Truth, Justice & The American Way

Pelosi: Bush Admin, CIA "Misled" Me On Waterboarding
by dollarsandsense123

It's been a while since I have heard that phrase?

"Truth, Justice and the American Way?"

But I can assure you that the tripe that was hustled today by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi at her latest impromptu news conference, resembles neither of the three key elements mentioned above.

This latest Washington drama, stands to be the biggest mistake ever made by any party, in its attempts to one up the opposition. Everyone who knows anything about the history of Washington politics knows, that the democrats have been a seething and writhing mass of body politic for the past eight years.

And ever since they regained majority in congress in 2006, they have sought to punish the republicans in any fashion that they could devise.

What began a few weeks ago as the president and Pelosi and Reid outing the Bush administration's torture tactics and memos and interrogation practices? Has now bounced off the wall like an untimely turd ricocheting back in their own faces.

Pelosi and Obama and the rest of the democrat rogues gallery, had hoped to spill all the juicy beans and release all of their cherry picked evidence to support the tarring of the Bush administration and hopefully obtain some criminal prosecutions in the process. They obviously hoped that they could manufacture from these recently released CIA memos and briefing papers, all the justifiable means to hopefully prosecute key members of the Bush administration for supposed criminal violations. If not the former president himself. (more leftist wishful thinking and malignant day dreaming).

Yet there appears to be more than one problem with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid thesis of Bush prosecution over EIT's. Firstly, president Obama has now backed away from releasing the remainder of the Abu Graib photographs, citing his fear that their release will spark and inspire violence against America and American military personnel. And he has equally backed away from the Dick Cheney challenge to release the "rest of the memos."

Can anyone say well "Duh!"

But wasn't that precisely what the ACLU and their rabid supporters and financiers in the democrat party were after when they filed suit to have "all" the Abu Graib photos released to begin with? Well hell yes it was and they know it and so does everyone else. These people aren't after that elusive quality of supposed justice that the ACLU likes to mention in passing at awards dinners for leftist achievements.

Justice has little to do with anything that they are involved in, aside for their own skewed version of political inspired vigilante justice and anti Americanism. Political vigilantism is that seemingly unique liberal quality that they like to call the people's supposed right to know everything. Especially when they are seeking release of information that can be be beneficial to America's enemies. And the ACLU's right to know everything? Just as long as it is believed damning to America and injurious to our way of life. They pursue these quests with a vengeance, even when their sought after "knowing of everything," obviously jeopardizes the lives of those in harms way. Those serving to protect these very swine that call themselves civil liberties lawyers and Americans, are the one's truly standing to be injured the most.

Something has happened in the past week in Washington though. A quantum shift if you will, between the original democrat game plan concerning supposed CIA torture techniques and the present pursuits of those skewed perceptions by Obama and Pelosi.

Obama is smart enough to know when to call full stop and pull back from the great abyss in the face of political liability. While Nancy Pelosi remains every bit as stupid as she looks. She doesn't have the sense to pull back or tender any mea culpa of error on any level. Part of the reasoning for that IMO, is that certain liberals are so accustomed to lying, that they immediately believe any lie that they create on any level. Nancy would be the epitome of that example. That is why the issue has now shifted to what did Nancy know and when did she know it concerning the CIA briefings of 2002 and since.

Obama backed away on the release of those photographs this week not out of any sincere due caution or sincere respect for the danger that those photographs represent to this country or our military personnel in harms way. He backed away because someone else placed a more weightier stack of chips on the table and called his raise.

In big league American poker? There is an old adage. "You got to to know when to holed em? And know when to fold em. Know when to walk away and know when to run.

Obama may not be a champion poker player, but he ain't stupid either. He saw the call of his recent actions and the raise to his intentions to attempt to disgrace the Bush administration. And he folded his hand quickly in the face of what he knows is not a bluff by the opposition and a potentially damning loss.

As an observer and an infrequent player of the game myself, I believe what we have witnessed and will continue to witness as it concerns the present goings on in Washington, is a true game of "Texas Hold em." And it is being played by some masterful folks who may not be immediately apparent or visible to the casual observer or the media. But you can count on the fact that Obama knows who they are and what they have threatened in this game of high stakes political poker.

Problem is? Dear old Nancy don't have a clue. She is clinging to that bucket of "shite and shinola" that she has been waving and thinking that she has the winning hand just as long as she slings the shinola.

That was evident today with her latest version of attempted plausible deniability over the issue of her knowledge of supposed torture methods being employed by the CIA back in 2002.

So what began as a witch hunt by the democrats against the Bush administration over the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, has now become a true witch hunt and the witch being hunted by the media at this point? Is none other than Nancy. and she has no one but herself to thank for it.

So how long before the other shoes drop and the final cards of this hand are laid on the table by everyone in the game? Nancy Pelosi may still have the ability to fold her hand and walk away, as no more than a simpleton who over wagered her hand. Or she may have past the tipping point today and soon to be forced to observe what the other players in the game are holding as pat hands to her inside straight bluff.

Either way there are certain things that can be counted on in this game. Number one, it makes little difference that Leon Panetta is the present head of the CIA or that George H. W. Bush once was. There are people there and there always have been, who know how to play the high stakes games of poker with the Washington elite, regardless of the party of current power or majority control.

And you can count on the fact that they have long since lined their beds and their cat boxes with more than enough of a paper trail, to ward off all of the shite and shinola slinging that the little minx Pelosi or the junior occupant of the White House have to offer.

And if Nancy Pelosi wants to truly see just how the game is really played by the big boys? Then all she has to do is keep running her pie hole about the CIA and calling them liars.

Something the dear lady from the land of fruit and nuts seems to have overlooked. It's not nice to step on the toes of the gate keepers and the spooks.