Making Pelosi a distraction

So, let me get this straight. Republicans are calling for Nancy Pelosi to be kicked out of office because she has stated that she was not informed about the Bush Administration's use of torture while it was occurring.

Republicans are claiming that she knew about this illegal activity and did not stop it, so she is therefore unfit for office.

However, Republicans who knew about the crimes are immune from this call to be removed from office, because they were just following the lead of their political party. The top people of their party - George W. Bush and Dick Cheney - are immune to any type of prosecution or retribution for the crimes because if the President does something, then it's not a crime. They further extend this impunity to all members of the Executive branch.

So, they know that Bush ordered crimes to be committed. It's OK that he did so, because he was the President. Anyone following his orders was merely following orders, so they're OK. Any Republicans that knew about the crimes are OK because they were following GOP party orders. However, any Democrat who is even suspected (conveniently by Republicans) of knowing about the crimes must be removed from office.

In what universe can this actually make sense to anybody other than a Republican political strategist?

Are they genetically predisposed to being dishonest?

Republicans when real US intelligence gathering doesn't match their
political plans: CIA is unreliable and doesn't tell the truth.

Republicans when politically-appointed and politically-motivated leaders
of US intelligence gathering are exposed as misrepresenting the findings
of real US intelligence gathering: the CIA always tells the truth and to
suggest that they are unreliable is a tragic attack against them.

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