Maybe that’ll shut her up.
AP: 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.”
Don’t ya just love liberals who have no other way to defend against justified criticism than to resort to personal attacks. The president has lost credibility? What about Pelosi and Reid leading the Congress to an all time, in the entire history of our country, low public opinion rating of NINE PERCENT! She is sweeping up after the president’s mess? What the hell has the Congress accomplished under her steady hand? Have they kept any of their campaign promises? What mess have they swept up?
Pelosi has been a fount of insightful statements lately:
“Once again, the oilman in the White House is echoing the demands of Big Oil,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said. “The Bush plan is a hoax. It will neither reduce gas prices nor increase energy independence. It just gives millions more acres to the same companies that are sitting on nearly 68 million acres of public lands and coastal areas.”
“I’ve been in Washington long enough to know a political stunt when I see one,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. “The good news is the American people won’t be fooled. If the President wants to lower gas prices, he should stop hosting press conferences and start taking action.”
Spot on Nancy. Way to go Rahm. The American people weren’t fooled by all this talk of increasing supply to address demand and lower prices. Who among us are stupid enough to believe that increasing supply would lower prices. You’d have to be a total moron.
Gotta hand it to her though, she sure has chutzpah going on the attack so soon after being proven a complete idiot. Just days after Pelosi declared the president’s call for offshore drilling a hoax, Bush announced the lifting of an executive order banning offshore drilling and oil prices dropped. DROPPED Nancy… the prices dropped from just a hint that we may be tapping into our immense reserves of oil off our coast; imagine what would happen if Congress got off their collective butts and did something useful for a change.
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino defended Bush.
“What the president said is a fact – this is the longest a Congress has gone in 20 years without passing a single spending bill, so it’s clear that the speaker is feeling some frustration at their inability to do so.”
Pelosi’s counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, long ago took off the rhetorical gloves. Last month, he ridiculed Republicans who sided with Bush on a Medicare bill.
“Who would be afraid of him?” Reid, D-Nev., said as many senators looked on. “He’s got a 29 percent approval rating.”
Which is 20 POINTS HIGHER THAN YOURS… or maybe this will make it clearer for you, it is 3 TIMES HIGHER THAN YOURS, in fact, the president’s rating actually is in the double digits while your rating is in the SINGLE DIGITS… Nine Percent folks… lower than most dictators.
Last week Reid and other Democrats dropped any pretense of trying to fight the president on battles they were likely to lose – even on the most important part of their jobs, which is passing spending bills that keep the government running.
Of the 12 annual appropriations bills, Congress is likely to pass one or two and send Bush a temporary spending fix for the rest. That would have to suffice until a new president takes office, Reid told reporters.
Folks… Reid, Pelosi and the Democrat controlled Congress have thrown in the towel. Maybe we can’t dock their pay for poor performance, but we can certainly fire them for refusing to perform at all. Unfortunately, if election polling data is correct, although we Americans think Congress stinks, we apparently don’t realize the Dems are the source of the odor.
Pray all branches don’t go to the Dems in November. If that happens we could be facing a decline not witnessed since Jimmy Carter “led” us into a pit we were fortunate to climb out of during the Reagan years.
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