Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of politicians. Formerly Speaker of the House, but it's not her fault they lost. Really. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace...

To my Republican friends: take back your party. So that it doesn't matter so much who wins the election, because we have shared values about the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, our security and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors. Because there are so many things at risk right now -- perhaps in another question I'll go into them, if you want. But the fact is that elections shouldn't matter as much as they do...But when it comes to a place where there doesn't seem to be shared values then that can be problematic for the country, as I think you can see right now.

"Dump the Tea Party, dump the civil libertarians, dump the social conservatives, become just like us. That way if the balance does somehow tip nothing will change. The taxes will still be levied, the borrowing will go on forever and ever, the same old cows will remain sacred until there's no money left, anywhere, to pay for them and we quietly collapse into something like Greece, or Detroit, or maybe even Zim-Bob-We. Like in Greece and Zim-Bob-We and in all the decaying cities in the present U.S.A. the rubes will continue electing the same old crooks using the same old slogans, who'll continue picking through the rubble for any leftovers."