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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No, and I think this is pretty stupid, even by your standards.
Just Congressmen?
You were never upset with Scooter Libby and Karl Rove, and they actually leaked stuff. Here you're feigning outrage that Nancy Pelosi didn't leak stuff.
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Actually, TY, being centrist on these matters and not thinking that there is anything wrong with Pelosi being a hypocrite for political gain considering the dirty tricks nature of politics right now, I would have to agree that if she did know about waterboarding but didn't do anything about it until she was able to use it for political grandstanding, she is a hypocrite. And a pretty low one. But like I said, they all are, and for the WSJ or the GOP to point the finger at her and "tsk tsk" might be even bigger hypocrisy.
You seem to be taking the position that Pelosi had no options but to leak the waterboarding. I know you're doing that to trap Hank from a debate standpoint, but we both know she had many more options to address the issue other than an illegal leak.
If she did what Hank accuses her of doing I say "So what?" This debate has always been a very obvious political game engineered by the Democrats. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I understand your wanting to believe the Democrats are above that, but come on, dude. They're no better or worse than the GOP (well, recently I'd have to say the GOP has been worse, but that will balance in the future). This is what these people do, and the sooner we admit that to ourselves, the sooner we have sensible debates about this stuff, and, as you described yeaterday, might "take this board seriously."
You realize no one in this country outside the Beltway, Berkeley and blogosphere care about this issue, don't you? That tells you a little bit about the generally perceived credibility of the "controversy."
