I disagree with those calling for Nancy Pelosi to resign as speaker of the House.
I want her to stay right where she is – the poster girl for Democratic Party dishonesty, duplicity, hypocrisy, vacillation, finger-pointing and the inability to distinguish right from wrong.
Really.
Why would anyone who wants to see the Congress turned upside-down in 2010 want Nancy Pelosi to step down? It doesn't make sense. I want her to stay where she is until the next election. I want Harry Reid to stay where he is in the Senate. I want Barney Frank to get as much face time as possible and continue in his leadership role for the majority.
Don't dump Nancy, please!
Just think of the opportunities she presents for challengers in 2010.
I can envision her very name working its way into the permanent political lexicon of the nation.
In the future, when someone tries to say one thing and do another or backpedal from previous policies or have his cake and eat it too, we can just respond simply: "Don't you Pelosi your way through this one …"
Her name may well find its way into dictionaries in the future: "Pelosi – verb – to argue a point while ignoring relevant facts and defying logic and reason."
Headed into the 2010 elections, I love the idea of having a Democratic House speaker who is a known fraud – someone who represents herself as being opposed to waterboarding terrorists captured on the battlefield, but who never lifted a finger to stop it despite being in her position of power for three years.
She may have trouble holding her own congressional seat with a record like that. I wouldn't be surprised if Cindy Sheehan takes her out in a primary.
At the end of the day, Americans appreciate politicians who mean what they say and say what they mean. They appreciate politicians who stand on principles and don't waffle. They appreciate politicians who don't lie as a way of life.
Nancy Pelosi has been exposed. She is compromised – not just with those who disagree with her about waterboarding, as I do, but with those who agree with her.
What good is it if you believe in something but don't use the power you have when you have it to change policy?
That is the opportunity Nancy Pelosi has had since she became speaker of the House in 2007. She is going to need to answer to the people who elected her, not to me and those who disagree with her on just about everything.
Her excuses for inaction began with an accusation against the CIA of deliberately "misleading the Congress of the United States" – a serious crime, by the way.
Then she changed her story by admitting she had been briefed on waterboarding, but claimed that "we were not – I repeat – were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation methods were used."
Then she decided she did know they were being used, but only through a member of her staff. And, after learning that the U.S. government was using what she believes is a torture technique, she did nothing about it.
Now let's go back to her first accusation about others deceiving Congress: Who do you think is truly guilty of that offense?
Now why would anyone who wants to see wholesale changes in the U.S. Congress next year want to lose a valuable asset like Nancy Pelosi?
She's a gift from God.
She doesn't know what she believes.
It doesn't matter what she believes.
What she believes changes according to circumstances.
What she believes isn't reflected in her actions.
And she accuses others of offenses for which she is actually the guilty party
Isn't this the ideal political opponent?
Please don't resign, Nancy! You are the very face and embodiment of your fatuous and corrupt political party.
Don't ever change.