Thread: Why Pelosi Must Go By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

Why Pelosi Must Go

Thursday, May 21, 2009 3:50 PM

By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann

It's obvious that either Leon Panetta, President Obama's head of the CIA, or Nancy Pelosi, his party's speaker of the House, has to go. No administration can tolerate a permanent, public civil war between two such high-ranking officials.

Especially when their disagreement stems not from issues of policy but from matters of veracity and credibility, the battle must end in one of their resignations. You cannot have the head of the nation's first line of defense against terrorism calling the speaker of the House a liar and facing her counterattack.

Obviously, Obama cannot fire Panetta. First of all, he just appointed him. And second, to cave in to the California Democrat Pelosi would earn him the massive disrespect and disapproval of the very operatives he must depend upon to keep the nation safe.

Already skeptical of his leftist credentials, the analysts at the CIA would regard it as a massive vote of no confidence if their chief were fired for believing in them.

Like President Clinton, whose draft-dodging made his relationship with the military problematic, Obama takes office amid reservations about him on the part of the intelligence community. He has taken pains to reach out to both the uniformed and the white-collar intelligence officials to smooth his way and win their trust.

Panetta took over as CIA chief under the cloud of his agency's distrust of the man who appointed him. Now he is standing firm for his agency and winning its loyalty and support.

Obama cannot pull the rug out from under him without incurring the agency's permanent animosity. That might have been an acceptable risk before Sept. 11, 2001. Now it is not.

But Pelosi is expendable. The job of a Democratic speaker is to pass the program of the Democratic president. Her ability and track record are measured on a scale of effectiveness. If she is ineffective, she's not up to the job.

There is no way that Nancy Pelosi can be effective while she is engaged in a war of words with the Democratic head of the CIA.

House members have a shark's instinct for blood in the water and know full well that satisfying Pelosi is likely to be an unrewarding occupation.

With House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., waiting in the wings, few congressmen would be willing to treat the IOUs from Pelosi they get for casting difficult votes as worth much more than Confederate currency.

Remember that Pelosi won by only 118-95 in her election as speaker. Her support was not overwhelming to begin with. She is a movement liberal. Her political antecedents come from the McGovern wing of the party. She is a leftist/reformer. An insurgent.

But Hoyer is a regular Democrat. Representing a district in the D.C. suburbs of Maryland, he is almost a civil servant himself. He is no radical.

Although he can be counted on to pass Obama's programs like a good Democrat, he is not the kind of guy who will get out in front of the president to upstage or pressure him.

He will fit right in, unobtrusively backing the president. (Full disclosure: He's a former client. Very former.)

Above all, Obama cannot allow the distraction and disruption of a feud between the speaker and the CIA head to sow the image of an administration at war with itself.

The speaker is the hired help. She exists to serve her president. And right now, he needs this fight like he needs a hole in the head.

http://www.newsmax.com/morris/Pelosi_Pa ... 16976.html

Remember that Pelosi won by only 118-95 in her election as speaker. Her support was not overwhelming to begin with. She is a movement liberal. Her political antecedents come from the McGovern wing of the party. She is a leftist/reformer. An insurgent.




That's right. She's all that and worse......just like the individual she helped to usurp the office of potus.

I'm still very much of the opinion that none of this is any accident or coincidence but, rather, part of something in the works to take the entire agenda down along with the traitors behind it.

Especially in looking at the whole picture, it appears that obama's "circle" is being dismantled, systematically and from the bottom up, with Pelosi just being the latest in a string of obama insiders.

This is going to get really good..........