Tag: nancy pelosi

Heckuva job there, Nance.

In the process of genteelly begging soon-to-be-ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi to not run for House Minority Leader, Joan Vennochi issued the usual flatteries about her: that Pelosi had fortitude, that the way the country turned against her was unfair, that Pelosi demonstrated a good grasp of how to wield power, and so forth.  This is a remarkably common theme among the Left, these days: and I suppose that if I was required to deal with the uncomfortable fact that the Speaker-for-now managed to mirror-flip the House in a single election then I’d be grasping at whatever straws that I could, too.

But let’s try to make our analysis of REPRESENTATIVE Pelosi’s job performance reality-based, shall we? Continue reading Heckuva job there, Nance.

Pelosi partying like it’s 2006.

Would that it was. 2007+ got bad fast.

Odd, isn’t it?  The GOP wins big last Tuesday night, and we – like adults – avoid unseemly celebrations about it.  Given the almost double-digit unemployment, horrible economy, crushing debt load, and the rest of the Democratic legacy we’re inheriting, it seems… childish… to make the welkin ring*.  But by God Nancy Pelosi’s going to have a party on Wednesday ‘honoring the accomplishments’ of the 111th Congress.  You know: the double-digit unemployment, horrible economy, crushing debt load, and all that.

Mind you, this is mostly to convince those House members who managed to survive Pelosi’s help this election cycle that they want to make her their leader in the next election cycle, too.  I’d say that going along with this mad scheme of the woman’s was insane, but then it’d leave me without a word to adequately describe the belief that shoving Obamacare down all of our throats would somehow translate into gaining seats.

Moe Lane (crosspost) Continue reading Pelosi partying like it’s 2006.

#rsrh QotD, Nancypalooza Edition.

Sorry.  It’s just that this Pelosi-is-running thing is like blogging gold.  Or blogging crack.  Anyway, Allahpundit on the news that the soon-to-be-ex Speaker is pushing through, despite it all:

The good news: The GOP just became a prohibitive favorite to hold the House in 2012. The bad news: …I actually can’t think of any.

Given Allahpundit, that’s impressive.  Not that I can think of any, either.

Moe Lane

The Matter of Pelosi.

Bob Shrum, November 4, 2010: “Long after the midterm stories have faded, and the predictions of the President’s political demise prove as facile and false as they were with Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, history will accord Pelosi an unprecedented scale of achievement for a House Speaker.”

Bob Shrum, September 30, 2010: “Democrats will hold the House and Senate. ”

Shrum will no doubt mutter that he was right about Boxer, Murray, Reid, and Coons (while resolutely ignoring that he was wrong about Sestak and Conway, and avoided completely talking about Giannoulias, Ellsworth, Feingold, Meek, and Lincoln); but he completely miscalled the House results, mostly because Shrum is incapable of recognizing that the American people did come out en masse in response to the Democrats’ policies.  It’s just that they came out en masse against the Democrats*.

Continue reading The Matter of Pelosi.

#rsrh Pelosi to go for House Minority Leader?

I understand that she’s not particularly rooted in objective reality – progressive Democrat, and all that – but surely somebody told her that this is a bad idea, yes?

…I was going to try to talk sense into the future-just-another-backbencher-Congresswoman-from-Frisco about this; but heck, this is the best darn idea that I’ve heard come out of the woman since she inflicted her presence on us back in the beginning of the decade. Yeah, go ahead and run, Nancy. Scramble for the scraps of your former power and be the butt of contemptuous pity by every player in Washington. If I had suggested this tactic, I’d be (rightfully) condemned as a sadist; but you want to do it all on your own, so have fun with that.

Moe Lane

Got cancer – and millions of dollars? Nancy Pelosi can help!

Let me summarize this Dallas Morning News article about Lisa Blue: if your husband (Fred Baron) is a millionaire and multimillion-dollar Democratic Party fundraiser – John Edwards’ bagman, in fact – and also dying of bone marrow cancer, then you can not only get away with smuggling into the country experimental cancer medicine of dubious efficacy; you can get the Speaker of the House herself to lean on the FDA to let your husband get the medication in question – despite the fact that it didn’t actually work.  And then you get to brag about it, while piously talking about how awful it is that regular families don’t have your ability to violate federal regulations on access to experimental and untested medicines*.  Continue reading Got cancer – and millions of dollars? Nancy Pelosi can help!

Bobby Bright takes deportment lessons from Alan Grayson.

Apparently, Bright thinks that the best way to avoid answering the question Are you going to vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker next year? is to make a joke about how she might die before then*.  As Andrew Malcolm noted in that article, this would be a firestorm if a Republican had said it; Jim Geraghty noted in his Morning Jolt that Bright also avoided the question like a cowardly little suckweasel (I paraphrase).  Heck, even Greg Sargent is unhappy: which means with any luck that so will the rest of the Left.

But why is anybody actually surprised?  As the title suggests, language like this by Democrats is perfectly acceptable when it’s directed against Republicans, particularly female ones; Bright’s error was that he assumed that similar language could be directed against anyone that stands between him and re-election.  Which these days certainly includes Nancy Pelosi.  I don’t wish for Madame Speaker’s death, obviously; but I do find it disingenuous when folks on the Left get surprised when chickens come home… to roost.

I don’t really know what the solution is, here… except to vote for Martha Roby, of course.

Moe Lane Continue reading Bobby Bright takes deportment lessons from Alan Grayson.

The Nancy Pelosi Tinfoil Hat Cat Video.

Erick Erickson over at RedState has already covered the story of how Nancy Pelosi has Embraced The Crazy by claiming that the Right is sending people over to her local events to ask questions about the Ground Zero Mosque… but I could not resist putting those comments in, as they say, context.

Look on the bright side: Embrace The Crazy is only Stage Two of Conspiracy Theory Thinking. She hasn’t hit Stage Three yet (It’s All Because Of The Joooooooooooooos…).

Yet.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.

Democrats suppressing GOP visits to Gulf.

(Via Instapundit) It’s the little things that underscore the pettiness that’s infesting the Democratic party’s leadership these days:

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) wanted to fly 10 lawmakers down to the Gulf of Mexico to see the damage caused by BP’s gigantic oil spill first hand.

House Democrats said no.

Continue reading Democrats suppressing GOP visits to Gulf.

#rsrh Good news: Pelosi commits to Democratic cliff-diving.

(via @davidhauptmann) Contrary to first impressions, this is not an example of the popular definition of insanity*:

Democrats will keep blaming George W. Bush until the problems from his administration end, according to Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

In an interview with MSNBC, Pelosi said congressional Democrats feel justified in blaming the Bush administration because of the problems it left behind for President Barack Obama.

…after all, it worked in 2006 and 2008, right?  Push the button marked ‘Blame Bush,’ get the food pellet named ‘win elections.’  Classic Skinnerite operant conditioning… and if Pelosi and her Democrats needed less time to be conditioned than Skinner needed to train rats and pigeons, well, I will not be unkind and voice my opinion about what that says about the mother-wit of the Speaker of the House.

The only question is, what are the Democrats going to do when they notice that the button is no longer wired up to the food pellet dispenser?  Do they even realize that this could be a possibility?

Moe Lane Continue reading #rsrh Good news: Pelosi commits to Democratic cliff-diving.