Posted on 04/14/2011 6:50:11 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Nancy Pelosi fades as power player
By: Jonathan Allen April 14, 2011 04:35 AM EDT
During the past election season, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) could have starred in a remake of the Hollywood cult classic “Attack of the 50-Foot Woman.” In an endless string of campaign ads, Republicans caricatured her — even put her image on billboards — as a political monster.
But now, the former House speaker more closely resembles “The Incredible Shrinking Woman.”
Her diminished stature has affected the way she is perceived in Washington’s power game and the way she handles her duties as head of the House Democratic minority. It all adds up to this: At times, the once-omnipresent Pelosi seems practically invisible in the Capitol.
When President Barack Obama, Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid hammered out a deal last week to avert a shutdown and fund the government for the rest of the year, Pelosi was delivering a speech at Tufts University near Boston.
But her hands would have been idle if she had stayed in Washington: The White House didn’t want her involved in the talks.
In fact, Democratic and Republican sources tell POLITICO, none of the power brokers wanted her in the room. They feared that her presence and her defense of liberal values would have made it impossible for Obama to cut a deal with Boehner. The sources say Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky also was excluded so the White House could justify keeping Pelosi out.
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Good. The faster she fades, the less damage she can do to this country.
Unless she shaves...ewwww, gross...forget I said that.
She’s like a friggin’ virus. Never really gone, just hanging out, waiting to replicate and debilitate.
Her favorite poodle, Debbie Wassermoron Schmuck, is now the head of the DNC.
Nasty P’s fingerprints are all over DC, even if she isn’t making the cameos.
If that would work, it would definitely prove the theory that duct tape can hold ANYTHING together.
Sounds like the “Mythbusters” need to do an update to their “duct tape” episode.
Scratch another keyboard.
Thanks be that she’s out of the picture for now. But if the Dems every get the House back, she will return with vengeance in that black heart of hers.
IMHO, excluding McConnell from just about anything is an excellent idea. RINO.
Pelosi fades... How splendid!
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