Rush to Pelosi: It’s time to go
posted at 4:35 pm on May 15, 2009 by Allahpundit
Not only is it good strategy, it’s a matter of feminist pride. All kidding aside, I wonder if gender politics aren’t helping to keep the vultures at bay for her. If she’s pressured to quit, Steny Hoyer would likely replace her, and having the first woman Speaker muscled out in favor of a man wouldn’t be very progressive at all. Then again, The One’s almost certain to name a woman to the Supreme Court so he’ll get plenty of cover from that. Fire photon torpedoes!
You’ll be pleased to know that the Speaker of the House’s charge that America’s intelligence bureau is serially corrupt made it all the way to page A-18 of the New York Times today, so if there are any Times readers stumbling across this post, you might want to check our archives to get caught up before listening. Exit question: How bizarre is it for conservatives to be demanding her resignation for prevaricating about a policy they support full-throatedly? I know, I know — “it’s not that she condoned waterboarding, it’s that she lied” — but if the left forces her out, it won’t be because she’s a weasel. It’ll be because she didn’t have the moral acuity to throw caution to the wind after 9/11 and shrug off the odds of more attacks all so that Khaled Sheikh Mohammed wouldn’t be pretend-drowned. Click the image to listen.
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Allah, so pergury isn’t bad then?
Ok, where is Bill Clinton to console her on this blubbering mess?
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 4:38 PM
3rd bowl of Popcorn and counting……would have gone Pay Per View on this series…..
I love to see the Botox Biatch sweat!!!
SDarchitect on May 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM
Rush always has an interesting take on things. He’s just demonstrating absurdity by being absurd himself as he likes to say.
Just the same, she needs to go.
Keyser-Soze on May 15, 2009 at 4:39 PM
While it’s not torture, because torture is ripping fingernails out, etc. and not scaring KSM from a much needed bath, when it comes to Blinky Pelosi; it’s always the cover-up and not the crime.
Sauce meets goose and gander ~ D.C. style.
Branch Rickey on May 15, 2009 at 4:40 PM
I used to torture myself in the pool when I was a kid getting water up my nose.
PrezHussein on May 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Whatever the reason, let’s throw her to the lions.
UltimateBob on May 15, 2009 at 4:41 PM
Pelosi for supreme court justice! Yeah, I know I just caused you to vomit. sorry.
jbh45 on May 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM
To me, it’s not because Pelosi lied, it’s that she’s willing to put our country’s safety at risk by threatening the CIA to save herself.
It’s not the cover-up, it’s our national security.
Loxodonta on May 15, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Vultures aren’t held at bay for conservative women. Is Pelosi a victim now due to gender?
PBoilermaker on May 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM
Very bizarre.
As if the next SotH is going to be more supportive of “torture”
She is as good as you are gonna get. In more ways than one. She’s a perfect buffoon for the republicans (hoyer cannot possibly be more comical or divisive as her) and she supports a policy that makes sense (even if she has to lie about it).
lorien1973 on May 15, 2009 at 4:44 PM
How are her kidneys?
marklmail on May 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
too true: I amend my earlier post :)
Branch Rickey on May 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Last time I checked, the GOP was anti-lie. In fact, their persecution/prosecution (depending on who you are) of Clinton is what really launched out current 2-party fight to the death.
I also think that if she had made just some random lie, they might’ve let her off with another Rove column. But she said the CIA misled Congress. That’s a pretty big bold-faced lie.
hawksruleva on May 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Break the glass ceiling Nancy. It’ll look good in the history books as Ms. Pelosi being the first woman Speaker to resign.
Where are the femi-nazi’s on this one? Are they going protect their own?
Knucklehead on May 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Keep up the weight loss Rush. Not being able to call you fat will hurt the lefties more than all the abortion banning in the world.
Speedwagon82 on May 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM
Hey, even vultures have their limits.
Patrick S on May 15, 2009 at 4:46 PM
Exactly Lox. This woman has been all about herself since the beginning of her being seated. The Plane she wanted, the manner of her speaking to stimulating people on voting the way SHE wanted it, not how the public for those elected whated their represenatives to vote.
She is a vile human who cares nothing for National anything.
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
If he loses enough weight they’ll say he’s too bald to be taken seriously.
PBoilermaker on May 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
It’s not surprising that the liberal identity precedents (Speaker and Traitor-in-Chief) whose greatest qualifications for the positions were their identities (and nothing else) are total morons who are unable to carry out the responsibilities of their offices like normal people. How much more evidence do people need that affirmative action is a destructive and stupid policy?
(Well … seeing that the average IQ of libs is around 87, I don’t expect any of them to understand this).
progressoverpeace on May 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
One of my favorite Wallace lines is perfect here, “Time to stop prevaricating around the bush”.
kirkill on May 15, 2009 at 4:47 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with Rush Limbaugh about anything, but I am with him on this one. These are serious times and Pelosi has been exposed like a political hack for way too long.
Greef on May 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM
I don’t want this woman to resign.
I want her to stay, keep making a mockery of the Democratic party.
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Allah, not just that she lied. Its that her intent was to play a partisan political gotcha game from the start and deceive the American people into thinking that Republican party is the party of torture. Unfortunately for us, her little game is damaging the inner workings of the CIA which compromises everybody’s safety. And therein lies her real sin. Its the quintessential example of party before country. Her fatal mistake will turn out to be the false accusation that the CIA lied to her and only her.
Zetterson on May 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM
I don’t think I’ve ever agreed with Rush Limbaugh about anything, but I am with him on this one. These are serious times and Pelosi has been exposed like a political hack for way too long.
Greef on May 15, 2009 at 4:48 PM
Like being pro-life or pro individual liberty, using common sense, questioning conventional wisdom?
daesleeper on May 15, 2009 at 4:49 PM
He also demonstrates stupidity quite often.
radiofreevillage on May 15, 2009 at 4:49 PM
No kidding. If you were a vulture, what would you rather feed on? A rotting carcass? Or road kill?
I’d take the roadkill. No chance of botox poisoning.
Daggett on May 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
It’s not the left forcing her out. It’s the pressure on the left that will do it, and if it happens, libs will assuage their loss by concluding she wasn’t a good enough weasel.
JiangxiDad on May 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
True but the only problem with that is to keep her there means to compromise national security. I’d rather have her go.
Zetterson on May 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
AP, you seem to have missed Rush’s point that this has turned the whole issue of waterboarding into a Democrat issue, instead of a Republican. That is, they are now both for it and against it, and have lied publicly and privately in that regard.
And what is their position going forward, especially since they’re stuck with the Gitmo detainees?
Also, I’ve noticed McCain is awfully quiet on this.
BigD on May 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
Se’s becoming the Arlen Specter of the Democratic Party. Given the state of the Republican Party, maybe she should consider switching parties.
EMD on May 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
*paging Jane Harman*
SouthernGent on May 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
It’s the fact that she exposes the raw partisanship mentality — national security be damned — of the Dems. If she thought supporting torture would score political points, she’d be doing that right now. Crass, shallow, lying opportunist is much too charitable a characterization for Pelosi — she really is despicable.
Personally, I wouldn’t mind seeing her weather this storm and continue to be the face of the Dem House right up to the ’10 elections.
cruadin on May 15, 2009 at 4:50 PM
She clearly supported it in 2002. Had she not, she wouldn’t have waited until 2007 or so to object. Which means she is either lying now or was incompetent then. Pick either option, she shouldn’t be SotH.
LastRick on May 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Madam DeFarge, your tumbril is waiting. This is getting better and better, with Leon Panetta telling the world that Pelosi is not remembering events accurately. So is she a liar, or a fool? Either way, it’s time to warm up the ol’ bus, if not the tumbril for Madam Speaker.
Orson Buggeigh on May 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Two reasons:
1) She lied like a banshee, trying to harm our nation to save her own wrinkled skin.
2) She tried to make hay over a perfectly acceptable, and necessary, program. She is DANGEROUS to our nation. She should be brought up on treason charges for trying to hamstring the CIA and scare future administrations from doing what is right and important.
This nightmare won’t be over until Pelosi and The Precedent (just to name two of the traitors in this junta) are in orange jumpsuits awaiting the execution of their sentences.
progressoverpeace on May 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM
His family is coming out of the woodwork, though! Cindy on Greta, Meghan on The View, momma Roberta on The Tonight Show…wth?
SouthernGent on May 15, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Man, you talk as if she was black.
JiangxiDad on May 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM
This is so very true. I imagine a Speaker Pelosi in 2010 will greatly improve Republicans electoral chances. This is the one reason I am reluctant to see her go.
But how can she be stopped from threatening CIA staff and dragging the whole department through the mud? We can’t do that. It will have to be the Democrats.
Loxodonta on May 15, 2009 at 4:52 PM
He’s waiting for the Democrats to come to a consensus so he can agree with it.
Daggett on May 15, 2009 at 4:53 PM
There’s one less as of today.
US releases Boumediene from Gitmo
Brat on May 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
There are progressives in both parties does the Obama administration really want to take away their whipping post- she is very unpopular and who would take her place I mean as a target for the right? She has been shielding Obama from a lot of criticism, she has been absorbing it herself…so why would they want her gone? Unless she has outlived her usefulness politically, time to take a hit for the team NAN? She never struck me as a team player ;)
Dr Evil on May 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
I like Nuancy just where she is.
/he said with a thin smile
faraway on May 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
When I win the lotto…and I will…I’m opening a bar across the street from Nan’s house. The Waterboard.
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
What did she know?
and
When did she know it!
unseen on May 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Rush is enjoying this more than me. I predict by the end of June her PR firm will advise her to concoct a medical reason to resign as Speaker considering the stress of the job. She is used to lying so this won’t be a problem.
She will wilt away simply as a rep for her District, (The City of San Francisco) and then retire after her current term.
If she does it right they will give her a proper going away party, if not she will be forever shamed.
OTOH, I am forming an opinion that there truly is something medical going on, onset dementia or a blood clot.
I really do not wish that on her.
FireBlogger on May 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Half price drinks and apps for HotAir friends?
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM
Great! You got out of school a little late didn’t you? Detention?
Now, please share how Rush demonstrates stupidity. This should be good.
PappaMac on May 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Eternal Happy Hour to all NRA/GOA members.
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Allah – Not only did she lie she has accused government officials and employees of a crime – falsely and knowingly – in order to bolster her lies. You seem toi think she should get off scott-free.
DamnCat on May 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
I want Pelosi to say:
“You want the Truth? You can’t handle the Truth!” to the nutroots.
she does that, she can stay as Speaker IMO
jp on May 15, 2009 at 4:56 PM
Blinks are on the house.
faraway on May 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM
When I win the lotto…and I will…I’m opening a bar across the street from Nan’s house. The Waterboard.
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 4:54 PM
And what will be the signature drink? A Pink Lady?
BigD on May 15, 2009 at 4:57 PM
yeah she needs to hold on till 2010
Hoyer looks somewhat competent for Dem leadership, Pelosi looks like a clown and is a symbol of the Far-Left/San Fran politics the country traditionally loathes
jp on May 15, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Troll Haiku time.
I call this, “Windy Days.”
today is windy
the sun hurts my skin
when will darkness fall?
alone on hotair, just me and my “freevillage.”
assaulting the “de fatso” leader of their party
alone in my game
where are all my fellow dwellers?
you know, my green, friendly, troll fellers
alone on HotAir, on a windy day.
/radiofreevillage
Thank you, thank you.
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Just Desserts!
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Please keep Pelosi as Speaker, but a little political beating like this is fine. If Hoyer gets the position. Some Republican Insiders in congress may vote for these statist plans providing some level of cover for the Dems. Hoyer will not moderate Obama’s plans for centralizing power.
WashJeff on May 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM
Blinks are:
Vodka, sweet creme and lemon liquor with a lime and spirit chaser.
Wanna know what happens with it, after you take both shots in your mouth?
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM
I like my idea better.
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 4:59 PM
anyone see the ron paul video on this from Joe Scarborough this morning?
good grief he’s a fool
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2009/05/15/rep_paul_on_beneficial_aspect_of_pelosis_claim.html
jp on May 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM
Same thing that happens with a Cement Mixer?
WashJeff on May 15, 2009 at 5:00 PM
You got it, lady. I’ll donate 50 cents of every drink purchase to the Alaska Bear Rug Makers Association.
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM
Worse
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM
my stomach goes on fire and i have heartburn for three days.
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Pelosi is a clear representative of the hack liars of the democrat party. We’re moving up the ladder. Up next, Schumer, Reid, then Obama.
jencab on May 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
You throw up? You die?
BigD on May 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Think Pepto
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Bizarre? A little I guess but still correct. Not even on the level of Democrats outing gay Republicans.
Esthier on May 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
You may throw up as the feeling is… well expandably thick and mildly bubbly.
If you can actually “drink it” I would give my patrons a pepto shooters. They would need it later.
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
true
beer is superior
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
Drug addict needs to get off the radio. He is in no position to talk when sober people are talking. Drug Limbaugh will never get a good job if he wasn’t on the radio because most good paying jobs require DRUG testing. He will fail miserably
nice343 on May 15, 2009 at 5:04 PM
This is war. War against domestic enemies of the Constitution and those who would destroy our rights and freedoms. I’ll take whatever weapons we can get and use them against whatever weaknesses the enemy has.
Same goes for the allegation that Obama is not qualified to be President based on citizenship. It may be merely a technicality, but I’m perfectly willing to use it as a weapon against the enemy *if it will be effective*.
This is war. If we want to preserve our rights and freedoms, we have to be willing to fight, and we have to be willing to fight dirty. It’s not nice, but sometimes it’s necessary. This is one of those times.
ZenDraken on May 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Ahh no… you are no drinking conisour yet.
It gives you a heck of a lot of methane!
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:05 PM
Hatred is wholly owned by the American left and the democrat party.
daesleeper on May 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
You do realize Botox is a drug as well.
research is a good thing!
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Okay, if we were going name a drink “Botox,” what would be in it?
And pardon me if there already is such a thing. All I drink is white wine.
BigD on May 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
the de fatso addict in chief of the GOP
he is a loser in my eyes
i am a jealous f*ck
for i have only ten dollars to my name.
/nice
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Now there’s a strong point…
Just be sure to keep your hat on it…
BigWyo on May 15, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Oooooooooooo sooooooooo bitter. That set the conservatives back about 100 yards or so. Will we ever recover? Tune in next week, same time, same channel.
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
please.
what, you think i drink coors light or something?!?!
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Sad performances all day from you. Really. Step back, take a deep breath. This, too, shall pass.
lorien1973 on May 15, 2009 at 5:07 PM
Well.. Botox I have never heard. But would you want it something to drink a lot of or something like a mind chaser?
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Stella Artois or Staropramn!
daesleeper on May 15, 2009 at 5:08 PM
no.. but I can make you a zombie. Or an Alaskan on the Beach!
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM
You would have to do something in your petty little life to move up a notch to become even Insignificant.
Patrick S on May 15, 2009 at 5:09 PM
Dear gawd, you just set the bikini movement back about 300 years!
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 5:10 PM
Lying to the Nation on a matter of National Security in the time of war for political gain has to be some kind of infraction………..
…………….. shouldn’t it?
Seven Percent Solution on May 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Jesus H. Christ.
Wow…
BigWyo on May 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Oh that just makes it better, was it good for you too Nancy?
Hopefully she’ll stay on out of spite and crap up the Democrat house that much more.
Speakup on May 15, 2009 at 5:11 PM
Hmm ok a Botox drink.
tbsp of sweet corn syrup
3 shot of vodka
shaken
shot of raspberry liquor (for bloody look)
and a sweet creme top
(layered)
if it was a shot it would be vodka, corn syrup, raspberry liquor and you would have to lick the slat off your hand due to the sweetness.
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
New Castle, Bass Ale, Fosters, Blue Point Toasted Lager (best beer EVAH), Landshark, Sam Adams Winter Lager, Red Stripe, the Moons, on and on we go
How bout an appletini, light on the tini? :D
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
I didn’t know the liberals had decided it was ok to discriminate again. Are the PC rules gone?
Thank god. I’m so sick of gays and black people.
JiangxiDad on May 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
Jennifer Rubin put it pretty well over at Contentions:
Rubin had a lot more to say on the subject ( http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/rubin/66001 ) but I suspected there were some here who would get a laugh out of the possibly unintended resonance.
CK MacLeod on May 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
It is a sex on the beach but creamed.
upinak on May 15, 2009 at 5:12 PM
You know, ladyingray really jinxed us.
Last night she wondered “aloud” where the trolls were.
Now look what happens!
Damn you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Yeah, what has happened to our trolls? They’ve been pretty pathetic lately. I’m used to a better class of troll. I guess I’m just spoiled..
Oldnuke on May 15, 2009 at 5:13 PM
Ill have a stongbow.
daesleeper on May 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Mother of!
Strongbow!
daesleeper on May 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
Strange — I always thought liberals were the arbiters of forgiveness.
Tolerance, understanding, and all that goooood sh*t.
Then someone with a NON-RECREATIONAL spurred drug problem admits to his mistake to 20 million people, goes to rehab, and takes responsibility.
Yet somehow, he is still a bad person, and Barney Frankfurter is still considered awesome by people like Nice even after his whore ring was broken up.
I’ll never get it. Up is down!
blatantblue on May 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
They all bet on the Mav’s and are now looking for bailout money.
Limerick on May 15, 2009 at 5:14 PM
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