The expression “put up or shut up” has always had a special place in our hearts.
It’s something that just feels good to say – and feels even better to watch in action.
Like today, for example.
From the AP:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she won’t talk any more about her charge that the CIA lied in 2002 about using waterboarding on terrorism suspects. “I have made the statement that I’m going to make on this,” she told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference. “I don’t have anything more to say about it. I stand by my comment.”
But Republicans aren’t letting this one slide.
Ken Spain, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, issued a statement after the news conference calling Pelosi a political liability to the Democratic party.
“Her obsession with the previous administration and her disdain for America’s intelligence officials has reduced her to cheerleader status within the far left wing of her party and a distraction to the substantive debate over how to best move our economy forward,” said Spain.
Aside from the “blah blah blah boring-ness” of this robotic GOP spokesman’s pile-on, we gotta say it’s enjoyable watching one of DC’s biggest, most corrupt hypocrites getting her ass handed to her.
Hopefully she’ll have a less-than-pleasant G-5 flight home …
By UpYers May 22, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Pelosi and Biden would make a lovely couple.
By Liberty May 22, 2009 at 5:29 pm
almost as enjoyable as watching harrell and mcmaster both getting their asses handed to them in a very public way.
By roofus May 22, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I hope the Dems rally around her. It will make 2010 much easier.
By Dixie May 22, 2009 at 6:09 pm
She is probably telling the truth. If you think the CIA went to a meeting and told Senators they were torturing people, then you are as dumb as a sack of hammers. Water boarding has been considered torture since the middle ages.
By roofus May 22, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Dixie,
How many “detainees” died from waterboarding? How many unarmed children died in Waco when Clinton ordered the invasion of the infamous Branch Davidian compound?
How many lives were saved by waterboarding? O, that’s right, Mr. Trasparent won’t allow the release of those memos…
Whom do you trust, Pelosi, Obama, Cheney, or the CIA?
By James the Foot Soldier May 22, 2009 at 8:25 pm
How low would those melons hang without the steel girder beam bra from the Martha Stewart Iron Bra Collection?
By dj May 22, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I would tend to think pulling fingernails off would be worse than waterboarding…waterboarding sounds like a sport,hey man, gonna get some waterboarding in today…waves look good. Cant be that bad if every reporter and guys name Mancow do it for show..I mean really..Mancow? WTF is that about. I remember when I was on exercise in Australia back in the early 90′s and the Aussie SAS guys were telling stories about how during E and E training they were forced to strip naked and they would bring in a female to verbally degrade them…now that’s torture. I mean its really all about the psychology. I can do something mundane like drip water on your forehead and eventually it would torturous to a breaking point, not because of the act, which in itself is nothing, but because of the psychological fact that you didn’t know when it was gonna stop. Just another catchphrase that the media and politicians like to use to keep away from the real message.Obviously Pelosi and everyone else that voted FOR the wars didn’t think it was that big of a deal back then. Oh and I have the perfect place for the detainees but ive written long enough here, perhaps later. It’s really a no brainer.
By Dixie May 22, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Roofus,
That was an FBI operation at Waco. Let’s see, you trust the CIA but not the FBI ? I don’t know how many were killed by water boarding, but I know torture is torture. If you had been in the Army during Vietnam they would have taught you that you could be held accountable for that. I trust Pelosi, Obama, and the CIA – now that is under new management.
By roofus May 23, 2009 at 7:48 am
Dixie,
Who ordered the incendiary gas at Waco?
Think Reno,Janet Reno.
Were those kids “tortured?”
Where’s your outrage, “Dixie”?
(P.S.-I trust Cheney,the CIA, and FBI–Pelosi and Obama are proven liars…)
By CL May 23, 2009 at 8:30 am
Dixie,
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday acknowledged for the first time that in 2003 she was told waterboarding and other tough tactics were being used on suspected terrorists and did not object to them”
Her accusations were nothing but sophistry about whether she was told a few months earlier in 2002. But you go on trusting Pelosi (who clearly lied) and Obama (who reverses himself on an almost daily basis).
“torture is torture”
Talk about begging the question. First, as a legal matter there simply is not a valid argument that anyone broke the law. The torture statute requires a showing of specific intent to harm, which would be virtually impossible to show given that the CIA operatives and lawyers would all state that these tactics do not cause harm. Obviously, there is a larger policy question, and, on balance, I don’t think we should have been waterboarding people. But to pretend this isn’t a complicated issue about which reasonable people can disagree is intellectually dishonest.
By CL May 24, 2009 at 8:14 am
Meant to post a link for that quote:
http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/15/pelosi-admits-waterboard-briefing/