Now that Barack Obama has opened the door to a ‘Truth Commission’ designed to embarrass Bush Administration appointees and score political points, Nancy Pelosi is trying to throw the door wide open:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pressed the case for creation of a special “truth commission” to investigate the interrogation of terror suspects during the Bush administration.
The California Democrat said several House committees already are examining the issue amid concerns that brutal tactics were used. But in a roundtable meeting Wednesday with reporters, she suggested “it might be further useful to have such a commission so that it removes all doubt that how we protect the American people is in a values-based way.”
If Democrats really want to kick up this anthill, they might want to remind themselves what happened the last time they convened a series of show trials designed to embarrass a Republican president over foreign policy questions. (Sorry this is purely audio; if someone has an equally good video clip, I’ll trade this one out):
Do Democrats really believe that the American people will become angry at the way the Bush administration handled detainees in the War on Terror? It’s more likely that such an investigation will anger the political center of this country, and convince them both that America has not treated detainees badly, and that Obama is going too far in rolling back Bush’s policies.
Are Democrats so eager to overplay their hand that they’re willing to risk turning an obscure DoJ lawyer into the next Oliver North?

Are Democrats so eager to overplay their hand that they’re willing to risk turning an obscure DoJ lawyer into the next Oliver North?
izoneguy Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:38PM EDT (link)I think they are. Remember, the administration is built on a house of cards and they have are jokers.
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Oh, yes indeed they are
E Pluribus Unum Wednesday, April 22nd at 6:19PM EDT (link)I don’t think they really have an ounce of self-awareness, nor any sense of how close they are to the edge of having America turn them out of power in phenomenal numbers.
Carthago delenda est
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Mark Levin is ready
innocbystr Thursday, April 23rd at 12:27AM EDT (link)Mark Levin and company are ready, willing, able and anxious to defend anyone that Holder charges in this banana-republic type “show trial”. Let’s hope that it’s televised….
And so goes the cycle of a two party system...
nonsequitur Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:44PM EDT (link)Party in power over reaches, earns the scorn of the people, who vote in the opposition.
General amnesia sets it amongst the electorate, and the cycle repeats.
Nothing quite like a two party system right? Throw them all out, in my own opinion.
Veritas Lux Mea
Problem is, previous generations had restraint.
Section9 Wednesday, April 22nd at 8:55PM EDT (link)Nixon, for example, knew that Kennedy and Johnson lied through their teeth and committed numerous crimes. Yet he let it pass for the good of the nation.
These Democrats, this generation, can only think of the partisan benefit that may accrue to their party. And the problem is, the whole thing will backfire on them. Palin, Romney, and Gingrich will sieze on the “Do Nothing Democrats” as they crisscross the country.
I wrote in my blog that Obama had reached his zenith and had decided to overreach. I will be proven right.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill
I hope they do...not only will they create the next...
JadedByPolitics Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:45PM EDT (link)Oliver North they will as well help us SWEEP the 2010 elections….ask the Republicans’s who went after Clinton for lying under oath which is peanuts compared to going after Republicans that helped families SLEEP at night without WORRY!
Bring it on!
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
GOP going after Clinton...
Brian Faughnan Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:49PM EDT (link)That’s another really good analogy that shows how dangerous this can be for the Democrats.
Oh I know Brian, me thinks they have forgotten and...
JadedByPolitics Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:51PM EDT (link)they are so far removed from the people that they have NO CLUE how this will blow up in their faces….if the bluedogs ain’t begging them to cool it they will GO HOME!
Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy
Unintended Consequences
red4ever Wednesday, April 22nd at 6:04PM EDT (link)I say that a lot here. Seriously, do they just act before they think things through? Oooo shiny - let’s do that. Then be amazed when it turns out a whole lot different than they originally thought it would.
Let’s bust on Bush. No one will stand up and say “Hey Pelosi, what did you know and when did you know it?” Ooops, someone did, now what?
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
Dante
Like Ollie North
Socrates Wednesday, April 22nd at 6:23PM EDT (link)… but this time, the fellow is named “Woo”, is a law professor, and has a high enough melanin concentration to be completely immune to the liberal weapon of choice.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
Think How This Will Look After Another Terrorist Attack?
DavidSage Wednesday, April 22nd at 6:25PM EDT (link)If another 9/11 type terrorist attack happens, the Democrats are never going to be trusted again on National Security issues after this little show.
Rarely (if ever) are Americans “angry” when our national security is too “harsh” on obvious enemies that wish to do us harm. They are much more likely to be angry at too tepid a response to those who want to destroy us.
Yes, just imagine
izoneguy Wednesday, April 22nd at 6:30PM EDT (link)if they take down the Golden Gate bridge???
You think those pukes in San Fran would pay attention then??
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Sadly
gazill Wednesday, April 22nd at 8:38PM EDT (link)I do not think so. I work with so many liberals who crab about high taxes, goverment intrusion, etc., yet vote for those that legislate that. So no, in SF, it would not make a difference.
so sickntired of hopenchange
The House of Cards...
Section9 Wednesday, April 22nd at 9:35PM EDT (link)…will come tumbling down, of course.
When you choose to make Enemies of the People out of one possible base of support in the wake of a possible enemy attack, how can the Administration expect Republicans to rally around the President after such an attack? Oh, there would be a rally to the flag effect, but afterwards, the Republicans would round on Obama like a school of hungry pirhanas.
This movement for show trials and investigations is a short-sighted as it is stupid.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill
they will do in a heartbeat...
Jack Wednesday, April 22nd at 8:33PM EDT (link)The dimocrats have not had to answer to anyone for years. The press are just rewrite people for them. When you are in that type of cocoon you can and will do anything.
Jack
“If at age 20 you are conservative you have no heart. It at age 30 you are liberal you have no brains.” Sir Winston Churchill
The Problem with the Cocoon
Section9 Wednesday, April 22nd at 9:20PM EDT (link)Is that reality intrudes, eventually.
The Jihad will, at long last, come knocking. Things are looking black in Pakistan, and Obama has made a poor bed in Afghanistan. Allow me to explain.
Obama has chosen neither to win nor lose there. Rather, like Lyndon, McGeorge Bundy, MacNamara, and Westmoreland in 1965, he will do just enough to not lose. This will begin to rend the Democratic anti-war coalition that gave him his margin of victory. In addition, ordinary Americans will wonder what is going wrong in Afghanistan and why we aren’t winning.
There will come a point where Obama’s magic begins to wear off with the voters. Two critical things will begin to happen: Republicans will abandon him on the war. Why, you ask? Obama has broken the bargain between the parties that the Enemy was Al Qaeda. Now Obama is going after Republicans with these Show Trials.
This shows you just how stupid and shortsighted this Administration is when it comes to war. Obama is willing to set off a domestic political crisis which could undermine the conduct of the war for partisan gain!
Sun-Tzu wrote the following:
This is a President who is contemplating a huge, distracting public series of Show Trials that will distract the Nation. The Republicans will, of course, follow an Eastern Front strategy similar to the Wehrmacht in retreat.
The difference between the Wehrmacht and the Republicans? The Werhmacht lost in the end. In politics, however, there’s always a second life for the Republicans-the pendulum always swings back.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”-Winston Churchill
What's needed is...
farstar99 Wednesday, April 22nd at 11:21PM EDT (link)Somebody needs to fly a giant red paintball into the LA Tower to illustrate what would have happened that day if measures had not been taken. In concert, dump some mannequins on the sidewalk around the building.
Why not? It’s what the commie left would do.
And the GOP needs to present a united front in defense of the policy, PUSHING every day the idea that Congress voted for this.
Congress authorized it.
Mostly Democrat congresscreeps, too.
In fact, one of the Democrat “legislators” was troubled that the measures might not be harsh enough. We all know who that was.
Ollie North for President
tennreps Thursday, April 23rd at 1:12AM EDT (link)Wouldn’t it be great if Ollie North would run for President? He is a man with the qualifications needed to be leader of the free world. Honest, a true patriot, well-spoken, conservative, military experience, etc,etc,etc. Thanks for putting the re-run of his testimony up. It was especially enjoyable to listen to…again. I heard it when he originally gave the testimony.
I think that would cause a whole bunch of
Lammo Thursday, April 23rd at 3:16AM EDT (link)nutroots heads to explode. Sounds like a great idea!
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties. (jupitersuite)
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (Fr. John Corapi, SOLT)
Crime never takes a holiday. (Dennis J. O’Shea, R.I.P.)
Unlawful is against the law. Illegal is a sick bird. (Ooold joke)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)
Ollie North's testimony was during the Reagan Administration.
Martin Knight Thursday, April 23rd at 9:38AM EDT (link)Finding Republicans, especially from the notoriously self defense averse Bush Administration with the guts to go all Kamikaze like North did against mendacious Democrat inquisitors is going to be difficult.
After Stevens, Libby, Burns, etc. Republicans should have long ago realized that being polite and following the rules of etiquette and “comity” against bad faith operators is always going to be a losing proposition.
So here’s my advice to John Yoo and the rest of his fellow legal counsel to the Bush Administration who are being targeted by this; go in with swords drawn.
Name Democratic names. Burn bridges. Attack, insult and question your questioners’ intelligence. As painful as this may be for you, make it a 100 times more painful for them.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
- Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”
The are blinded by the desire to revenge everything
Achance Thursday, April 23rd at 9:48AM EDT (link)from the McCarthy hearings, to the Nixon Pardon, to the Clinton impeachment and they’ll move Heaven and Hell, not to speak of Earth to try to have that revenge.
In Vino Veritas
Presidential Poison
izoneguy Thursday, April 23rd at 10:23AM EDT (link)His invitation to indict Bush officials will haunt Obama’s Presidency.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124044375842145565.html#mod=rss_opinion_main
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson