Weak Has a Face, and It's Pelosi's-No wonder impeachment is off the goddamn table! (Huffpo)

[kpete]

Weak Has a Face, and It's Pelosi's
Posted October 3, 2007 | 01:59 PM (EST)

If there was any doubt before, which there wasn't, it's gone now. Watching Nancy Pelosi on The View yesterday morning provided the final proof that the backbone of the House is only as strong as its speaker. Her body language said it all. There she sat in the center of the table, sandwiched between Elizabeth Hasselbeck and the "Is the world flat? I don't know" lady, looking anxious and devoid of stately confidence. She could barely look in the eyes of America's Favorite True Believer on her left, who immediately smelled fear and pounced on her prey. "If the violence in Iraq had gone up," she started in (I'm paraphrasing), "you would be insisting that the surge was a failure. Now that the reports say it's gone down drastically, aren't you willing to admit that the surge is a success?" So what does Pelosi do? Does she make like Bill Clinton versus Chris Wallace, lean into her face and retort "young lady, don't try that little conservative hit job on me. You obviously don't know fudged numbers when you see them"? No. Instead she looks somewhere in Hasselbeck's general direction and squeaks meekly, "But that's still a lot of deaths." (I'm not paraphrasing). She then quickly changes the subject as she spends the rest of the interview leaning away from Hasselbeck and focusing on the three women on her right, wishing to God they had sat her down beside Whoopi.

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Watching those uncomfortable minutes tick by, I couldn't help thinking, "Man, if this lady can't hold her own at a table full of gossiping hens who care more about the future of Britney's babies then that of their country, no wonder impeachment is off the goddamn table!"

Barbara Walters mercifully ended the proceedings, tidily wrapping up the interview with something like "Well, Democrat or Republican, it's not important. What matters is that you're the first woman speaker of the House, and that means a lot!"

Um, no it doesn't, sorry. It doesn't mean dick when we're gonna spend a generation cleaning up after a disastrous eight-year siege of our country that no one in power has the guts to end. Madame Speaker is no different than her Senate counterpart. Reid and Pelosi are two distinguished minority leaders promoted to their level of incompetence by a frustrated electorate. Neither of them is yet able to energize their parties into accomplishing anything they were elected to do, hence their dismal poll numbers and an unfazed president who will smirk and coast his way to blissful retirement.

more at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/darin-murphy/weak-has-a-face-and-its_b_66987.html

[bigscott]

1. she has proven to be

a huge disappointment. just like the rest of them (with a few isolated exceptions)

[movonne]

4. And if we vote hillary in, we will have a lot more disappointments..

[april]

18. I couldn't agree more ..we are going to hell ..need someone that

can't be so tied to the good old Boys....Maybe Dennis or Edwards

[AndyA]

5. Disappointment is an understatement.

You'd never know the GOP wasn't still in charge, based on how things have been going.

Pelosi and Reid control the agendas in their respective Houses; they can prevent things from being brought to the floor, and there's little anyone can do about it. They need to start doing their jobs, which is what they were elected to do.

No wonder their poll numbers are so low. And they think more Dems are going to get voted in in 2008? If they do, it will be IN SPITE of the current Congress' record!

[Marr]

8. I don't think a House with an 80% Dem majority would work any better with Pelosi at the helm.

She's either too dense to understand what that seat is for, or she's basically a Republican. There's simply no excuse for the way the Dem leadership has failed to use the tools at it's disposal.

[librechik]

2. .

duh

[zeemike]

3. And I had such high hopes for her

I wonder just who or what got to her, or were we all just fooled into thinking she had the guts to lead us out of this mess.

:kick:

[stimbox]

7. I did too.

Her 2 biggest advisors are Steny "mad at the base" Hoyer and Rahm "DLC" Emmanuel, so that might explain it.
She sure has been a major disappointment for her district 8 constituents.
She's a miserable failure now.

[soothsayer]

6. Didn't she get pulled aside by AIPAC and given her marching orders?

[roguevalley]

9. the silly git doesn't get it that you CAN'T TAKE IMPEACHMENT

off the table. You defend it. It's an oath. She makes me more furious and hate-filled than anyone out there. I can hardly stand how I feel about this. It makes me sick.

[bvar22]

10. Pelosi now has a seat at the Rich White Man's Table.

She isn't going to do anything to jeopardize that.
She no longer represents Americans who Work for a Living.
She has joined the aristocratic Ownership Society, sometimes called "Bush's Base.

I had high hopes for Nancy.
For me, the moment of epiphany was when Pelosi and Rangle negotiated the "Secret Free Trade Deal" directly with Bush. Pelosi's "Secret Free Trade Deal" was written by Corporate Lobbyists without input from LABOR, Environment, or Human Rights representatives, and was kept secret from the Democratic Caucus to avoid opposition.

[Disturbed]

11. Sometimes it is simple. Pelosi is a weak person.

If she couldn't crush that moron on the View with a few sentences of facts how in the Hell
is she qualified to be Speaker of House. Someone on DU apply named her: "Squeaker of the House".

[cascadiance]

17. We need to break free from this sad alternate reality...

[historian]

12. glad you brought up the subject

I did sometime ago saying that unless the dems took decisive action like cutting off funding or impeaching the supreme asshole and was immediately pounced on.

[bvar22]

13. Ignore the authoritarian screamers.

DU has become infested with developmentally delayed conservative authoritarians who demand that we march in lockstep with them, and not criticize Mommy or Daddy.

They are long on "tantrum", short on substance, and quick to feel threatened by a difference of opinion.
Just treat them as you would any 2 year old.

There are many here who have achieved the level of maturity and intelligence needed to Question Authority.

[robinlynne]

16. hear hear.

[partylessinOhio]

14. Bravo to this writer! Madame Squeaker is weak and sat on The View

like a marshmallow! When Whoopi made those two comments that she would "DO" both Mr. Pelosi sitting in the audience and Nancy Pelosi - they both should have gotten up and walked OUT! That was such a base and inappropriate comment to make about the sitting Speaker of the House and her long time spouse.

I have NO respect for Madame Squeaker but I do have enough moxie to know those comments showed extreme disrespect for the office - third in line for the presidency.

:thumbsdown:

In this interview both Whoopi and Elisabeth were slimy snakes.

[ladjf]

15. She is the quintessential , "deer in the headlights" Democratic

Wimp. We can get better leadership than that.

[Totally Committed]

19. She Needs to Go!!!

WEAK WEAK WEAK

WEAK WEAK WEAK

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TC