Biggest Liar - 1

Contestant #1 - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

Thank you San Francisco! Losers

This morning the Drudge Report linked to two stories about a nice little 180 by the Madame Speaker. In 2002, she was briefed on water-boarding interrogation techniques and apparently had no objection at all to the use of such methods for extracting information from detainees in US detention facilities.

Yesterday she said "In that or any other briefing…we were not, and I repeat, were not told that waterboarding or any of these other enhanced interrogation techniques were used. What they did tell us is that they had some legislative counsel ... opinions that they could be used."

Well maybe her memory about the matter is a little blurry, after all, Mr. Libby's was. But it is hard to give this woman the benefit of the doubt. Truly she is few rocks shy of a load, but if you are as dumb as she is you don't get to be Speaker of the House unless you can really wheel and deal with the best of 'em. When you hear her speak it is not surprising she is such a blatant liar. She moves back and forth between shrill and determined ideologue, and I don't think either one of those egos would have a problem being outright deceitful to advance the cause of big government.

So stay tuned for the next installment of Biggest Liar to find out which other politicians are so dishonest they make a used car salesman and an auto mechanic look like a boy scout and a priest.