House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called President Bush "a total failure" on Thursday, among the California Democrat's harshest assessments to date of the president.
"God bless him, bless his heart, president of the United States -- a total failure, losing all credibility with the American people on the economy, on the war, on energy, you name the subject," Pelosi told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an exclusive interview.
The comments came two days after the president sharply criticized Congress over what he described as relative inaction over the course of the legislative term. At the White House on Wednesday, Bush noted that there were only 26 legislative days left in the fiscal year and said Congress would need to pass a spending bill every other day to "get their fundamental job done."
"This is not a record to be proud of, and I think the American people deserve better," Bush said.
Let's see, you broke your campaign promises about implementing the 9/11 commissions recommendations, your promise to keep this Congress the "most open and honest in history", worked to impeach President Bush when you said "it's not an option", promised to end the war in Iraq by ending funding, promised to publicize earmarks with this quote:
Then, you and other Democrats had this to say:
Democrats said Republicans had corrupted the earmark process while they controlled Congress.
Well, now YOU'RE in charge, and you've done nothing but break promises and blame others.
And then there's this little doozy.
Republicans accused the Democratic leadership of attempting to bypass debate on questionable earmarks when House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, D-Wisconsin, said he would not attach them to legislation until those bills had passed the Senate and House and had been sent to conference committees to work out differences.
Obey said there wasn't time to scrutinize the 32,000 earmark requests and keep the legislation moving. He blamed having to "clean up after" the Republican-controlled Congress for why the requests wouldn't be examined in time.
You've had TWO FUCKING YEARS now to do something, and you've accomplished nothing of substance. You've lied to the American people about what you were going to do, and they foolishly believed you.
And then, you try to deflect your poll ratings that have slipped to single digit numbers:
That poll showed that its approval rating had reached an anemic 14 percent, while more than 70 percent of those polled said they disapproved of the job Congress is doing.
The House speaker said she doesn't consider those numbers a negative referendum on the Democrats in charge, saying she thinks they stem largely from Congress' failure to end the war in Iraq.
"Everything I see says this is about ending the war -- 'I disapprove of Congress' performance in terms of ending the war,' " she said. "In the House, we, of course, have over and over, five or six times, sent to the Senate legislation for a time certain to reduce our deployment in Iraq and bring our troops home safely, honorably and soon. We haven't been able to get it past the Senate or the president of the United States.
"So, on the basis of that, count me among the 70-some percent," she continued. "But that is one measure. The other measure that I'm more interested in is the one that talks about what is their view of Democrats. And the generic, who do you prefer to run the country on all of these issues? We're in double digits in any poll that you can take."
You're in "double digits in any poll"? Idiot, "double digits" means 10-99%. Did you really think we can't figure that out? In many polls, President Bush has higher ratings then you do. You and other Democrats made promises that you had no intention of keeping. That makes YOU a failure. That makes YOU a liar. So, when you point the finger, be sure to think about what you're saying. The Internet doesn't forget things like your push for a higher minimum wage, yet opposition to it being extended to America Samoa:
House Republicans yesterday declared "something fishy" about the major tuna company in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco district being exempted from the minimum-wage increase that Democrats approved this week.
On Wednesday, the House voted to raise the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 per hour.
The bill also extends for the first time the federal minimum wage to the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands. However, it exempts American Samoa, another Pacific island territory that would become the only U.S. territory not subject to federal minimum-wage laws.
One of the biggest opponents of the federal minimum wage in Samoa is StarKist Tuna, which owns one of the two packing plants that together employ more than 5,000 Samoans, or nearly 75 percent of the island's work force. StarKist's parent company, Del Monte Corp., has headquarters in San Francisco, which is represented by Mrs. Pelosi. The other plant belongs to California-based Chicken of the Sea.
People say "Google is your friend" But Google ISN'T your friend if you're a lying politician who tries to deflect blame for their own failures.
Travis
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