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| 2004-05-21 |
| EFL House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday sharply questioned President Bush’s competence as a leader, suggesting his policy in Iraq is to blame for the loss of U.S. lives...."The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader," Pelosi said. "These policies are not working. But speaking specifically to Iraq, we have a situation where -- without adequate evidence -- we put our young people in harm’s way." Asked specifically if she was calling Bush incompetent, Pelosi replied: "I believe that the president’s leadership in the actions taken in Iraq demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions that would have been necessary to truly accomplish the mission without the deaths to our troops and the cost to our taxpayers."... House Majority Leader Tom DeLay blasted Pelosi, casting her comments as detrimental to U.S. troops. "Nancy Pelosi should apologize for her irresponsible, dangerous rhetoric," DeLay, R-Texas, said. "She apparently is so caught up in partisan hatred for President Bush that her words are putting American lives at risk." The Republican National Committee also released a written statement..."The San Francisco/Boston Democrats led by John Kerry have now adopted ’Blame America First’ as their official policy," RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie said in the statement.... "His activities, his decisions, the results of his actions are what undermines his leadership, not my statement," Pelosi said. "My statements are just a statement of fact."... Why doesn’t Pelosi ask the troops in Iraq what they think of Bush’s competence as a leader? Their opinion actually matters. What’s the acronym I’m looking for...oh yes...STFU!. |
| Posted by:Rafael |
| #20 Bullshit, NMM! Tom Delay is a terrific Majority Whip! And Nancy's a moron. Typical Dims to choose the woman (Gotta be PC, doncha know?) who's a Botoxed idiot. |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-05-22 12:28:28 AM |
| #19 RWV--since you're questioning people's sanity--what were the Repugnants thinking when the put Tom DeLay--the evil troll in his position--you GOP turds just don't like it when the Democrats bark back and employ your own divisive tactics on the flip side |
| Posted by: Not Mike Moore 2004-05-22 12:12:40 AM |
| #18 You can't really blame Nancy Pelosi for spouting truly tasteless, stupid, self-righteous propaganda. She represents the moonbats that live in the alternate reality that is San Francisco and unfortunately accurately reflects their beliefs and actions.The truly depressing and disgraceful element of this situation is that the national Democratic Party chose her to be their leader in the House of Representatives, one of the two top Democratic leaders in the country. What in God's name is wrong with these people? |
| Posted by: RWV 2004-05-21 10:37:50 PM |
| #17 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday sharply questioned President Bush’s competence as a leader,.. And I'm kinda wondering myself about the bitch's sanity... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-05-21 9:55:08 PM |
| #16 remember: San Francisco propoted itself as "Baghdad by the Bay" (Herb Caen's phrase) until that became untenable....right before they started attacking the conduct at Abu Grahib. SoCal (Orange, San Diego, Imperial, Riverside and San Berdoo Counties) is strongly conservative as are most non-metro-coastal areas |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-21 7:08:29 PM |
| #15 Pelosi questions Buch's competence. I question Pelosi's continence. I think I have a much stronger case. |
| Posted by: docob 2004-05-21 6:49:06 PM |
| #14 san fran has always given us californians a bad name |
| Posted by: Dan 2004-05-21 4:04:32 PM |
| #13 BE - Did it feature steamed broccoli? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-21 3:46:36 PM |
| #12 Yes Sarge, but remember, last year a lousy crooked governor was "Terminated", so to speak. What about Arnie's new ad promotiong California Produce. Have you seen it? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-21 3:45:33 PM |
| #11 Its a big state ed, takes a lot to move it. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-05-21 3:42:02 PM |
| #10 I live in California and every time Nancy opens her pie hole the state moves two steps to the right. Only two? |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-21 3:37:53 PM |
| #9 I live in California and every time Nancy opens her pie hole the state moves two steps to the right. Good thing because we are electing a NEW senator this year to help Bush whack the Dems in the Senate. BTW she represents San Francisco, not exactly Bush country. Was she one of the 48 Congressmen that told the Bishops to "Shut up"? Lot of Catholics out here would like to know that. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2004-05-21 3:05:47 PM |
| #8 Amen, DBD! I am becoming so radicalized that I often lose sight of the fact that half of the people have an IQ under 100... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-21 12:16:50 PM |
| #7 I have to ask myself who is the greater threat to the republic - al Qaeda or the Democratic Party. Both groups seemed to determine to inflict damage on the nation and jeopardize our troops. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2004-05-21 11:20:38 AM |
| #6 Methinks Pelosi is the densest concentration of belly-button lint in DC. This makes her a relative heavyweight in her party. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-21 10:49:24 AM |
| #5 Mornin' Deacon, I think your friends need to be reminded that if they are truly against war, then Kerry is not their man. He openly admits that his strategy would be very similar to GWs, just more international and UN involvement such as Bosnia, Ruwanda, Somalia etc. State that for the hard core Give Peace A Chance (GPAC) crowd their only real candidate is Ralph Nader. Challenge them, "are you going to vote your conscience? or are you going to just going to follow the crowd and vote for a guy who was never really challenged during the primaries and who you do not truly know where he stands?" |
| Posted by: TomAnon 2004-05-21 8:36:25 AM |
| #4 I'm not so sure this wiil not be a close election. The democrat friends I talk with in Pittsburgh and some of them here are going to vote for John Kerry regardless of what he says or does. They want George Bush out so bad they don't stop to consider the repercussions of Kerry. What I here is "ANYBODY would be better than Bush", and "George Bush is lining his pockets with OUR oil money". They believe everything CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN broadcast and tell me the situation in Iraq is "worse than Vietnam". Anything they see or read about Iraq they dismiss as Republican propaganda and is not to be believed. It is astounding to me that otherwise intelligent people can be duped so completely. The company I work for is doing more business now than we have in the past 5 years and we are hiring new people but they still say the President's economic policy is a disaster. When I ask them why they want to pay more in taxes under John Kerry they tell me "he's only going to increase taxes on the rich people". Right |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2004-05-21 8:14:35 AM |
| #3 "Pelosi said. "My statements are just a statement of fact."..." It is an opinion. This shows how the future weeks will be handled by the Dims. More personal attacks on the CIC, in a time of war, which serve nothing but to divide the nation further and foster more hate. This election will not be close as many seem to fear. The public can see through this BS for waht it is. Despite the unprecedented liberal news bias, Soros funded campaign dollars, they will all have one thing less on November 3rd....less money. |
| Posted by: Bill Nelson 2004-05-21 7:52:07 AM |
| #2 Take her at her word (please). She definitely knows incompetance first hand. |
| Posted by: Dorf 2004-05-21 6:24:07 AM |
| #1 "...demonstrate an incompetence in terms of knowledge, judgment and experience in making the decisions..." Jack would say. "She can't handle the truth." |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-21 4:25:00 AM |