Democratic House speaker calls Bush 'a total failure' on war, energy, 'you name the subject'

[babylonsister]

Pelosi calls Bush 'a total failure' on everything

Democratic House speaker calls Bush 'a total failure' on war, energy, 'you name the subject'

LAURIE KELLMAN
AP News

Jul 17, 2008 17:09 EST


President Bush has been a "total failure" in everything from the economy to the war to energy policy, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday. In an interview on CNN, the California Democrat was asked to respond to video of the president criticizing the Democratic-led Congress for heading into the final 26 days of the legislative session without having passed a single government spending bill.

Pelosi shot back in unusually personal terms.

"You know, God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States, a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," Pelosi replied. She then tsk-tsked Bush for "challenging Congress when we are trying to sweep up after his mess over and over and over again."

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino defended Bush.

"What the president said is a fact — this is the longest a Congress has gone in 20 years without passing a single spending bill, so it's clear that the speaker is feeling some frustration at their inability to do so."

Pelosi's outburst was a departure. Her usual practice in public has been to call Bush's policies a failure — not his presidency or him, personally. Pelosi's remarks are the latest evidence of the Democrats' throw-caution-to-the-wind approach to Bush in the waning days of a presidency weighed down by an unpopular war and soaring gasoline prices.

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/07/pelosi_calls_bush_a_total_fail.php

[Selatius]

1. Throw caution to the wind? Where was this article's author when they gutted the 4th Amendment???

Was that throwing caution to the wind and challenging Bush? I think not. I think that's complicity.

[rateyes]

2. I'll name the subject, Nancy, and you tell me how he's a total failure...

Having his ass covered by the Speaker of the House to keep himself from being impeached for high crimes against the Constitution.

:ticktock:

[MrCoffee]

3. Hello, Madame Speaker. Welcome to Earth, can I take your coat?

Oh, what the hey, if we're throwing caution to the wind and all...

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

4. sweep up after his mess over and over and over again.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Nice job, Nancy. I like a person of action.

Hope you enjoy your retirement.

[RC]

6. Hey Nancy, When are you going to put Impeachment back on the TABLE!!!?

[warren pease]

7. But they've been so busy working on our behalf to pass critical legislation...

...that abolishes the Bill of Rights and guts the Constitution on the Bushies' pretext of fighting phantoms and ghosts when the real terrorists are sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and their real enemy is us.

Plus the House has had its hands full making sure Bushie's supplementary mass slaughter funding bills pass with none of that tricky stuff like timelines or milestones. The good people of Iraq and Afghanistan really want a US occupying army in their countries, even though they don't show it.

Ooops... it's Thursday. Isn't that Iran's day to get flattened? WuhtEVurrr... as Dana Dimbulb would say.

But take a moment to admire this example of finely crafted journalism...


"Pelosi shot back in unusually personal terms.

"'You know, God bless him, bless his heart...'"


Shooting back like that... jeez, the recoil must have knocked her right on her ass.

Way to throw caution to the winds there, Nance. Big, big risk you took. Imagine calling a rotten bastard like this a failure, right out in public. And a member of your own social class, too. The shock! The horror! The botox!

And for the grand finale, we get to imagine poor Nancy dressed like an elephant keeper at the zoo, weighed down with her shovel and garbage can, face smudged and sweaty but perfectly unwrinkled, just following along cleaning up the mess.

There's a word that starts with "i" that would be a big help in cleaning up the mess, but that might put congress 9 percent approval rating at risk. Probably not; probably kick the approval rating up 30 points overnight.

But that's enough "throwing caution to the winds" for one day.


wp

[mmonk]

8. Too late. History will not let the bush Democrats

squirm out of their responsibilities nor their acquiesce.

[grasswire]

9. written by Laurie Kellman ASSOCIATED PRESS

Another example of distortion by AP.

[underseasurveyor]

10. She can flap her gums all she wants

since she won't do a damn thing about the total failure in chief anyway, what comes out of her mouth is totally and thoroughly meaningless. She speaks to an empty room.
/crickets

I wish we still had our little flipping the bird smilie... for you nancy.