Cross-posted at Brendan Calling
Talking Points Memo reports that Nancy Pelosi is calling George Bush “a failure”
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.”
Nancy Pelosi is so full of shit, her hair and her eyes should be brown. Oh wait…
The fact is that President Bush has been highly successful in getting what he wants. It is unfortunate, dreadfully so, that everything he has wanted has been so incredibly damaging to our country. Let’s look at the record.
On FISA, warrantless wiretapping, and the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment, it’s not Bush that failed: it’s Congress. In fact, they failed on purpose: the bill was dead in February, and Steny Hoyer brought it back to life.
On war funding with no strings attached, Bush is no failure: Congress failed. Repeatedly.
Ignoring subpoenas and diminishing Congress to the point of meaninglessness? I think we can agree that Bush succeeded at that, unless “sternly worded letters with no consequence” count as oversight.
Legalized torture? Score another one for Bush, who got that out of congress too.
S-CHIP? Another Bush win, because the Democrat-led Congress couldn’t manage to override his veto.
They won on overriding Medicare cuts, and even then just barely.
Am I missing anything?
“A failure”. Please. I’d laugh in your face Nancy, but you’d probably have me tortured.
I just gotta agree, bush has done a “heckuvajob” for his little group. WTF is the congress of 2006??!!! (Rhetorical question)
I Second The Agreement!!
That pretty much explains it. Frustrating ain’t it. You would have thought Al Qaeda had millions of troops massed on our border. The fucking country and its politicians went nuts. How did we get so scared? Are we really the fat, paranoid, mean spirited assholes the world sees? We were manipulated by evil men right? Don’t answer that one. I’m not sure I want to know the full truth. The collusion spread much farther then the gutless politicians.
a “total failure” herself.
What’s embarrassing is the way criticism of her stopped completely when she was perceived to favor Obama over Clinton.
Bravo Brendan, most honest thing to be found to read on the net today.
I watched her appearance at NRN online, and thought she was disgraceful.
Not only did she outright lie about FISA (talking about how it was the Senate’s fault, conveniently leaving out the fact that the Senate’s bill was killed in february and then resurrrected by Hoyer), she clearly thought her audience was stupid.
While watching online, I followed the FDL live blog, which had some nice comments from Spencer Ackerman. I think my favorite was when Pelosi started rambling about “bipartisanship” and Ackerman noted that the Think Progress table started laughing out loud.
I think Pelosi is really out of touch with the base. She came off as clueless and over her head. I don’t think she really understood how many of us are actually paying attention, and thought she could get away with delivering what boiled down to a list of campaign promises from years past.
Gore’s appearance literally saved her bacon, from what i saw.