At this point, it's the norm. It's what journalists are supposed to do. And ABC News delivers in its online report, “House GOP to Force Vote on Pelosi.”
Here's the meat:
House Republicans today plan to force their colleagues to vote on whether to launch an investigation of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's allegation that the CIA misled her, a move that will force Democrats to take a stand on a politically contentious issue.
The measure has virtually no chance of passing, given the Democratic majority in the House, and the wide support inside the caucus for Pelosi, D-Calif.
But Republican aides say they want to force the full House to vote on whether to create a special, bipartisan subcommittee to investigate the speaker's claims -- a move that keeps Pelosi in a harsh spotlight for another day, and forces some Democrats into a potentially awkward vote.
Brilliant! The GOP is going to force an “awkward” vote that will surely embarrass Pelosi. The facts that ABC dutifully ignores? This: Those same House Republicans are adamantly opposed to approving a so-called truth commission to investigate what the Bush administration did with regards to torture. A truth commission Pelosi supports.
See, if ABC News included the fact that Republican want to investigate torture but only as it applies to what Pelosi knew, and refuse to investigate what the Bush administration actually did, well Republicans would look like hypocrites.
But since ABC News left out that important nugget of information, Republicans just look savvy and super smart. Again!