I am going to the super gym
okay.
in news that doesn’t really matter unless you follow politics, house speaker Nancy Pelosi has fucked up and thrown all-consuming gasoline on the torture debate. she seems to have personally known about waterboarding, but said the CIA lied to Congress about its use.
now that’s a two-part statement. so, the first part: from what I’ve read, I’m willing to believe she knew about it — she was the ranking democrat on the intelligence committee at the time — but this could be downplayed as not such a big goddamn deal. take one for the team, madame speaker, you creepy old broad. there’s so many fucking democrats in the House that I don’t think even a weakened majority leader would be so politically painful. maybe I’m naive. or maybe this whole situation could have been handled much more deftly.
and the second part: instead of just owning up to it and downplaying her involvement … and that wouldn’t be hard to do, because having knowledge of the Bush administration torturing prisoners and not bringing it to light doesn’t exactly make you complicit; if anything, that’s the Bush administration admitting that what it did was criminal. but I digress …
instead of being concise and definitive, she’s being combative and unclear, which is just what the Republicans wanted her to do. so imagine this evolving debate about how much Nancy Pelosi knew about ”enhanced interrogations” is a christmas gift, from her, to them. it has a bow. it is wrapped in shiny, colorful paper.
and then she got buckwild and accused the nation’s intelligence agency of lying to the US Congress. which is like, the greatest stocking stuffer ever.
