The Politico's Glenn Thrush has the fascinating little item that Democrat Steny Hoyer committed on the House floor yesterday what high-priced shrinks and low-brow commentators would undoubtedly characterize as a Freudian slip.
The following exchange took place between the majority leader and Minority Whip Eric Cantor, after Speaker Pelosi's ... uh, air-clearing press conference. Per Thrush, however, important caveat emptor -- "Rush transcript, via a GOP staffer":
CANTOR: If there is somehow a belief, and I'd ask the gentleman whether he shares this belief, that somehow the CIA or others have intentionally misled this body, because that seems to be some concern that has been raised today? And I yield.
HOYER: I have no idea of that, don't have a belief of that nature because I have no basis on which to base such a belief. And I certainly hope that's not the case. I don't draw that conclusion.
Mr. Hoyer had "no basis on which to base such a belief"?
His boss had just laid out a basis for such a belief. Repeatedly. Searingly. Adamantly. She put it on the record. She put it in the press. She concurred in labeling the CIA a despicable body of liars.
Notwithstanding Pelosi's clanging alarms, Hoyer failed to "draw that conclusion" of concern.
I'm not suggesting any preconceived, conscious plot on Hoyer's part to humiliate or discredit or weaken the speaker -- the one person who stands between him and ultimate House leadership. But you've go to admit that for such a "polished floor debater," Hoyer sure seemed to go unpolished in a rather convenient hurry.
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