Worst Congressional Ratings in HISTORY!
Posted on 07/22/2007 3:43:57 PM PDT by Baladas
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is sharply critical of President Bush's call for Democrats in Congress to "rise above partisanship" over Iraq.
Bush has accused Democrats of wanting a political debate instead of giving the troops what they need to carry out their mission, but Pelosi calls those comments out of line.
"I'm sad about what the president said. It's beneath the dignity of the debate on a war that has taken over 3,600 lives, injured tens of thousands of our young people, some of them permanently," she said.
Pelosi said the president is out of touch, and she will continue to challenge his administration on the issue of the war in Iraq. "The American people have lost faith in the president's conduct of this war," said Pelosi. "Every chance I get as speaker of the house I will make the Congress vote, up or down as to whether they support what President Bush is doing, so that soon we can end this war and bring our troops home safely."
Ultimately, Pelosi said, any effort to end the war will not make it out of Congress until some Republican Senators who currently back Bush's Iraq policy change their positions.
The last paragraph here is the most self-evident of all - she can't surrender until she gets the votes to surrender, doh.
Jes’ wondering here.
How would Pelousie know where the line might be?
The president doesn’t even need to make a point to say that Pelosi is out of line, most people in America can already see that.
It’s past time for Pelosi to put the country above her party’s and her political interests.
Her comments get tiresome.
He’s leading the government! How DARE he???
Pelosi is out of her mind so I guess that makes them even.
Bela Pelosi, waving the flag of surrender to terrorism.
Yeah, you’d think Bush was the president or something.
All bow before Nancy, forget her approval rating.
Pelosi sets “standards of dignity.” Ha!!!
To slam a president for a milquetoast comment that is ever so slightly critical shows what a totalitarian Pelosi is. Her intolerance of political opposition is reminiscent of Beijing.
"I'm sad about what the president said..."Look, Nancy is starting to cry.
this woman is bloody well psycho, first she makes a huge deal about the Spkr of the House being “third in line to be President” then she demands a corporate style jet for her postion, then she flies to Syria, were most of the suicide attackers enter Iraq from, and dons a head scarf.
From ‘Third in line for the Presidency” to “Wear a head scarf woman, this is Islam”? In less then a month?
She is Manic Depressive IMO.
Pelosi says Iraq is not a war but a “situation.”
11/9/2006
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told Fox News’ Brit Hume on Wednesday that in Iraq there is no substitute for withdrawal — that Iraq is “not a war to be won but a situation to be solved.”
There were other “situations” — the U.S. withdrawal from Somalia after U.S. troops were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu, encouraging Osama bin Laden to strike America; the 1996 bombing of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia; the 1998 attack on our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden.
All these were acts of war requiring a military response. But on the Democrats’ watch, we did nothing. Pelosi would have us, as in Somalia, withdraw under fire and rally around the flag — a white flag.
As Gen. George Patton said, Americans love a winner. And that’s what we need right now, a Patton — not a Pelosi.
“Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.
but the moderate(snicker)muslim ellisons statements were not out of line
As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process.”
— Nancy Pelosi, December 16, 1998
“[Zarqawi’s] death does not alter the fact that our brave men and women in uniform are fighting a war of choice in which the President sent our troops into harm’s way without a plan for victory and without leveling with the American people,” she complained.
Nancy Pelosi
Friday, June 9, 2006 12:39 a.m. EDT
Bush is an incompetent leader. In fact, he’s not a leader,’’ Pelosi said. “He’s a person who has no judgment, no experience and no knowledge of the subjects that he has to decide upon.’’
“He has on his shoulders the deaths of many more troops, because he would not heed the advice of his own State Department of what to expect after May 1 when he ... declared that major combat is over,’’ Pelosi charged. “The shallowness that he has brought to the office has not changed since he got there.’’
Marc Sandalow, Washington Bureau Chief Thursday, May 20, 2004
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“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.”
“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.”
“His activities, his decisions, the results of his actions are what undermines his leadership, not my statement,” Pelosi said. “My statements are just a statement of fact.”
Pelosi questions Bush’s competence Republicans demand apology
Friday, May 21, 2004 Posted: 8:59 AM EDT (1259 GMT)
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