Posted on 07/27/2009 4:33:29 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi unpopular? 'I don't care' By: Glenn Thrush July 27, 2009 05:08 AM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is one of the most despised political figures in the country.
And, frankly, she doesn’t give a damn.
“No, I don’t care,” Pelosi told POLITICO last Thursday, laughing heartily as she walked beneath the Capitol dome and plunged into a crowd of tourists.
Last week’s Public Strategies Inc./POLITICO poll brought grim news for Pelosi, revealing that only a quarter of Americans trust the San Francisco Democrat — putting her in the basement with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio).
Mention of the “trust” question halted the click-clack of Pelosi’s heels against Rotunda marble, and she turned to face the reporter who posed the question.
“I don’t know about ‘trust’ — I think I’m trusted,” she said.
“I certainly want to be trusted. I’m not particularly concerned if I’m liked.”
But month after month of polling shows that the speaker is neither trusted nor liked by the general public — even as she emerges from one of the most productive legislative periods any speaker has ever enjoyed.
By contrast, Newt Gingrich’s popularity tanked only after his conservative revolution sputtered and he had helped shut down the federal government.
Gallup now measures Pelosi’s unfavorability ratings at 48 percent — with her favorability index registering a paltry 32 percent.
That’s 12 points lower than her numbers were just six months ago, during the first flush days of the Obama administration. And it puts the most powerful woman in the country’s history on a par with Dick Cheney and only a few clicks better than Boehner, an unknown quantity to most Americans.
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She “doesn’t care” as she laughs her way to the bank.
They say that like it was a bad thing. What we'd give for it now.
Yet, she still gets the votes from somewhere.
I’m telling you she had some work done lately and is very pleased with her results. Nan, you still look like an old bag. In fact, when I look at you I see nothing more than a budding old bag!
That pretty much goes for any Democrat after this health care fiasco.
If it’s a living, breathing Democrat, it should be considered in the same light by all Americans.
Untrustworthy.
Heck! For that matter Dead too.
Spoken like a true dictator, Peloser.
Exactly.
You might see the most robust economic recovery ever if DC were to stop supplying ‘help.’
I’m sure she was “popular” enough in High School to last her a lifetime.
POWER is her lover.
Yikes, Helen Thomas is better looking. Pelosi is one evil old bag!
Baloney. She cares.
‘500 million Americans a month will lose their jobs if we don’t pass this bill’
Hey Pelosi, how could Americans not trust you?
Those domes would be on her kneecaps if it weren’t for her surgery team.
The words I’d like to post would have the Freep Cops pulling my posting, so just use your imagination to think of some vile comments and descriptions of this person who is so dreadful that I need to stop typing, to insure this posting prevails.
Her SF constituents will keep re-electing her regardless of what she does. Same thing with Barney Frank.
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