Posted by
Bill Crawford on Monday, May 18, 2009 9:02:43 PM
The Esteemed Congresswoman from California stepped into a pile deeper than she can talk her way out of. In the effort to regain a footing worthy of all the moral posturing she has done over the last four years, she ended up accusing the representatives of the CIA of lying to Congress- which is a federal crime, folks.
And the pals that stood with her all this time, declaring Bush and Cheney as the equivalent of the East German Securidat are now all of a sudden not free to throw rocks from outside the lines, but are in positions of power and actually responsible for silly things like.....national security. Hence the unambiguous denial of wrongdoing by the likes of Leon Panetta. Not a finger lifted from the White House, even though candidate Obama was with her on this stupidity on the campaign trail.
This will not be an overnight thing, but she will not be Speaker for long, if that Party has any wits about them. The House Speaker is a sensitive position- it comes with the power. The Republicans backed Stenni Hoyer into a corner to fish or cut bait in defending her on the House floor last week, and his response was to act as if he didn't even know her.
You can be out of power and say stupid things without consequence, save being another five minute vignette on The Daily Show. When you hold the reins, words mean things all of a sudden. Obama falls down on this sometimes, but knows enough to make corrections. Biden still hasn't learned to shut his mouth, but he seems to be regarded as some sort of lawn ornament at this point. Pelosi is in no danger of losing her seat in San Francisco, but she will soon only wield the gavel as a guest of Speaker Hoyer.
This should be funny. Hell, maybe it will be in twenty years. Right now, it is so stupid and dangerous, it is tragic. Are they really THAT stupid on the West Coast?