Three cheers for Nancy Pelosi...

[the_real_38]

... she stood up:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/05/20/pelosi.bush/index.html

and wouldn't step down.


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The emperor has no clothes," Pelosi, D-California, told reporters on Thursday. "When are people going to face the reality? Pull this curtain back."

Pelosi first delivered her comments to a California newspaper. She repeated them during an exchange with reporters Thursday -- the same day Bush was on Capitol Hill meeting in private with GOP lawmakers in a sort of pep rally for the party faithful.

Republicans effused praise for the president as they left the meeting, but Democrats were having none of it.

"The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader," Pelosi said. "These policies are not working. But speaking specifically to Iraq, we have a situation where -- without adequate evidence -- we put our young people in harm's way."

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Asked specifically if she was calling Bush incompetent, Pelosi replied:

"I believe that the president's leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers."

Pelosi charged the Bush administration has proved itself wrong on a number of issues with Iraq, including its initial assertions that Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops and that Iraq itself could pay for much of the reconstruction effort.

"Rocket-propelled grenades, not rose petals, greeted them," Pelosi said of U.S. troops. "Instead ... of Iraq being a country that would readily pay for its own reconstruction ... we're up to over $200 billion in cost to the American people

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I don't know if she wears the pants in the House, but she seems to have the b***s!

[Thrill]

1. You go girl

Sickem Nancy.


Its hillarious how Repukes always try to make clear where people are from. Whats up with the Boston/California comment.

[jobycom]

3. Divide and conquer

They ridicule parts of the country to rally other parts. I guess DUers do the same thing with attacks on my beloved South. It's sick-- a president should be president of the whole country, not just those who voted for him or her.

[the_real_38]

4. Nice observation....

... the Republicans spread the wore through their ranks and their little back-channel networks that the 'Eastern Media' is against Bush. I heard Laura Bush say it in an interview. It's something that goes unnoticed, but you're right - it's definitely a divisive strategy.

[jobycom]

2. No, I'm pretty sure she doesn't have balls

Most Republicans do, though, since they are all men. I'm not sure what anatomy has to do with anything, though.

Glad to hear her stand up. I hope she pulls a Gingrich, and tries to organize the Democratic attempts to retake the House. Gingrich turned Tip O'Neil's dictum that all politics was local on its head, and ran local politics as a national campaign. He won the House that way. It's time for us to reverse the field.