So, I guess you're in favor of an investigation into the smell?

As I said above, Pelosi certainly fumbled the press conference.

As to her political damage, I'm aware that she's unpopular according to recent polls.

However, a recent Rasmussen poll has also shown that a slim plurality of the public believes Pelosi over the CIA.

Pelosi's not the only one with credibility problems.

I imagine any Democrat who served in the House during the torture years would have problems. Not to mention any Republicans.

So much so that, had she merely been giving a recipe for her favorite pound cake, I'd be compelled to go with the tried and true recipe on the back of the box instead.

In all honesty, I haven't a clue who's telling the truth here. However, I think Pelosi is badly damaged, politically — and a Speaker with a serious credibility problem is a real liability, not just for her personally, but for the Democrats as a whole.

Maybe she was nervous because she was taking on the CIA?

I could easily enough leave it at that. But I don't think much of this kind of mind-reading.

Do you ever watch C-SPAN, CStanley? If you did, you'd know the Congress is not full of fabulous orators. Oh my, most definitely not!!

As indicated and linked above, Pelosi has backup for her story.

It doesn't maker a liar, though, any more than Limbaugh's resonant voice makes him a truthteller.

In my case, you're a terrible mind-reader. I'll leave up to others how much common sense you have.

Nancy Pelosi has good back-up for her story.

Here's my thinking on Pelosi, from a previous comment:

Pelosi has backup for her side of the story.

You could say her response–by the time she knew what was going on, Jane Harman had her job on the Intelligence Committee, so she encouraged Harman to write a letter of complaint to the CIA–was pretty limp. I think it was pretty limp, especially after her ringing claim that she knew nothing and wouldn't have stood for anything if she had known. But maybe that letter was as far as they could go, legally. And I think the torture program ended soon after it started–maybe the complaining helped that to happen?

But the very idea that (so far) Pelosi is as big a liar as the torture gurus is a bunch of bull.

However, that claim satisfies our Limboids endless desire to call her a liar (about anything and everything), just as it suits the hobgoblin notion of balance our dumb media endorses.

But as I said up there, so far.

It wouldn't surprise me to eventually learn that Pelosi did know more and do less. So far, however: NOT.

I'm willing to be proved wrong, but I still want to see the evidence.

Investigate.

Really, Jwest, you're gonna find that in this world people sometimes have pretty good reasons for disagreeing with you.

Ah, maybe they would look at and listen to Ms. Pelosi and determine, using only a modicum of common sense, that she is lying her ass off.

George, save yourself some time and embarrassment by not bothering to defend her on this. She lying. You know it, everyone knows it.

Isn't this just more Republican spin?

Why would anyone find this persuasive, if they didn't already think it was true?