Nancy Pelosi Promises to Use Her Station to Malign Newt Gingrich's Name

Lest you were concerned that Democrats might threaten to take the high road in the general election…

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is holding back some information on Republican Newt Gingrich that could detract from his presidential campaign, according to a report published Monday.

"One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich," Pelosi told Talking Points Memo. "When the time is right… 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."

First of all, is she actually allowed to release, for overtly political reasons, sensitive information about a candidate that was gathered in the service of an official congressional investigation?

Second of all, Eeeewwwwwwwww.

Not that I actually think that a guy who shut down the federal government because he didn't get to sit where he wanted to on the fun plane ride, or who led the charge to impeach a sitting president for adultery while carrying on an adulterous relationship himself, is himself above such ethically-challenged behavior. But somebody's got to act like an adult around there, don't they?*

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^{* Actually, they don't.}

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Tags: House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, Newt Gingrich, Primaries, Republicans