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But the Pentagon told Pelosi that – while it would make "every effort ... to provide non-stop shuttle support" – it could not guarantee it. As things have worked out, both Pelosi's spokesman and the Air Force say the only time she's flown in the C-32 was when no smaller aircraft was available. She also uses commercial airlines when not traveling on official business, according to her spokesman Brendan Daly.

Samoan Nonsense
Yet another widely circulated bit of Pelosi-bashing claims that she secured wage breaks and tax credits for the American Samoan operations of StarKist Tuna while her husband owned $17 million worth of stock in the company's parent, Del Monte. This is simply untrue, as we explained at length in an Ask FactCheck item Nov. 26.

It's not clear whether or not Pelosi backed an unsuccessful 2007 effort to secure lower federal minimum-wage standards for the StarKist operations of Del Monte. But it's simply not true that her husband, Paul Pelosi, has a $17 million stake in Del Monte. That's a hoax perpetrated by an anonymous person who inserted the false claim in an article about Del Monte in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The claim was quickly flagged by alert editors as "not verified" and "unsourced" and then swiftly deleted after appearing on the site for only six hours. In fact, Nancy Pelosi's 2007 financial disclosure statement lists plenty of other stocks owned by her husband, but none for Del Monte, or StarKist, for that matter. The same is true of her 2006 and 2005 reports. But that hasn't stopped conservative bloggers and anonymous e-mail rumormongers from claiming repeatedly that Pelosi acted "corruptly" to aid Del Monte.

Sources
Mikkelson, Barbara. "Last Voyage." Snopes.com, 12 Jan 2009.

Henig, Jess. "Did Nancy Pelosi get wage breaks and tax credits for the American Samoan operations of a company in which her husband owns $17 million worth of stock?" FactCheck.org, 26 Nov 2008.

Henig, Jess. "Did Nancy Pelosi order up a 200-seat jet for her personal use?" FactCheck.org, 21 Dec 2008.

CNN. "House security chief: Pelosi didn't ask for plane; I did." 9 Feb. 2007.

Miller, Joe. "Did Pelosi advocate taxing 'windfall' stock profits at 100%?" FactCheck.org, 7 Dec 2007.

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  • Posted By: m.mcc @ 01/17/2009 11:20:40 PM

    ROFLMAO???. Snarly Harley, you're hysterical. I don't see how anyone could take you seriously. It looks like you're getting flustered and testy and having considerable trouble effectively expressing yourself. I'm told this is actually fairly common among two digit IQ narcissists.

    Your profanity and name-calling are great debating skills especially when you stammer and run out of meaningful and intelligent things to say. Of course, that's assuming you have anything meaningful and intelligent to say in the first place and there's scant evidence of that. Your contributions to the discussion thus far have been, shall we charitably say, somewhat shallow.

    BTW, and not that it really matters, but you're once again woefully wrong in your assumption that I'm a Republican and that I'm a Bush lover. Here's a news flash for ya', Snarly. There are a few of us Democrats who have no love for Bush who didn't vote for Obama. I didn't vote for Bush either and have some real problems with some of his actions and policies as well as those of some of his cronies. I would have had no problem with impeachment or other legal action IF there were strong enough legal grounds to make it stick, which I seriously doubt there are. What I wouldn't want to see is an unwinable partisan witch-hunt like the one the Republican's pulled on Bill Clinton. The rancor and distraction that would go along with it would be disastrous. We've got way bigger fish to fry right now.

    Now go on back to your corner and continue sucking your thumb??????..Or what is more likely, some other body appendage that provides you with the same thrill you seem to get from making a total jackass of yourself.

  • Posted By: m.mcc @ 01/17/2009 4:33:38 PM

    READ the post first, you pompous ass!

    The reference made was to some alleged meeting in 2002, well before the invasion of Iraq and LONG before Pelosi was "Madam Speaker"???. and I did make every effort to substantiate this and could not. Which leads me to suspect that this may be yet another false smear, only this time coming from the delusional left rather than the right. So if it's true, prove it and I'll be fine with it.

    If you've even remotely followed Pelosi's career and her politics you'd realize that if she felt she had a winnable case against Bush when she became speaker in 2006 she would have pulled the trigger. I have absolutely no doubts about this because she hates the man and has always been ruthless in her quest for both personal attention and a Democratic stranglehold on government. Add to that the Democratic majority in both houses and there's few other conclusions you can come to other than she didn't feel she had a winnable case for impeachment. With Obama lavishing praise on Bush yesterday, I seriously doubt that he's going to instigate or support any attempt at legal action either. So it's time to give it up and move on.

    Now that he won your vote and your devotion, it must drive you far left whack-jobs crazy to see your messiah moving even ever so slightly toward the right. :D :D

  • Posted By: m.mcc @ 01/16/2009 8:59:34 PM

    I wonder if you could post some references supporting these views and accusations as they apply to Pelosi? I've been unable to find anything on this. Oh, and please don't bother posting if the material can't be substantiated. I'm really not interested in extremist bloggers opinions that can't be independently verified.

    BTW, CNN is reporting this evening that Obama thinks Bush did the best job he could and that he thinks Bush is a "good guy". Looks like the road to trial for Bush got a lot longer today. Hmmm, must be something in the air or water in Washington that make them all stick together, huh?

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