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Smile, Though Your Head Is Aching (dour Pelosi on anti-war fringe)
Washington Post ^ | 10/10/07 | Dana MIlbank

Posted on 10/10/2007 8:34:26 AM PDT by WBL 1952

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31 times and got off at least 23 laughs.

But her spirits soured instantly when somebody asked about the anger of the Democratic "base" over her failure to end the war in Iraq.

"Look," she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things -- Buddhas? I don't know what they were -- couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk."

Unsmilingly, she continued: "If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: codepink; nancypelosi; pelosi; sanfrancisco
What a dour mood this lady is in. Maybe the pressure is too much for her. She should just resign and go enjoy her grandchildren.
1 posted on 10/10/2007 8:34:30 AM PDT by WBL 1952
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To: WBL 1952

Another asked about a Republican congressman's complaints that the word "God" was removed from certificates accompanying congressional flags. "I don't know what his point is," Pelosi volleyed.

She is a liar.

She knows perfectly well what his "point" was.

2 posted on 10/10/2007 8:38:00 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: WBL 1952
Pelosi's fixed and constant smile makes her appear as if she is cutting an ad for a whitening toothpaste. But when you listen to the words that come from her grinning maw, the smile seems more akin to that of a barracuda.

My feeling exactly.

3 posted on 10/10/2007 8:41:46 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: WBL 1952
Constantly smiling, eh?


4 posted on 10/10/2007 8:41:58 AM PDT by Schnucki
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To: SkyPilot
"Look," she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. "I had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes from trees, building all kinds of things -- Buddhas? I don't know what they were -- couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living facilities on my front sidewalk." Unsmilingly, she continued: "If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First Amendment."

showing her true liberal compassion for the homeless I see

5 posted on 10/10/2007 8:46:35 AM PDT by edzo4
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She is a bold faced liar. She knows exactly what she is doing.


6 posted on 10/10/2007 8:47:23 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: WBL 1952
It's always funny when crazies try to make crazies make sense.

Ann Coulter's right. If these people had any sense they'd be on our side.

What the hell do Pelosi et al. expect from a bunch of hippies? Logic? Responsibility? Good ideas? Wise leadership? Sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll?

7 posted on 10/10/2007 8:51:19 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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He counted her smiles and laughs?

Wow. Dana’s quite the journalist, ay?


8 posted on 10/10/2007 9:09:07 AM PDT by RexBeach ("Americans never quit." Douglas MacArthur)
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To: SkyPilot

The caption on that photo made me LOL:

“Steny Hoyer, left, is not affiliated with the Nancy Pelosi School of Smiling. (By Melina Mara — The Washington Post)”


9 posted on 10/10/2007 9:16:28 AM PDT by brothers4thID (Fred Thompson for President!)
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It really bothers a far left whack job when far left whack jobs camp on their doorstep. It makes them appear not liberal enough. She seemed a tad bit bitter. What’s the matter horse face?...can’t stand the heat?


10 posted on 10/10/2007 9:48:46 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Maybe if she felt the same way about illegal aliens we could fix the problem.


11 posted on 10/10/2007 10:22:22 AM PDT by Long Island Pete
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She is a liar.

Unfortunately, that is a prerequisite for being a leftist democrat these days. And the moderate dems can’t say anything because moveon.org would crush them like ants. It’s a murky mire the dems have themselves in and they have only themselves to blame. The sold their souls for power and now they really don’t have any because moveon.org and Soros, et al have high-jacked the power from them. What a mess, huh?

12 posted on 10/10/2007 10:33:25 AM PDT by Bitsy
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Unsmilingly, she continued: "If they were poor and they were sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering...

I wonder which San Francisco she is talking about? This sure isn't true about the one I live in.

13 posted on 10/10/2007 10:37:50 AM PDT by rogue yam
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