Nancy Pelosi Unleashes On Gingrich [Updated]
December 5, 2011
Former Speaker of The House Nancy Pelosi Says She Has The "Dirt" On Newt Gingrich
[Sorry it took us so long (almost 5 minutes) to get this story up, we were desperately looking for the right photo of Pelosi to compliment this disgusting political play…]
Has it been a full 48- hours since Herman Cain moved out of target range of the media? And now with barely a breath to recover from that real-life drama, Capitol Hill Democrats are gathering firewood for Newt Gingrich.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday.
“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
Nancy Pelosi is so coy. The House Ethics Committee could probably rustle up a thousand pages on the Pelosi Family Trust since her coronation as Speaker of the House…with very little effort.
Gingrich worked with Pelosi in Congress from 1987 to 1999. Pelosi also served on the ethics committee that investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations in the late ’90s.
Speaker Gingrich Says Pelosi Would Be Breaking The Law Revealing His House Ethics Investigation Files
Gingrich reacted to Pelosi’s comments by thanking her for an “early Christmas gift.”
He also said Pelosi would be violating House rules and abusing the ethics process if she disclosed anything from the ethics investigation.
The Kitchen Cabinet believes Pelosi has NO intention of “telling.” All she has to do is say that information EXISTS. Freedom of Information demands will do the rest. After all, the investigations regard a possible future President of the United States. Wouldn’t you expect that proper calls will be made to free the information, or ask former Speaker Gingrich to discuss it?
Are you feeling a bit of Deja Vu?
The Democrats plan is to skin one GOP candidate after another, until there’s none.
That’s a must, when you’re building a fortress around an Emperor…with no clothes. Here’s more irresistible stuff from today’s THE HILL:
“That is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House,” Gingrich said in New York following a meeting with Donald Trump. “She’s now prepared to totally abuse the ethics process.”
Releasing the material would show the “tainted ethics process the House was engaged in,” Gingrich said.
The ethics investigation of Gingrich took place when Republicans controlled the House. Gringrich resigned from the House in 1998.
Responding to Gingrich’s comments, a spokesman for Pelosi said the former Speaker was “clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware.”
A spokesman for the House Ethics Committee declined to comment on “current rules in the context of allegations concerning past conduct, or hypothetical future conduct governed by past rules.”
The Photo Is REAL! Taken During Climate Change Partnership Of The Two. The Artwork? A Joke.
Gingrich filmed an ad with then-House Speaker Pelosi in 2008 to urge action on climate change, which haunted him early in his presidential bid this year. Gingrich called the ad “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in recent years” last month.
Republicans in Congress have been slow to rally around Gingrich’s rise to front-runner status in the polls, with former GOP colleague Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) stating publicly over the weekend he is not “inclined to be a supporter” of Gingrich due to that past experience.
“He would be the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater,” Frank said last week. Goldwater is credited with reviving Republican conservatism in the ’60s.
Pelosi told Talking Points Memo that Frank “spoke for a lot” of Democrats. “I like Barney Frank’s quote the best, where he said ‘I never thought I’d live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party,’ ” she said.
And Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who also served in Congress with Gingrich and now holds a position of power as assistant minority leader in the House, charged Gingrich on Monday with lacking the temperament to be president.
“He tends to fly off the handle. He will say almost anything in order to get a charge. I’m sure that he’s not serious when he says a lot of these things,” Clyburn said on MSNBC.
[Update: Pelosi Backs Off!]
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi now says she is not sitting on a trove of opposition research on former House Speaker-turned-GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich.
In an interview conducted Friday and published Monday, Pelosi hinted that once the time is right she has some juicy stories to tell about her former colleague.
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But this afternoon, Pelosi’s spokesman, Drew Hammill, suggested that her comments have been misconstrued beyond the leader’s intent.
“Leader Pelosi was clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record[.]
Over exuberance, or just plain hubris, made Pelosi tip her hand too early. Newt’s strong response must have scared her, too. Now he’s inoculated somewhat from whatever might come from this information trove via unnamed sources in the future, should Newt become the nominee.
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It’s amazing how much dirt you get under your fingernails while trying to dig up dirt on someone. How often does Miss Pelosi need a manicure?
We need a Republican canidate that will show a strong running against the Democrates this time, the last election was set up to fail from the moment that the republican nominee was picked. At least put someone in the running that has a chance to make a showing.
Jennell you are hilarious. POST OFTEN!!!
What does the race look like to you Arnold?