Is this the morals we wish to teach our Children? That it’s acceptable to accuse others of telling lies? As long as the “party” you belong to wont police it self. I guess this is the message of the Democratic party.
Elvis Still Dead; Pelosi Still Speaker
So now we know. The 256 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives think it is perfectly fine for the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives to be, on the basis of rather substantial evidence, a public liar on a consequential issue of national security. The 256 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives think it is perfectly fine for the Speaker to have accused, on the basis of virtually no evidence, the CIA of habitually lying to Congress.
The Democrats of the House are the arbiters of who will be Speaker, and they have clearly cast their lot with Nancy Pelosi, not with their country. House Republicans, for their puny part, seem once again to have accepted their relatively peaceful and pampered servitude as house castrati.
The fundamental issue – what Pelosi knew and when she knew it – about the enhanced interrogation techniques used by the CIA on high-value terrorist detainees is now only a footnote to a much more important concern. No one really much cared what Pelosi knew and when she knew it until she and other liberal Democrats began pressing for prosecutions, persecutions and “Truth Commissions,” all aimed at the previous administration, all of which could be less than politely termed as political necrophilia.
That perverse ardor now diminished by Pelosi’s self-inflicted wounds, Congress seems all too willing to go back to just looting the country, ignoring the national security conflict between the Speaker and the country’s principal intelligence agency. That schism is made all the more palpable this week by both Iran and North Korea thumbing their rogue-state nuclear noses at the Chatty Cathy diplomacy of President Obama, not to mention a few other conflagrations in the global village. Against that backdrop, mutual trust among elected officials, the intelligence community and the military is mandatory.
In the current and near-future political environment, it is inconceivable that the country could have a Speaker (second in line for the Presidency) who can serve with the full faith and trust of the American people. But one who can serve with at least a nominal record of veracity on national security issues, if not others, seems to be a fundamental prerequisite.
Nancy Pelosi, who rose to power vowing to sweep out corruption, has, at least temporarily, vacuumed away serious challenges to her own. The House majority is, at its simplest, just protecting its own. It will continue to do so, unless many and strong voices rise from their attention deficit disorder to demand a change, not for political machinations, but for a safer, more secure country.
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