Comments on: Don’t count chickens, but here’s some good news

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 16:46:19 +0000

I do not like Nancy Pelosi one bit. Good riddance and a pox on her house, I say.

But you have to admit that after being Speaker of the House going back to being a just plain Congressman would be something of a comedown. Specially a despised one at that. So I can understand.

While they may already be beyond redemption I do feel sorry for her grandchildren.

By: ELC

ELC — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:15:42 +0000

Schumer is a senator. And may God have mercy on the souls of everybody who has ever voted to inflict him on the rest of the nation.

By: expat

expat — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:47:05 +0000

Roosevelt made people feel that he cared about them. Pelosi doesn’t. She cares about being the first to break the glass ceiling. She cares about transforming America’s health care system with that huge wooden hammer. She never defended the specifics of HCR in a way that respected the intelligence and real concerns of the people. Au contraire: the people were too dumb to appreciate the marvelous details of the legislation they were denied a chance to read. She is simply a very dumb bully, and the people are sick of her.

By: Beverly

Beverly — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 05:12:40 +0000

Don’t crow too much, people. If she goes, her replacement is likely to be Upchuck Schumer, a real slime mold. Smarter and slipperier than Mrs. P.

He has ever reminded me of Uriah Heep: stoop-shouldered, wringing his hands with false solicitude. And a serious mean streak.

By: charlos

charlos — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 03:48:59 +0000

So, unlike most politicians, there was no point at which she needed to persuade anyone she did not already have under some duress. She started out with the power; she started out with her heel on the regular Joe’s neck.

By: Gringo

Gringo — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 01:34:19 +0000

Neo:
Gringo: of course there were people who detested Roosevelt. But not the majority of people, who supported him for an unprecedented four terms.

We are in agreement. You don’t win four times without majority support over a long time. I just thought how it was funny that my cousin- a child- could play his grandmother- 60 years older- like a fiddle.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:43:24 +0000

NeoConScum: wow, you’re in Grayson’s district? My sympathies for what you’ve endured the last two years.

By: NeoConScum

NeoConScum — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:02:30 +0000

It was downright FUN to early vote today here in Winter Park, Florida. Buuu-Byeeeeee, Alan Grayson, you loathsome Pig. Welcome aboard, Dan Webster, US Congressman. Buuuu-Byeeeeeeee, Bottomless Appetite Charlie Crist. Yowzzaaaa, Senator Marco Rubio.

By: neo-neocon

neo-neocon — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:44:27 +0000

Gringo: of course there were people who detested Roosevelt. But not the majority of people, who supported him for an unprecedented four terms.

By: Steve G

Steve G — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:00:16 +0000

Pelosi, unlike FDR, had only two constituencies to worry about. The first was her SF district, which has been a lock for her. The second was the Democrat majority in the House. she could care less, and apparently did not give a damn, about how her politics played in any other venue. Although the Blue Dogs were never as liberal as she, they nevertheless got into line and got pushed (not led) by her over the cliff in voting for health care, the stimulus, and the financial debacle. All the while she cost taxpayers more than $2,000,000 in ferrying her by jet to and from DC to SF. The fact is that she ran the the House as if it was the City of Baltimore.