Majority Leader Steny Hoyer discusses the liberal plans for health care reform, assuring Americans that they will be able to keep their current health plan. If you believe that, then you believe Speaker Pelosi never knew about enhanced interrogation. With a public plan, the federal government would create the rules for the “game” in which it plans to compete. But the government would not just be a neutral umpire in the game. It would also own one of the competing teams, namely the public plan. It’s impossible to believe that …
She tosses it to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (safe play) and frustrates network anchors across the spectrum. Well, CNN and MsNBC aren’t covering the press conference, so frustrates some of the anchors. Leader Hoyer says he hasn’t seen a more productive five months in Congress in his 30 years on Capitol Hill. If by ‘productive’ he means spending away our future, quadrupling our national debt, ignoring the deficit, and passing so many spending bills that nobody read any of them before passage. Then yes…productive.
She starts off announcing her honory degree from John Hopkins, and then announces the good news of raising taxes on all Americans and killing jobs across the country. By moving the Waxman-Markey Global Warming Tax out of committee, Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco constituents may be thrilled, but anyone in America who gets an electric bill or fuels their car is not smiling. Waxman–Markey will raise electricity rates 90% after adjusting for inflation, gas prices 74%, natural gas prices 55%, and an average family’s annual energy bill by at least $1,500. …
While we wait for Speaker Pelosi to take the podium, let us remind you what CIA Director Leon Panetta (former Clinton Chief of Staff) said earlier this week: “Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to mislead Congress. That is against our laws and our values…Our contemporaneous records from September 2002 indicate that CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing ‘the enhanced techniques that had been employed.’”
Nancy Pelosi will soon be taking the podium again to answer press questions on her knowledge of CIA interrogation techiques. We will of course be bringing you live updates here on The Foundry. Stay tuned.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gf8NK1WAOc[/youtube] Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s press conference yesterday reminded a friend of ours of a particular scene from Casablanca. The great Claude Rains was nominated for an Oscar for this role. Will the Speaker be so honored by the Academy?
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz-rWNgAcXo[/youtube] This morning Nancy Pelosi briefed the media on her knowledge of enhanced interrogation techniques, and we are guessing spent the rest of the day trying to unspill the milk. Aside from the torture inflicted on viewers of this disaster of a news conference, Nancy Pelosi created a brand new version of events to explain how she wasn’t aware of what she definitely was aware of. While trying to jump out of the way of a moving freight train, she tried to drag the men and women of the Central …
It would all make for a great half-hour sitcom. First, they released classified memos on interrogation practices used to grill terrorists. Then, the White House promised the ACLU that they were going to release photos showing detainees being interrogated. Then, White House officials said they were not going to release photos of the Air Force One photo-op that sent New Yorkers screaming into the streets—because they were “classified.” Then they announced they were going to release to release the “classified” Big Apple Air Force One shots. Then they threatened to …
