by Siegfried Lemelson
Friday, July 18, 2008 PERMANENT LINK
Nancy Pelosi is a wretched example of a politician — and a person. It is sickening to hear her talk. It just makes me want to puke when I see her botoxed face on TV. If she is a "liberal" then we are doomed, and our Congress needs to be thoroughly reamed out in the coming elections.
I may be voting for Obama but I will also be voting anti-incumbent in every contest up and down the ballot. (Frankly speaking, a single ballot isn't worth a bucket of horse piss but you must register and vote for appearances — just register and vote regardless of how farcical all of this seems now.)
Excerpt: "You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for "challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again."
Just remember this, from the WASHINGTON POST, December 9, 2007:
Excerpt:
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said. ...
The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).
Individual lawmakers' recollections of the early briefings varied dramatically, but officials present during the meetings described the reaction as mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support. "Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing," said Goss, who chaired the House intelligence committee from 1997 to 2004 and then served as CIA director from 2004 to 2006. "And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement." ...'
