Posted on 08/07/2014 12:29:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
In the past few weeks, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has referred to Hamas as a "humanitarian organization," likened the thousands of unaccompanied minors at the U.S. border to the "baby Jesus" and flouted House etiquette by heckling a GOP member.
When Republicans talk that way, it's a story. Not with Pelosi. "Not a single one of these stories has really perforated into any mainstream press," spokesman Drew Hammill chided me.
Too true. Yet these episodes highlight Pelosi's precarious perch atop a party veering ever leftward, like the House GOP seen in a rearview mirror.
When CNN's Candy Crowley asked Pelosi whether Israel should be doing more to protect civilians in Gaza, Pelosi said that Hamas initiated the conflict and that Washington must support Israel's Iron Dome and the Palestinians. "And we have to confer with the Qataris, who have told me over and over again that Hamas is a humanitarian organization," Pelosi continued. When Crowley asked whether Pelosi considers Hamas to be a terrorist organization, Pelosi agreed -- but with that sour look I see when she spies me in a press scrum.
Hammill told me Crowley cut off Pelosi before she could advocate getting the Qataris to put pressure on Hamas.
But why repeat the "humanitarian" canard?
I asked Stanford University political science professor Bruce Cain, who thinks the Hamas comment could dent Pelosi's ability to raise money if donors start to believe she is trying "to figure out a way to please two constituencies in the party" -- traditional pro-Israel Democrats and a growing rump of pro-Palestinian liberals. (The donor base understands that articulating positions isn't Pelosi's forte. She is a hand at the inside game.)
The "baby Jesus"? Pelosi maintains that she's merely following the lead of Catholic bishops who point out that Jesus was a refugee. To me, it's revolting to watch Pelosi wave her Catholic card and then ditch it like a dirty rag when the Obama administration moves to force religious dissenters to subsidize contraception contrary to their faith.
On Friday, before the GOP-led House passed its border bill, Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., chastised Democrats for not passing a big immigration bill when they controlled the White House, Senate and House in 2009 and 2010. He's right. Despite candidate Barack Obama's 2008 campaign pledge to pass immigration reform during his first year in office, it didn't happen. House Democrats passed the DREAM Act -- for undocumented immigrants brought here as children -- but only as a lame-duck feint played after Dems lost the House in November 2010.
Pelosi breached protocol by arguing with Marino. Later, her office released a statement that hailed House Dems for "the courage to pass the DREAM Act" and support comprehensive immigration reform. Her team also said Pelosi accepted Marino's apology. In San Francisco on Wednesday, Marino denied he had apologized.
Last week, he tweeted that Pelosi had called him an "insignificant person." Twice. Team Pelosi won't answer questions about it.
"I came from a low-middle-class family," Marino told me. If anyone should apologize, it's Pelosi to Marino's constituents.
Cain thinks Pelosi will survive the public spat because leaders tend to get in trouble for their usual MO, not "the unusual lapse."
But is it an unusual lapse? As Cain also observed, "immigration is as difficult for the Democrats as it is for the Republicans."
Nancy Pelosi is a POS.
Anyone who has attained the position of Speaker of the House, and then has the unmitigated arrogance tell the American people that “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it,” should never again be taken seriously about anything.
So please just STFU. Honestly, you are as loony as the mad Queen of Hearts.
Sincerely,
Maceman
Nancy has been looking pretty rough the past few months. She always looks like she’s been rode hard and put up wet. She must be missing a lot of Botox appointments.
She’ll be elected as long as she chooses to run.
11 consecutive terms, lowest majority 72%.
She’s only 74 and Italian women generally have great longevity.
I’m thinking another 20 yrs min.
That’s an insult to Pieces of $@#!.
She’s the crazy lady down the street with 45 cats hanging around her house.
Nancy is losing her hair.
Pelosi is the Rep from San Francisco. She could start wearing a Hamas head band around and still get reelected.
She keeps forgetting to put make up on her scalp. That’s a sign that she’s slipping. She used to remember to paint her scalp to hide the male pattern baldness. All this seeking after a youthful appearance with liposuction, botox, multiple surgeries…death wins in the end.
In her 2008 election, Pelosi got 71.7%, Cindy Sheehan got 16.1%, and the Republican and the Losertarian brought up the rear, with 9.7% and 2.3%, respectively.
Nancy Pelosi hates the people of the United States. She has long forgotten that we are her employer. She looks at the voters as slaves and servants, and belittles them and dehumanizes them. Nancy lives in a world that is apart from the rest of the united States. Yet the poor Left keeps re-electing this rich elitist millionaire 1%r
Nan was an intern (Senate, not WH).
She was Monica’s idol.
Two birds of the same feather
Actually Pelosi’s district is not poor and it’s only 6% black.
Median income 50k.
I can’t wait until the old hag retires.
Two birds of the same feather
Auberge de Soleil
I think being rich is FANTASTIC --wealth is good-- but if you are lock, stock and barrel a creation of UNIONS then at the very least you should be willing to hire at least a FEW union people.
(And I hate unions and have never been a member)
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