House Speaker Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure'

[dutch508]

I guess 8% isn't low enough for her.

By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
50 minutes ago http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080717/ap_on_go_pr_wh/pelosi_bush
 
WASHINGTON - 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."

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 outburst was a departure. Her usual practice in public has been to call Bush's policies a failure — not his presidency or him, personally. Pelosi's remarks are the latest evidence of the Democrats' throw-caution-to-the-wind approach to Bush in the waning days of a presidency weighed down by an unpopular war and soaring gasoline prices.

Election Day, after all, is just over four months away; Bush's successor takes his seat on Jan. 20.

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."

The public's view of Congress is even worse. Its approval rating has hit a new low of just 18 percent, down from 23 percent last month, according to a new AP-Ipsos poll. Bush's approval is at 28 percent, about even with the 29 percent rating last month.

Only 16 percent of those surveyed thought the country was moving in the right direction, a new low as well, although statistically the same as last month's 17 percent.

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.

Privately, Democrats have said that either candidate for president — Democrat Barack Obama or Republican John McCain — would be easier to make laws with than Bush. But Reid made clear which he'd prefer.

"I would hope that before we would leave here this year that we would do a continuing resolution that would get us (through) until after Senator Obama becomes president," he said.

[TheSarge]

If anyone knows what total failure is...it would be Stretch Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid.
 

[Willow]

If anyone knows what total failure is...it would be Stretch Pelosi and Dingy Harry Reid.
 

granted, but we just need to let the beotch keep on talking!   

[Jim]

gee, its really got to sting coming from that useless cow

[Lacarnut]

Pisslosi, go look in the mirror and you will see total failure.

[BlueStateSaint]

I wonder if anyone caught the blurb on The Colbert Report about a billboard in FL, that shows the WTC burning, and says, "Vote Republican."  The guys at TCR then put one up showing a manical picture of Bela Pelosi, with the words, "NANCY PELOSI EATS BABIES" next to the pic.  I couldn't stop laughing this morning when Fox & Friends played the clip.  (With the laughter, I managed to get my daughter to stop crying and eventually start laughing.  It's amazing, the Power of the Dad . . . )

[claret1995]

  Is it OK for me to call Pelosi a "DOUCHE BAG"

[Splashdown]

Iraq is doing well enough that even Obama is "rethinking" his policies. Check

Gas prices have skyrocketed since the democrat congress took over. Check

Congress is backpedaling even on tax rebates. Check

....

Sounds to me like it isn't the president who's a "total failure."

[Wretched Excess]

using the lingo that The BarackStar! used against hillary, nancy must have been "feeling blue" that day.

[DumbAss Tanker]

People that live in glass houses....

[docstew]

People that live in glass houses....

shouldn't talk when they're stoned?

[DixieBelle]

she must have been reading DU They really want to run her out with pitchforks.

[Wretched Excess]

she must have been reading DU They really want to run her out with pitchforks.

when you are placed in control of one half of one third of the entire federal government based one a single issue, ending the war, and you not only don't get that accomplished, you really don't even make a serious effort at it, she deserves to be run out with pitchforks.

[Chris_]

Folks, I'm really worried for San Fran Nan's health.  Look at this photo:



She doesn't look like she's had a decent night's sleep in months.  She looks like all it'll take is one wrong word, and the next headline we'll see with her name in it will be the one where she goes postal, and guns down 10 congress-shits from the Speakers desk, and wounding 8 others with Diane Feinstein's AK-47.



Somebody needs to bring Nancy back to her 'happy place'...

[TheSarge]

Someone needs to school Franken-feinstien about NOT putting her finger on the trigger like that unless she's about to fire.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Someone needs to school Franken-feinstien about NOT putting her finger on the trigger like that unless she's about to fire.

Screw that, all she'd hit is libs and lib journalists, let 'er rip!

[Chris_]

Someone needs to school Franken-feinstien about NOT putting her finger on the trigger like that unless she's about to fire.

This one's my personal favorite:



What's wrong with THIS PICTURE, Sarge?  And out of curiosity, what would you have done to an E2 that pointed a weapon in your direction like this?

[Chris_]

Someone needs to school Franken-feinstien about NOT putting her finger on the trigger like that unless she's about to fire.

This one's my personal favorite:



What's wrong with THIS PICTURE, Sarge?  And out of curiosity, what would you have done to an E2 that pointed a weapon in your direction like this?

I would suspect that the weapon would have to be surgically removed from said E2's anal orifice......

doc

[TheSarge]

What's wrong with THIS PICTURE, Sarge?  And out of curiosity, what would you have done to an E2 that pointed a weapon in your direction like this?

He'd have only done it once.  And after he collected his stupid ass from the dirt I'd gladly explain why I'd put him there.

BRM was the only time our Drills flat out told us they'd knock us out if we did something stupid with the weapon in our hand.

I never once doubted they would.

[Peter3_1]

My last name starts with "O", so during live fire I was in with a crew with people named "Ortiz" , "Ortega" etc as MANY were from NYC. I would advance, jump in FRONT of the cover (knowing the target dummies were unarmed, but those behind me were not) , lay down fire, then adsvance in front of them, and repeat to the end of the live fire course. As I'd dive for cover, often I heard from behind the sound of a size 12 impacting some trooper and the words "WATCH THE GOD DAMNED MUZZEL OF THAT WEAPON, SOLDIER!!!!!!"  As the DI sccompanied the NYC guys forward. The end of the exercise was the end of the day, and I went to the DI, and said soimething like, well, we all made it thru.. He said yeah, but if they'd shot YOU, I'D have been Courtmartialed! He, a man is fastastic condition, was sweating profusely.  Stress can do that. Fool that I was, it amused me.

The ignorant , armed, are always dangeroue to both themselves and others.

[Hawkgirl]

Pelosi should be taken out in a straight jacket...Whatever happened to professionalism?  Why the personal attack?  This is what the liberals are known for.

[Chris_]

Pelosi should be taken out in a straight jacket...Whatever happened to professionalism?  Why the personal attack?  This is what the liberals are known for.

Well, she is an expert on failure.   

[Hawkgirl]

Can she be outed during the next midterm elections??

[docstew]

she's a rep, she can be booted during these elctions... not that that's likely

[Lacarnut]

My last name starts with "O", so during live fire I was in with a crew with people named "Ortiz" , "Ortega" etc as MANY were from NYC. I would advance, jump in FRONT of the cover (knowing the target dummies were unarmed, but those behind me were not) , lay down fire, then adsvance in front of them, and repeat to the end of the live fire course. As I'd dive for cover, often I heard from behind the sound of a size 12 impacting some trooper and the words "WATCH THE GOD DAMNED MUZZEL OF THAT WEAPON, SOLDIER!!!!!!"  As the DI sccompanied the NYC guys forward. The end of the exercise was the end of the day, and I went to the DI, and said soimething like, well, we all made it thru.. He said yeah, but if they'd shot YOU, I'D have been Courtmartialed! He, a man is fastastic condition, was sweating profusely.  Stress can do that. Fool that I was, it amused me.

The ignorant , armed, are always dangeroue to both themselves and others.

The same thing happened to me in basic training during the days of the draft when I had this dumb ass Puerto Rican whose weapon had jammed and he had the damn thing pointed at me yanking the lever back and forth. Hollered at him to point at the sky and I was not amused.