A Tangled Web Indeed

Wow, what a mess.

So here it goes. After September 11, 2001, the US captured some very mean, nasty, and high ranking members of the Al Qaeda network. Evil men by all accounts. It was believed that these men were in a position to know information about possible attacks that could be significant. The Bush administration asked their legal team about the possibility of “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the team weighed in on a number of techniques including waterboarding. The time came, the order was given, the technique was used, useful information was gained, and innocent American lives (possibly hundreds of thousands of lives but the current administration won’t release that info) were saved and no permanent damage was done to the bad guys.

The far left base of the Democratic Party has been apoplectic about this for years now, so when Barack Obama became president they started lobbying for him to prosecute President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and whoever else might have been involved. He very quickly ruled out prosecuting the executive leadership, for good reason; the whole idea is absurd and it would set a very bad precedent. He also very quickly ruled out prosecuting the CIA agents that actually performed the waterboarding. All of this enraged the leftists who worked so hard and contributed so much to Democratic campaigns. So the administration opened up to the idea of prosecuting, get this, not the people who gave the ORDER to do the waterboarding, or the people who DID the waterboarding, but the LAWYERS who gave a legal opinion to the President, that waterboarding was not illegal.

Well, it became obvious very quickly that this strategy was not going to work, would put egg all over the face of the administration, and would fail to appease the base. So… they appealed to the home state Bar Associations of these lawyers for them to consider ethical complaints against the attorneys. In the view of those searching for blood, President Obama failed to deliver.

So… here comes the queen of the leftists, Speaker Pelosi. She demands a truth commission be set up to find out who was involved and bring them to justice. One problem; the CIA says that they briefed her on this subject repeatedly since 2002 and she never raised any concerns about the techniques being used. Oops. She denied, then says that she new they thought the technique was legal, but that it wasn’t being used… oh wait she knew it was being used but not until 2003 and only because some random staff person told her… no wait it was another member of congress that told her… spinning, spinning, spinning…

Then yesterday the wheels came off the bus and the Speaker’s finger pointing was everywhere. She was flustered and had to read repeatedly from her prepared statement because it was obvious that she was lying through her teeth and turned abruptly and unexpectedly on the CIA saying that they had lied to Congress in the past and were lying now. Here is a quote from the press conference:

QUESTION: Madam Speaker, just to be clear, you're accusing the CIA of lying to you in September of 2002?

PELOSI: Yes, misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

QUESTION: And also -- and doing it again now, as they've released this list of briefings that says you were briefed on the interrogation tactics that were used.

PELOSI: I'm saying -- I'm quoting what the head of the CIA has said. This is -- we don't know if this information is accurate that he's talking about.

What they briefed us on -- and perhaps they should release the briefings. I would be very happy if they would release the briefings. ...

But I'm telling you that they talked about interrogations that they had done and said, "We want to use enhanced techniques, and we have legal opinions that say that they are OK. We are not using waterboarding." That's the only mention, that they were not using it. And we now know that earlier they were.

So, yes, I am saying that they are misleading -- that the CIA was misleading the Congress.

Now the Speaker has lost her credibility (with the few people that still held her in any regard).

Pundits are now taking bets on how long she will last.

Unfortunately I’m not sure that it is going to work that way. The Democratic Party doesn’t have the same kind of ethics standards that the Republicans have. I think Speaker Pelosi will be there for some time to come.

But I hope I’m wrong. She needs to go.

Pray for the health of Pres Obama and Vice Pres Biden

Otherwise this lady will be our president.


I realize the audio is a little weak. Sorry. But she claims that 500 million Americans lose their job every month. Considering there are about 300 million people in the US, and about 135 million of them are working, then each of them would have to lose their job three times every month.

It's sad but it wasn't the first time she said it... I think someone might need to actually TELL her that if she is going to pull numbers from some random orifice, that she should at least make them believable!

Nancy's House is So Ethical They Don't Even Need the Rule Book Anymore

I still remember the pledge from Nancy Pelosi that this would be the most ethical congress in history. Right.

She is proposing rules today that would cut minority party influence on bills drastically, keep bills from being debated entirely, and set up committee positions that will last for decades and be a secure foothold for lobbyist to step up and buy their influence for years to come.

If President Obama hopes to have the bi-partisan and transparent government he touted during the prolonged election period then I think he needs to sit down with congressional leadership and talk to them about the real message that they are sending.

Nancy and our energy crisis

First of all, let me say that while I respect the right of people to protest… I’m not a big fan of the concept. To me it’s just kind of an annoying spectacle, but that’s beside the point.

Nancy Pelosi decided to take the conversation down a notch. Low class. But since she wants to give people a hard time about energy policy and she seems to be the main road block in the way of actually getting a vote on drilling, let’s take a look at her thoughts on energy.

It’s important to know that she opposes fossil fuels. She believes that we need to use natural gas. This is a brilliant idea. Do you think somebody should mention to her that natural gas IS a fossil fuel? Yes, someone who clearly doesn’t know WHAT she is talking about it stopping us from drilling by preventing a vote on a bill that would open up the outer continental shelf, ANWR, and shale oil reserves. Classic.

Also the whole concept of two cents in 10 years is absolutely ridiculous and an out right lie. The fact is that it will make a huge difference RIGHT NOW.

Two things are going to bring down the price at the pump: a strong dollar, which the administration has finally shown some interest in, and increasing supply. Even saying that you plan on drilling will bring the price down well more than 2 cents. The price is partly based on speculation and how much supply traders believe will be available in the future.

Now this talk about the US only having 1-2% of the oil reserves in the world is also an out right lie. We haven’t been allowed to explore the outer continental shelf to really figure out how much is there. The latest estimates were revised upwards fairly dramatically. Add in the amount of oil that can be achieved through shale exploration and the US could be the most oil rich nation in the world.
















So on that note, I echo the protestors. Drill here, drill now! Maybe not in Denver, but definitely in the oil shale regions of Colorado.