Pick on Pelosi

by YankeeJim | July 1, 2010 at 12:14 pm

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If the Republicans had to select one among the Democratic leadership to target with their ridicule, to make a symbol of their disdain for public welfare priorities, it would be the most unlikeable, Nancy Pelosi. She is a divider on purpose. She stakes out her claim and drags the rest along, kicking and screaming if necessary. Guess what? She got the job done, passed legislation, and really pissed off Republicans.

Is Nancy Pelosi’s form of leadership for all time? I don’t think so. But for the moment she had the chutzpah to get things accomplished, the chutzpah that the President just doesn’t have.

“Conservatives use Pelosi as face of liberalism in campaign ads

By Karen Tumulty

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Beware! Nancy Pelosi is a colossal tax-dollar-engorged monster who ravages small towns and must be brought down by Republican ray guns. Or at least that is what a cartoon version of the House speaker looked like in "Attack of the 50-Foot Pelosi," a television ad that a conservative group called Right Change aired in Pennsylvania last month.

A new Web site by the National Republican Congressional Committee portrays her as a malevolent puppet master, yanking the strings of 10 vulnerable House Democrats.

And a video on the campaign home page of GOP House candidate Harold Johnson of North Carolina makes her sound like someone out of those creepy cable ads for burglar alarms. "If you're a small-business owner," Johnson says, "you get up every morning and you put your helmet on, because you think that Nancy Pelosi is going to come into your bedroom and hit you over the head with a baseball bat."”