Nancy Pelosi Has Some Nerve
Talking Points Memo reports that Nancy Pelosi is calling George Bush “a failure”
President Bush has been a “total failure” in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.
Pelosi shot back in unusually personal terms.
“You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject,” Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for “challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again.”
Nancy Pelosi is so full of shit, her hair and her eyes should be brown. Oh wait…
The fact is that President Bush has been highly successful in getting what he wants. It is unfortunate, dreadfully so, that everything he has wanted has been so incredibly damaging to our country. Let’s look at the record.
On FISA, warrantless wiretapping, and the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment, it’s not Bush that failed: it’s Congress. In fact, they failed on purpose: the bill was dead in February, and Steny Hoyer brought it back to life.
On war funding with no strings attached, Bush is no failure: Congress failed. Repeatedly.
Ignoring subpoenas and diminishing Congress to the point of meaninglessness? I think we can agree that Bush succeeded at that, unless “sternly worded letters with no consequence” count as oversight.
Legalized torture? Score another one for Bush, who got that out of congress too.
S-CHIP? Another Bush win, because the Democrat-led Congress couldn’t manage to override his veto.
They won on overriding Medicare cuts, and even then just barely.
Am I missing anything?
“A failure”. Please. I’d laugh in your face Nancy, but you’d probably have me tortured.
…adding, if Bush is such a failure, why is it the House Judiciary Committee needs to be nagged [fruitlessly, as always] to actually do its job and hold the man in contempt for ignoring subpoenas?
…also adding that John Cole’s head is about to explode, as is mine:
mpeachment is on the table.But Congress is not allowed to bite.
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on one of Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s 35 articles of impeachment against President Bush. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders in the chamber have signaled that they do not want the committee—let alone the full House—to take a vote on impeachment….But, when all is said and done, the committee is only supposed to “accumulate” the evidence of imperial over-reach, not to act upon it.
If you needed any more evidence that the United States has now reached the point that we are completely unable to govern ourselves, and are, in essence, lurching forward like a drunk with a dysfunctional sense of balance and order, this should be the final clue. This is either an election year stunt and the Bush administration is owed a number of apologies, or the Democratic leadership themselves are complicit, or both. There is no other reasoning for this nonsense. Governments and political parties that engage in this sort of charade do not take themselves seriously, and they most certainly do not take the public seriously.
And why should they? Where is the outrage? Where is Pat Buchanan’s pitchfork brigade? Where is the outcry on the blogs? How can the leadership of an elected party say, with a straight face, that they intend to hold hearings into alleged malfeasance and criminal behavior, but don’t worry, they won’t do anything about it? It is a joke. It is worse than a joke. It is fraud.
And Pelosi calls Bush “a failure”?
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