Oct 11 2007

Madame Speaker thinks you’re irresponsible

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From the Washington Post:

“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.

I guess that means the 70-odd members of the Democrats’ Out of Iraq caucus are irresponsible? Or the 87 who have signed Reps. Waters/Woolsey letter pledging new funding only for redeployment?

Lessee…  then there’s the 70% in Barbara Lee’s poll who favor funding redeployment only…  And the 55% in the last ABC News poll who think Congressional Democrats haven’t done enough to end the war…  Or the 57% on the latest CBS News poll who disapprove of the way the Democrats are handling Iraq?

Well, despite those numbers, apparently you’re all just spinning your wheels. Because Madame Speaker want you to just STFU and keep voting for Democrats.

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.”

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  1. I’m usually very responsible.

    • fatdave on October 11, 2007 at 16:49
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    been taking the First Motorist’s pills? It can be quite dark and difficult to read in some of these swanky bathrooms you know……?

  3. Speaking in San Francisco the day after adjournment of the Republican-controlled 2005-06 Congress, Pelosi declared — as she had throughout her party’s successful November election campaign — that “my highest priority, immediately, is to stop the war in Iraq.”

    Gosh, where would anyone get that idea?

    • pfiore8 on October 11, 2007 at 22:20
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    you’re kicking butt with this over orange way

    even my off-the-cuff comment has in excess of 70 clicks… amazing

    but you struck some kind of cord, that’s for sure

    and if you’re cross-posting, i think it’s a good idea to update when you get some great point from another poster, like Night Owls catch… a varmit, of course

  5. is responsible — responsible for the war and occupation.

  6. “I’m not willing to risk my job for any dumb soldier.”

  7. At his listening session this afternoon, asked what “we’ can do to help bring the War to a speedy end, encouraged continuing pressure, not just against Republicans, but also “against my fellow Democrats in Congress.”

    No link, I was there.

  8. How about the dissatisfaction of those of us who never wanted the war to begin, back in 2002, and who, of course, were right, as everyone in the world now acknowledges?

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