Posted on 12/05/2011 9:39:52 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Pelosi plans to reveal information about Gingrich 'when the time is right' By Alicia M. Cohn - 12/05/11 11:44 AM ET
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday.
“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
Gingrich, who served as Speaker of the House, worked with Pelosi in Congress from 1987 to 1999. Pelosi also served on the ethics committee that investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations in the late ’90s.
Gingrich filmed an ad with then-House Speaker Pelosi in 2008 to urge action on climate change, which haunted him early in his presidential bid this year. Gingrich called the ad “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in recent years” last month.
Republicans in Congress have been slow to rally around Gingrich’s rise to front-runner status in the polls, with former GOP colleague Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) stating publicly over the weekend he is not “inclined to be a supporter” of Gingrich due to that past experience.
But Democrats such as the soon-to-retire Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) have suggested Gingrich as the GOP nominee would benefit the Democratic Party.
"He would be the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater," Frank said last week. Goldwater is credited with reviving Republican conservatism in the ’60s.
Pelosi told Talking Points Memo that Frank “spoke for a lot” of Democrats. “I like Barney Frank’s quote the best, where he said ‘I never thought I’d live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party,’ ” she said.
And Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who also served in Congress with Gingrich and now holds a position of power as assistant minority leader in the House, charged Gingrich on Monday with lacking the temperament to be president.
“He tends to fly off the handle. He will say almost anything in order to get a charge. I’m sure that he’s not serious when he says a lot of these things,” Clyburn said on MSNBC.
FUNP!!
And I could never vote for a guy who was into bestiality.
Gingrich will be worse than McCain.
If Pelosi had anything substantive, they would have used it in the 1990’s to depose him. All that is probably left is unverified innuendo. She needs to keep in mind that negative campaigning backfires. Plus, all Newt has to do to respond is say “do you want another 4 years of these people running things?”
But Nancy is hardly the queen of clean
They aren’t even subtle about it anymore. Really, is anyone surprised?
So, what exactly did Newt do in the 90s that got him “taken down” in the first place?
I honestly don’t remember.
>> The Dems are getting nervous. They thought they had taken Newt down over 10 years ago. Apparently not. >>
Finally, had to get to reply 18 before someone got it. This is the translation of Pelosi-speak:
“Oh hell, Newt will embarrass us in the debates. Let me “warn” Republicans not to nominate him or we’re in trouble.”
Let me guess. He grabbed her hand and.....
Newt has more baggage than an American Airlines terminal at Christmas. :-)
I guess if you can talk about Solar loans to your brother-n-law, insider trading, enriching yourself by tens of millions with non-Union labor, sweet deals on prime RE in SF, the House having unprecedented ethics violations...
Yes, Nancy, you need to check your own closet, Stretch.
A truly principled person would never sit within 10 feet of Pelosi for any price, for any reason.
For me, this ad sickened me!
“OMG, she was sexually harassed by Newt. :-)”
Thanks. I’m using sandpaper on my eyeballs trying to get rid of that image. That’s almost as bad as the nightmare I had a long time ago. Woke up in bed with Ruth Bader Ginsberg on one side and Janet Reno on the other. Yuk!
Michele pretty much did her own self in.
Hope Nancy doesn’t get her corrupt mouth caught in the wringer.
Gingrich is not well liked among women and a host of others no matter what their political leanings. Nan can’t reveal anything (other than she and Newt “did it”) that most people already don’t know.
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