• CIA,  Nancy Pelosi

    Nancy Pelosi Turns Down Sunday Show Invitations – Avoids Discussing Waterboarding Complicity

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, May 14, 2009. Earlier Thursday, under strong attack from Republicans, Pelosi accused the CIA and Bush Administration of misleading her about waterboarding detainees in the war on terror and sharply rebutted claims she was complicit in the method’s use.

    Guess Speaker Pelosi doesn’t want to discuss her complicity in CIA enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding.

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) turned down invitations to be on several Sunday morning talk shows and is instead spending the weekend with her family.

    The Speaker was invited to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” ABC’s “This Week,” “Fox News Sunday” and CNN’s “State of the Union,” according to sources at the networks.
     
    One source said Pelosi (D-Calif.) will be attending her granddaughter’s first communion in Phoenix on Sunday.

    Pelosi’s office confirmed she is with her family this weekend.

    “We have turned down Sunday shows many, many times before,” Pelosi spokesman Nadeam Elshami said.

    Right…….

    Well, Pelosi has attempted to back away from her criticism of the CIA today.

    “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 Saturday.

    In the meantime, the Speaker will hide out, stonewall and hope the news cycle moves on.

    Americans deserve some answers from Pelosi about her obvious LIES.


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  • Barack Obama,  Obamacare,  Socialized Medicine

    Poll Watch: 54 Per Cent of Americans NOT Willing to Pay Higher Taxes to Provide Health Insurance for All

    So says the latest Radmussen poll.

    Thirty-two percent (32%) of American adults say they’d be willing to pay higher taxes so that health insurance could be provided for all Americans. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 54% say they’re not willing to pay more in taxes.

    Most Democrats (54%) are willing to pay higher taxes to expand health care coverage. Most Republicans (77%) are not. As for those not affiliated with either major party, 29% are okay with the higher tax bill and 60% are not.

    Other recent polling shows that just 35% of Americans rate the U.S. health care system as good or excellent. However, 70% of those with insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent.

    Most folks would love to see their neighbor have universal medical care – as long as THEY don’t have to pay for it.

    This will be the major obstacle to President Obama’s attempt at reforming the health care system (Obamacare) – shifting the costs to society or, in other words, nationalism or socializing the system like in Canada and the United Kingdom.


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  • Barack Obama,  China,  Jon Huntsman

    President Obama Names GOP Utah Governor Jon Huntsman as Ambassador to China

    Utah Governor Jon Huntsman (C) speaks next to his wife Mary Kaye and U.S. President Barack Obama (L) after accepting a nomination to be the new United States Ambassador to China, at the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington May 16, 2009

    A smart political move by Obama and for Huntsman’s future political career.

    It gets Huntsman out of the way as a possible Obama rival for 2012 and Huntsman gets out of the way of fellow Mormon Mitt Romney.

    Needless to say Huntsman is extremely qualified for this position and this only adds to his foreign policy bona fides should he decide to run in 2012 for the Presidency.

    Huntsman, 49, served a Mormon mission in Taiwan. The governor and his wife, Mary Kaye, adopted a daughter, Gracie Mei, from China in 1999. In 2006, he led a trade mission to China “because of their prominence on the world stage and the way in which they are growing so rapidly,” he told the Deseret Morning News of Salt Lake City.

    He served as a deputy assistant secretary of the Commerce Department’s Trade Development Bureau under former President George H.W. Bush, who appointed him as Singapore ambassador
    in June 1992. Huntsman was identified in news reports at the time as a political donor, bundling contributions from different people for Bush’s reelection.

    Huntsman also took a role in President George W. Bush’s administration, serving as Deputy U.S. Trade Ambassador from 2001 to 2003.

    A triple win: Obama, Huntsman and the United States.


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  • Barack Obama,  CIA,  Nancy Pelosi

    When Will House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Be Forced to Resign as Speaker?

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    Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez

    • By the end of June?

    • By Labor Day?

    • By the end of the year?


    There is Intrade action on all three scenarios.

    When will Obama and the Democrats view Pelosi as the liability she is because of her LIES on waterboarding and blaming the CIA?

    Exit Answer: By Labor Day – sometime during the summer Congressional recess.


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  • Barack Obama,  CIA,  Day By Day,  Nancy Pelosi

    Day By Day by Chris Muir May 16, 2009 – Words Matter

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    Day By Day by Chris Muir

    The House Speaker Nancy Pelosi show on CIA enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding is becoming a comedy.

    It is CLEAR that Nancy Pelosi has LIED.

    Why the Democrats do not force Pelosi to say she is mistaken before the hypocritical complicity in waterboarding spreads to infect the entire caucus is a Republican Party dream.

    How long will Obama allow this to continue?

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    links for 2009-05-16

    • The California Chamber of Commerce listed its 2009 "job killer" bills today, just in time for the end-of-May floor action in the Assembly and Senate.

      Among the 27 bad-for-business measures the chamber is targeting is Assemblywoman Fiona Ma's Assembly Bill 1000, which would require employers to provide paid sick leave, and Sen. Tom Torlakson's ACA 22, which would increase tobacco taxes by $1.48 per pack of cigarettes.

      The chamber has a strong record at killing the job killers, particularly in the governor's office.

      Since Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn into office, he has nixed 47 of the Chamber's 51 "job killer" bills. In 2008, he vetoed nine of 10.

    • For whatever reason, the number of registered voters in California has fallen from a record 17.3 million for last November's presidential election to 17.1 million heading into Tuesday's special election.

      But the percentage of eligible people registered to vote — 73.4 percent — is higher than the 70.7 percent recorded in 2005, the last time California had a special election.

      In the latest registration figures released by Secretary of State Debra Bowen, Democrats account for 44.5 percent of the electorate, Republicans for 31 percent, and decline-to-state voters for 20 percent.

    • The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses
      on the site.

      In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the Department of Justice asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”

      “Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney’s Office] computers,” Harvey wrote.

      Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.

      (tags: MattDrudge)
    • The first 100 days of the Palin presidency, according to a consensus of media commentators, have proven a near disaster. Perhaps it was Palin’s scant two years’ experience in a major government position that has eroded her gravitas, or maybe it was her flirty reliance on looks and informal chit-chat. In any case, the press has had a field day, and it is hard to see how President Palin can ever recover from the Quayle/potatoe syndrome. Here is a roundup of this week’s pundit mockery.
      (tags: sarah_palin)
    • Graphic photographs of alleged prisoner abuse, thought to be among up to 2,000 images Barack Obama is trying to prevent from being released, have emerged.
      Shocking images of inmates in Iraq are the kind of images whose release the president has now vowed to fight in court.

      They risk provoking renewed hostility in the Middle East as Mr Obama attempts to build bridges with the Islamic world.
      He is scheduled to make a major speech in Cairo on June 4 when he will launch his version of a plan to bring peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

      One picture showed a prisoner hung up upside down while another showed a naked man smeared in excrement standing in a corridor with a guard standing menacingly in front of him. Another prisoner is handcuffed to the window frame of his cell with underpants pulled over his head.
      Others yet to be released reportedly show military guards threatening to sexually assault a detainee with a broomstick and hooded prisoners on transport planes with

    • In a CNN interview this morning, former Vice President Gore got involved in the political feud over his successor Dick Cheney.

      Gore said he wished Cheney would have given President Obama more time in office before criticizing national security policy. A stern critic of Bush policy over the years, Gore told CNN's John Roberts that "I waited for two years after I left office to make statements that were critical, and then of policy."

    • The reason Pelosi raised no objection to waterboarding at the time, the reason the American people (who by 2004 knew what was going on) strongly reelected the man who ordered these interrogations, is not because she and the rest of the American people suffered a years-long moral psychosis from which they have just now awoken. It is because at that time they were aware of the existing conditions — our blindness to al-Qaeda's plans, the urgency of the threat, the magnitude of the suffering that might be caused by a second 9/11, the likelihood that the interrogation would extract intelligence that President Obama's own director of national intelligence now tells us was indeed "high-value information" — and concluded that on balance it was a reasonable response to a terrible threat.
    • CIA Director Leon Panetta challenged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s accusations that the agency lied to her, writing a memo to his agents saying she received nothing but the truth.
      Panetta said that "ultimately, it is up to Congress to evaluate all the evidence and reach its own conclusions about what happened."
      Pelosi (D-Calif.) infuriated Republicans this week when she said in a news conference that she was "misled" by CIA officials during a briefing in 2002 about whether the U.S. was waterboarding alleged terrorist detainees.

      Panetta, President Obama's pick to run the clandestine agency and President Clinton's former chief of staff, wrote in a memo to CIA employees Friday that "CIA officers briefed truthfully on the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, describing 'the enhanced techniques that had been employed,'" according to CIA records.

      "We are an agency of high integrity, professionalism and dedication," Panetta said in the memo. "Our task is to tell it like it is