She’s Tired
Ten months of surrender have taken their toll on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
If there was any doubt before, which there wasn’t, it’s gone now. Watching Nancy Pelosi on The View yesterday morning provided the final proof that the backbone of the House is only as strong as its speaker. Her body language said it all. There she sat in the center of the table, sandwiched between Elizabeth Hasselbeck and the “Is the world flat? I don’t know” lady, looking anxious and devoid of stately confidence. She could barely look in the eyes of America’s Favorite True Believer on her left, who immediately smelled fear and pounced on her prey. “If the violence in Iraq had gone up,” she started in (I’m paraphrasing), “you would be insisting that the surge was a failure. Now that the reports say it’s gone down drastically, aren’t you willing to admit that the surge is a success?”
Good question!
So what does Pelosi do? Does she make like Bill Clinton versus Chris Wallace, lean into her face and retort “young lady, don’t try that little conservative hit job on me. You obviously don’t know fudged numbers when you see them”? No. Instead she looks somewhere in Hasselbeck’s general direction and squeaks meekly, “But that’s still a lot of deaths.” (I’m not paraphrasing). She then quickly changes the subject as she spends the rest of the interview leaning away from Hasselbeck and focusing on the three women on her right, wishing to God they had sat her down beside Whoopi.
War tests men and women. It ages them, drains them. Some will rise to the challenge of their time, others will fall by the way. This is something different, though. It wasn’t war that did a number on P. She was beaten down by her mighty struggle, and ultimately her failure, to quit.
I’m curious about this HuffPo blogger. I know they’re foul-mouthed on the left, but do you think Arian is OK with his potty talk? I guess his use of the word ”dick” indicates he feels very strongly about his subject. Odd choice of words when describing the actions of a woman, the chatter of gossip hens. I’d have thought he might find a way to work in the feminine counterpart slang.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:23 pm on Wednesday, October 3, 2007
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October 3rd, 2007 at 11:43 pm
I’d wondered just how it was that Congress is in such dire straights, floundering in all directions. Darin’s BDS™ appears terminal, but he is spot on with “…the final proof that the backbone of the House is only as strong as its speaker.”
And this is pure gold:
“Man, if this lady can’t hold her own at a table full of gossiping hens who care more about the future of Britney’s babies then that of their country, no wonder impeachment is off the goddamn table!”
Pelosi is all blow and no go — surely a classic example of how lefties view the world (i.e., form over function)*. Baba Wawa herself confirms that philosophy with this gem of wisdom:
“Well, Democrat or Republican, it’s not important. What matters is that you’re the first woman speaker of the House, and that means a lot!”
The next woman who aspires to be the Speaker of the House, and is actually competent enough to do the job, will have to work three times as hard to prove herself thanks to Pelosi’s idiocy.
Congratulations, Nancy: in addition to shafting the entire country, you also raised that glass ceiling for all your potential successors in Congress, and possibly in other areas as well. All so you could be the “first woman Speaker of the House”.
Such a waste.
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*: And by extrapolation, the same is likely true for Reid and the other Dhimmicrat “leadership”. They couldn’t organize an orgy in a bordello on pay day (an amazing feat, given that Ted Kennedy is amongst that select group).
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:57 pm
To paraphrase, Weak has a voice and it’s Darin at Huffpo.
Na, let’s try that one again, Weak has a drain field and it’s the Huffpo.
How about, Weak has a La Brea tarpit and it’s hollywood?
Ok try this, Weak has a Burmese Junta and it’s the Democratic party.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Sucks to be Darin Murphy. Doesn’t it?
October 4th, 2007 at 12:04 am
Real JeffS
“The next woman who aspires to be the Speaker of the House, and is actually competent enough to do the job, will have to work three times as hard to prove herself thanks to Pelosi’s idiocy”
Amen to that. Hearing her election as speaker hailed as an achievement for women not only made me want to gag, it diverted attention from the real basis of her ascension.
October 4th, 2007 at 12:09 am
Jules Crittenden picks on grandmas!
October 4th, 2007 at 4:33 am
Pelosi lost it when she couldn’t shove Murtha down the throats of the House Intelligence committee (disgusting imagery–my apologies). She lost her first fight and she hasn’t won anything of significance since. I knew she was done when Code Pink began to harass her.
October 4th, 2007 at 10:00 am
Her on support base has distanced itself from her (with good reason). I’ve been throwing her name out a several nutroots blogs and immediately get pounced upon with witty comebacks such as “SHE’S NOT A LIBERAL!” or “SHE DOESN’T SPEAK FOR THE DEMOCRATS!” Sorry nutrooters, she is, and she does.
And you’re right, the battle is visably taking its toll on Nancy. She’s looks like she’s starting to melt.
October 4th, 2007 at 1:09 pm
“Awwww, she’s a victim…”
– Sam Kinison
October 4th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Nice Lili von Schtupp reference, by the way…
October 4th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
This confirms my belief that lefties are like sharks. The first sign of weakness, one whiff of blood in the water, and they turn on each other in an all-out feeding frenzy.
Excuse me while I pull up a chair and pop some popcorn.