“Lying to the Congress of the United States is a crime,” Boehner said Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “And if the Speaker is accusing the CIA and other intelligence officials of lying or misleading the Congress, then she should come forward with evidence and turn that over to the Justice Department [for possible prosecution].”
“And if that’s not the case, I think she ought to apologize to our intelligence professionals around the world.”
After challenging Pelosi, Boehner sounded the praises of the nation’s intelligence gathering apparatus. “I’ve dealt with these people for three-and-a-half years on an almost daily basis,” Boehner told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King. “And I can tell you that I have never felt that I was misled. I’ve never felt that I’ve been lied to.”
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Heh. Hope he gives her a big “Hi, Nancy!” when she gets back from hiding out this weekend, too.
Wethal on May 17, 2009 at 9:10 PM
it’s about time someone called the liberals out on their political hate-filled rhetoric.
toenail on May 17, 2009 at 9:13 PM
Its about time Boehner stepped up to the plate and started throwing some crap right back at these democraps. Yes, she should put-up-or-shut-up.
cjs1943 on May 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM
No, I take that back. I want her to keep mouthing off and hopefully prove to everyone what a piece of work she is.
cjs1943 on May 17, 2009 at 9:17 PM
If it’s a crime to lie to Congress, as he says, then an apology is insufficient. She should be prosecuted for her crime.
FloatingRock on May 17, 2009 at 9:19 PM
I’d like to think that Congress lying to the United States would be a crime.
Oldnuke on May 17, 2009 at 9:23 PM
Prosecute Nancy! She should be behind bars!
But, of course, tyrants are never subject to their own laws.
FloatingRock on May 17, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Everyone should glance over the comments, some of them are a riot. Almost all ignore the fact that this fiasco was a Democrat creation. First with Obama releasing memo’s that shouldn’t have been to gain political points. Then Pelosi getting up there and lying to cover hear rear with her base.
Instead of governing like mature adults, the White House and Speaker are playing games, and getting caught in their own web.
Hog Wild on May 17, 2009 at 9:43 PM
Boehner has more spine than Mitch McConnell, judging from today’s performance on network tv. Did you hear McConnell on the Pelosi issue? He was a complete wuss, an embarrassment.
Obama tells his supporters to get in our face. When they do, we cower. Time now, before we lose it all, we get in their faces and finish it.
petefrt on May 17, 2009 at 9:56 PM
The comments over there are something. She is on version # 5 of what she knew and when she knew it and they want someone to prove she is lying? There isn’t enough proof in the world for these people.
Sue on May 17, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Republicans should pound on this issue until she cracks. And then when she cracks, investigate her anyway.
therightwinger on May 17, 2009 at 10:14 PM
I thought the same thing when I read through them. Light on facts and accuracy, heavy on certainty.
Red State State of Mind on May 17, 2009 at 10:23 PM
It’s about time the Republican leadership started responding to the outrageous comments made by the dims. I keep thinking how successful Ronald Reagan was when he took on the idiots in the MSM — when Sam Donaldson asked one of his stupid leading questions, Reagan just shook his head (on national TV no less), and said, “Well, Sam, there you go again,” making Donaldson look like the moron he was. I have no doubt that if Bush (either one) had verbally bi+ch-slapped Helen Thomas, his popularity ratings would have soared.
Screw the “Kinder and Gentler,” the “Compassionate Conservatism,” and the “Big Tent” crowd. It’s about time the Republican leaders went for the political jugular.
rmgraha on May 17, 2009 at 11:03 PM
This is a beautiful sentiment by Boehner but like all of the Republican leadership I am afraid all he has to offer is this statement. But where has he been? It’s fine for him to go on a show and say this kind of thing about Pelosi but I guarantee when push comes to shove the Republican leadership is going to go back to all that “My good friend from California garbage.” Call it Denny Hastertitis.
This is not time for half measures and rhetorical barbs that won’t be advanced or even followed up on make us appear ever weaker. Pelosi is the face of the Democrats and is symbolic of the sickness in that party. I don’t consider many/most on the left Americans and I am saddened to see what they have become. The lust for power to control the lives of their fellow citizens has robbed them of their morality and instilled with them a perpetual hate of conservative ideals and conservative people.
Collegiality is fine when we have policy differences and differences in ways to accomplish objectives that are in America’s interest. We don’t have that anymore. Our objectives are no longer the same as those in the Democrat party. This is not a disagreement about whether sanctions or a strategic strike against an enemy are debated. It is a FUNDAMENTAL difference because members in the other party disagree about who the enemies are.
Not satisfied with winning at the ballot box Obama’s leftists are “remaking America.” No President has that legal authority but I am learning that there are many powers that are assumed by certain men who hold the office of the presidency. I loved America under Bill Clinton as I did under Ronald Reagan as I did under George Bush. The point of having a Constitution prevents the country from being re-made by someone who was elected for a specific term. I am also someone to be watched because I am a potential threat according to certain people in the Homeland Security office. How did that happen. I didn’t change – we had was an election.
How can we debate with people who no longer adhere to the rule of law and who set themselves above others and above the founding documents of this nation. How can we warmly associate with those who will take from one group by force and give to another group simply as the result of an election not yet a year old. How is it possible that we can interact normally with people who value my life as little as they value an innocent child born and then set aside to die because the abortion didn’t kill him.
The meetings in Congress can be civil but they cannot be routine and yet my representatives are among the political class who have nothing to fear in the changed government. They can no longer represent me because they blithely participate in the process of my destruction. The screams and howls of anger that can draw attention to this attack on country’s make up are somehow muffled by the politicians who worry about being the ranking member of the minority in a government at war with its own people.
Watching liberals like Pelosi, Feinstein and Murtha who not only take graft but now do so openly under the protection of their majorities and a press who waits patiently for instructions on what should be reported.
We no longer get to worry about what laws will be passed by the liberal majorities in Congress because the new President has usurped such quaint notions as legislation. His work is too important to be impeded by Constitutional limitations, separation of powers, checks and balances, economics, mathematics or gravity. His work as a “citizen of the world” is to right America’s wrongs, blunt America’s power and restore the wealth in America to those he deems it rightly belongs. The nobility of his work will not be questioned by Republican leaders who anxiously wait to serve. And when that call comes from their President the warmly embrace their president and fly to China. After all his work is too important to turn down and after all, we are all Americans.
I woke up after the Obama election and felt the same as I did the day before albeit a bit disheartened after losing more seats. I was still optimistic about America. I believed that no matter how much I disagreed with a president that he was, after all, only a president and had limited authority to affect my life directly. Just over a 100 days after his inauguration I am beginning to realize just how wrong I was.
Mormon Doc on May 18, 2009 at 2:36 AM