[JennysCool]

By speaking bluntly, rocking the boat and not shying away from controversy, she has established a higher profile in three months than some representatives manage in years.

Media-speak for "She's crazy as a %$#&house rat."

[indcons]

Well, she can definitely claim to be a certified moonbat.

I kinda agree with her on one issue though - the bailout of financial institutions and banks and subsidizing their recklessness/irresponsibility/unethical behavior with tax payer money is an abhorrent practice.

Wall Street has no right to take the profits without getting hurt by the losses. This is just socialism of a different kind but one that’s designed for the rich and the powerful financial dons.

[Red Badger]

Another wide-eyed demokrat discovers the system is intolerant of “do gooders” ............

[InABunkerUnderSF]

My esteemed congress critter.

She inherited her rotten borough district when her predecessor died and will be in congress until she herself dies. Thus our great republic.

[YOUGOTIT]

Another anti-American left-wing Nazi is in the House.

[Redbob]

"Frank quickly jumped in: "I very much disagree with the gentlewoman's statement." He wondered if Speier had been present for the entire hearing. "I was," she replied quickly."

He meant "mentally present."

[olivia3boys]

So interesting she was almost killed by Jim Jones’ Peoples Temple cult members.

She certainly has lived an interesting life.

She was in Guyana with Leo Ryan, who I believe was the only U.S. Congressman ever killed in the line of duty. . .right before the Peoples Temple mass suicide, which I believe was the largest mass suicide in modern history.

[SuziQ]

The congresswoman said she was surprised by the reaction: "I had no idea a new member was supposed to say, 'Thank you very much,' and sit down. I saw it as an opportunity to make a substantive speech."

If she thinks that's why they booed, then she's as clueless as three other chicks from her state, Boxer, Pelosi and Feinstein.

They were booing because she was taking McCain's words and twisting them, the way the MSM and all the other Democrats were doing. McCain wasn't saying that we WOULD stay, or HAD TO stay for 100 years, but that we should continue our presence there, as we've done in Europe, Japan and S. Korea.

If she had such an independent brain as she thinks, she could have reasoned that for herself, but I guess she IS just there to toe the party line. I admire her for overcoming her personal struggles, but that doesn't excuse ignorance OR stupidity.

[knarf]

"Ryan was killed. Speier, shot five times, lay on the tarmac for 22 hours while more than 900 cult members were coerced to commit suicide by their leader, Jim Jones."

I didn't know this.

I thought there were no survivors.

[Publius6961]

"I'm too old to come to this institution and sit on my hands for 15 years before I make a peep," Speier said. "That's not my personality, that's not my style and that's not why I was elected by the people in my district, in spite of the fact that I have the judgement, personality and intelligence of a rutabaga, just like Barbara Bouncer..."

There.
Fixed it for her.

[tbpiper]

OMG! It’s Bella Abzug 2.0!