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It’s Okay If You’re a Republican
Even with Democrats in the majority, IOKIYAR reigns:
9 Responses to “It’s Okay If You’re a Republican”
I'm not familiar with the acronym IOKIYAR.
heheh. dagoat, it's the title of the post
What's with the faux outrage about Pelosi's comment? The CIA did say they briefed Bob Graham 4 times. They didn't. They have admitted they didn't. Gingrich is an idiot. No one at CIA will be prosecuted for lying about briefing Graham.
Were they wrong about what they said they told Pelosi too? We don't know. We may never know. I'd bet big money that if CIA ever testifies under oath about what they told Pelosi, it will include the classic lawyer terminology “to the best of my recollection.”
Now, remember that tne week after the date CIA claims to have briefed Pelosi, they told Congress and the nation that they were certain that Iraq had WMD. The same month! Who owes the nation an apology? Pelosi? Oh please.
Thanks GD my Alzheimers is flaring up today. Well, if the CIA is misleading everyone why don't we investigate them? I know the Democrats see it as a political ploy by the GOP, but take that away and isn't it the right thing to do?
DaGoat,
That's why I spelled it out in the title.
Ooops, sorry DaGoat, I didn't see that GD had gotten there before me.
yes, DaGoat, we should investigate. I don't care what either side says; it's the only way we'll get any more facts than we know today, though the Cheney case is crumbling badly and I think he knows it. I would subpoena administrative aides and staff researchers before those who have fears of exposure and prison. I'd grant immunity to those who obviously had no say in decision making.
This liberal says to investigate Pelosi, Hartman and other Dem who enabled this mess. Staying quiet until your party regains power is a cowardly act. Phil Hart is turning over in his grave…
I agree to a point Rudi. A question though. If Dem legislators had broken their sworn secrecy oath and federal law by speaking out publicly about what was told them in secret, would they have been prosecuted? For certain Cheney/Bush and the outraged masses would have condemned them as traitors. But would they not have been prosecuted and lost their security clearance?
GD – please stop the 'red herring' defense.
Many people's problem, myself included, is not that she didn't speak out before. It is that she was briefed, then later went on a hypocritical rampage and witch hunt.
If there is anything though that does also knock down you 'defense' of the speaker is that it is not that she didn't speak out in public. It is that she didn't object or speak out privately through secure communications, or join those who did do so.
And please, the 'I didn't because it would do no good' is a complete and total cop-out. In fact, it is beyond that. If she truly felt at the time that illegal measures were being performed, she had an obligation in her role to communicate those concerns, privately, back to the WH.
But of course she didn't, because she did not have concerns, until it became politically expedient to do so. Hence the charge of hypocrisy.