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1. #1
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:22 am, hawkeye54 said:

   Hmmm, I thought the headline read
   “Dunce, Nancy, Dunce”

   I thought, well, that’s stating the obvious.

2. #2
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:24 am, tarpon said:

   Seems like such a shame to waste all these 2010 commercials on a resignation.

3. #3
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:24 am, Mulligan said:

   Oh what a tangled web Pelosi weaves.

4. #4
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am, bradley said:

   Nancy Pelosi is the poster child for birth control. Trojan should hire her as spokesperson. People like this shouldn’t exist, much less be third-in-line behind a hairplugged idiot and a clueless empty suit party hack. Even though she fits perfectly.

5. #5
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:27 am, spaceycakes said:

   Change ‘sugarplum’ to ‘sugardaddy’ and that’s it in a ‘nut’shell.

6. #6
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:30 am, BlameAmericaLast said:

   We all better hope nothing happens to Obama.

   I can’t imagine this fool in charge of this country. 3rd in line. Unbelievable.

7. #7
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:31 am, DagneyT said:

   It was almost embarrassing watching her ridiculous word dance the other day!

8. #8
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:34 am, California Red said:

   I’d love to see her lose her speakership, but then again, she might be the identifiable symbol of a backlash against the Democrats. We might just want to keep her right where she is.

   Sad to think that her seat is safe. I would think that we coudl fill the House with 435 qualified representatives.

9. #9
   On May 19th, 2009 at 11:45 am, RobM1981 said:

   California Red,

   It’s no accident that her seat is safe in the same state that is about to declare bankruptcy. Given your handle, I’m guessing I’m preaching to the choir on that one.

   It would be funny to watch California slide into a sea of perpetual debt if we weren’t all linked by Obama’s iron claw. Unfortunately, we all know that he will happily bankrupt and destroy every healthy (read “fiscally conservative”) state, just to perpetuate his psychotic fantasies of a Socialist USA.

10. #10
    On May 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am, Hangfire said:

    “Hi, my name is Nancy Pelosi, and I am a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous.”

    “Well, actually I’m the Vice…….er, the President, yeah, the President of Pathological Liars Anonymous….yeah.”

11. #11
    On May 19th, 2009 at 11:56 am, DBNinKY said:

    Like a parable comparable to Gyges’ Ring (Plato), Pelosi has proven that absolute power brings out the true nature of the one that wields such authority.

    Pelosi’s dishonesty is nothing new, but her role as Speaker of the House underscores it as a liability to the veracity of all Democrats in the presentation of their legislation.

    Democrats if they’re serious about wanting what’s best for this country, should realize that Pelosi is now a liability to not only their party but in the representation of America on the world stage, and ask her to resign.

12. #12
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:04 pm, Gorebot said:

    Just like the Despercrats of 14 years ago, the RepCons now have their own “Newtette Gingrich” to vilify.

    Of course, Newt is near genious, and Nancy “Burned-Out-Husk-of-a-Barbie-Doll” Pelosi is an embarrassment to all humankind.

    If she keeps this up, she’ll be competing with Keith Olbermann for “The Most Egregious Waste of Protoplasm Ever Conceived” award.

13. #13
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:09 pm, Living in the PSRK said:

    You’ll never guess which states have most jobless…
    Unemployment in March was 20 percent higher in so-called “blue states” won by Democratic candidate Barack Obama in last fall’s presidential election than in “red states” won by Republican candidate John McCain, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

14. #14
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, airbrush101 said:

    It’s nice to see the GOP finally get up off of the couch and say something anti-Democrat. Not much but it’s a start.

15. #15
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:18 pm, iamsaved said:

    You’ll never guess which states have most jobless…

    And the most:
    Crime
    Taxes
    Free social services
    highest paid bureaucrats
    corruption
    gun control

    Where liberals gather, you’ll find an American Values carcass!

16. #16
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, MrOlympia said:

    Hangfire said:
    “Hi, my name is Nancy Pelosi, and I am a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous.”

    “Well, actually I’m the Vice…….er, the President, yeah, the President of Pathological Liars Anonymous….yeah.”

    Yeah….thats the ticket! LMAO

17. #17
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, lgm said:

    MM and the wingnut noise machine have really succeeded this time. They’ve turned the headlines from the important question of whether there was torture to the trivial question of when Nancy Pelosi knew about it. They turned from “Are Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney war criminals?” to “Did Nancy Pelosi misrepresent when she learned about it?”

    For all your bellyaching about liberal media, you can play it very well too.

18. #18
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:22 pm, Gorebot said:

    “Liberal Government” is to “National Health” what “Dealer” is to “Crackhead”.

19. #19
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:24 pm, iamsaved said:

    LGM, it’s more about the liberal, Democrat hypocrisy than anything else. If there were illegal activities, the Democrats were complicit too. We’d just like them to join in on being investigated and run out of office. Why not share the wealth? They started this fiasco trying to extract a pound of flesh from the Bush Administration. Maybe they should have let well enough alone. Now they’ve jeopardized this country’s security for political gain.

20. #20
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:25 pm, b-cat said:

    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, lgm said: They turned from “Are Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney war criminals?” to “Did Nancy Pelosi misrepresent when she learned about it?”

    Which would make Nanny Pelosi a war criminal, too. Dummazz.

21. #21
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:27 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    “Liberal Government” is to “National Health” what “Dealer” is to “Crackhead”.

    Liberal Government Healthcare is:

    Dr. Gumby, Brain Specialist!”

    “MY BRAIN HURTS!”

22. #22
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:29 pm, Gorebot said:

    LGM,

    Are you a parent? If so, tell us to our faces that you would not waterboard if you were convinced that within the next hour your son/daughter would be viciously murdered unless you extracted — by waterboarding — from an abettor of that crime exactly where the perp was, so that you could of course prevent the killing.

    Don’t waste your time, Liar.

    Since you’d be willing to torture to save your own kids, where the F do you come off insisting that others don’t have the same right?

    Typical liberal.

23. #23
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:29 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Which would make Nanny Pelosi a war criminal, too. Dummazz.

    Well, a rational person would think that. But lib dems seems to be able to weasel out of such situations with their “Perpetual Stay Out of Jail Free” card. Aided and abetted by the MSM.

24. #24
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:38 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, lgm said:
    MM and the wingnut noise machine have really succeeded this time. They’ve turned the headlines from the important question of whether there was torture to the trivial question of when Nancy Pelosi knew about it. They turned from “Are Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney war criminals?” to “Did Nancy Pelosi misrepresent when she learned about it?”

    For all your bellyaching about liberal media, you can play it very well too.

    Wrong! Pelosi changed the headlines by claiming a whole government agency, the CIA, conspired against her and congress, but mostly her. You give MM and us wingnuts, too much credit over what the MSM puts in their headlines. Occasionally , real journalism happens, occasionally.
    Leon Pannetta head of CIA, (a Democrat by the way) is pretty much calling Nancy Pelosi a wind farm!

25. #25
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:42 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, MrOlympia said:

    Hangfire said:

    “Hi, my name is Nancy Pelosi, and I am a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous.”

    “Well, actually I’m the Vice…….er, the President, yeah, the President of Pathological Liars Anonymous….yeah.”

    Yeah….thats the ticket! LMAO

    Pelosiku:

    There was no briefing.
    If I may quote Jon Lovitz,
    “Yeah, that’s the ticket.”

    Hat Tip: @justkarl

26. #26
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:44 pm, nail49 said:

    Democrats if they’re serious about wanting what’s best for this country….

    DBNinKY: Since WHEN have Democrats ever been serious about anything EXCEPT grabbing power and keeping it clutched tightly in their grubby paws despite the cost to the average American?

    Democrats serious about this country would have run Ted Kennedy (D, Chappaquidick), Robert Byrd (D, KKK), Harry Reid, (D, Corruption), Charlie Rangel (D, Tax-Dodger), John Murtha (D, Stupidity), Chris Dodd (D, Clueless) etc. out of DC on a rail and covered in tar and feathers.

27. #27
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:44 pm, spaceycakes said:

    MM and the wingnut noise machine

    I’ve got a noise fer ya.

28. #28
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:45 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how the California Democrat she is handling her job as Speaker of the House in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, while 39 percent approve of her performance.

    But will it matter….????

29. #29
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:47 pm, JusDreamin said:

    lgm said:
    They’ve turned the headlines from the important question of whether there was torture…

    Even if you believe waterboarding is torture lgm, if you think it was mis-used, you are in the minority. And I am not talking this forum, I’m talking the majority of Americans.

30. #30
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:48 pm, Wade said:

    Is there an over/under if she makes it to June?

31. #31
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:48 pm, nail49 said:

    But will it matter….????

    Ragspierre: It may matter to Joe Sixpack and Wendy Winecooler, but they are in ‘flyover country’ and those of us living and working and paying taxes there don’t matter to those in power…

32. #32
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:50 pm, Wade said:

    lgm said:
    They’ve turned the headlines from the important question of whether there was torture…

    Does Scooter Libby ring a bell?

33. #33
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:51 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Ragspierre: It may matter to Joe Sixpack and Wendy Winecooler, but they are in ‘flyover country’ and those of us living and working and paying taxes there don’t matter to those in power…

    Understood. For me, understood a few decades ago…

    Now, will you join me in STARVING THE BEAST…?

34. #34
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:51 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Nacy is doing a great impression of Nathan Thurm:

    Nathan Thurm
    This was a character created by Martin Short. A shady lawyer, Thurm was a chain-smoker, quite paranoid, and constantly in denial about his paranoia. “I’m not being defensive. You’re the one who’s being defensive.” When questioned, his catch phrase often included, “It’s so funny to me that you would think…” He would also look into the camera and express his puzzlement at the questioner by asking, “Is it me, or is it him? It’s him, right?” Other times, he would deny an accusation, then immediately reverse his position when the accuser reaffirmed the statement. “No, it isn’t!” (“Yes it is.”) “I know that! Why wouldn’t I know that? I’m well aware of that!”

    Perhaps the best known appearance of Thurm was in a 1984 SNL sketch that was a send-up of 60 Minutes. Harry Shearer played Mike Wallace, accusing Thurm of being involved in corporate corruption. Thurm of course denied everything and nervously tried to turn the tables on Wallace.

    Nathan Thurm on the hot seat.

35. #35
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:52 pm, Ragspierre said:

    I have asked lgm if waterboarding is torture when applied to American service personnel in training.

    I don’t think he’s answered that…

    ever.

36. #36
    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:57 pm, JusDreamin said:

    lgm, from your heros at CNN:

    “Roughly one in five Americans believe those techniques were torture but nonetheless approve of the decision to use those procedures against suspected terrorists,” CNN Polling Director Keating Holland said. “That goes a long way toward explaining why a majority don’t want to see former Bush officials investigated.”

    But half the public approves of the Bush administration’s decision to use of those techniques during the questioning of suspected terrorists, with 50 percent in approval and 46 percent opposed.

    The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll was conducted April 23-26, with 2,019 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey’s sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points

37. #37
    On May 19th, 2009 at 1:01 pm, Hangfire said:

    IMHO, extreme psychological and physical distress to a captive for punitive purposes, or for the entertainment of the captors, is torture.

    The same activities used against that same captive for real, time-critical intelligence gathering purposes is not torture, but part of the horror of war.

38. #38
    On May 19th, 2009 at 1:08 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    Squirm Baby, Squirm.

    She will hopefully keep flapping her jaw. It just gets better with every press conference.

39. #39
    On May 19th, 2009 at 1:15 pm, Dave Turson said:

    Britain’s liberal speaker resigned today. Pelosi should take a hint and be nudged out for a twofer–it would reinvigorate our special relationship!

40. #40
    On May 19th, 2009 at 1:29 pm, John Deaux said:

    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, lgm said:
    They’ve turned the headlines from the important question of whether there was torture…

    It doesn’t matter. It was deemed legal at the time. We have laws that specifically forbid retroactive punishment. Get over your BDS.

41. #41
    On May 19th, 2009 at 1:36 pm, J S Ragman said:

    They’ve turned the headlines from the important already resolved legal question of whether there was torture, to the trivial important question of when Nancy Pelosi knew about it can the Speaker of the House call the CIA liars.

    I know, why bother.

42. #42
    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:07 pm, cheapseat said:

    LGM, NANCY AND THE UNHINGED LEFT SAY WATERBOARDING IS TORTURE, SO OUR MILITARY DRILL INSTRUCTORS MUST BE WAR CRIMINALS ALSO FOR PERFORMING THIS ON U.S. SOLDIERS. ALAS, TO KEEP AN ATTACK DOG IN FRONT OF YOU TO SUBDUE THUGS IS ALSO TORTURE, HENCE ALL THE RIOT POLICE IN THE WORLD ARE WAR CRIMINALS TOO. AND LGM, THE REASON FOR THE NEWS SHIFT IS THAT A MAJORITY OF AMERICANS KNOW WATERBOARDING AND EMBARRASSING PHOTOS AREN’T TORTURE, WHILE LYING TO CONGRESS IS. SCOOTER LIDDY WENT TO JAIL, WE WANT NANCY TO GO UNDER OATH AND REPEAT THIS CRAP. SHE KNEW IN 2002, AND AS THE LEADING DEMOCRAT IN THE HOUSE AT THE TIME, SHE GAVE BUSH PERMISSION, WHICH KIND OF NEGATES THE THEORY THAT BUSH IS GUILTY ALONE. HMMMM.

43. #43
    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:24 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Even Oliver Stone wouldn’t touch this screenplay. And why would the CIA have lied to Pelosi in 2002? Even in her telling, the briefers informed her that the enhanced interrogation techniques had been found to be legal. So there was no wrongdoing to cover up. And even by Pelosi’s account, the CIA told one of her aides in a February 2003 briefing that it had used waterboarding, and the aide passed it along to her. It’s pointless to lie to the principal when a few months later you are going to funnel the information to her through a subordinate. In short, Pelosi has uncorked Washington’s least believable and most internally inconsistent denial since Bill Clinton wagged his finger over “that woman.”

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/05/19/nancys_nutty_cia_conspiracy_tales_96557.html

44. #44
    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:29 pm, Papa Louie said:

    Democrats want us to believe that Nancy is the smart one and Sarah Palin and Miss California are the dumb b*tches. That just proves how far these democrats have wandered from reality.

45. #45
    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:50 pm, bear1909 said:

    I am amazed.

    Pelosi Galore going down in flames. Reid beginning to leak oil in Nevada.

    Gitmo isnt going to get closed because Senate Dhimmis wont fund the closing.

    Soetoro to make a royal fool of himself in Egypt. Iran and all the rest of the Dirty Nightshirt Brigades in the Middle East thumbing their noses at Soetoro.

    More pressure to come over the “birth certificate”.

    China making mischief by backing its currency with gold.

    20 US states passing 10th ammendment resolutions. 13 gives it a powerful 2/3rds majority.
    (Oh ya, Barry forgot that We the People are organized into STATES with LAWS!!!)

    The Fed is choking on buying up Treasury notes.

    What is not to love. This administration is destroying itself.

    The CIA memo seems to have been the spanking the opposition was looking for.

    Now what will real conservatives do to kick this lummock while he is “down”.

    Bear1909 out.

46. #46
    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, simcoe said:

    Somebody ought to ask her:

    “If the speaker of a Republican congress denied what she is denying in the way she is denying it, what would be the policy and appropriate action of the American Congress?”

47. #47
    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:56 pm, b-cat said:

    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, simcoe said:
    Somebody ought to ask her:

    “If the speaker of a Republican congress denied what she is denying in the way she is denying it, what would be the policy and appropriate action of the American Congress?”

    Blink blink.

48. #48
    On May 19th, 2009 at 2:58 pm, Gorebot said:

    If torture is a crime then we need a Nuremberg II trial for MSNBC.

49. #49
    On May 19th, 2009 at 3:09 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Sworn before a Notary Public,
    Nancy Pelosi signed an Official Certification of Nomination stating:
    (emphasis mine)

    THIS IS TO CERTIFY that at the National Convention of the Democratic Party of the United States of America, held in Denver, Colorado on August 25 through 28, 2008, the following were duly nominated as candidates of said Party for President and Vice President of the United States respectively and that the following candidates for President and Vice President of the United States are legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution:

    For President of the United States
    Barack Obama

    For Vice President of the United States
    Joe Biden

    [signed]
    Nancy Pelosi
    Chair, Democratic National Convention

    Pelosi never requested to see Obama’s original birth certificate from the State of Hawaii.

    So how did Pelosi determine that Obama is legally qualified to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution?

    Did she lie under oath about Obama’s qualifications?

50. #50
    On May 19th, 2009 at 3:10 pm, Milwaukee Mike said:

    “If the speaker of a Republican congress denied what she is denying in the way she is denying it, what would be the policy and appropriate action of the American Congress?”

    No action would be necessary as a Republican in her situation would have been pressured to step down by now (by the Republicans).

51. #51
    On May 19th, 2009 at 3:14 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Sworn before a Notary Public,
    Nancy Pelosi signed an Official Certification of Nomination …

    It’s interesting that the Hawaiian Secretary of State took Nancy Pelosi’s word for Obama’s legal qualification to serve under the provisions of the United States Constitution.

    Why didn’t the Hawaiian Secretary of State look at Hawaii’s own records to see if Obama was actually born in Hawaii, versus just having his birth recorded there for a COLB (Certification of Live Birth, versus a Certificate of Live Birth)?

52. #52
    On May 19th, 2009 at 3:25 pm, rooster said:

    On May 19th, 2009 at 12:20 pm, lgm said:
    MM and the wingnut noise machine have really succeeded this time. They’ve turned the headlines from the important question of whether there was torture to the trivial question of when Nancy Pelosi knew about it. They turned from “Are Bush, Rumsfeld, and Cheney war criminals?” to “Did Nancy Pelosi misrepresent when she learned about it?”

    For all your bellyaching about liberal media, you can play it very well too.

    As usual you distort the whole reason Pelosi started all of this nonsense. She has already admitted she had an agenda and knew what was going on. She lied about everything, just so more of the PRAVDA could report the faux torture issue for idiots like yourself to get your panties all twisted in knots so you could be justified in your hatred for America’s once great stature.(BO-Before Obama)

53. #53
    On May 19th, 2009 at 3:39 pm, happyscrapper said:

    I’m thinking that Pelosi could be in one heck of a lot more trouble if it is discovered that she covered up Obama’s qualifications to be POTUS! I believe prison would be involved there. Or worse. The Obama presidency is a huge fraud being perpetrated on the American people. And Pelosi is right in the middle of it.

54. #54
    On May 19th, 2009 at 4:29 pm, graysonret said:

    It’s amazing that Americans, today, allow someone as stupid and corrupt as her, be Speaker. There’s a lot of dumbed down people out there.

55. #55
    On May 19th, 2009 at 4:47 pm, Ragspierre said:

    There is an old saying about getting what you deserve in a democracy.

    As a general proposition, I think that is true. Harsh, perhaps, but a lot of truth is.

    In the case of the mob we have running the nation now, I think it does not apply.

    An election is not a constitutional revolution, but we are being subjected to one.

    BIG BRO is on the march, and that has to be stopped.

56. #56
    On May 19th, 2009 at 4:58 pm, FirstSkirt said:

    I personally got a lot of pleasure and satisfaction seeing Ms. Pelosi look and sound so incompetent at her latest briefing. And, I noticed that she blamed a staffer for her not being prepared with her notes in order. Same old crap, different day–blame somebody (usually Republicans), blame anybody, but she is never able to man up and admit she lied. Oh yeah, I forget. When liberals lie, it is only that they have “mispoken”.

57. #57
    On May 19th, 2009 at 5:06 pm, madmonkphotog said:

    Porky Pig and Boomhauer from King of the Hill are more comprehendable than this piece of work.

58. #58
    On May 19th, 2009 at 5:06 pm, graysonret said:

    I can help but wonder why there are people, like IGM, who think that a highly taxed, government controlled society is the best way to go, today. Is it because they think that they will be exempt? Or, do they live in a fantasy world of utopia? Socialism with a very strong, dominating government has never worked; just brought, eventually, a disaster to the people. Perhaps it is because of feel-goodism that guides them. They look to instant gratification and not to the consequences. I’m 60 now, and was once a long-haired, anti-war, radical liberal of the ’60s. I can excuse kids, being naive and gullible, relying on emotion, because there isn’t any maturity and experience yet. But older people need a wake-up call. The government, today, wants power. That’s it, in a nutshell. To support such a government is to deny oneself of all that previous generations have fought for and learned. Do what I did once. Pick up a good book on the revolution and Constitutional Convention.

59. #59
    On May 19th, 2009 at 6:02 pm, swede said:

    The Dance of Nanny the Sugar Plum Fairy. I love it!

60. #60
    On May 19th, 2009 at 6:13 pm, RabbidSquirrel said:

    “Daddy!!! Where are you? Save me!! (I should have stayed in Baltimore…)”

61. #61
    On May 19th, 2009 at 6:21 pm, bear1909 said:

    “Waterboarding is torture.”

    By whose standards? What did Pelosi Galore have to say about the beheading of Nick Berg and Dan Pearl?

    What did any of the moonloonbats have to say about what our enemies have done in the name of a statist religion of Islamic supremacy?

    Read the flippin memos moonloonbats! Do some reading of something other than HuffChoad or DailyDross.

    The world is passing you by. This administration is a house of cards and shouldn’t be feared. They should be confronted.

    Things began to turn when Andrew McCarthy told Eric Holder where he could shove the faux Gitmo deliberations Soetoro planned as a rubber stamp to foist these living wastes onto the very American public Holder and company want to disarm.

    Soetoro is going to fall along with many in this Dhimmi gang who KNOW he is a fraud…Howard Dean included. (Sorry, I have a very personal and hateful history with that clown and know he is going to take a high hard one before this power grab is all over.)

    Anyways….torture smorture. Lgm is a complete imbecile in his thinking. As are all the rest of them.

    Bear1909 out.

62. #62
    On May 19th, 2009 at 7:13 pm, Ragspierre said:

    Rep. Lungren pointed out that if the attorney general truly believes “waterboarding is torture,” he must also think we torture our own Navy SEALs and other special-operations personnel when we waterboard them as part of their training. “No . . . not in the legal sense,” countered Holder. You see, said he, it’s “a fundamentally different thing,” because

    we’re doing something for training purposes to try to equip them with the tools to, perhaps, resist torture techniques that might be used on them. There is not the intent to do that which is defined as torture — which is to inflict serious bodily or mental harm. It’s for training. It’s different.

    But it’s not different because “it’s for training.” Look at the torture statute (Sections 2340 and 2340A of the federal penal code) and try to find a “training” exception. There isn’t one. What removes an act from the ambit of torture (besides lack of severe pain) is intent. Lungren pressed this point, and Holder admitted that the training was “not torture in the legal sense because we’re not doing it with the intention of harming these people physically or mentally.” Intent, he acknowledged, was the key question.
    http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NjZkNGZiODM0YjNmODNkMWFhZDU5Mzk2ZDMwNGRmMDQ=

    The Dimocrats are DONE….

63. #63
    On May 20th, 2009 at 8:45 pm, ITookTheRedPill said:

    Anyone who believes in “transparency” should ask their representative to cosponsor H.R. 1503.

64. #64
    On May 21st, 2009 at 4:02 pm, Wildcatter1980 said:

    She could only be elected from a place like San Francisco. An odd ball representing odd balls. They probably cheered dancin’ Nan, claiming it a wonderful example of nuance that conservatives are too neanderthal to understand.

    Yeah! Riiiiiight.