Pelosi Uproard in a Nutshell:

From Hannity's show yesterday, a former federal prosecutor summed up neatly why the Repubs are so desperately using Pelosi as a diversion:

"...Later, Sonny Hostin raises the really relevant point:

The issue here is that everybody knows that waterboarding is torture. And that was an approved policy. It is torture! Everyone knows that. And that was the policy of the Bush administration. Why don't we talk about that?

Yes, why aren't Repubs talking about that?

The Tragedy of Alyssa Peterson.



In case you aren't familiar with her story, this post from FDL is very powerful and informative and I recommend a quiet reading of it.

http://firedoglake.com/2009/04/26/torture-and-the-united-states-of-alyssa-peterson/