Pelosi Plays Dumb: 'I Just Learned Today About the Serious Allegations Concerning Congressman Tim Mahoney'

Of course, acting dumb is a role that comes naturally to the Speaker of the Most Ethical Congress Ever.

We're supposed to believe one of her persons of hench, Rahm Emanuel, knew about this almost two years ago and just today is the first she's hearing of it?

You know, I'll forgive her if she isn't reading Gateway Pundit (she should, though), but does she think we're all as dumb as her constituents?

Apparently so.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday called for an investigation into claims that Rep. Tim Mahoney paid $121,000 to a former mistress who worked on his staff and sued him after he threatened her job when she tried to end the relationship.

Mahoney, D-Fla., also called for the probe into his own activities.

Former and current staff aides made the claims to ABC News on Monday. Mahoney won his congressional seat in 2006 after Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican, was forced to resign in the wake of a scandal involving a congressional page.

"I just learned today about the serious allegations concerning Congressman Tim Mahoney," Pelosi said in a statement. "These charges must be immediately and thoroughly investigated by the House Ethics Committee."

According to ABC News, Mahoney, who is married, started an affair with Patricia Allen while campaigning against Foley on a morality platform. Allen came on to his staff after he won the election in 2006, but when complaints about the alleged affair surfaced, Mahoney moved Allen to the campaign staff, aides told the broadcast network.

ABC reported Allen tried to break off the affair after learning Mahoney was supposedly cheating on her and his wife with other women. In response, he threatened her job, ABC reported.

"You work at my pleasure," Mahoney told Allen in a taped Jan. 20, 2008, telephone call played for Mahoney staffers, ABC reported.

House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel spoke to Mahoney in early 2007 about his personal conduct, FOX News confirmed Monday. Emanuel formerly headed the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the panel charged with electing Democrats to Congress.

Oh no, not the House Ethics Committee!

Why, they're the same outfit that "investigated" Charlie Rangel ... and Pelosi did nothing.

Why, it was also the same group that "investigated" William 'The Refrigerator' Jefferson ... and Pelosi did nothing.

I'm sure Mahoney is just quaking in his shoes having to come before the vaunted House Ethics Committee.

What a joke.

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