I Would Really Like To Know: Does She Honestly Believe This, or Is Her Job To Spin This Kind of BS With A Straight Face
I can create a long list of reasons for disliking Republicans, but Nancy Pelosi just seems either totally insane or totally brazen when she makes this observation about Obama and Republicans:
“He [President Obama] has been … open, practically apolitical, certainly nonpartisan, in terms of welcoming every idea and solution. I think that’s one of the reasons the Republicans want to take him down politically, because they know he is a nonpartisan president, and that’s something very hard for them to cope with.”
As a truly non-partisan observer, I would say that I have not seen a President in my lifetime as empty of strategic thinking and substantive ideas. Jeez, Bill Clinton did more substantive thinking in the shower in the morning than Obama has done in five years. This man is all hyper-divisive rhetoric. If Obama supporters want to compare him to a great leader, he reminds me in some ways of Bismark in the sense that Bismark was the master of negative integration, of defining an internal enemy (a Reichsfeinde) on every issue and marginalizing that enemy to unify everyone else on his side. Of course, eventually, the legacy of that approach did not work out so well.
CTD:
OMG UR SAYING OBAMA IS A NAZI!!!!!
September 20, 2013, 10:17 ammahtso:
Nevertheless, Mr. Romney would have been coke to the President's pepsi, right?
September 20, 2013, 10:27 amCMJDad:
HAHAHA, nice.
September 20, 2013, 10:31 ammorganovich:
you do realize that bismarck was not a nazi, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck
he died in 1898
September 20, 2013, 10:31 amnehemiah:
Say what. Is she talking about our Obama? Non-partisan? Hello, is anybody home? So the republicans are against him because he is such a nice reasonable guy. Geez
September 20, 2013, 10:59 amMe too:
But he does like some of their tactics
September 20, 2013, 12:43 pmmesaeconoguy:
She actually does believe this.
This is total lack of self-awareness, as I have mentioned previously.
Many, many (most?) leftists suffer from this, particularly now. See also B. Obama: "I agree to negotiate with anyone who agrees with me."
September 20, 2013, 2:13 pmmesaeconoguy:
Temporal mechanics is not a valid rejection of perceived leftist injustice.
Bismarck did help create the modern welfare state, in addition to being a European pain-in-the-ass.
September 20, 2013, 2:17 pmmesaeconoguy:
Coke with 3.5% (at least) GDP growth.
September 20, 2013, 2:19 pmDMac:
The left does live in a world of it's own, and has for years.
September 20, 2013, 2:34 pm"I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don't know. They're outside my ken. But sometimes when I'm in a theater I can feel them.".... Pauline Kael
norse:
Amen. The statement isn't even internally consistent: the least likely opponent a group of people would take down is one who is genuinely open to their points of view.
September 20, 2013, 2:43 pmThen again, I am with the camp that believes that it's rational for politicians to spout nonsense, because the majority of the electorate isn't paying attention.
Matthew Slyfield:
"Pelosi just seems either totally insane or totally brazen"
Why does it have to be one or the other? Why not both?
September 20, 2013, 3:45 pmChris Smith:
There has been no greater disservice to the Democratic Party and the American people as a whole than the refusal of the Media to call the Democrats on their absolute, industrial-grade BS.
Look TV and newspaper reporters, maybe the whole Nixon thing may have made you distrust the Republican leadership. But that's no reason to give the Democrats a free pass on any of the dribbly, green balls of crud that sputter out of their mouths in peristaltic spurts. Because one party had one terrible criminal or two does not mean the other party is made up of saints with hearts of gold. It's much more like that BOTH parties are filled with terrible criminals, and it's your job to report on them all.
September 20, 2013, 9:58 pmGeorge:
Pelosi doesn't lie. She flaps her lips and ululates, and when the sounds produced resemble a statement of human speech, it's mere happenstance, like a natural stone formation that vaguely resembles a human head.
September 21, 2013, 8:33 amJW:
Nancy Pelosi; Mistress of the Trolls.
The saddest part of that entire statement is that there are people out there who will nod their heads in agreement.
September 21, 2013, 5:12 pmobloodyhell:
}}} Jeez, Bill Clinton did more substantive thinking in the shower in the morning than Obama has done in five years.
Bill Clinton did more substantive thinking while getting a hummer from an intern than Teh One has done in his entire LIFETIME.
And that's just pointing out how low the bar Teh One sets actually is, not making the case for Bill being an intellectual giant.
September 22, 2013, 4:27 pmobloodyhell:
}}} like a natural stone formation that vaguely resembles a human head.
Teh One has one of those on his shoulders, doesn't he? Kinda like a giant wart...?
September 22, 2013, 4:29 pmobloodyhell:
Chris, the dividing line between Gen X and the Boomers is actually pretty stark. It lies at Watergate.
To Boomers, Watergate said: "You can't trust Republicans".
To Gen X, Watergate said: "You can't trust politicians".
Up to you which one had more sense.
September 22, 2013, 4:31 pmobloodyhell:
No, there's a substantial portion of the electorate that's paying attention -- kinda like this cartoon
What that portion of the electorate hears is:
"Blah blah blah FREE STUFF blah blah blah FREE STUFF blah blah blah blah FREE STUFF."
It's the death knell of any electoral process when those people become too large a proportion of the electorate.
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September 22, 2013, 4:35 pmobloodyhell:
LOL -- I believe "proto-Nazi" would be a very good appellation, however.
He's not the Nazi -- but what he does will enable them.
September 22, 2013, 4:40 pmmorganovich:
given that i once had a woman argue "logic is the tool of the oppressor" at a party in san francisco, i wish i could say that your comment (which was really funny btw) sounded more far fetched.
September 24, 2013, 6:47 ammorganovich:
the most recent whopper from fancy nancy:
"House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi says Republican-led efforts to rein in government spending are pointless because there is nothing left to cut in the almost $4 trillion-a-year federal budget.
“The cupboard is bare. There’s no more cuts to make. It’s really important that people understand that,” Mrs. Pelosi, California Democrat, said in an interview broadcast Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
got that? federal spending is up by 5% of gdp in the last 5 years, but we have cut to the bone.
this seems like a really nasty exercise in the realpolotik of a post rational age.
there exists a certain subset of extreme partisans who think in purely emotional terms and do not vet or consider the statements made by folks like nancy. they have already decided that they play for team blue or team red and simply uncritically adopt and regurgitate whatever they say.
it's just an extended appeal to authority fallacy, but what's scary is the politicians seem to be realizing that ti does not matter at all how indefensible their comments are because they will not have to defend them to anyone who would have possibly voted for them anyway.
this is not a political debate, it's an orwellian foodfight.
September 24, 2013, 6:54 am