Dec. 2, 2011
Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader
“I like Barney Frank’s quote the best, where he said ‘I never thought I’d live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party,’” Pelosi said in an exclusive interview Friday. “That quote I think spoke for a lot of us.”
Pelosi didn’t go into detail about Gingrich’s past transgressions, but she tipped her hand. “One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi said. “I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.”
Pressed for more detail she wouldn’t go further. “Not right here,” Pelosi joked. “When the time’s right.”
Revealing anything investigated by a confidential Ethics Committee investigation would in itself be an ethics violation. Just threatening to share that information might violate Congressional Ethics Rules. Is this proof of how afraid the liberal left is of former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Every time there has been a new front-runner in the GOP race there have been new attacks on that person, with the notable exception of Mitt Romney. Doesn’t this lend credence to the media and the liberal left wanting Romney as the opponent against President Obama? They think they can beat another progressive politician but are afraid of more conservative ones.
Pelosi’ name came up recently in an ABC News investigation on a growing Congressional insider trading scandal where she allegedly received an insider position with a very coveted and hard to get IPO. She has denied the allegation. Seems ethics in Washington are subjective.
