Pelosi: I’ll reveal information on Gingrich 'when the time is right'

[Dave]

Wouldn't it be just a tad unethical for her to do that? Specially after talking about cleaning up the swamp and all the garbage she said.

 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday.

“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. “When the time is right. … 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."

Gingrich, who served as Speaker of the House, worked with Pelosi in Congress from 1987 to 1999. Pelosi also served on the ethics committee that investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations in the late ’90s.

Gingrich reacted to Pelosi's comments by thanking her for an "early Christmas gift." 

He also said Pelosi would be violating House rules and abusing the ethics process if she disclosed anything from the ethics investigation.

"That is a fundamental violation of the rules of the House," Gingrich said in New York following a meeting with Donald Trump. "She's now prepared to totally abuse the ethics process."

Releasing the material would show the "tainted ethics process the House was engaged in," Gingrich said.

The ethics investigation of Gingrich took place when Republicans controlled the House. Gringrich resigned from the House in 1998.

Responding to Gingrich's comments, a spokesman for Pelosi said the former Speaker was "clearly referring to the extensive amount of information that is in the public record, including the comprehensive committee report with which the public may not be fully aware.” 

A spokesman for the House Ethics Committee declined to comment on "current rules in the context of allegations concerning past conduct, or hypothetical future conduct governed by past rules."

Gingrich filmed an ad with then-House Speaker Pelosi in 2008 to urge action on climate change, which haunted him early in his presidential bid this year. Gingrich called the ad “probably the dumbest single thing I’ve done in recent years” last month.

Republicans in Congress have been slow to rally around Gingrich’s rise to front-runner status in the polls, with former GOP colleague Sen. Tom Coburn (Okla.) stating publicly over the weekend he is not “inclined to be a supporter” of Gingrich due to that past experience.

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But Democrats such as the soon-to-retire Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) have suggested Gingrich as the GOP nominee would benefit the Democratic Party.

"He would be the best thing to happen to Democrats since Barry Goldwater," Frank said last week. Goldwater is credited with reviving Republican conservatism in the ’60s.

Pelosi told Talking Points Memo that Frank “spoke for a lot” of Democrats. “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,’ ” she said.

And Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.), who also served in Congress with Gingrich and now holds a position of power as assistant minority leader in the House, charged Gingrich on Monday with lacking the temperament to be president.

“He tends to fly off the handle. He will say almost anything in order to get a charge. I’m sure that he’s not serious when he says a lot of these things,” Clyburn said on MSNBC.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/197173-pelosi-plan...

[Willy]

I don't like this type of sleazy  politics but the Republicans had better get on the ball and either rebutt this stuff or come up with some dirt of their own. Here's my question. If Dems are playing this game then why are the Republicans sitting on their hands. I guess the problem is the GOP candidates are  so divided that  they want to see the other candidate knocked off so they can hopefully rise to the top of the pack. And why all of the debates with liberals as moderators. It seems that the GOP and the candidates are a little slow on the draw in recognizing the obvious, that being, they are being played by progressives and liberals. If Obama wins I think it will be time for serious consideration of a viable third party because the GOP is just not getting it done.

[Max]

As far as I'm concerned there isn't a dime's worth of difference between any of the Republican candidates, with the exception of Ron Paul and Gary Johnson.  Pelosi wouldn't know the truth (or ethics) even if they injected it with her daily Botox injection.

Gridlock?  That's a good thing.  If we had that during the first two years of the Obama administration, we wouldn't have Obamacare, the bailouts and the failed stimulus.

[AQUAMAN]

Maybe Trump just needs a chance to report the truth, from the biz. perspective, and the Nations Future, for All Our Good. Or maybe, he's going to make a cheap shot at undermining the R's. in this election, which propels the Independents, and which most are afraid of, not us regular citizens, but the control freaks with the Big Money! I see where Ron Paul still received the most applauds tonite at the R's Iowa debate, and that in itself, says something about the MAN himself, even though he doesn't have enough $$$$ to win yet. Sad. I predict Romney, with the most $$$ into the Millions, will be the nominee, and will win, but cannot do the right conservative job, which propels this nation into the same mindlessness of the present.....pretty much. Another SAD note on things to come........and who woulda thought it? Oh yeah, as for Pelousi? she's another Barracuda that needs to be de-toothed, and made an ancient artifact of the past, cause she only adds more anarchy to the mix, and that's not productive and lacks merit to the important and fiscally critical issues of the day. She obviously is above all this petty thought.

[XLFD]

Back in 2008, it was the media/Democrats who pushed John McCain to the forefront of the Republican Party, and it looks as if they are having undue influence in the process this year.  I continue to be shocked by the dismissal of Ron Paul by both Republicans and Democrats as a viable candidate, I think he would appeal to conservatives more if he had less of an isolationist view of foreign policy, but I think its a lot more well thought out and consistent than the others, who define US interests broadly.

Ron Paul's the most fiscally conservative of the bunch and is far from being a flip-flopper on anything.  Gingrich does have a bunch of baggage, and Pelosi's assistant is correct in noting there is plenty in the public record that can hurt Newt, without Nancy having to breach her ethics.

[AQUAMAN]

Just remember this, we have steadfastly elected the dark horse of the party in the past, distant paaaast, not of recent memory. It would seem NOW the Candidate with the MOST MONEY/Oldest Survivor now always WINS the GOP nomination! Look at the McCain status, that of others too, like Bush Sr.!  And that in itself is WRONG! But TRUE! So, having said that, does an Independent Party seem that Much a Callous and Wrong Direction to Go? Based on what we have seen and what our History IS for the last 20+ years? Republican and Democrats alike have forced unneeded and unwarranted Wars upon us, as well as punishing taxes/fees/ and loss of liberties too. We as a Country are Bankrupt financially as a result, as WE the PEOPLE are not Happy, or Are We?  The people must awake and make serious sober alternative decisions, which will affect all our pocketbooks far into the future. Are we BRAVE Enough? I think not......sadly......and this spiral into the abyss will continue............thus forcing many Americans into other areas/localities for financial security and soundness.

[XLFD]

And contrary to punditry, Ron Paul is currently the only Republican candidate that beats Obama in the general election according to a poll published this week.  The other two front-runners, Gingrich and Romney, lose by 10 and 7 percent, whereas Ron Paul squeaks out a narrow victory.  Paul's strength among independents and crossover/conservative Democrats should not be ignored. 

http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/05/gingrich-leads-but-paul-most-like...

Paul's policies contrast well against Obama's, and he has shown himself a solid, bold debater.  He's the man.

[Willy]

Good points Aquaman and X