Pelosi in the crosshairs

Over the weekend a CBS golf analyst David Feherty pushed the humor envelope a little too far with a joke at the expense of Nancy Pelosi. "From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this though," Feherty wrote toward the end of his column.  "Despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death." Mr. Feherty apologized for the joke, which when you get right down to it doesn't seem all that funny. But I think it's pretty interesting that people are beginning to take this kind of potshot at the speaker. By coincidence, an interesting photograph showing Ms. Pelosi with some American troops accompanied an article in Politico.  The gist of the  Politico article is that the GOP has settled on the Pelosi strategy for dealing with leftist inspired investigations of Bush administration officials over enhanced interrogation techniques that were used on three al Qaeda terrorists.  As Pelosi continues to call for investigations, Republicans call for Pelosi to be the first witness. '“If someone is going to schedule hearings, I believe that the first witness should be Nancy Pelosi,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking member on the House intelligence committee, told POLITICO. “Clearly, she was involved in policy formulation.” According to records released last week by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Pelosi and other congressional officials were told in 2002 that enhanced interrogation techniques had been used on terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah. The report appeared to contradict Pelosi’s claims — made earlier and again after the report was released — that she had been told only that such techniques might be used in the future, not that they had already been used.' Meanwhile, Ms. Pelosi spent Sunday in Baghdad, hoping to burnish her patriotic image by spending quality time with the troops.  As one might expect there was a photo op, hence the picture of Ms. Pelosi with the troops.

They don't appear to be packed into an elevator. A good thing maybe, since the troops don't seem to be looking on in adoration. Anybody got a good caption for this snapshot?

Comments

[ASM826]

How about, "Excuse me, Ma'm, the elevator is this way."