Nancy Pelosi: The Woman Who Would Be Speaker

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In her own words:
“The President seems to think the best way to revive the economy is to give more tax breaks to those who don’t need them and dole out lucrative incentives that do not stimulate economic growth.” —USA Today, Jan. 30, 2002
“When the Kyoto Protocol enters into the force tomorrow, the world will take a significant and long-awaited first step towards stemming global warming. Instead of stepping forward as the world leader on climate change, however, the Bush Administration is clinging to the role of world obstructionist.”—Press release, Feb. 15, 2005
We have two oilmen in the White House. The logical follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. It is no accident. It is a cause and effect.”—Press conference, April 26, 2006
“The American people are paying a terrible price at the pump. And what do the Republicans suggest? Let’s do away with the environmental rules. Let’s drill in the ANWR.”—Press conference, April 27, 2006
“We must stop robbing the Social Security trust fund of its money to pay for other things.”—“Fox News Sunday,” March 6, 2005
“There’s nothing wrong with Social Security lending money with the prospect of returning it.”—CongressDaily, June 24, 2005
“Roe vs. Wade is based on a woman’s fundamental right to privacy, a value that all Americans cherish.”—Statement on the 32nd Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, Jan. 21, 2005
“Confirming Judge Alito will not only put our liberties and civil rights in jeopardy, but also the checks and balances in our constitutional system of government.”—Press release, Jan. 20, 2006
Nancy Pelosi: The Woman Who Would Be Speaker (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16946)

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Start with Pelosi herself, the San Francisco Democrat and current House minority leader who would almost certainly become speaker of the House if the Democrats take control Nov. 7. As speaker, Pelosi would be second in the line of presidential succession after Vice President Cheney. Moreover, as speaker she would control all legislation in the House and be by far the most powerful member of the United States Congress.

Polls show that most Americans know nothing about Pelosi and many don't even know who she is. With the election barely a week away, it's time they learned.

Pelosi is fond of deflecting the "San Francisco Democrat" charge by noting that as a mother and grandmother, she's hardly the left-wing icon figure her critics allege. But there is no denying her voting record over eight terms as one of the most liberal members of the House of Representatives. Pelosi's lifetime rating by the Americans for Democratic Action, the liberal benchmark for members of Congress, is 96 percent. Her lifetime rating by the counterpart American Conservative Union is 2 percent.

Equally relevant are Pelosi's views and voting record on issues directly related to national security and the war against terrorism. Less than a year after 9/11, Pelosi said publicly that she didn't consider the United States at war. This year, she said that national security should not be a campaign issue in the 2006 midterm elections.



Pelosi's Party Too Liberal for America (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=17765)

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Nancy Pelosi House Democratic Leader (http://democraticleader.house.gov/)


Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (http://www.house.gov/pelosi/)

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In a stunning performance on 60 Minutes, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi proved again why she cannot be trusted to keep America safe from the threat of global terrorism and Islamic extremists.

Mrs. Pelosi demonstrated that she does not understand the global nature of the threat when she stated flatly "the war on terror is the war in Afghanistan."

Part of the battle against terrorism is taking place in our media as well. Last week, Mrs. Pelosi lost one battle for our side. America cannot take the risk that she will lose the war.


Pelosi's war blunder (http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20061101-091538-2187r.htm)

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This article clearly states why Rush Limbaugh nad other conservative AM talk radio jocks are talking about issuing an Amber Alert for Nancy Pelosi:





The Republican pollster makes no bones about his party’s present predicament. The House is history, the Senate hangs by a thread, the GOP coalition is disunited and dispirited. The Democrats are holding all the cards and playing them, if not perfectly, then at least as well as Democrats ever do.

There is, he says, only one cause for hope that Republicans can cling to: Her name is Nancy Pelosi. “Whenever she opens her mouth, she loses the Democrats votes,” the pollster says. “The smartest thing that [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chairman] Rahm Emanuel could do is have her spend the rest of the campaign in Alaska and Hawaii—taking a boat from one to the other.”

Confronting the prospect of Speaker Pelosi gives many Democrats, too, the chills. Consider the story making the rounds last week about her plans to deny the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee to its ranking Democrat, Jane Harman. Harman is a smart and creative moderate.

So she holds little attraction for Pelosi—who is thinking instead of elevating Representative Alcee Hastings, an African-American whose selection would help Pelosi shore up support from the Congressional Black Caucus. Never mind that, in 1989, Hastings was impeached and removed from a federal judgeship on charges of corruption and perjury.



Dem Demon (http://nymag.com/news/politics/powergrid/23482/index.html)

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Pelosi's positions are those of a classic liberal. She voted against the welfare-reform bill signed by President Bill Clinton and supports same-sex marriage. She wants choice for children who don't want to notify their parents to have an abortion, but not for poor District of Columbia parents who need vouchers to send their children to private school. Pelosi voted against the war in Iraq and the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Her 2005 liberal rating by Americans for Democratic Action was 95 percent.
She is happy to dismiss President Bush as an idiot -- or, as she said in 2004, Bush "has no judgment, no experience or knowledge of the subjects that he has decided upon." From the other side of her mouth, she promises to restore "civility" to the House if she becomes its first female speaker.

That's what passes for moderate in The Special City. Locals are proud of their country's leftmost leanings -- until Fox News' Bill O'Reilly lampoons "San Francisco values." Then they move into high dudgeon that anyone would brand Ess Eff politics as out of the mainstream.




The Woman Who Would Be Speaker (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2006/11/the_woman_who_would_be_speaker.html)

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Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California, has big, expensive plans for commemorating her ascension to the head of the “People’s House” in early January.

Indeed, the bug-eyed lady from San Francisco has slated a four-day gala of pomp and circumstance that will make the installation of Pope Benedict XVI by the Vatican seem absolutely skimpy by comparison.

The main event is scheduled for noon on January 4, when the U.S. House meets to elect Pelosi in a formal process expected to take several hours. On the evening of January 4, Pelosi will be honored at a concert/fundraiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Admittance will be pricey, at $15,000.

The steep ticket price was necessary to keep the party’s base—homeless bums, drug addicts, welfare cheats, convicted felons, illegal aliens, et al.–from crashing. Therefore, an “entertainment tax” of $14,999 per ticket seemed to make perfect sense, at least from a warped liberal perspective.



Nancy Pelosi’s Coronation Plans (http://http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/12/16/nancy-pelosis-coronation-plans/)

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Liberals want everyone but them to be spartan for the good of Man.