Doing her very best Vince Lombardi impression, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists that the polls are wrong, the American people aren’t pissed off, and that bullshit smells like roses.
Stretching the truth is nothing new for Nancy Pelosi.
Doing her very best Vince Lombardi impression, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists that the polls are wrong, the American people aren’t pissed off, and that bullshit smells like roses.
Here’s a quick excerpt from her interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel:
Siegel: If your party does lose the House would you step aside as leader?
Pelosi: First of all, I don’t accept that premise in any way shape or form. The momentum is with us. We are out there to dispel many of the misrepresentations that have been going out there for nearly two years by the Republicans and the special interests, the oil industry, the health insurance industry, the banks and their allies.
We’re out there. Our members are great articulate spokespersons for their point of view into their districts. And district by district we feel very confident about the election.
And we believe that six weeks from today, six weeks from Wednesday of this week we will have no regrets but instead we will have a great Democratic victory.
At what point do interviewers begin saying, “Oh, come on, Nancy, get serious.”
Uh-oh. Looks like Nancy Pelosi’s campaign to investigate those who are against the Ground Zero mosque won’t be getting any support from former DNC head Howard Dean.
Uh-oh. Looks like Nancy Pelosi’s campaign to investigate those who are against the Ground Zero mosque won’t be getting any support from former DNC head Howard Dean.
“I gotta believe there has to be a compromise here,” Dean told WABC Radio. “This isn’t about the rights of Muslims to have a worship center or Jews or Christians or anybody else to have a place to worship anywhere near Ground Zero. This is something we ought to be able to work out with people of good faith. And we have to realize that it is a real affront to people who lost their lives – including Muslims. That site doesn’t belong to an particular religion. It belongs to all Americans and all faiths. So I think a good, reasonable compromise could be worked out without violating the principal that people out to be able to worship as they see fit…I think another site might be a good idea.”
It really is amazing that Nancy Pelosi represents a “safe” Democrat seat, because the woman is positively Orwellian. She thinks anyone who opposes the Ground Zero mosque should be investigated.
It really is amazing that Nancy Pelosi represents a “safe” Democrat seat, because the woman is positively Orwellian. She thinks anyone who opposes the Ground Zero mosque should be investigated.
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“There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some. And I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded,” she said. “How is this being ginned up that here we are talking about Treasure Island, something we’ve been working on for decades, something of great interest to our community as we go forward to an election about the future of our country and two of the first three questions are about a zoning issue in New York City.”
Poor Nancy. After throwing trillions of tax dollars in a misguided attempt to save the economy, she seems to a bit confused by the concept of opposition that’s funded privately.
For months, the media’s been pounding home the meme that the Tea Party is filled with extremists and racists who live out their angry lives far beyond the American mainstream. And now…
For months, the media’s been pounding home the meme that the Tea Party is filled with extremists and racists who live out their angry lives far beyond the American mainstream.
And now new research shows that those idiot Americans have ignored the media and made up their own minds about Reid and Pelosi?
Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Less popular than the Tea Party, marginally more popular than gonorrhea
Damn it, people, why do you refuse to cooperate with your intellectual superiors in the media?
The Hill reports the people’s preferences:
An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll showed that 30 percent view the grassroots conservative groups very or somewhat positively compared to 34 percent who view them very or somewhat negatively.
But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was seen positively by 21 percent of those polled and 46 percent viewed her negatively. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) received a lower positive rating, 11 percent, but also a lower negative rating of 31 percent.
The numbers indicate that the public is dissatisfied with the way Congress has been run; 32 percent believe that this Congress’ overall performance and accomplishments are “one of the worst.” Only 4 percent say that Congress has done above average or excellent work.
The Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says, “I’m not nervous at all” about the mid-term elections. Nope. Not even the teensiest bit worried.
What, me worry? Nancy Pelosi is turning into the Congressional equivalent of Alfred E. Newman.
The Speaker of the House says, “I’m not nervous at all” about the mid-term elections. Nope. Not even the teensiest bit worried.
But ABC News reports that Pelosi has plenty of reasons to worry:
Democrats now hold a 39-seat edge in the House. Yet the playing field continues to expand: The Rothenberg Political Report currently lists 88 seats as “in play.” Seventy-six of those seats currently are held by Democrats.
Many of the same places that helped build the president’s winning coalition in his race against Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. — states such as Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and Pennsylvania — could be the places where Republicans rack up the gains they need to take back the House.
In many of those districts, the Obama agenda has been widely unpopular. House members are left defending votes on items including the stimulus, bailouts, health care and cap-and-trade that have grown more unpopular with the passage of time.
It means that the president and his agenda will very much be on the ballot — while the president himself won’t be the best position to help Democrats play defense.
Pelosi maintains that wide-eyed innocence ignorance no matter how bad things look.
Of course, the wide-eyed part may be the result of bad plastic surgery and a Botox overdose, but the ignorance is all-natural.
Joe Sestak, the Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, actually said he doesn’t know if Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a liberal. And he expected his constituents to believe it.
Joe Sestak, the Democrat candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, actually said he doesn’t know if Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is a liberal. And he expected his constituents to believe it.
Based on that level of ignorance, we assume Sestak would also say he doesn’t know which arm Lefty Gomez threw with.
But take it from us, Joe, no matter what arm Gomez threw with, it wasn’t as far to the left as Pelosi.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’ truth didn’t sit well with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who sent out a new fundraising email.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs committed the cardinal sin of telling the truth when he admitted that the Democrats might lose control of the House come November.
That didn’t sit well with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who sent out a new fundraising email in which she said:
“Here is what will happen in November. Democrats will keep control of the House. Period.”
In response, the Republican National Committee sent out this clip from Animal House that perfectly describes what’s going on behind closed doors with the Democrats.
From her safe, secure, ultra-liberal bunker in San Francisco, out of touch Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has issued suicide marching orders for her Democrat house minions.
Princess Pelosi of San Franciscostan seems to be a bit out of touch with her people
From her safe, secure, ultra-liberal bunker in San Francisco, out of touch Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has issued suicide marching orders for her Democrat house minions:
Hold town hall meetings and tell your constituents how proud you are of your vote for ObamaCare.
The Hill ruminates on Pelosi’s political hallucinations:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is doubling down on healthcare reform, betting that it will do Democrats more good than harm in November’s elections.
She and her leadership team have seized on new polls that suggest healthcare overhaul’s popularity is rising, and they are urging members of Congress to use this week’s recess to tout the new law.
Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the party leadership have sent lawmakers back to their districts urging them to hold town hall-type meetings to highlight the law’s benefits, in the belief it could help Democrats avoid major losses in November.
Recent polls indicate a slow but steady uptick in the popularity of healthcare reform. Despite Republican hopes that the law’s controversial passage will win them seats this fall, the Democrats’ actions show they still consider the issue a political winner.
One can only assume that Pelosi and the rest of the House leadeship missed the latest Rasmussen study that shows 60% of likely voters want ObamaCare repealed.
But The Pelosi is The Pelosi and her world view extends no further than the Bay Bridge – the one she’s urging fellow Democrats to jump from.
If nothing else, this should make for some good video clips.
Wow. Just wow. Nancy Pelosi on Thursday made herself the odds on favorite to win the award for “Stupidest Quote of 2010.” We realize we’re only half way through the year, but this one is going to be tough to beat.
Wow. Just wow. Nancy Pelosi on Thursday made herself the odds on favorite to win the award for “Stupidest Quote of 2010.” We realize we’re only half way through the year, but this one is going to be tough to beat.
In the words of Gateway Pundit, “Only a government bureaucrat would think paying someone for not working is a job creator.”
NOTE: As a result of the Botox injections, Nancy says everything with a straight face. So there is a possibility that she was making a joke, but no one could tell. One can only hope.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, Nancy Pelosi actually said she’ll stop blaming Bush for everything “when the problems go away.” Or when hell freezes over. Whichever comes first.
Every once in a while a politician slips and accidentally tells the truth. Even Democrats.
For example, in an interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, Nancy Pelosi actually said she’ll stop blaming Bush for everything “when the problems go away.”
Dolce & Gabbana has nothing on Biden & Pelosi when it comes to the latest fashions. The Vice President and the Speaker of the House are now sporting colorful new bracelets to protest Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
Dolce & Gabbana has nothing on Biden & Pelosi when it comes to the latest fashions. The Vice President and the Speaker of the House are now sporting colorful new bracelets to protest Arizona’s anti-illegal alien law.
HotAir.com explains that this new liberal fashion trend was developed by California Democrat Congressman Joe Baca:
As part of his general boycott of Arizona — which includes his refusal to fly through Phoenix on his weekly trips to and from Washington — Baca, D-Rialto, is distributing wristbands inspired by the Lance Armstrong LiveSTRONG craze.
Baca put in an order for 2,500 of his version, which will be red, yellow and blue — the colors of Arizona’s flag — to be worn as a show of solidarity against the controversial law…
In Washington, Baca has gotten House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and most members of the Democratic leadership to wear them, as they did — along with golfing legend Chi Chi Rodriguez — at a recent fundraiser for Baca. Baca said his office is fielding calls from people inquiring how they can get one of the wristbands.
“Everyone wants them,” Baca said. “They’re going like hot potatoes.”
And that, Joe, is what you call a Freudian slip. We’re pretty sure Baca meant to say, “They’re going like hot cakes” because the definition of a hot potato is “A problem that is so controversial or sensitive that those handling it risk unpleasant consequences.”
With every poll showing overwhelming support for the Arizona law, these stupid wrist bands are definitely hot potatoes.
Perhaps socializing the American economy and shredding the Constitution isn’t your real passion, Nancy. Perhaps it’s just something you’re doing to while away the time until the full glories of ObamaCare kick in in 2013 or 2014 or whenever. If that’s the case, Nancy honey, IHateTheMedia.com would like to put our money where your mouth is by making the following offer:
Nancy Pelosi calls ObamaCare an “entrepreneurial bill.” But as you might expect, her definition of “entrepreneurial” can’t be found in any dictionary.
“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” the Speaker of the House said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”
Perhaps socializing the American economy and shredding the Constitution isn’t your real passion, Nancy. Perhaps it’s just something you’re doing to while away the time until the full glories of ObamaCare kick in in 2013 or 2014 or whenever.
If that’s the case, Nancy honey, IHateTheMedia.com would like to put our money where your mouth is by making the following offer:
We will gladly pick up the tab for your health insurance so you can resign that current dreary job of yours and discover your true passion now.
Do it, Nancy. Resign that job today and IHateTheMedia.com will gladly pay 100% of the healthcare costs for you and your family.
Unfortunately, this AFP story doesn’t reveal which reporter asked Pelosi the question, so we’ll never know if it was sycophantic idiocy or a joke.
Our current president is already a bit of a nancy. We don't need another one.
Unfortunately, this AFP story doesn’t reveal which reporter asked Pelosi the question, so we’ll never know if it was sycophantic idiocy or a joke.
At a press conference with reporters and children on “Take Our Daughters And Sons To Work Day,” Pelosi had been asked whether she would ever run for president given her years of political experience.
“No. I love the job that I have,” said the speaker, who is behind only Vice President Joe Biden in the US order of succession.
“I believe that one of the reasons that I do it with the success that I have is that my members know that I am here for them, for the House of Representatives, and I’m not thinking of another career path for myself,” she said.
“But I’m very proud to be the Speaker of the House. It is a great honor, especially being the first woman,” said the California lawmaker.
The odds of Pelosi running for president are about as high as Obama telling the truth about healthcare.
First, she would have to oppose a sitting President of her own party. Second, Pelosi’s 69 years old now and if she somehow got elected, she’d be he oldest President to ever asume office. And third, her current approval level bumps along in the low 30s.
Other than minor issues, it’s a damn fine question.
That’s a great idea, you know, because those newfangled energy efficient bulbs will pay for themselves in no time. No time at all. What’s that? It’ll take ten years for them to pay for themselves. Oh, fer Christ’s sake.
The lights are on, but nobody's home
That’s a great idea, you know, because those newfangled energy efficient bulbs will pay for themselves in no time. No time at all.
What’s that? It’ll take ten years for them to pay for themselves. Oh, fer Christ’s sake.
CNSnews.com reports the story:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called a Capitol Hill press conference Wednesday to unveil new light fixtures in the House cafeteria. The light fixtures cost $140,000 and will take almost 10 years to pay off in saved energy.
Ten years. The payoff on this is going to take ten friggin’ years. Got that? The story continues:
Ayers said that the new light fixtures and window shades were installed in the cafeteria, located in the basement of the Rayburn House Office Building, because the LED [light emitting diode] light fixtures have become much less expensive.
“It’s now becoming much more affordable, so we’re sort of kicking the tires on it for the moment. It seems to work terrific. It’s got great energy savings, and it’s got – we think – great lighting quality, and the price of the light fixtures just in the last year has come down significantly.”
Of course, we’re just swimming in spare cash right now, so this is the perfect time for Pelosi to blow $140,000 on light bulbs that will take ten years to pay for themselves.
Dim bulb. And make no mistake, when we say that we’re referring to the Speaker herself.
”It’s like the back of the refrigerator. You see all these wires and the rest,” said Pelosi. “All you need to know is, you open the door. The light goes on….”
KCBS.com reports on Nancy Pelosi’s ObamaCare Simile of the Day:
The Speaker compared it to the enactment of social security, medicare and the civil rights act.
And while she said it may not be perfect, it’s a bold step in the right direction.
”It’s like the back of the refrigerator. You see all these wires and the rest,” said Pelosi. “All you need to know is, you open the door. The light goes on….”
Yeah, it’s like when the light goes on and you realize that you should have stopped at the grocery store on the way home because the refrigerator is absolutely empty. And the only thing left in the house is a can of tuna. And you eat it standing over the kitchen sink.
Hey, c’mon, our simile is no worse than soon-to-be-former Speaker Pelosi’s.
Taxes are, like, hard to understand, and stuff. It’s even worse when you’ve spent your entire political career creating new taxes and fees and tax categories and tax loopholes. Just ask Nancy Pelosi who has a hard time figuring out exactly what a tax on unearned income is. Pelosi was explaining a new tax that will help pay for Obamacare.
Pelosi checks political winds before she decides to talk about capital gains taxes, whatever they are.
Taxes are, like, hard to understand, and stuff. It’s even worse when you’ve spent your entire political career creating new taxes and fees and tax categories and tax loopholes.
Just ask Nancy Pelosi who has a hard time figuring out exactly what a tax on unearned income is. Pelosi was explaining a new tax that will help pay for Obamacare.
When a reporter asked whether that meant there would be additional tax on capital gains, Pelosi responded the tax would hit all “unearned income, whatever category that is.”
The reporter dared to actually repeat the question again, “So, capital gains?”
And Pelosi retorted, “No, unearned income, whatever category that is.”
OK, by the way, Nancy, unearned income is, in part, defined as: Income from interest, dividends, annuities, royalties, and rents, other than such income which is derived in the ordinary course of a trade or business.
Sounds a lot like capital gains to us.
But what do we know? We don’t create taxes, we just pay ‘em.
All of a sudden Democrats are singing the praises of the Congressional Budget Office.
But quick, who were the three biggest critics of the CBO back in July of 2009? If you said Pelosi, Dodd and Obama, you win.
President Obama is now singing the praises of the CBO
All of a sudden Democrats are singing the praises of the Congressional Budget Office.
But quick, who were the three biggest critics of the CBO back in July of 2009? If you said Pelosi, Dodd and Obama, you win.
It seems that back when the CBO was asking if Congress was smoking crack, or words to that effect, Nancy Pelosi and company didn’t think the CBO was so “wonderful” and “precise.”
Back then, the Queen of Congress said, “..it’s always been a source of, yes, I will say frustration, for many of us in Congress that the CBO will always give you the worst case scenario on one initiative and never … any credit for anything that happens if you have early intervention, health care. If you have prevention, if you have wellness … you name any positive investment that we make, that we know reduces cost, brings money to the Treasury in the case of education but never scored positively by the CBO. Yes, it is frustrating.”
Chris Dodd also bitched about how unfair the CBO was saying “One of the things that’s disappointing about CBO — and frustrating — is all the work…done on prevention” that the CBO doesn’t factor in.”
But no one was less in love with the CBO than The Greatest President In History, who said during one of those White-House-Goes-to-a-Townhall episodes “…the CBO, which sort of polices what all various programs cost, they’re not willing to credit us with those savings. They say, ‘That may be nice, that may save a lot of money, but we can’t be certain.’ So we expect that not only are we going to pay for health care reform in a deficit-neutral way, but that’s it also going to achieve big savings across the system — including in the private sector where the Congressional Budget Office never gives us any credit — but if hospitals and doctors are starting to operate in a smarter way, that’s going to help you even if you’re not involved in a government system.”
But now everything is wonderful with the CBO, Congress and, of course, President Obama.
So what changed? Well, it could have been the unprecedented calling of the head of the CBO Douglas Elmendorf to the White House, where he was personally educated by the Greatest Professor In History on numbers, health care and stuff.
As one wit said, think of it as baseball umpires visiting the owner’s box.
John Boehner keep a wary eye on The Honorable Nancy Pelosi and an equally Honorable President Obama
Here’s something we’ve never done before. We’re going to flat out quote from a Republican party press release. And due to today’s extreme circumstances, we’re happy to do it.
House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) today sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) requesting that the final health care votes be recorded by “call of the roll” so that every lawmaker is required to publicly announce their vote on the House floor.
“This weekend’s votes will be among the most consequential votes we will ever cast as Members of Congress,” Boehner says in the letter to Speaker Pelosi. “As such, it is my belief that every Member should stand before the American people and announce his or her vote as the final decision is made.”
According to the rules of the House of Representatives, “Unless the Speaker directs otherwise, the Clerk shall conduct a record vote or quorum call by electronic device. … The Speaker may direct the Clerk to conduct a record vote or quorum call by call of the roll. In such a case the Clerk shall call the names of Members, alphabetically by surname.”
The problem here is that Boehner addressed his letter to “The Honorable Nancy Pelosi” and the thinking here is that she may be confused by the term honorable.
Seriously. At what point does reality overwhelm tradition and hoary, honorific titles get relegated to the trash bin of history?
Don’t look now, Nancy, but the saints are allied against you. Everyone is against this bloated pig of a bill from San Diego in the west to Port Saint Lucie in the east.
Don’t look now, Nancy, but the saints are allied against you. Everyone is against this bloated pig of a bill from San Diego in the west to Port Saint Lucie in the east.
Let’s just give you the highlights of Jack Cafferty’s attack on Nancy Pelosi and the whole damn reconciliation process
Let’s just give you the highlights of Jack Cafferty’s attack on Nancy Pelosi and the whole damn reconciliation process:
Just when you think you’ve seen it all in Washington, along comes something like this… Politically speaking, this is beyond sleazy… In Nancy Pelosi’s world, accountability is a dirty word… Republicans are jumping all over this, rightfully so. They’re painting it as a way for Democrats to avoid taking responsibility, which is exactly what it is… We’re learning a lot more about lack of political guts… This reeks!
Uh-oh. No matter whether the bill goes up or down, Obama and the Democrats are going down.
Uh-oh. Sounds like Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak has had it just about up to here with promises from Nancy Pelosi the Obama administration. He doesn’t like their attempts to rahm ObamaCare through the House of Representatives. And he doesn’t like the endless series of meetings where nothing is accomplished. Not one little bit.
Uh-oh. Sounds like Michigan Democrat Bart Stupak has had it just about up to here with promises from Nancy Pelosi the Obama administration. He doesn’t like their attempts to rahm ObamaCare through the House of Representatives. And he doesn’t like the endless series of meetings where nothing is accomplished. Not one little bit.
He explains it all in this hilarious clip with Greta Van Susteren.
Greta: So what happens at these meetings?
Stupak: Nothing, the same people just get up and talk.
We say, man up, Stupak. We’re just as tired of hearing about it as you are.
Back in 2004, Princess Pelosi insisted that House Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay needed to resign his post immediately after he was admonished for unethical behavior. Ahhhh, but times change. Now that Democrat Charlie Rangel has been reprimanded for ethics violations, the princess has done a 180. And ethics just aren’t that important to her anymore. They’re overrated.
Back in 2004, Princess Pelosi insisted that House Republican Majority Leader Tom DeLay needed to resign his post immediately after he was admonished for unethical behavior.
Ahhhh, but times change. Now that Democrat Charlie Rangel has been reprimanded for ethics violations, the princess has done a 180. And ethics just aren’t that important to her anymore. They’re overrated.
As Pelosi says, “If standards are good, then double standards should be twice as good.”
