Excerpt: "Pelosi didn't go into detail about Gingrich's past transgressions, but she tipped her hand. 'One of these days we'll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,' Pelosi said. 'I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff.'"
Rep. Nancy Pelosi talks about Gingrich. (photo: Newscom/Zuma Press)
Pelosi Threatens to Release Dirt on Gingrich
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TPM reports 'Newt Gingrich reacted to Nancy Pelosi's reminder to America that he was slapped with a $300,000 ethics violation by the House in the 1990s about as you'd expect: he accused Pelosi of violating ethics rules herself, and threatened to bring her up on charges. Pelosi responded to that by sending TPM a link to the publicly-available cache of files on the Gingrich ethics case and informing Gingrich that she doesn't need to breach the confidentiality of the ethics committee chamber to embarrass him.' Read Here 
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elosi knows more about Gingrich than perhaps any other major national political figure. She was a senior Democrat when Gingrich was House Speaker, served on the ethics committee that investigated Gingrich for tax cheating and campaign finance violations, and even cut a 2008 ad with him on the importance of addressing global climate change.
But when TPM asked her to talk a bit about his recent ascent and the possibility that he'll be the GOP nominee, she mostly demurred.
"I like Barney Frank's quote the best, where he said �I never thought I'd live such a good life that I would see Newt Gingrich be the nominee of the Republican party,'" Pelosi said in an exclusive interview Friday. "That quote I think spoke for a lot of us."
Pelosi didn't go into detail about Gingrich's past transgressions, but she tipped her hand. "One of these days we'll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich," Pelosi said. "I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his stuff."
Pressed for more detail she wouldn't go further.
"Not right here," Pelosi joked. "When the time's right."
Which is to say that if Gingrich somehow clinches the nomination, there's one hell of an oppo dump coming.
Update: Gingrich responds, thanking Pelosi for the "early Christmas gift."
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How about the Sanity Party? Fact is, the Dems and Rethugs are certifiably INSANE.
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Unfortunately, like Dennis Kucinich, she has a snowball's chance in hell of winning.
Mr. Kucinich has a history of being outspoken, even fearless in this regard.
But the solution to stop aggression and wars? We must change the "modern" geopolitical system which world federalists describe as a war system.
Mr. Kucinich must acknowledge that the existing geopolitical system, which includes the United Nations, has failed us. Wars and world crimes erupt with relentless regularity.
The Earth Federation Movement's Earth Constitution provides a new geopolitical system, one which returns power and authority to "we, the people".
The Earth Constitution provides for a democratically elected World Parliament. Its design includes a world judiciary system with the authority to prosecute those who commit world crimes.
The heart of the new geopolitics is the Earth Constitution. It draws our attention to the fact that we cannot succeed with the goals for America outlined by Mr. Kucinich without also establishing a new global system.