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.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Obviously.
Quote: “Pelosi is insulated from the negative effects of low national poll numbers because she answers only to two micro-constituencies — her mostly affluent, overwhelmingly liberal Bay Area district and a 262-member Democratic caucus that respects, fears, follows and largely likes the 69-year-old workaholic.”
WOW there is a special place in hell just waiting for her. The audacity to boldly state she has no concern about all the Americans outside her district she affects is equal to spitting on us all. All she has to do is sucker some voters from Sodom and Gomorrah to get the job. Beyond that she doesn’t give a damn.
It’s disgusting to think she wakes up every day relishing the fact that amongst her peers she is “feared” and that it’s likely she gets off on that fear. All over a position of service that some how has turned into a position of POWER.
I hope I live long enough to hear she has died so I can dance in the streets. In many cases when a person says that the other feels offended. By her own words she wouldn’t care so I feel pretty good about all of that. She’s a vicious hag. The High Priestess to Satan.
Perhaps she’ll care when the huddled masses are approaching the Capitol building with plenty of rope and tar, and she’s on the top of the list.
She is so typical of a liberal elitist. She doesn’t care what the “little people” think. She and her elites are putting themselves in charge because they believe that we are incapable of making the “right” decisions in every aspect of our lives. Obama’s “...bitter people clinging to their guns and religion...” is the same idea.
I hate what Nancy Pelosi stands for and I despise the way she operates. But her job is to care about one thing and one thing only: What her constituents want. Even in her role as the Speaker of the House, her concern should not be national polls or what anyone else thinks. She represents one of the most liberal (crazy - CRAZY liberal) districts in the entire United States of America. And as much as I dislike it, she is accountable to them and them only.
For example: If my representative were to become speaker, and he voted for things that we in the district were against, I'd be ticked because we elected him to represent us and our values. I wouldn't buy a "I was concerned with the national polls" argument and would work to throw him out of office. Why should he give a d*mn what the folks in California or New York want? He should care only about what we, who elected him, want.
As disgusting as it is, she is a "success" if her approval rating is 70% + in her district, even if it is 10% across the nation. That's the nature of a Republic. That's what makes the American model of self-government so awesome.
Now, our job as conservatives is to get her removed from power so she has no national approval rating - just her local one - and replace her with a speaker that is going to work to stop us printing trillions of dollars in debt.
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