Posted on 05/14/2013 4:48:09 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: If Boehner were a woman he'd be considered weakest speaker in history By Daniel Strauss - 05/14/13 07:32 AM ET
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) would be considered a weak speaker if he were a woman, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said. "Well, I will say this about John Boehner and I have a good relationship if he were a woman, they would be calling him the weakest speaker in history," Pelosi said during an interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes.
Hayes then asked Pelosi to elaborate.
"Well because they never get anything done," Pelosi said. "Where are the results? They've never been able to pass anything without our coming to the rescue except their very and, in my view, unprincipled budgets."
Pelosi added that she's tired of the double standard.
"So when people ask me I think: you know what, if a woman were speaker and nothing was happening in this way, they'd say 'oh my gosh,'" Pelosi said. "I'm just getting a little, shall we say, tired of the way they take a pass on some but not on others. We get a criticized for accomplishing things. They don't get criticized for not accomplishing things."
Nancy & I finally agree on something.
What doe she mean “if” Boehner was a woman?
She’s a blithering idiot. He is the weakest speaker, man or woman.
Pelosi is WRONG!...
If Boehner was a woman, he would be a stronger leader than he is now.
Hell, Boehner is a man (barely), and I consider him the weakest Speaker in history.
you'd get a divorce and marry her you useless communist pig"
Fortunately for Nanna Pelosi, that is one record she holds that is not likely to be challenged.
She she has a firm grip on the record as “Worse Speaker of the House Since the Founding of the Republic”.
Dayum! That’s gonna leave a mark!
Hah! She’s right!
I finally agree with a serpent.
Why don’t you just go ahead and insult the man’s mother while you at it you old bat. Good God these people are childish.
Boner is the crying cowardly lion respected by no-one, she led her majority caucus for that four years effectively and strongly.
If Nancy was a woman she’d be a pair of side cutting pliers.
Said the most bat-sh!t, craziest speaker in history.
Many of us consider him weak, without the gender reference.
[He is probably already in tears just reading these kinds of articles this morning.]
[Per some other recent articles, apparently, Boehner is getting a lot of behind-the-scenes opposition from the Tea Party types. Maybe there is hope after all.]
When I look at NP, I think of Buddy Rich and Gene Krupa.
She may have been one of the worst, but she certainly was not the weakest or even very weak.
She managed some of the biggest costly bills in US history — including the passage of Obamacare.
Passing Obamacare—”DEEMING IT PASSED”—makes Pelosi the most influential Speaker in History. She didn’t need balls to do it—just a visceral hatred for the United States.
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