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Pelosi’s Comeuppance: Why Democrats May Sack the Speaker

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Just bought this in the gift shop at the Capitol
The Nancy Pelosi Urinal Screen! Now you can do to Nancy Pelosi what she did to the American voters!

Hugh J of NJ 9:30PM March 25, 2010

I find it hard to understand how the american value system puts wealth ahead of decency and glorifies itself morally.
At last you have a President who actually has soul and conviction to do the right thing and you hound him ( of course largely because he has different colour and a different name) after the absolute sleaze-bags who have run your country into the ground - starting with Reagan whose intellect was best matched by a chimp.
You consider yourself fortunate in your freedom to bear arms - how primitive can the world get.
I consider the american intellect that emanates from the conservative end to be tribal and primitive. The reason why you are disliked now as a country and are fighting wars where you have no business to be is because you are a morally bankrupt country carrying guns into more civilised parts of the world.
I live in a country where people look after each other and have the ability to rise above greed and consumption to look at welfare and social security as our obligation to the deprived. Your lobbyists would not understand this.
You support dictatorship - if it supports you. Freedom and liberty is the last thing on your minds - you are convoluted in your logic as you twist it in any way to fit the occasion.
You are a tragic country awaiting a tragic future.
Thank god you got Obama.
You forget a short while ago you had Bush.

Sameer Kalra of AL 8:55PM March 22, 2010

This Democratic congress had decided it would vote in favor of the minority and disregard the desires of the majority of Americans. The majority were thus not represented properly by the elected officials. In essence, this congress told us to kiss their a** and comes November elections, ww will kick their a####.!

Jerry king of CA 2:11PM March 22, 2010

C'mon, let's give credit where it's due! Even as a Conservative Republican I recognize Nancy Pelosi's accomplishment in rising through the "glass ceiling" we hear so much about. Unfortunately, in the Speakers case, it has resulted in a very obvious major concussion.

Ray of Yonkers of NY 7:33AM March 16, 2010

Oh, maybe because she's an ideological imbecile - Just guessin'.

R.L. Schaefer of CA 1:45PM March 15, 2010

this givernment is no different than any other governmnet in the world.they think the general public is stupid. if it wasn't nancy pelosi, it would be another target to scape goat and keep the story running in the public eye to sway public thinking to get more campaign money to fulfill their own agendas.
in politics they point fingers a great deal instead of really taking care of situations, they do dirty deals behind closed doors you never know about....one dirty hand washes the other..
they can point fingers at whomever they want.......what will not change is the simple political fact that if you don't agree with the people in washington who really do hold the country in the palm of their greedy little mits..( not neccessarily the congress)......they will publically destroy and or humiliate you so you leave or get fired and then continue to do what they want to do......just as has been done for decades.
they frankly do not even give a rats butt about any individual or group of individuals, in this whole country.......they just want their way. and if they do not get it and you will not comply they take you down......
politics-is not equal with intellegence.......

anonymous of IL 10:18AM March 15, 2010

listen up- this would not be a world crisis if you made sure that the bilderberg foundation was disarmed and disbanded, and got rid of special interests and corporate interferences that
screw everything up!
if you want things to work and don't want the u.s.a. and europe to fail further then get off your behinds, and do something about it instead of pointing fingers at whose fault everything is. pull together,work together and get rid of the whole current u.s.s congress and re-elect all new people...who actually will care instead of only caring about their own agendas.they are all in bed with the big banks and corporations and their own special interest lobbyists-when they work for us. they spend our money needlessly.....we pay them, and, they tell us what to do.......shouldn't it be the other way around??? wise up!
start paying it forward.it will take about 10 years but it will
get a little better. it will not matter whose market crashes or
whose money is worth what until everyone world wide pulls together .and if you do not and if you continue to point fingers and not take resposibilities for your own actions then....that, is why this economy and all other economies will fail......people sit idle for too ,long. and get comfortsble with the status quo created by governmnets that they elect and thus allow to control things.
but- since you pay your governmnet to do work for you, then you need to start thinking twice about what it is the world and your neighborhodd, or your state or your city or your country needs..........
pay attention to whom you elect, and also, pay it forward every chance you get.you can not worry about who has more thsn you, you still have to become a contributor even if there are greedy people who have more and can't seem to get enough......there are a hlee of a lot more of us little guys out there who can band together and changed things......and if you believe that- you will all do so and make things change.......
help, and it will work.at this point you have to realize that pointing fingers and trying to shift blame is political propaganda and you have to start evaluatiing the situations and work together. it is as simple as that.
as far as nancy pelosi goes she is just another scapegoat......
washington always shifts blame to the large figures that make them mad.......so they can try to sway the genreal public to get mad and divert attentions from other issues that are way more important.......because they think that the general public is stupid and can be swayed......so show these people at voting time....if you have a beef, then change the way you vote....that is if you even believe our votes count anymore...
basically after ventiong it boils down to this- everyone has to make a change and pay it forward or life as you know it will not recover. so stop pointing fingers, and get busy.

anonymous of IL 10:09AM March 15, 2010

"every body is polaraizing the country that believes in the womans right to choos abortion"
Well that's 402 people in House that want Nancy checked out. Mostly Democrats.
Polls against obamacare.
Liberals are bipolor with Nancy...

Bill Hedges of MO 6:45PM March 14, 2010

Nancy pelosi is polarizing the country?! Wow!! I remember lil bush and the Dick cheney saying "either you are with us or you are not" as far as international relationships, there beganst that polarization. You agree? To you repubs, every body is polaraizing the country that believes in the womans right to choos abortion or whom believe in some form of gun control, whom believe in tolerating those of different persuasions.
To single out pelosi and reid and turn around and ignore lil bush and the Dick cheney, is a sign mental illness. Selectively choosing different popints of times and history to recall or totally forget that soem events ever even occured.
AS far as things that are good for the country, tell me again what exactly lil bush and the Dick cheney did good for this country? It seems to have slipped me, oh that's right, they are the ones that destroyed this once great country and are turning it into the woods of the ol' south, featuring the hatfields and the mccoys. This IS what makes YOU proud to be an american, if so...there is no hope, we should all slip on our socialist-communist medicare cards and bump our heads!

Mitchell of NC 3:34PM March 14, 2010

OR POSTER POLITICIAN FOR TERM LIMITS
Queen Pelosi has spoken!!
"I viewed this year {2009} as the year we said we would do something, we did it, and now in this year of 2010, we'll talk about it," Pelosi said in an interview. "It's hard to talk about it when you're doing it."
from the Washington Post Jan 24, 2010
One Year Later - A look at the first 12 months of Barack Obama's presidency
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/23/AR2010012302967.html?nav=emailpage
leave it to Congress to keep coming up with such winners . . .
and everyone wonders why things never change in Washington
now can we all talk term limits?

tiger lily of DC 9:41AM March 13, 2010