Pelosi - What do you think?

[DEDixon 39]

i think she needs to step down or the dems need to do whatever they do to elect a new speaker.

pelosi is good in the light of a bush admin. i mean, the american people seemingly like a balanced gov't and pelosi surely offset bush.

obama is left, pelosi is way left of left and everyone knows she comes from the most liberal district in america so i honestly think people feel the dems are in too powerful of a position so they are favoring repubs for balance. i just read that privately the dems are expecting a lose of at least 28 seats in november.

i have a feeling that the loses wouldn't be so great if pelosi, the speaker, the face of congress, wasn't so liberal. i think a lot of regular folk are afraid of her because she is infinitely left.

i also think repubs would be a lot more willing to work with congressional dems and obama if it wasn't for pelosi. pelosi is extremely partisan.. i think repubs don't want to give her a win in anyway whatsoever.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

From 2006:

Pelosi's liberal label is all relative

Though a favorite target of red-staters, she's seen as a centrist in her home district of San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO — To much of the country, Nancy Pelosi is the liberal embodiment of a city as crazy as its near-vertical hills. But here at home, the Democratic House leader is seen as something else: sober, centrist and very much a part of the political establishment, for good or bad.

For five years, ever since she entered the congressional leadership, Pelosi has balanced the interests of 200-plus colleagues of varied philosophies with the demands of a district about as far left politically as it is geographically.

Now she is within hailing distance of history; if Democrats win control of the House on Nov. 7, she would be the first woman ever to serve as speaker.

Her success is all the more striking given the persistent through-the-looking-glass quality of San Francisco politics. Where else would Willie Brown be elected as the moderate candidate for mayor? Or dignitaries clamor for a place among the drag queens and genitalia celebrated in the annual Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Parade?

In 2004, Sen. John F. Kerry won 62% of the presidential vote at home in Massachusetts. Here, he garnered 85%.

"If there's a stereotype of California as the 'Left Coast,' San Francisco is the epicenter," said pollster Mark DiCamillo.

"Many 'moderates' in San Francisco would be burned as witches elsewhere," agreed Alex Clemens, a local media and campaign consultant.

It is easy to lampoon San Francisco as the world's largest open-air asylum, as conservatives, in particular, are wont to do. On Nov. 7, the day the nation decides control of Congress, voters here will weigh an initiative making it official city policy to seek the ouster of President Bush and Vice President Cheney. This after the pair ignored a ballot measure two years ago demanding an immediate U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

But San Francisco is also a tough political town, more like New York or Boston than any West Coast city. Campaigns, a widely appreciated form of civic theater, are personal and often vicious.

The first time Pelosi, a longtime Democratic activist, ran for Congress, billboards across the city mocked her as "the party girl of the party." She squeaked to victory -- thanks, in an exquisite footnote, to the crossover support of San Francisco's Republicans, who found Pelosi less objectionable than her even more liberal opponent.

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/oct/30/local/me-sanfran30

Now that the Democrats are still firmly in charge of both houses of Congress for a fourth year, is it any wonder the country is in the mess it is! (No, electing Scott Brown to the Senate doesn't change things, despite the wet dreams of the Republicans.)

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Pelosi...... the centrist.

that made my day.

[Nagishkaw 510]

She's so arrogant and full of pride....just like her boss.

[Pooky 3,843]

Nancy Pelosi always has this President's back.

I just wish she didn't have a knife

[natty bumppo 297]

Nancy Pelosi always has this President's back.

I just wish she didn't have a knife

fixxored

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

i think she needs to step down or the dems need to do whatever they do to elect a new speaker.

pelosi is good in the light of a bush admin. i mean, the american people seemingly like a balanced gov't and pelosi surely offset bush.

obama is left, pelosi is way left of left and everyone knows she comes from the most liberal district in america so i honestly think people feel the dems are in too powerful of a position so they are favoring repubs for balance. i just read that privately the dems are expecting a lose of at least 28 seats in november.

i have a feeling that the loses wouldn't be so great if pelosi, the speaker, the face of congress, wasn't so liberal. i think a lot of regular folk are afraid of her because she is infinitely left.

i also think repubs would be a lot more willing to work with congressional dems and obama if it wasn't for pelosi. pelosi is extremely partisan.. i think repubs don't want to give her a win in anyway whatsoever.

Are you a Democrat or something?

I am not, and I cannot imagine why I would give Democrats GOOD advice. NO. we need Pelosiu right where she is, running her mouth in defiance of popular opinion right along with Obama. We need them BOTH out there on the campaign trail for other Dems. We need her making more speeches, not less. we need her trying to RAM throught that legislative VOMIT called "healthcare reform". Basically, as a person tha opposes Pelosi sharing the same supply of air that I use, I want her running that bir mouth and staring with those big bug eyes at everyone for as long as she can! I mean is there some way the Repubicans can fix her up with a portable microphone so she can just give public speeches anytime from anywhere?

When your opponent is trying to hang themselves...sell them more rope!

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

i think she needs to step down or the dems need to do whatever they do to elect a new speaker.

pelosi is good in the light of a bush admin. i mean, the american people seemingly like a balanced gov't and pelosi surely offset bush.

obama is left, pelosi is way left of left and everyone knows she comes from the most liberal district in america so i honestly think people feel the dems are in too powerful of a position so they are favoring repubs for balance. i just read that privately the dems are expecting a lose of at least 28 seats in november.

i have a feeling that the loses wouldn't be so great if pelosi, the speaker, the face of congress, wasn't so liberal. i think a lot of regular folk are afraid of her because she is infinitely left.

i also think repubs would be a lot more willing to work with congressional dems and obama if it wasn't for pelosi. pelosi is extremely partisan.. i think repubs don't want to give her a win in anyway whatsoever.

we are much better off as Americans iuf the POLITICIANS fight with each otehr and leave us alone. Why would we want Republicans to cooperate with Democrats? Keep them damn pigs outta my trough!

VIVE La Gridlock!!!!!!!

[spookyturtle 9,466]

I think she's a double-bagger.

[scandal 951]

She's so arrogant and full of pride....just like her boss.

And who would that be? Her "boss"es are the people of her district.

[DEDixon 39]

i'm not a dem Gary but not a hardcore repub either. from a repub stand point, i agree with you, the repubs should do all they can to keep her where she is to win big in november.

if the dems want to lose less, however they should take pelosi out but seems they aren't so smart. obama has at least 3 more years so she is the one they need to demote. what a bummer to have pelosi as a speaker when the dems need all the help they can get, their own speaker can't help anyone get elected... no one would want her standing next to him/her for she is just too arrogant, partisan and infinitely left.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

And who would that be? Her "boss"es are the people of her district.

And she does bring the money home, for any wacko project the locals want to pursue. Lucky for us, she brought money home to widen Hwy 101 through Sonoma County to help payoff Lynn Woolsey and keep her in office. The money isn't helping locally, but is sure will make the drive a lot easier, with an extra lane each way, from Windsor all the way to Novato, once the construction is finished. The rest of the SF Bay area is not doing too bad either, with widening projects started long before any "stimulus package".

I still can't understand why she is keeping open a basically abandoned Coast Guard Training Center, while at the same time pushing farmers and ranchers off their land in western Marin County. But, every left wing environmental group, from near and far, is supporting her, whatever it is.