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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If I had her money and power , I wouldnt care either.
She is as crooked as a snake. She speaks of trust. I would sooner trust a Cobra not to strike.
“By contrast, Newt Gingrich’s popularity tanked only after his conservative revolution sputtered and he had helped shut down the federal government.”
They say that like it is a BAD thing! LOL.
Americans can always trust Pelosi to act stupidly.
I am wondering how much longer her own constituents will tolerate her. I would bet anyone with a solid local political background could take her seat easily.
CBS Golf Analyst David Feherty wrote, “From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.”
As long her district will re-elect, why should she care?
And, frankly, she doesn’t give a damn.
Good. 'Cause your stink is affecting you buddies too.
ACORN it works
She doesn’t have to care. She could be convicted of hatchet murder and still be re-elected in a walk.
Sounds like something Chavez and Ahmadinejad would say.
“If I had her money and power , I wouldnt care either”
Is that right? Please don’t enter politics then.
She don’t care because she knows the lunatics are still going to vote her back in.
Ping if only for that repulsive pic of the sea hag.
This type of attitude from a political elitist is jaw-dropping. But, Nancy Pelousy is merely a symptom of the disease that runs rampant through our political system, she is not the disease, itself.
The fact is that we, the people who OWN the government, drastically need to re-take control of government at ALL levels and enact new controls that maintain the framework of the Constitution, but prevent career politicians and prevents political arrogance the likes of which we are seeing from all sides of the political spectrum, today.
In a country of about 300 million Americans, that's going to be a good trick!! It's a shame they passed the bill so we can't see how 1-1/2 times the population of the US will lose their jobs in a month!! LOL!!
To paraphrase an old movie: “We don’t care; we don’t have to. We’re the GOVERNMENT!!!”....
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LOL I have no iontention of that and the chances of my getting power and money are slim & None.
Pelosi is scum from a long line of scum.
"..Pelosi was born in Baltimore, Maryland. The youngest of six children, she was involved with politics from an early age. Her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland and a Mayor of Baltimore. Her brother, Thomas D'Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971, when he declined to run for a second term.
Pelosi graduated from Institute of Notre Dame, a Catholic all-girls high school in Baltimore, and from Trinity College (now Trinity Washington University) in Washington, D.C. in 1962. Pelosi interned for Senator Daniel Brewster (D-Maryland) alongside future House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer.[2] She met Paul Frank Pelosi (b. April 15, 1940 in San Francisco, California)[3] while she was attending Trinity College.[4] They married in a Catholic church on September 7, 1963. After the couple married they moved to New York, and then to San Francisco in 1969, where his brother, Ronald Pelosi was a member of the City and County of San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.[5].."
She is in her own reality of a class that thinks they know best, governs arrogantly and gets rich in the process. Of course she doesn't care if she is liked. Who are the little people to have an opinion?
I assume Saddam, Ceauşescu, and Mao didn't care either.
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