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.
meanwhile the little girlie GOP sits on their hands and does nothing even with the opportunity to turn the tables on the rats and destroy their opponents...
Either way, Pelosi is a Catholic disgrace.
He's got back-up. He switched to Catholicism since then. He's got repentance. All his sins have been forgiven.
When is someone going to reveal information about Pelosi? How she regularly cashes in on insider information, had her net worth rise 62% last year despite a recession, and how she constantly appears to be under the inluence of controlled substances such as cocaine. Oh but no need to reveal this info as everybody already knows it.
Is she gonna get his little dog, too?
Pelosi to Newt, “You f’d up, you trusted us.”
If only it could be proven Obama denounced his citizenship and went to college as a foreign national...OR...that he lied he was a foreign national to get financial assistance.
Since so much about him hasn’t been released, it will be hard to dig up much former dirt on him..although that pit has to be a very, deep one.
I was gonna say Michelle Obama's blue jeans (rimshot)
Just another ‘RAT-driven bimbo eruption.
I’ll be voting for whoever the Republican nominee is. If it’s Newt, so be it.
“If Pelosi had anything substantive, they would have used it in the 1990’s to depose him. “
She didn’t have to. There were enough REPUBLICANS wanting his power, and to quash his reforms, that the Dems just sat back and watched.
So now we are concerned what the Princess has to say. FNP!
From the woman who lives in San Francisco and looks the other way.
LOL!
Nancy Pelosi has no ethics and is a big government whore.
The thing is we do not have to let the machine destroy our nominees. They can put out all the crap they want to but we still have our votes. Vote for our candidate and defeat Obama. We must defeat Obama!!!!!! We must win the senate!!!
We must increase our house majority!!!!
You mean that stuff that all turned out to be complete bullsh*t?
Nominate Romney. That is their goal. With Romney as the nominee, the conservative and evangelical vote is supressed. Or, a conservative might run as a third party candidate.
How can Palin get back in a race she was never in? This thought is a waste of time. Didn’t someone write a book about her affairs? She would not last any longer than Cain did and she has zero appeal to independent voters.Bachmann would be winning by now if it weren’t for people thinking Sarah and only Sarah was going to save them.
Democrat politics as usual.
What a disgusting lot.
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