Banana Republic

No, not that one, this one.

Exhibit A: Nancy Pelosi telling General Petreus what his testimony should be before he gives it.

To wit:

A few days before General Petraeus and Ambassador Crocker appear before House and Senate committees to deliver their latest update on Iraq, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes clear what she hopes they will not say.

In a news conference together with the chairmen of the House committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs, she refers to the recent fighting in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, saying Petraeus and Crocker should not attempt to put a positive spin on events.

"We have to know the real ground truths of what is happening there, not put a shine on events because of a resolution [of the situation in Basra] that looks less violent when it has in fact been dictated by someone [Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada] al-Sadr who can grant or withhold that call for violence or not," said Nancy Pelosi.


Emphasis added. The legal term for this is subborning perjury and is a felony. Somehow this is legal for Congresscritters. The last line about Sadr is laughable because anyone who's paying attention knows that Mookie's boys got their asses handed to them six ways from Sunday and folded faster than Superman on laundry day.


Exhibit B: Jessie "The Body" Ventura goes on Alex "The Professional Moonbat Conspiracy Theorist" Jones show to dispute the official 9/11 story.


“How could those buildings fall at the speed of gravity - if you put a stopwatch on them both of those World Trade Center buildings were on the ground in ten seconds - how can that be?”


Well, I guess we know why he's "The Body" and not "The Brain". This man was Governor of a State! Maybe Minnesotans would have been better off with Bobby Heenan instead.

Exhibit C: A brief video



Texans should be storming the legislature with shotguns and torches. Considering the disposition of Texans, I'm surprised they haven't. They should review those tapes and expel any member who voted more than once for any reason. Don't bullshit me about necessity or the lack of bathroom breaks. This is not how we do things.

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