Her graceless and brainless hyper-partisanship has hurt her effectiveness there.
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Bombshell Study: Pelosi Most Partisan
BY Michael Goldfarb
May 5, 2009 10:51 AM
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The Hill reports:
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) is the most partisan Democrat in the House, while her deputy, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), is one of the most bipartisan lawmakers in the lower chamber, according to a survey conducted by The Hill....
Pelosi has developed a reputation for keeping her forces in line, rewarding loyalty, punishing dissent and sticking it to her Republican opponents; Hoyer is seen as a legislative dealmaker who moves the Democratic agenda along.
Right behind Pelosi is Henry Waxman, who Pelosi moved into the chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee in an attempt to build a bipartisan consensus shove cap-and-trade down out throats. As for Republicans, the most partisan member was Tom Price, who heads the conservative Republican Study Committee. Neither Cantor or Boehner made the list. The background quotes from Republicans on what a meanie Pelosi is are kind of pathetic:
"The Speaker doesn't meet with Republicans," a Republican lawmaker said.
"Nancy Pelosi has not been very friendly to me," another GOP member said. "I tried to visit her and I have had trouble with that. I know she is busy … but it is difficult."
"The Speaker honestly doesn't like Republicans," a third House Republican lawmaker said.
If you really want juicy quotes on what a vindictive ... woman Pelosi is, you have to talk to her friends.
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HT: Matt Laslo, and apologies to Allahpundit for the title.
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Pelosi, also dumber than a stump:
"Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs."
newsbusters.org
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, the speaker twice seemed to suggest that natural gas – an energy source she favors – is not a fossil fuel.
“I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels,” she said at one point. Natural gas “is cheap, abundant and clean compared to fossil fuels,” she said at another.
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