File this under "know thy enemy". To a creature like Pelosi, whose god is the all-powerful State, god has indeed spoken, in the form of its anointed Oracles of Truth, the black-robed tyrants of the SCOTUS.
Posted on 07/05/2005 2:31:56 AM PDT by Liz
SHINING BRIGHT
House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi is known amongst even her Democratic colleagues as one of the less cerebral members of the House. But even her staff was stunned by her seeming inability to understand the recent Kelo Supreme Court ruling regarding governmental property seizures.
"We briefed her on it. She seemed to ask questions as though she understood it, but clearly she didn't," says a Boxer adviser on Capitol Hill. "How else to explain it?"
Indeed. When asked about Kelo and its implications, as well as moves afoot by some Republicans in both houses to negate the ruling, perhaps by barring use of federal funds on projects that involved the state or local taking of land, Pelosi responded thusly:
"It is a decision of the Supreme Court. If Congress wants to change it, it will require legislation of a level of a constitutional amendment. So this is almost as if God has spoken. It's an elementary discussion now. They have made the decision."
Later, she insisted: "Again, without focusing on the actual decision, just to say that when you withhold funds from enforcing a decision of the Supreme Court you are, in fact, nullifying a decision of the Supreme Court. This is in violation of the respect for separation of church -- powers in our Constitution, church and state as well. Sometimes the Republicans have a problem with that as well. But forgive my digression."
"All I can say is wow," says a Republican leadership staffer. "To say anything else would just undercut the impact her remarks have had up here."
Even after the press remarks, Pelosi, according to other Democratic staffers, didn't seem to understand what the fuss was all about. "She was oblivious. She really thought she had a handle on some basic ideas about the Supreme Court, the way Congress works with the rulings of the court," says a Democratic leadership staffer. "A generation of 'Schoolhouse Rock' get this and she doesn't? Her staff should be ashamed of itself for putting her out there."
She's a stupid democrat. Who'da thunk it?
File this under "know thy enemy". To a creature like Pelosi, whose god is the all-powerful State, god has indeed spoken, in the form of its anointed Oracles of Truth, the black-robed tyrants of the SCOTUS.
Say, that'd look great on a tee shirt.
I'm shocked, Shocked (/end Claude Rains impersonation).
It's Bush's fault!
I'm also pro-antidisestablishmentarianism.
I wrote ghere some months ago..after the 2006 elections, with more Dem losses in the HOuse and Senate, look for Pelosi to be dumped by the Clinton machine..replaced with Rahm Emanuel..no way Hillary runs for the WH with Nancy in the leadership..
Fortunately , we are working on deconstructing even postantidisestablishmentarianism. Just another metanarrative, don'cha know.
(gag) ....and Emanuel is supposed to help the Dims?.....(hurl).....
They think he will..and he's her guy in the House..
Ms. Pelosi is just as obtuse about the President’s plan for Social Security; here is how she looks at it:
” What part of the Administration's proposal to privatize Social Security concerns you the most?
Cutting benefits for future generations
Increasing the national debt
Draining the Social Security trust fund
Trusting Wall Street with your retirement benefits”
None of the questions have anything to do with the plan to save SS in fact they are all spin and propaganda designed to scare people not inform them as none of the questions have any basis in fact; just party lies. Strangely, Ms. Pelosi enjoys the same benefits the President wants for ALL citizens of the U.S., the Social Security choice enjoyed by all federal employees – which Ms. Pelosi is yet she doesn’t want American citizens to have any part of this plan. Pelosi is the activist that keeps the pot boiling and a great favorite of Hillary Clinton’s. She is wrong for her Party and wrong for America.
"one of the less cerebral members of the House" == "dumb as a rubber hammer"
As my brother says, "So dumb she don't know nothin'. She don't even suspect nothin."
You never want to be coddled,
You never want to be kissed,
You're just an old antidisestablishmentarianismist.
When I come close when we're dancing,
I get a slap on the wrist,
Don't be an old antidisestablishmentarianismist.
You've got no use for moonlight,
You'd turn your back on a star.
Your heart is bent and you're against
The state of things as they are.
When you're a hundred years older,
maybe you'll want what you've missed,
Don't be an old antidisestablishmentarianismist!
You mean the genemegaantidepressivepostantidisestablishmentarianism medications?
I'm allergic. I get a allergenigenemegaantidepressivepostantidisestablishmentarianismistic response to them.
Or as we used to say on the farm, "Shear poultry."
(My gods, how long can we stretch this out?)
I am phobic against those. I have anagesicallergenigenemegaantidepressivepostantidisestablishmentarianismisticphobia.
"Her staff should be ashamed of itself for putting her out there."
No,the stupid rank and file rats who keep reelecting her should be ashamed of themselves. The jackasses on her staff can't help themselves, they're small brained rats. It's the zipper heads in the peanut gallery that have inflicted this moron on our country and the evil donkey himself for trying to make believe plastic face is intelligent.
In other words (lord help us), you can now get tenure in anagesicallergenigenemegaantidepressivepostantidisestablishmentarianismisticphobiaacademia.
Therefore, I have anagesicallergenigenemegaantidepressivepostantidisestablishmentarianismisticphobiaacademiaphilia.
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