Conservatives Express Hope That Their Attacks On Pelosi Will Quiet Calls For Truth Commission

[ProSense]

Conservatives Express Hope That Their Attacks On Pelosi Will Quiet Calls For Truth Commission

For weeks, conservatives have been launching hypocritical and disingenuous attacks on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) regarding her level of knowledge of the Bush administration’s torture program.

Fox News conservatives are revealing one of the underlying motives for these attacks — to diminish calls for a truth commission on torture. While interviewing Newt Gingrich, and later, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Fox host Neil Cavuto wondered whether “both parties will cease and desist” from investigations:

Is it a potential Mexican standoff? And by that, I mean, Senator, that Democrats feel they have the goods on the prior administration to drag out hearings on what they knew about Iraq and when. Now Republicans have the goods, presumably, on Nancy Pelosi about what she knew about interrogation and when. So to avoid mutual self-destruction, both parties cease and desist.

Last night on Fox, Dick Cheney’s official biographer Stephen Hayes said, “Democrats who have been so enthusiastic about truth commissions have to be stopping and saying, OK, wait a second.” Mort Kondracke chimed in with some advice for the President: “I think Obama really has to get this stuff stopped.” Watch a compilation:

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If conservatives were being honest about their criticisms, they’d be taking up Pelosi’s desire for a full investigation, an inquiry that would not only examine what members of Congress knew but also the prominent role Cheney played in authorizing illegal acts.

Reporters Gettin' Played...She (Pelosi) wants it all investigated.

[TreasonousBastard]

1. And the dumbfuck contingent of DU and...

"Progressives" is falling for it hook, line and sinker.

Remember who the enemy is-- and it ain't us.

[Peacetrain]

2. That one has been pretty obvious..hope it backfires on them

[TwilightZone]

3. The agenda has been pretty clear to anyone willing to pay attention.

We should know the Republican playbook by now. This is one of their most transparent distractions yet.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. well it hasn't worked for the conservatives

[rasputin1952]

5. Just what I've been saying...

D's are falling into the trap...:(

[Demeter]

6. Typical GOP Inability in Politics

They are pulling their own house down, while helping us get rid of a useless member.


This is the gang that can't shoot straight. (No slur intended, Dick). I doubt they could order a pizza. All their brains are in retirement, dead, or moving to other parties.

They keep this up, and we'll have real investigations with a special prosecutor, indictments and convictions and a crack at justice for some of the people BushCo has harmed.

I hope it goes to RICO and asset-stripping, myself. I doubt that we'd get to the French Revolution Severance Packages, though. Darn!

[santamargarita]

7. As always, they're totally wrong!

I give a damn what anyone says, this is not going away!

[lunatica]

8. Well it could work if we were all in Kindergarten still

Or in the simpleton hateful base of the Republican party. "Hey let's accuse Nancy of letting us torture and they'll all get fooled and go after her!"

Yeah, that'l work!

:sarcasm:

fucking idiots

[ProSense]

9. LOL! Newt Gingrich Is Outraged

Newt Gingrich Is Outraged:

This is rich; Newt Gingrich, on Nancy Pelosi, during an interview on ABC radio:

She is a trivial politician, viciously using partisanship for the narrowest of purposes, and she dishonors the Congress by her behavior.

This from the guy who was run out of politics more than ten years ago, who viciously used Bill Clinton's affair for partisan purposes, while carrying on his own affair, and who was reprimanded by the House Ethics Committee for "intentional or . . . reckless disregard of House rules."

Newt, stop projecting.

Guess the idiot Repubs didn't learn a thing from trying to make an issue out of anything Pelosi does (see trip to Syria, floor statement poutrage).

Breaking news for Republicans: You lost, you're losing, you will lose.