.09 @ 5:01PM

Murphy, or whoever you are ---Stop lying

If what you say is true, why won't your precious Obama release that information and start prosecuting the bad guys who violate the guidelines. It's also funny how I have not seen this mentioned anywhere else.
Who are your sources? Are they confidential?

I doubt you can back up those "facts". Aren't you in the least embarrassed?
Oh wait, you're a liberal; truth and embarrassment are alien terms to folks like you.

Besmirching a great nation and some great people; a lot of good people died to give that right, I guess.

ruth| 5.23.09 @ 7:36PM

Who raped children? I don't believe our soldiers did what you claim. You'd better be speaking the truth, Jeremiah, or you'll be damned to hell. Prove your vicious accusations; and if you can prove them, why did your democrat party (and by extension--you!) aid and abet these atrocities?

Murphy| 5.23.09 @ 8:10PM

The videotapes that went unreleased two weeks ago were said to be too terrible for the general public to see. Obama and top military officials have decided that they would inflame international outrage and further endanger our soldiers abroad.

Reports have been filtering out of news agencies in the Middle East -- including a frighteningly credible blog by an Iraqi woman -- that suggest children were among those abused in these prisons.

We do know that KSM's children (at the time between the ages of 7 and 10) were abducted by American agents and kept in the same secret compound he was kept for many months.

We also know that children were detained in Iraq and Afghanistan as enemy combatants, which is against the Geneva Conventions. (All children are considered victims of war no matter what they're behavior in combat.)

There are several accusations that American soldiers and agent participated in rape and sexual humiliation of children -- boys and girls. The link I entered above has photographs documenting the sexual exploitation of girls by soldiers.

Murphy| 5.23.09 @ 8:42PM

By the way, I completely disagree with Obama's decision not to release those videotapes.

While I'd hate to see a soldier harmed because of a videotape, the fact is that they're in harms way already, and the people who wish to harm them aren't really responding to videotapes.

We need to confront what was done in our name head on. I agree with Obama that there should be no prosecutions, but there should be a "truth and reconciliation" process.

We cannot tell the world that the United States does not torture -- unless we're afraid. That is weakness. It is contemptible weakness, and it does massive damage to our ability to wield any sort of moral authority. We're fighting an ideology, not tanks, and the only way to win is countering with a better ideology. To do that, we must adhere to our HIGHEST, most noble values, and never justify atrocity by saying we fight savages. That is the worst thing we could do. It is dishonorable and deeply debased to think in this way, and it is totally unacceptable.

View those photographs I posted above and tell me you are proud of your country when you look at them. A true American can only feel shame and disgust when confronted by the reality of what went on in these prisons.

rut| 5.23.09 @ 9:17PM

Jeremiah/Murph, just as I thought--you have no proof, you dirty bastard. Now you know why Conservatives hate Liberals--there is nothing too depraved, too debased you would stoop to in order to seize power. But of course, you are the party of partial birth abortion and infanticide, I shouldn't be surprised at your debauchery. I have nothing but contempt for you--you need Psychiatric help.

ruth| 5.23.09 @ 10:09PM

name correction.

ruth| 5.23.09 @ 10:17PM

The ONLY reason the craven Obama didn't release those photographs was because his internal polling numbers told him it was a disaster for him. He doesn't give a crap about the military, and neither do you.

Basil Plumley| 5.23.09 @ 11:33PM

Jeremiah/Tommy Pain/Murphy

You are a disgusting piece of human garbage. I ask for sources and you cite a "credible" blog by an Iraqi woman. News reports from the Middle East news agencies?
Are you getting your information from Al Arabiya and Al Jazzera instead of the Huffington Report and the Daily Kos?

I suppose you believed everything said by Tokyo Rose, Lord Ha Ha, and Axis Sally during WWII.
How the Hell are we to defeat the bad guys when nitwits like you are on their side?

BTW, any possibility that any pictures were photoshopped or staged?
I seem to recall some outrage over some sexual impropriety by some US troops. It was later discovered to be a porno cast in fatigues. There were pictures published by the AP during the Israeli-Hezbollah war in 2006 that found to be photoshopped. Yet, nitwits like you still believe.

Every time you post Murphy-Tommy Pain-Jeremiah ...... you weaken the Nation.

ruth| 5.24.09 @ 12:31AM

I was naive to try to engage in sincere discourse with this moron. It won't happen again, it's too upsetting. I just can't understand how any American could spit out such terrible lies about our own soldiers. Do liberals have no decency? Do you have a heart, Jeremiah--because you certainly have no conscience.

Basil Plumley| 5.24.09 @ 1:03AM

Don't worry Ruth ...... at the rate that guy is going, I predict his next handle will be Sybil.

ruth| 5.24.09 @ 1:22AM

Lord Ha Ha?

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