Does anyone remember the uproar from the left when Valerie Plame was allegedly outed as a CIA agent? Despite the fact that she was not undercover and the fact that the special prosecutor knew who mentioned her name, the left went bonkers and salivated over the prospect of Bush Administration officials being “frog marched” out of the White House.

Karl Rove was the target even though someone else was known to have “outed” her (but only by the special prosecutor at the time) and the left had wet dreams about him being arrested.

Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson, played the drama for all it was worth and made the Bush Administration out to be bad guys in the affair.

Where is all this outrage now that the Obama Regime has outed a CIA agent to the world? Raymond Davis is being held in Pakistan as a spy after he shot two armed men who were behaving badly. The Obama Regime has told the world that Davis is an employee of the CIA but that he is not involved in intelligence gathering. The Pakistanis think differently and now Davis’ life is going to be more complicated if not very much shorter.

Did the Obama Regime sign Davis’ death warrant?

And where is the outrage? Where are the members of the media and their outrage over outing a CIA agent?

Why are Democrats not up in arms and demanding that people be frog marched from the White House?

Davis’ identity was truly not known, contrary to the issue with Plame and now it looks like he is in even more danger.

The Obama Regime is full of anti American morons.

Cave Canem!
Never surrender, never submit.

The Democrats do not like the CIA especially since that organization showed that Nancy Pelosi lied about her knowledge of water boarding. Maybe if we water board her we can get the truth…

Democrats tried to slip language in a bill that would hamper the efforts of the CIA and make people subject to 15 year jail terms for harsh interrogation. The language was ambiguous and would hamper our intelligence gathering efforts. To their credit, some Democrats came out against the provision which was eventually removed. But this is not likely the end of the effort:

Hoekstra said the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Intelligence chairman Rep. Silvestre Reyes, who “have such a distaste for the rank and file in the CIA,” will “use whatever tools at their disposal to find other ways to make this law.”

Hoekstra said he thinks Pelosi and Reyes, on the same day President Obama held his highly publicized health-care summit, “were hoping nobody would notice,” they were pushing the legislation through, trying to “sneak it through.”

Even several Democratic members, Hoekstra said, told him Thursday night when they realized the interrogation amendment made it into the intelligence bill that they had “no idea why the speaker and Reyes would put this in.” The DC

Maybe now is the time for the operatives in the CIA (the real ones, not the Plame types) the work on sabotaging the reelection efforts of people like Pelosi and Reyes. Perhaps the CIA could come up with convincing evidence of wrong doing or compromising situations that would help voters decide when they vote. Maybe some leaked memos around election time would be helpful especially ones that specifically show Pelosi as a liar.

It seems to me that if Pelosi and her ilk want to destroy the careers of people in the CIA then the agents in that agency have an obligation to return the favor and they certainly have the ability to make life miserable from the shadows.

It would be great to see them engage the enemy within from within.

Well, the alleged leader of the CIA, Leon “I’ll kiss the feet of the messiah” Panneta, canceled a program idea that had been batted around in the meeting rooms of the spy agency- a possible way by which we could capture or kill Al-Qaida operatives without all that pesky “collateral damage”, and the dems are pissed off that they were not informed.

Informed of what? An idea? dream? Something that never made it out of even the earliest stages of speculation? Why? Why in God’s name should they be informed of everybody’s dream?

This was talk- talk around a table by members of an organization that is specifically tasked to talk about such scenarios, but the members of Congress, who are so leaky that they need Depends on a 24/7 basis, feel left out and outraged that they hadn’t given these people permission to speculate this way.

The plans remained vague and were never carried out, the officials said, and Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled the program last month.

Officials at the spy agency over the years ran into myriad logistical, legal and diplomatic obstacles. How could the role of the United States be masked? Should allies be informed and might they block the access of the C.I.A. teams to their targets? What if American officers or their foreign surrogates were caught in the midst of an operation? Would such activities violate international law or American restrictions on assassinations overseas?

nytimes.com

Yes, it’s trouble in River City, with all that pesky diplomatic folderol to wade through. We just have to tell these countries our plans- that is as stupid as telling Congress, and just as leaky. The program should have been as black an ops program as possible, but when the head of the spy agency is an incompetent political hack, used for only one purpose, and that is to spy for his master, this is what you get.

Mr. Panetta scuttled the program, which would have relied on paramilitary teams, shortly after the C.I.A.’s counterterrorism center recently informed him of its existence. The next day, June 24, he told Congressional Intelligence Committees that the plan had been hidden from lawmakers, initially at the instruction of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

The program was designed in the frantic weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks when PresidentGeorge W. Bush signed a secret order authorizing the C.I.A. to capture or kill operatives ofAl Qaeda around the world. To be able to kill Osama bin Laden or his top deputies wherever they might be — even in cities or countries far from a war zone — struck top agency officials as an urgent goal, according to people involved in the discussions.

nytimes.com

I know, this isn’t the movies, where left- wing actors get to act as if they had a pair, and try to act macho, this is the real world, where we haven’t enough Farsi speakers, and the people who most look like terrorists are Hispanic in origin, and virtually NONE of them speak Farsi, Urdu, or Pashto, a crippling deficiency that the Democrats exacerbated by downsizing the human intel aspect of the CIA in the Clinton era (Clinton has much to answer for on the intel side of his “legacy”- he must be SO proud).

Still, you might think a program that at least tries to minimize the killing of women and children would be viewed as a “good” thing, but nooooooooo. Not in the miniscule minds of the Democrat Congress, that is for sure, but this is driven solely by their hatred of all things Bush, nothing more.

Oh, I will admit it takes someone willing to gird their loins against the criticism that will surely come from the cowardly side that holds its finger in the wind, the better to see which way the political wind blows- that side will never have your back, because they are too busy protecting theirs. 

When the rest of the world won’t have the fortitude to protect civilization, someone has to step up- will it be the liberals? Oh no- they do not know how,nor do they have the testicular fortitude to say that this needs to be done.

And they certainly do not know when to step back and shut up with their incessant carping.

After all, it was only just a dream.

As everyone goes to the movies this summer and buys tickets to this summer’s biggest blockbuster on the screen, there is a struggle every bit as titanic going on in Washington between Congress, the CIA, and the Resident, as to where the power actually resides.

This is a tale of betrayal, lies, and covert actions, as well as a struggle for yet more executive power.

This would be a comedy if we could play all the sound bites of Hussein claiming that then President Bush had overstepped his authority, and executive power needed to be scaled back. There are many of those- Hussein was very critical of executive power, but then at the time he was a slacker first- term newbie Senator, playing grown- up.

Oh, how the worm has turned- it is an axiom that no one who becomes president ever wants his power to be diminished, and Hussein is NOT an exception to this rule.

Add to this tale of woe, the turncoat spy within the CIA, “Deep Nose”, or as he is known in society, Leon Panneta, the snoop in charge of covertly dismantling the spy agency, at the time where we can least afford to do so- but that has never stopped liberals before (see: Carter years, 1976- 1979).

And to complete this trifecta of  incompetence, is Congress, who wants complete access to everything the CIA has, claiming that the CIA lied to Congress. The trouble with this is that Congress is an irresponsible, lying leaky body of people who have their own agendas, and probably would say anything to anybody for money- yes- that does make them whores in politics, but what else is new?

In a June 26 letter to Mr. Panetta discussing his testimony, Democrats said that the agency had “misled members” of Congress for eight years about the classified matters, which the letter did not disclose. “This is similar to other deceptions of which we are aware from other recent periods,” said the letter, made public late Wednesday by Representative Rush D. Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, one of the signers.

In an interview, Mr. Holt declined to reveal the nature of the C.I.A.’s alleged deceptions,. But he said, “We wouldn’t be doing this over a trivial matter.”

The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Representative Silvestre Reyes, Democrat of Texas, referred to Mr. Panetta’s disclosure in a letter to the committee’s ranking Republican, Representative Peter Hoekstra of Michigan, Congressional Quarterly reported on Wednesday. Mr. Reyes wrote that the committee “has been misled, has not been provided full and complete notifications, and (in at least one occasion) was affirmatively lied to.”

nytimes.com

This is typical of the ankle- biters in Congress, and could usually be ignored as the trivial annoyance it usually is, but in this resolution, the committee is seeking less executive power in revelations to the full Congress, and Hussein doesn’t want that at all.

In a related development, President Obama threatened to veto the pending Intelligence Authorization Bill if it included a provision that would allow information about covert actions to be given to the entire House and Senate Intelligence Committees, rather than the so-called Gang of Eight — the Democratic and Republican leaders of both houses of Congress and the two Intelligence Committees.

A White House statement released on Wednesday said the proposed expansion of briefings would undermine “a long tradition spanning decades of comity between the branches regarding intelligence matters.” Democrats have complained that under President George W. Bush, entire programs were hidden from most committee members for years.

nytimes.com

And then you have Leon Panetta, the stalking horse for the liberals who want to dismantle the CIA- This man is trying to have it both ways, leaking info to Congress, while working for the Resident.

In an interview yesterday, Reyes declined to expand upon the allegations in his letter, saying “it’s all classified information.” Late last night, he issued a statement crediting CIA Director Leon E. Panetta with bringing the issues to the committee’s attention at a June 24 briefing.

.washingtonpost.com

This is a complex game we have here, made more complex by Nanny Pelosi’s rambling accusation that the CIA had lied to her, when it could be verified that the CIA had in fact, told her everything she needed to know- she just, apparently, didn’t have the intelligence to keep the knowledge in her head.

Pelosi initiated the CIA feud when she accused the agency of intentionally misleading her, and not telling her about the use of waterboarding, in a September 2002 briefing on interrogations.

CIA documents released two months ago included notations indicating that Pelosi was informed at the 2002 briefing about waterboarding. Republicans have suggested Pelosi has not told the truth about her knowledge and support of the enhanced interrogation technique, an allegation they plan to repeat in today’s debate.

washingtonpost.com

Well, this is going to play out with all the angst and tension of the play “King Lear”, on the national stage, showing our enemies just how like the Keystone Kops we are in real life. What a governmental SNAFU this has become, all because eventually, thieves fall out.

And boy oh boy, are they beginning to fall out now.

The FBI has been quietly re- jiggering the rule of law regarding terrorism, as it has begun to Mirandize terrorists at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. This is ridiculous, to say the least- the FBI has no business in the middle of a war, and treating combatants as if they were garden variety burglars is asinine- just the completely wrong application of justice.

 The FBI and Justice Department plan to significantly expand their role in global counter-terrorism operations, part of a U.S. policy shift that will replace a CIA-dominated system of clandestine detentions and interrogations with one built around transparent investigations and prosecutions.

Under the “global justice” initiative, which has been in the works for several months, FBI agents will have a central role in overseas counter-terrorism cases. They will expand their questioning of suspects and evidence-gathering to try to ensure that criminal prosecutions are an option, officials familiar with the effort said.

Though the initiative is a work in progress, some senior counter-terrorism officials and administration policy-makers envision it as key to the national security strategy President Obama laid out last week — one that presumes most accused terrorists have the right to contest the charges against them in a “legitimate” setting. 

The approach effectively reverses a mainstay of the Bush administration’s war on terrorism, in which global counter-terrorism was treated primarily as an intelligence and military problem, not a law enforcement one. That policy led to the establishment of the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; harsh interrogations; and detentions without trials. 

latimes.com

Treating terrorists with kid gloves is just the wrong approach-we can see how well this worked for Clinton, when he bombed an aspirin factory, thinking it was a terrorist bomb- making center- or the times he misfired trying half- heartedly to get bin Laden. Oooops. His bad. But then, he was kind of occupied at the time with blue dresses and kneepads. The FBI, otherwise known as the feebs, should be concentrating on the tax troubles of all the democrats, but I can understand why the dems want the feebs out of the country- anywhere but near Capital Hill, where there are true criminals. No, instead of leaving overseas operations to the CIA, the FBI is going into unfamiliar territory, which will make their job that much harder.

Regardless of where any bad guy is caught, we want the bureau to be in a position to put charges on them,” the official said, adding that the Bush administration’s emphasis on CIA and military operations often marginalized the FBI — especially when it came to interrogating suspects.

Like others interviewed for this article, the official spoke on the condition of anonymity because no one has been authorized to discuss the initiative publicly. “We have no comment on it at this time,” FBI Assistant Director John J. Miller, the bureau’s chief spokesman, said when asked about the initiative.

latimes.com

The CIA has been marginalized, and wrongfully so- they have been the boots on the ground versus the FBI, who will now have to rely on the CIA’s contacts, and that’s going to hurt the flow of information. All this talk of torture has been a red herring- in the first place it is “enhanced discomfort”, and was used on three people, total. In the second place, these are people who do not play by any set of rules, and if we handicap ourselves, we will lose. I will say this again- We Will Lose. Anybody with a lick of common sense will recognize this fact. 

When you go into a fight, you go in to win. If you are fighting fair, you are using a losing strategy. Rules are great for parlor games, and football, but if your opponents are cutting your heads off, it is time to get real.

IA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said the agency would continue to play a central role in interrogations and counter-terrorism operations — using techniques approved by the U.S. Army Field Manual– in conjunction with other U.S. agencies.

Behind the scenes, some intelligence officials are resisting a broader criminal justice role overseas for the FBI, contending that it could inhibit the flow of intelligence if their own agents, or foreign governments, believe top-secret sources and methods might be disclosed during criminal prosecutions.

Two senior U.S. officials said efforts are being made to ensure that intelligence-gathering and law enforcement efforts proceed side by side. They stressed that the CIA and military would continue to play pivotal roles, particularly in gaining strategic intelligence against terrorist groups and thwarting future attacks. 

latimes.com

Yes, I am sure, with all the turf wars in the past, that the CIA, the Military, AND the FBI will get along swimmingly. After all, haven’t they always? You know, there is a reason that the CIA is forbidden from domestic operations- the FBI should be forbidden from overseas operations, simply because it makes sense- you have a territorial familiarity  that goes along with your principal duties, and I can guarantee that the CIA knows the streets of Kabul much better than the FBI, and should be in the lead.

But that wouldn’t suit Husseins’ New World Order, now would it? I believe it is time to rename Hussein FUBAR- because this is what he wants to do with our country,

Next, he’ll send Andy Griffith and Barney to Pakistan- oh joy.

Nancy Pelosi has been embroiled in a dispute over what she knew and when she knew it. She has lied about her knowledge of waterboarding being used and went so far as to claim the CIA lied to her and to Congress and that they lie all the time. She said mislead but as one liberal commenter noted when he discussed Dick Cheney, mislead is a polite way of saying lie.

Pelosi was aware of what was going on but she believed that her involvement would be kept quiet because what she was told was classified information. Unfortunately for her, Obama released the classified information to to discredit the Bush administration but the release swept her up in the process. When the CIA defended itself, it implicated Pelosi and demonstrated that she was a liar.

A former South Korean president has demonstrated a way for her to save face (not the Botox way she is use to) and this method is sure fire. It will remove her from the problem and remove the problem from her. In addition, it will save the American citizens the time this is consuming and the cost associated to determine which he said/she said is the right said.

Former President Roh Moo-hyun, embroiled in a penetrating corruption investigation, leaped to his death Saturday — a shocking fall from grace for a man whose rags-to-riches rise took him from rural poverty to Seoul’s presidential Blue House. He was 62. Yahoo News

This is a great example for Pelosi to follow. She can do the right thing and jump off one of the bridges in her district.

Come to think of it, there are many politicians who could do the same thing in order to make America a better place.

They have to jump off a very high bridge and into water. What they are full of splatters and we don’t need to be cleaning up any more of their messes.

Nancy Pelosi keeps digging the hole she is in deeper each time she opens her mouth. The video of her trying to lie her way out of the mess shows a flustered person grasping for words that can’t be shown untrue and for words that will appease the people listening. She is in a downward spiral and even though dyed in the wool liberals will defend and support her, America is seeing the true Pelosi. She is a calculating politician who only cares about power.

Case in point; she claimed that she was against the water boarding, that she was not, repeat not, informed about (how can one oppose that which one is unaware) because she was too focused on winning Democratic seats in Congress. That’s right, after 9/11 her concern was winning seats and not national security.

Pelosi has had many, I repeat many, versions of her story and they all contradict each other and they contradict the truth. I believe Hillary would call it a willing suspension of disbelief. According to Pelosi, she did not know, was not, repeat, not informed, heard from someone else, and then knew about it. Along the way she has ticked off more than a few professionals in the intelligence community. You see, Nancy called them liars.

Pelosi is backtracking on her recent claim that the CIA lied to Congress (and her) about the Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. She now claims that she meant that the Bush administration was lying to her. I was wondering how long it would take her to follow Obama’s lead and blame it all on Bush. That always seems to get the liberal base all riled up. The problem is, Pelosi clearly blamed the CIA. She is now saying that she did not mean them but her words at the time made it quite clear about whom she was talking. Here is what Pelosi said during her attempted backpedal:

“My criticism of the manner in which the Bush Administration did not appropriately inform Congress is separate from my respect for those in the intelligence community who work to keep our country safe,” Pelosi said in a statement. The Hill

The reality is, she blamed the Bush administration AND she called the CIA liars. She specifically said that the CIA misleads Congress ALL THE TIME. She did say the Bush administration misled Congress with regard to weapons of mass destruction but her words directly implicated the administration AND the CIA as liars. If she had only called the people in the Bush administration liars it is unlikely that Panetta would have released the memos and defended the Agency. He had to defend it because Pelosi directly attacked it. Here are a few of her quotes:

Pelosi was particularly harsh in describing the CIA.

“They mislead us all the time,” she said. And when a reporter asked whether the agency lied, she did not disagree. Breitbart

“I am saying that the C.I.A. was misleading the Congress and at the same time the administration was misleading the Congress on weapons of mass destruction,” Ms. Pelosi said. The New York Times

Here we have Pelosi clearly calling the CIA liars and saying that they misled Congress while Bush was misleading on WMD (which he was not).

As anyone who is not a Kool Aid drinking liberal can see, Pelosi was clear and she meant what she said but now that she has ticked off the intelligence folks even more, she had to say she only meant the Bush administration. She mentioned them BOTH and there is no doubt about what she meant.

This woman is the Speaker of the House. She can’t even speak for herself.

As my other writer Blake says, she is on medication but to me it looks like she forgot to take it or the dose needs to be increased.

Remember, Pelosi was more concerned with getting Democrats elected than protecting the country or paying attention to her job.

She is a typical Democrat and she needs to step down as Speaker.

Then, the people in San Fran need to vote Gaspy Pelosi out of office.

The Director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, issued a letter to his people indicating that the CIA had been honest with Congress and that they should not let the noise interfere with their job of keeping America safe. In other words, this Obama appointee called Pelosi a liar.

That’s right. Panetta said the CIA told the truth to Congress even though Pelosi said that the CIA lied. Looks like Pelosi has ticked off a lot of spies who are fighting back against allegations made for political purposes.

Pelosi is in deep and many Democrats are moving away from her so as not to be associated with her and her ever changing story about what she knew and when.

The Republicans are all over this and Congressman Steve King (R-IA) has called for Pelosi to resign as Speaker. The hits just keep on coming for the clueless Pelosi.

As of now there are no Democrats publicly calling for her to step down but I am sure there are plenty who want her to. Many did not support her being selected as Speaker and those who did are now seeing why it was a bad idea.

If this keeps going (and there is no reason to think it will not) then there will be more calls for her resignation. Pelosi is a black eye for the Democrats and for Congress in general. The media are going after this story which in and of itself is unusual. Once they turn against a Democrat the end cannot be far behind.

If we are lucky she will resign and then be voted out of office.

What a disgrace.

Nancy Pelosi has been under fire for a few weeks now because of her claims that she was never told that Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT) were used. She has maintained that she was informed that there was legal opinion that they were allowed but that they had yet to be used. This claim runs contrary to the information provided by the CIA, information which shows that Pelosi was informed that the EITs (particularly water boarding) had already been used. This version is also consistent with the information provided by others who were at the briefings.

Pelosi has changed he story a few times and now she is reverting to the political game of claiming to be misled. She is also blaming the Bush administration for her problems (nothing new here). Pelosi has taken it a step further and made the claim that the CIA misled her and lied to Congress. Pelosi admitted that she knew about the EITs being used (thereby admitting that she lied) but that the CIA misled Congress when discussing them.

I do not, for one moment, believe that Pelosi was misled about anything but let’s accept that as true for a moment. Pelosi claimed to have been misled on WMD and the reasons for war and now she claims to have been misled on EITs. Do we really want a moron who is so easily misled serving in Congress? Basically, Pelosi is telling everyone she is not competent and that she is unable to discern information from what she receives. The others at the briefings have indicated they were well aware of what was said and what was being done. At the time Pelosi indicated that she understood but now is claiming she was misled. If she is this inept then she should not be in Congress.

The moment has passed and so has the supposition that she is telling the truth about being misled so we are back to reality. Pelosi was all in favor of doing what it took to get information and she did not voice any objections to the EITs when she was briefed on them. Now that her buddy in the White House has released the Bush memos she has been caught in the firestorm.

The intention was to embarrass Bush and to show Democratic supporters how wonderful Obama is and how he is going after those who used the EITs. The CIA was not too happy and it decided to defend the agency and its people by releasing the briefings that were conducted and this is where Pelosi was caught in her lie. While those briefings were classified she could maintain that she knew nothing but once they were released she had to tap dance around the issue and start deflecting. This is why she has changed her story several times and why she is now accusing the CIA of lying and claiming to have been misled by the CIA and the Bush administration. She is also calling this a Republican distraction.

The reality is, Pelosi was all for going after OTHERS who were involved when she believed that she was in the clear but now that she has been exposed as a liar she wants to again lie about her involvement and lay the blame at the CIA’s feet.

If she were as pure as the driven snow, as she wants people to believe, then she would not look like a deer caught in a car’s headlights during her press conferences. The last one shows a nervous Pelosi who is obfuscating the issue and dancing around the questions. She is also doing what all the Democrats like to do when caught and that is blame Bush.

Nancy Pelosi is a liar and she has been caught. Her base cannot be happy that she lied to them for years about her opposition to EITs when the records clearly show she knew all about them and she was on board. She knows that this could be an opening for another person to challenge her for her seat in the 2010 elections and it could certainly result in her losing her position as the Speaker the next time Democrats select one.

Pelosi is part of the cancer that is consuming this country and she has been exposed. It is time for the people of her district to cut the cancer out and start with something fresh.

If they put her back in office it will mean that they are OK with her lies and with her support of the EITs. If that happens they lose any future argument on the issue.

I would not be surprised if the CIA helps someone beat Pelosi. She insulted the agency’s professionalism and she called the people there liars. That is no way to treat an intelligence gathering agency and I am sure they did not take too kindly to her accusations.

Perhaps they can come up with a few surprises to take her down.

Sources:
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Only in California-really, this is the only place that you could have someone so obviously incompetent be voted into an office that can potentially affect so many people.

There are people who will say,” Oh my God, you are not sourcing enough- you have to source what you say.” Well, not necessarily- just look at her- you do not have to source common sense here. The lady should be in a rubber room with no sharp objects and a date with some jumper cables, or whatever it is they use on the terminally stupid.

I speak, of course, of the Speaker of the House of the United States, Nancy Pelosi. Who else could I have been speaking of? This is the woman, who with the aid of a brain scan, single- headedly helped Stephen Hawking develop his theory on black holes. There are raging Liberals everywhere ranting, ” Someone PLEASE shut her up! She makes us look air- headed!” Yes, yes, she does indeed do this.

One might think, given the extreme socialist agenda of Skinny B and hiz posse, that this dustup between Pelosi and the CIA did not have to happen- after all, the Democrats had won- they already had us in a position where we have little choice in what happens, but then , lo and behold, here comes a big chink in their armor, courtesy of, first Barama, then Pelosi as the crowbar, an apt mental comparison.

It’s a story for the ages- the struggle of a chronically medicated air- head who could, couldn’t, did, didn’t- approved, disapproved, an epic battle between logic and insanity. Who will win? Who loses? Who cares?

Well, I kind of do, because I have always thought that fighting the CIA was the ultimate in stupidity, no matter who you are. These are people who specialize in doing things that no one is supposed to ever find out about- how hard would it be to over medicate Pelosi? After all, just look at her- I have seen that look of hers on INTERVENTION, the series about the terminally addicted on A&E. A Meth addiction is not a good look for her.

First, she said she did not know about water boarding, then she said she knew that it might happen, then she said a staffer knew, but she did not. She has single- handedly kept this problem alive, and given Dick Cheney more ammo, than if she had just kept quiet, but then she has never known how to shut up in her life.

With every utterance, she is affirming the fact that Steny Hoyer, the man who came in second behind Pelosi in the voting for Speaker of the House, should be the Democrat’s man when Nan has her inevitable breakdown, and it’s coming soon. It’s not going to be pretty, either- I expect her to be exclaiming that she’s ready for her close- up, now, and come out painted even more grotesquely than usual. No behavior of hers would surprise me anymore.

I had always thought she was retarded, or medicated, or had some brain- stem injury that rendered her incapable of logic, but I never, in my wildest nightmares, would have believed that even a group as misinformed as the Liberal Left would put her in a position of power, two steps removed from the Presidency. That is insanity, pure and simple. Only someone who hates our country, and wishes to cause its downfall would intentionally do this. Her words and actions the past three weeks have proven that.

Someone needs to regulate her hormones, or re- do her medication, or administer electro- shock- or even better- all of the above, just so she can be brought back from Oz before a house lands on her.

To say that as a politician she is a disappointment is saying quite a lot,because we have held the bar pretty freaking low for politicians for quite awhile, unfortunately. Still, she is in a class by herself- and it can’t be comfortable for anyone who voted for her to have seen her performance yesterday, when she couldn’t even find her notes, and stumbled and stuttered like the village idiot. She made George Bush look positively Mensa- like, compared to her behavior.

So now, this thing will grow, and I for one, believe that there will be hearings, and she needs to be under oath when she testifies, as do all the others, but God help her and her career if it turns out she lied, and the CIA was right, and she was just too medicated to pay attention.

This has been a Godsend for the conservatives, because now, whenever Liberals try to drag out Bush and his troubles with the English language, conservatives can just point at Pelosi- no words will be necessary, just get a napkin, and wipe off the drool.

The village idiot is in the House.