Pelosi’s Privileged Resolution
Today, in a heroic attempt, Nancy Pelosi introduced a Privileged Resolution on Iraq which laid out the crimes of the President Katrina administration and called for the Thug Leaders of the House of Representatives to exercise their oversight responsibilities and “conduct a thorough investigation of of abuses relating to the Iraq War”.
The resolution was tabled by the Thugs in a strict party-line vote, with one Democrat voting with them.
“A vote to table is a vote to cover-up,” Pelosi said. “Congress has the responsibility to find out why so many things in Iraq have gone so terribly wrong. That is why I asked the House to investigate abuses relating to Iraq. Yet, Republicans again thwarted efforts to answer the questions of the American people. This Republican cover-up Congress refuses to live up to its oversight responsibility.”
Here are links to video of Pelosi on the floor today. (I couldn’t get the links to work directly, but I was able to go to the page and download the .wmv files to my hard drive and view them that way)
[If you have to do what I did to get them to play, use this link, then find the picture of Pelosi and right-click on the link below her picture and choose “Save link as…” from the drop down menu….]
This is as much as the House Rules will allow Pelosi to do. The House Rules do not allow for the same kind of actions that Reid took in the Senate, so this is action by Pelosi is the MORAL EQUIVALENT of what Reid was able to do in the Senate when he moved for a closed session recently.
Please let Pelosi know that we appreciate her by contacting her at this link.
