Gengrich Call on Pelosi to Resign….and so does Common Sense

This from the UPI. 

 U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., should resign, one-time Republican House speaker Newt Gingrich says.

Gingrich, appearing Wednesday on ABC TV’s “Good Morning America” show, said Pelosi isn’t qualified to lead the House because she last week accused the Central Intelligence Agency of misleading her in 2002 on whether terrorism detainees were being subjected to harsh interrogation techniques that many equate with torture, including waterboarding.

“She really disqualified herself to be the speaker,” Gingrich said. “She has a unique responsibility for national security. … She made this allegation that smears everyone who’s trying to defend her.”

 Common Sense Take:

It’s ludicrous in one sense to even discuss this issue as once again, partisanship rules in American politics.  NO dems are calling for her resignation.  But most Americans understand that if the Speaker was a Repulbican, no member of the GOP would be on the resignation bandwagon either.  Having said that….How can anyone who has watched her stumble and stutter as she tried to talk herself out of the pickle she obviously got herself in, believe she didn’t know that waterboarding was being used? 

Records show that Pelosi and several democratic members of congress attended dozens of meetings but she refuses to acknowledge that she was told specifically that that WB was being used.  I guess other Dems, her aide, and the CIA all “misrembered”.

Pelosi was particularly harsh in describing the CIA’s account.

“They mislead us all the time,” she said. And when a reporter asked whether the agency had lied, Pelosi said yes.

But Pelosi defended her own lack of action on the issue, saying her focus at the time was on “wresting congressional control from Republicans so her party could change course”.

This is truly a sad state of affairs. She is on a committee related directly to our national security but her main concern was to seat more dems in power?

So she is either incompetent or lying….or both.

JD

Source: Journal