Don't look now, but it looks like House Majority Leader, Rep. Steny Hoyer-D, is keeping some distance from Nancy Pelosi and WaterBoardGate. He has yet to come out and offer a strong defense of Speaker Pelosi and instead has maintained that any Truth Commission established should investigate Speaker Pelosi as well.
From Hot Air :
Granted, he wasn’t at the briefing in 2002 so he can’t say which side is right, but it speaks volumes that he’s unwilling to offer even a pro forma “I’ve never known Nancy to be untruthful” in her defense. Combine this with him telling reporters a few days ago that any torture truth commission should investigate Pelosi too and it’s pretty clear that even her own number two’s not betting on her version of events. And why would he? She’s a terrible liar. No sense in letting the sinking ship take him down too.
Pelosi must be finding it lonely at the top these days. Her colleagues aren't walking away from her, their running.
Her hypocrisy is indefensible.
Posted by: Darlene E. Cormier | May 16, 2009 at 01:58 AM