Why Pelosi Should Step Down

[carpro]

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=31940

Why Pelosi Should Step Down
by Newt Gingrich


EXCERPT

The case against Nancy Pelosi remaining Speaker of the House is as simple as it is devastating:

The person who is No. 2 in line to be commander in chief can’t have contempt for the men and women who protect our nation. America can’t afford it.

To test how much damage Speaker Pelosi has done to the defense of our nation, ask yourself this: If you were a young man or woman just starting out today, would you put on a uniform or become an intelligence officer to defend America, knowing that tomorrow a politician like Nancy Pelosi could decide you were a criminal?

Would you?

This Isn’t About Politics. It’s About National Security

 

[poncho]

Exactly what I would expect Newt Gingrich to say.

Hailing our failed interventionism as something to be proud of still. I agree that Nancy Pelosi should start looking for another job as a Wasington lobbiest or something as she's a disgrace as a public servant and all but trying to say she's a dire threat to a hundred year old failed policy is a bit too much.

 

[OldRegular]

Actually I suspect that Pelosi is as qualified to be president as either the narcissist "bho" or the motor mouth biden.

 

[LeBuick]

To test how much damage Speaker Pelosi has done to the defense of our nation, ask yourself this: If you were a young man or woman just starting out today, would you put on a uniform or become an intelligence officer to defend America, knowing that tomorrow a politician like Nancy Pelosi could decide you were a criminal?

Her comment was about executives in the CIA. Not young men and women in uniform or anyone just starting out.

However, to play your game, it would be refreshing to have someone correct the moral conscience of this nation's leadership so I would not be asked to do something illegal or unethical.

Keep something in mind Carpro, now everyone who knew about this was in agreement with what was going on.

 

[carpro]

And the question that remains is why? Why would Speaker Pelosi escalate the small skirmish she found herself in over the 2002 briefing into a full-scale war with the CIA?

Perhaps it’s because if America knew that Speaker Pelosi consented, fully informed and without complaint, to waterboarding back in 2002, it would reveal the current liberal bloodlust over interrogations for what it is: The Left’s attempt to hunt down and purge its political opponents.

Pelosi would already be gone if she were a Republican.

 

[Crabtownboy]

Pelosi would already be gone if she were a Republican.

Not so. You would be defending her. :laugh:

 

[Magnetic Poles]

I find this noise about Pelosi amusing. Where were you guys when Alberto Gonzales and Donald Rumsfeld were violating the Constitution, and those on the left were asking that they resign?

 

[TomVols]

The Dems should sacrifice her. The GOP is making headway into the gains the Dems have made over the past three years. They don't need this as a bump in the road. Steny Hoyer or James Clyburn can do just as well if not better than Pelosi and get this story off the page. If they stick by her and hand the GOP a victory they weren't looking for in public opinion, they will only have themselves to blame.

 

[carpro]

And so the question, prior to her rambling press conference, was one of memory: Did Speaker Pelosi remember correctly the briefing she received in 2002?

If she had confined the controversy to her memory versus the CIA’s, Speaker Pelosi may have saved herself. She would be guilty of irresponsibility and incompetence perhaps, but that would basically be it. Not good, but not disqualifying.

Pelosi on the CIA: “They Mislead Us All The Time”

But Speaker Pelosi did not confine the question to the reliability of memory. Instead, she made the allegation last week that the CIA intentionally misled her -- misled Congress -- and not just once, but routinely.

“They mislead us all the time,” she said.

She charged that the CIA, deliberately and as a matter of policy, violated the law by lying to Congress.

And with that allegation, Speaker Pelosi disqualified herself from the office she holds.

She's a fish on the hook struggling to get off.

She's history, and should be.

 

[Revmitchell]

I find this noise about Pelosi amusing. Where were you guys when Alberto Gonzales and Donald Rumsfeld were violating the Constitution, and those on the left were asking that they resign?

Did they call for a truth commission to penalize others for what they themselves were doing(not that I agree they did anything wrong). Pelosi is guilty on both parts.

As far as Gonzales now we have Holder doing the same thing.Where is his condemnation.

And quite frankly where is your honesty in this whole matter?

 

[poncho]

I find this noise about Pelosi amusing. Where were you guys when Alberto Gonzales and Donald Rumsfeld were violating the Constitution, and those on the left were asking that they resign?

I was right here when Gonzales amd Rumsfeld were violating the constitution MP. If I remember correctly the republcan's excuse then was about the same as it is today. They were acting in "extra legal" ways and consolidating power to "keep us safe".

Same excuse tyrants have always used to usurp and consolidate power.

And now we see the democrats using the same excuse in the same way. More or less.

The state only ever wants three things. More power, more control and more money. If those on the left and those on the right keep giving the state these three things we'll all be slaves in our own country before too long.

The democrats and Obama adminstration aren't interested in protecting and defending the constitution anymore than the republicans and the Bush administration were. The dems gave it great lip service until they gained power and now we're seeing their true colors as all they want or care about is three things. More power, more control and more money.