Ask The Speaker

Watching Speaker Pelosi at the morning Q&A. First question is on inherent contempt. She name-checked Karl Rove, but is basically talking about the Catch-22 of the Justice Department not prosecuting these cases. In other words, she didn't answer the question, because inherent contempt does not require the judiciary or the Attorney General. Gina Cooper asked "will you put him in that little jail cell in the House?" Standing ovation.

Next question is about FISA and how it could possibly be seen as a compromise. She's claiming that her options were limited, which is silly (the Republicans and some bad Democrats made me put it on the calendar?). Now on to the exclusivity bull-pucky, and the IG report, which is OK. "Our bill (the initial House bill) was a good bill." She's claiming that we'll learn more from the IG than from the courts, and I'm not sure that's true. Gina asks rightly that there's no natural constituency from this bill in the public. She's doing a great job.

OK, I'm going to lose power here, again.