I had no idea the Speaker is a person of such genius. Right enough Whyzowl1. Though the really bizarre part is that she represents a part of San Francisco, supposedly home to flaming leftists. Make that Birkenstock liberals.

Pelosi gets one point for not putting my own Jane Harmon (for whom I certainly never voted) in charge of House Intelligence Committee, but that’s about it, near as I can tell. I seriously doubt Pelosi did anything to gain a majority in what became her House in 06. Even voters noticed the war was going badly and then voted in hopes Dems would cease to fund lost cause. (Which remains lost cause, propaganda notwithstanding.) 

As for “lots of ideas,” who knew? Who knows? Who can tell? What “ideas”? Pelosi is as mainstream fence-straddling centrist as they come. By serious political standard, American centrists are rightists. Only in the U.S. could Democrats be regarded as leftist. Evo Morales is left, not Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama, now being referred to—by crazed further-right rightists—as “socialist.” Now THAT is funny, Jon Stewart. The President rightly (in two ways) denied the charge.

She DID get big, big hug from Richard Gere today, as yet another in a long line of concerned celebs appeared before august (bought-and-paid-for) body Nancy minds. The one Vidal characterized as base as Roman Senate that served Tiberius.

Near as I can tell, not only is holding Bush & Crew accountable “off the table,” but so too is pretty much anything and everything that might benefit citizens. No end to war-mongering, no end to don’t-look payouts to busted capital.

Were the House serious, Conyers would be Speaker, or (extreme leftist) Kucinich, or, or, or… Just about any but Pelosi who’s accomplished in going on three years just about nothing at all. And she’s unhappy with other chamber? Why? And who cares?

I am looking forward, however, to my medical records being made available to any online. So long as that saves a couple bil. That single known “idea” is referred to as road to “universal healthcare.” Naturally, anything made public that was previously private is not subject to “ideological disagreement.” (As though Dems and Repubs don’t share same ideology; namely, capitalist.)

But yeah, why bother to whine of one Speaker and vast majority of her roomies, when voters who put her there along with roomies seem not to have the slightest idea as to real-life. Until real life smacks ‘em upside their heads, by which time always too late.

Being fair to Pelosi and her roomies, and to Reid and his, it can’t be all that easy to serve both masters (shareholders of big business and owners of small business, via lobbyists with lots of bucks to hand out) and slaves (the rest of us).

Obama’s and Pelosi’s “idea” for “universal healthcare” is attempt to serve both masters and slaves—again! Either neither has learned that there is no such thing as having it both ways, or both are concerned primarily for what benefits themselves. (And what with their having benefits alloted all government employees.)

Now onto annual raise in pay, also guaranteed. I heard five large for each Senator. Not bad, not bad at all.

There’s no sense in getting mad at a representative of our rotten bourgeoise like Nancy Pelosi. She is what she is. Rather we should be mad at ourselves for failing to demand, fight for, and win the kind of Democratic Socialist reforms we claim to desire. If we really want them, why do we just sit around and wait for tools like Nancy Pelosi to present them to us on an ersatz silver platter?

What ever obama may be, he is completely overshadowed by that blue dog pelosi. She will run the country, how, I don’t know but it will be with neoconservative backing. As many times as pelosi aided and abetted the republicans to get their earmarks, pork and agendas through for pelosi’s favorite squeeze, w, to sign into law, makes me think that the only way to for her to be elected is to run as a democrat which shows how gullible the democrats are. Now, don’t take me as the neocon that pelosi is because I am just amused enough that the republicans did not retain the white house to hope the new inhabitant will eventually come to his OWN senses and begin to do what this country needs to be done and undone(from w’s era). After all he still has about 50 more days left in his 1st 100 days.

BIG B, ditto your ‘best look at pelosi’. My idea would be to see her go into that good ole persistive vegetative state and her family keeps her on hydration and feeding tubes for decades.

This is absolutely surreal! Only the Democratic Party’s public relations team at the Washington Post could whip up such fatuous froth. When “Pelosi has reason to smile” - better duck. Outside of Barack Obama himself, there is hardly a more duplicitous, opportunistic political whore anywhere up or down the Potomac. “For a politician who is caricatured as a San Francisco liberal” she has as Speaker been the best friend Republicans ever had. Always “preternaturally” cheesy, Nancy Pelosi, like Barack Obama, reminds us again and again why liberals deserve to be caricatured. This slimy liberal hypocrite is steeped in Democratic machine politics, her daddy was an old-time political-fixer, it’s part of her pedigree. Her eyes are shifty, her ideas dissemble forth. And there to capture every deceitful word of it is her toady publicist from the Wash Post.  “We are very excited, I guess is the word, about the fact that we have a Democratic president who from the steps of this Capitol put forth an agenda for America that contained many of the issues that we have been fighting for over the years” - such as fighting in Iraq, fighting in Afghanistan, fighting in Gaza, etc., etc. Indeed, this chickenhawk “warrior” has ‘excitedly’ supported and helped make possible all of America’s unilateral fighting around the world during her deadly years in office. And as Speaker, Pelosi has sheparded every single spending bill for the Iraq invasion/occupation through congress.  She’s also AIPAC’s point woman in the House and was co-sponsor of the despicable House resolution in January endorsing Israel’s massacre in Gaza. She has her “plate full” alright, full of killing and corprate largesse. AIPC and Wall St. have ‘established her priorities.’  And there to fawningly spin them are her press agents at the whitewashing Washington Post. “It’s easier to do that with a Democratic president because we know what” to say to pull the wool over the eyes of the public. “Other than former President George W. Bush—who unified Democrats more than any president since perhaps John F. Kennedy—Pelosi is more responsible than anyone for the”... war in Iraq, the devastation of Palestine and the bank rescue scam, among other things. Perhaps that’s why it was Pelosi who single-handedly quashed impeachment proceedings against Dubya after becoming Speaker in 2006. Pelosi, indeed “unified” Democrats with Bush. “She clearly does not believe that Obama —however” pompous, chafing or well-financed he might be —will” have to do much to win over Republicans who are his ideological alter-egos. They are both dedicated “agents of the status quo” despite any minor procedural quarrels. Which is why Pelosi’s “rapid-fire progress” is intended to head off any single-payer insurance schemes. Not surprisingly, Pelosi’s biggest PAC contributions in the last election cycle came from the Finance, Insurance &R.E. sector ($352,000) and the Health sector ($260,000), almost half the total $1.5 million raised.  “If anything nags at Pelosi” it’s the corporate lobbies to which she’s beholden. “I can only answer for the House of Representatives—I know that we can get this job done” for them said this corporate warrior “happier now that” she’s rolling in all that loot.

As a liberal, I find myself wanting to see Nancy staring at me from the back window of her flaming limo, with duct-tape over her mouth, as it plunges off a cliff into Frisco bay.

As a liberal, I remember that just two years ago this ineffectual cadillac liberal bitch caved to the outnumbered repugs time and time again, despite the 2006 election day mandate for change she gleefully received. I cannot help but think that if she and her other gutless dimmo cohorts had stepped forth to stop the tragic path that the Bushies had america on in late 2006, that things may not have become as bad as they have.

And now, only when it’s politically safe, does she step forth to announce her unequivocal support for Barry’s not big enough, not bold enough proposals. Judging from her past dealings, at the first hint of adversity, she will cave. All bets will be off and Nancy will forget poor Barry’s phone number. And the american people will be stuck with another impotent democratic administration, just in time for a repug revival.

Nancy has failed the people of america countless times in the past. Why should we now expect anything different. The spots on her leopard handbag will not change.

PELOSI QUOTE: “The fact is, they didn’t vote for it because they don’t believe in government making the investments in health care, education, energy and the rest,” she said.”

Interesting, the Republicans don’t believe in government making investments in healthcare, education, and energy for the American taxpayers, but they do believe in making investments that benefit private heath care corporations:

“George W. Bush put in a Medicare program that gave private insurers subsidies of approximately 11 percent per beneficiary to make them better able to compete with the publicly run program. He also created a prescription drug program within Medicare that allowed the pharmaceutical industry to further benefit from government patent monopolies by prohibiting Medicare from taking advantage of its market power to negotiate lower prices.”

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/beat_the_press