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Date: October 10, 2007 2:41:32 PM PDT
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Subject: Pelosi Badmouths War Protestors
http://www.buzzflash.net/story.php?id=27653#comment-5
"We have to make responsible decisions in the Congress that are not
driven by the dissatisfaction of anybody who wants the war to end
tomorrow," Pelosi told the gathering at the Sofitel, arranged by
the Christian Science Monitor.
Though crediting activists for their "passion," Pelosi called it "a
waste of time" for them to target Democrats. "They are advocates,"
she said. "We are leaders."
Sounds like Bush, doesn't it? "We are the DECIDERS -- The people
can go to hell!"
Since when is it a responsible decision to fund the slaughter of
innocent people in a criminal war?
These "leaders" of ours are war criminals and members of an
aristocracy of moneyed power, political affiliation notwithstanding.
They have nothing but disdain for the laws they are sworn to
support and defend.
It really IS time to grab the pitchforks and torches ....
Smile, Though Your Head Is Aching
By Dana Milbank
Washington Post, October 10, 2007; A02
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/
AR2007100902006_pf.html
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was in a determinedly good mood when she
sat down to lunch with reporters yesterday. She entered the room
beaming and, over the course of an hour, smiled no fewer than 31
times and got off at least 23 laughs.
But her spirits soured instantly when somebody asked about the
anger of the Democratic "base" over her failure to end the war in
Iraq.
"Look," she said, the chicken breast on her plate untouched. "I
had, for five months, people sitting outside my home, going into my
garden in San Francisco, angering neighbors, hanging their clothes
from trees, building all kinds of things -- Buddhas? I don't know
what they were -- couches, sofas, chairs, permanent living
facilities on my front sidewalk."
Unsmilingly, she continued: "If they were poor and they were
sleeping on my sidewalk, they would be arrested for loitering, but
because they have 'Impeach Bush' across their chest, it's the First
Amendment."
Though opposed to the war herself, Pelosi has for months been a
target of an antiwar movement that believes she hasn't done enough.
Cindy Sheehan has announced a symbolic challenge to Pelosi in
California's 8th Congressional District. And the speaker is seething.
"We have to make responsible decisions in the Congress that are not
driven by the dissatisfaction of anybody who wants the war to end
tomorrow," Pelosi told the gathering at the Sofitel, arranged by
the Christian Science Monitor. Though crediting activists for their
"passion," Pelosi called it "a waste of time" for them to target
Democrats. "They are advocates," she said. "We are leaders."
It was a rather fierce response to the party's liberal base, which
frightens many a congressional Democrat. But it wasn't out of
character for the new speaker. Pelosi's fixed and constant smile
makes her appear as if she is cutting an ad for a whitening
toothpaste. But when you listen to the words that come from her
grinning maw, the smile seems more akin to that of a barracuda.
One reporter asked about Democratic lawmakers who proposed a tax
increase for the war. "They were not making legislation; they were
making a point," Pelosi judged.
Another asked about a Republican congressman's complaints that the
word "God" was removed from certificates accompanying congressional
flags. "I don't know what his point is," Pelosi volleyed.
Complaints that she didn't go far enough on climate-change
legislation? "We did not say we were going to do any more than we
did."
The Senate's stalemate on the war? "We in the House will not be
confining our legislation initiatives to what is legislatively
possible in the Senate."
Pelosi admitted no mistakes and claimed no regrets as she reflected
on her first session in the speaker's chair. "I'm very proud of the
work of this Congress," she declared. Evidently so: She repeated
how "proud" she was nine times. Passing the recommendations of the
9/11 commission made her "very proud," while energy legislation
made her "very, very proud," and new ethics rules made her
"especially proud."
"What do you see as your greatest mistake?" asked one reporter.
Pelosi smiled. "Why don't you tell me?" she proposed. She smiled
again, then laughed. " 'Cause I think we're doing just great." She
laughed again.
Even those approval ratings for Congress, in the teens and 20s,
didn't evoke regrets. "I don't like the numbers for Congress," she
admitted, but "I'm very pleased with the Democratic numbers." She
then took an unusual detour into polling minutiae. "Today the
Rasmussen numbers were the third time that we were double-digit
ahead in the generic," she reported, "and the third month in a row
we were in the high 40s."
Holders of high office typically avoid discussions like that
because it makes them look, well, political. But Pelosi did not
hesitate to plunge into the political, explaining that "it was so
important for us to bring the president's numbers down two years
ago on Social Security" because it discouraged Republican
candidates from running for Congress.
Pelosi may have realized that her words sounded too calculating,
for at one point she begged the reporters' indulgence for her to
"be allowed a partisan moment." She smiled at her joke, then chuckled.
The ready grin seemed at odds with other body language that
suggested Pelosi was not having an enjoyable lunch. She ignored her
salad and roll, then waved off the chicken and vegetables and left
her dessert untouched. "The tea is fine," she told the waiter,
taking her first sip more than halfway through the lunch.
But the smile had its uses. She smiled warmly while telling a
reporter in the room that his story was completely wrong. She
laughed heartily when somebody mentioned the awkward interview in
which Whoopi Goldberg expressed a lust for Pelosi's husband. She
grinned when mentioning the fight over children's health care. And
she laughed while discussing how she has "striven" to work with
Bush on Iraq. "Is that a word? 'Striven'? " she asked.
It seemed that only the antiwar advocates had the power to wipe the
smile off Pelosi's face. Speaking about ethics legislation, she
boasted that "we have drained the swamp" in Congress and pleased
government watchdog groups.
"At last," she added, "some advocates from the outside who are
satisfied."
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